Queensland Crops
THE sugar making season is nearly finished, but returns of 'the yield are not yet available. There has been a considerable export of counter sugars to Victoria, where they…
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Farming & the land, 1872
13 stories in Mid North Coast's papers
Melbourne From an American Wool-buyer’s Point of View. (From the Australasian) First of a Series of Papers to Be Head at the Cooper Institute, New York
FELLOW-CITIZENS :—I have been to Australia, and I have returned. I have been on a mission; and that mission was wool —32 cent wool. I have got that wool— a good deal of it. They…
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The wool sales are progressing satisfactorily ; about 40,000 bales were disposed of. There was no abatement in the attendance or eagerness of competition; there was an…
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MANY YEARS HAVE ELAPSED since we first ventured to assert that the principal reason why farmers are less prosperous than they deserve to be might be found in the…
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SIR,—A friend from the Manning, writing to me says:—“Our prospects of a corn crop are very cheering as to quantity, bat we are afraid the price will be very low,” meaning, I suppose, that…
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THE Stockton Independent preaches to the farmers the following sensible discourse:— The present season is, thus far, unusually favorable for the farmers of this State. An…
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IT is very gratifying to be enabled to account the keeping of sheep as a valuable addition to Victorian agriculture, and more so to congratulate squatters and farmers alike on the…
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MR. Spurgeon, in addressing a meeting of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Colporteur’s Association, referred to the condition of the farm laborer. It often happened, he said, that the…
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THE Queenslander says :—In the Annual Register of Rural Affairs for 1869, published by Luther, Tucker and Son, Albany, New York, and edited by that well-known agriculturalist,…
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TO THE NEWS belongs the honor of having upon die rich alluvial soil of the Manning. Indeed, before this journal had an existence, its present proprietor devoted his time and money…
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WE (Maitland Mercury) are gratified to learn that the apprehensions of a general attack of rust in the growing wheat, rendered so likely by the uncertain and frequently recurring showers…
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WE ARE NOT AT ALL SURPRISED to bear that quite a number of farmers who occupy land at a rental of thirty shillings an acre have at length been compelled to give…
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THE following are the Sydney reports:— BREWSTER AND THEBECK.—Store cattle: Wo have still numerous inquiries for bullocks and well-bred mixed cattle, but both are very scarce…
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