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Farming & the land, 1915

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Wool and Textiles. English Trade in 1914

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 3

BRADFORD, December 25.--The year 1914 opened with prospects for the wool and textile trades only fairly bright. For one thing, values were on a somewhat lower basic than at the…

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Patriotic Sales. a Bait of Wool Realise[?] £2270

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 2

The bale of wool that was sold in Sydney on behalf of Messrs. Mackay Bros, for £600, in aid of the Belgian Fund, was sold again, when it arrived in…

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The Butter Business. Congestion of Traffic Abroad. London, Dec. 24, 1914

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 5

Arrivals of butter during the past fortnight include the Palermo, with 1876 boxes; the Orvieto, with 1342 boxes; the Euripides, with 2014 boxes; the Kumara, with 6777 boxes,…

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State Parliament. Public Health. Centralising Administration. Wheat for Tasmania

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 10

A bill to give the Board of Health more extensive powers in matters of public health was the main item of business in the Legislative Assembly last night. The Chief…

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Steamers for Bahia Blanca. High Wheat Freights. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 8

The steamer Alconda, new lying in port, will take in a supply of bunker coal and proceed to Bahla Bianca to load a cargo of Argentine Wheat for England. The steamer…

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Cattle for the Sydney Royal. Must be in the Hard Books

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 6

It had been decided by the cattle section committee of the Sydney Royal Agricultural Society that all Jerseys, Guernseys, Milking Shorthorns, and…

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Wool Trade. a Firm's Complaint. Deputation to Ms. Hughes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 7

It is only to be supposed that many German firms will feel tho pinch in the wool business on account of certain action taken for their exclusion from the buying and…

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Sydney Wool Sales Super Lines Higher. Competition Very Keen

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 8

The first broker to mount the rostrum at the wool sales yesterday announced that the highest bid would not necessarily be accepted. This step has been taken to…

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Wheat Firm. London Sellers Ask an Advance. London, Monday Night

Evening News · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 1

An advances of [?] to is per quarter is asked on wheat. The demand for cargoss is now checked, a wing to the favorable weather is the Argenties…

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London Wool Sales. a Good Market. Prices Unchanged. London, Monday Evening

Evening News · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 4

There was a good sale at the wool sales to-day. The market was firm at unchanged prices. Wools sold as follow:—Yanko, 14d, 12½d:…

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The Wool Market a Cheerful Outlook London Sales Confirm the Upward Trend

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 5

Wool prospects nic now of the brightest and it may almost be taken for granted that even the poorest descriptions of Australian wool, that had…

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Wool Export Is It Going to Germany American Orders May Be the Enemy's

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 6

A deputation from the wool sellers and wool buyers waited upon Mr. W. M, Hushes, the Acting-Prime Minister, in Sydney, on Friday to ask that steps be…

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English Wool Trade. Boom Continues. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Bradford, Dec. 25, 1914

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 5

The market shows distinct signs of the Christmas holidays being upon us. By this we do not wish to suggest that no business has been done. It will be remembered that…

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The Man with the Plough Not a Fair Price. Albury and the Wheat. Labor Member on Deck

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 9

The largest meeting of wheatgrowers ever held at Albury protested against the "iniquitous legislation" by which the wheat grown by the farmers of New…

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The Wool Clip. Britain Can Take It. Good News For Growers. Federal Government's Information. German Competition Alleced. Action Promised

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 4

"I think I ought to say here that the Government has information that Great Britain is able to take the whole of the wool clip of Australia. I have…

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A Crookwell Farm Fire

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 4

A hay shed and two Marks of hay belonging to David Rumble, of North Crookwell (N.S.W.). were burned on Tuesday last, together with some…

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Season Reports. the Condition of Crops and Pastures

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 7

The [?]dagal inspector of stock [?] having visited the mo[?] country around [?] and says It Is not looking as well as usual at this time of the year. The creeks carry nothing like…

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Seed Advances Complaints of Vexatious Delay Farmers Send to the Police for Help

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 7

A number of farmers here (writes a Barcllan correspondent) are losing va[?]able farm horses on account of the latter, in trying to cat the, short, dry grass…

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Indifferent Yass Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 7

A public meeting was convened by the president and secretary of the Yass branch F.S.A., to be held, on Saturday to consider the se[?]re of wheat by the…

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Filling the Forms. Police to A[?] the Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 7

The N.S.W. Minister for Agriculture says he is anxilous to help the farmer in every possible way. "It has come to my knowledge," he said on Thursday, "that…

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