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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

9,236 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 250

Season Reports. State of the Crops in New South Wales

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 7

One of the N.W.S. inspectors appointed to report upon the bright [?] potato crops [?] that the yield of [?] on the Clarence will total 100,000 bags, Some of the crops were…

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Land Settlement and Railway Development. Farmers' Finance N.S.W. State Savings Bank How Development Loans Are Procurable

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 3

What is the limit of the bank's power to lend? And are the commissioners compelled to make advances? The minimum sum that may be loaned…

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Farms at Furracabad. On Very Easy Terms

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 3

In the' Furracabad Estate, about six miles from Glen Innes, in the famous New England district, there are three farms for sale that should prove…

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Crop Fires in N.s.w

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 4

A fire, the origin of which is arousing grave su[?] Spring Creek, neat [?] tun(Q), and destroyed barley stacks valued at [?] The police are conducting inquires into the…

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Farm Requirements Uncle Wiseman's Review of Prices, Hardware Lines Firm

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 6

Prices in all hardware lines for the man on the land are unchanged and holders of stocks show no eagerness to do business at present rates. In some [?]…

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The Dairy Industry Pepsin to Replace Rennet Satisfactory Queensland Investigations

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 6

The Queensland Committee of the Commonwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry has been making investigations respecting the manufacture of…

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The Farm Horse Management of the Teams a Stableman an Economy on the Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 6

It will pay the farmer that keeps eight or ten horses to employ a stableman, in addition to his ploughman (writes Mr. Frank Madden in the "Australasian")…

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Fraud and Theft. "Catching a Mug" a Conspiracy against a Farmer

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 4

At the Melbourne City Court on Thursday, Jane Goodson, Frank H. Williamson, and Gladys Williamson were charged with having conspired together to defraud…

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Cotton in Australia Two Estimates of Crowing Coasts. the Queensland Crop

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 7

The total quantity of cotton dealt with at the last ginning by the Queensland Department of Agriculture in connection with the field experiments conducted…

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The Potato Crop Keep the Cultivating Work Going. Conserve the Moisture

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 7

Provided that the land is kept well cultivated during the next two or three months, the very serviceable rains that have fallen in practically all districts…

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The South Australian Crop. Better Than Originally Expected

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 7

The S.A. premier (Mr. Crawford Vaughan) stated on Tuesday that reports from the agricultural portions of South Australian indicated that the wheat…

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Parks As Farms

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 4

Five acres of Mr. Lloyd George's Golf Club, at Wolton Heath, has been turned into a potato patch and cereal and fodder crops are being raised on…

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Produce. Dairy. Collapse of Egg Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 9

Those agents in Sussex-street, who last week urged that the raising of the price of newlaid eggs to 1/3 was unwarranted, appeared to have been Justified in their statement when…

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Record Cane Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday.--A report from Ingham to-day states that cane crushings finished at Victoria Mill on Friday, all the cane being in on that day. A good many farmers were…

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The Wheat Crop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 10

Whether the preliminary estimate of the State's wheat crop, as issued by the Government Statistician, be realised or not it is clear that the farmers or…

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Going Out of Sheep

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 5

Mr. W. E. Abbott. Wingen, contends that "the blowfly pest is the direct result of the system of wholesale poisoning which has been made compulsory by law on every station,…

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Further Heavy Sheep Losses

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 5

COONAMBLE.--Heavy losses in sheep are reported in the Warrumbungle district from the fly pest. On one station 1200 head were destroyed…

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The Wheat Position

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 9

Mr. K. N. Carruthers writes:—Having just returned from a business trip abroad, during which time I spent a few months in Canada, United States of America, and England, I…

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British Wool Consumption

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 7

The chairman of the wool export sub-committee states that the London Director of Army Contracts has devised, a scheme to keen down the British…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson Limited have received the following telegram from their Brisbane office:—Grieve Bros. Dalveen greasy fleece wool appraised 25¾d; Kamarooka secured clothing…

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