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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1862

6 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

The Dreading of Farm Stock

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 31 October 1862 · page 6

In the bull, the head should be well set upon a bread, deep, muscular neck, having the horns short, and not too bright, the cars long, and situated near to the head, the inside…

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Wool Circular

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 21 November 1862 · page 3

The third series of public sales of colonial wool commenced on 31st July and will terminate on 6th September; the catalogues will than have comprised 105,537 bales. On account of the unprecedented quantity arrived for sale…

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The Weather and Crops

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 21 November 1862 · page 5

During the week we have been visited by a few very moderate showers, scarcely enough to lay the dust, and certainly not sufficient to penetrate the parebed up ground more than half an inch, if so…

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Experiment to Test the Profitableness of the Various Kinds of Sheep

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 26 December 1862 · page 6

A very interesting experiment, to test the fallening qualities, as the profitableness, of various kinds of sheep, has just been brought to a conclusion at Milibill, inchture by…

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Court Petty Sessions, Nimitybelle Saturday, December 20 (Before R.Dawson and D.Bell Esqrs.,J.P.'s) Cattle Stealing

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 26 December 1862 · page 2

Coraclius Collins, of Nimitybelle, appeared, out en bail, to answer the information of David M'kee, senior constable, on suspicion of cattle stealing. Mr. Markhan appeared and conducted the case on behalf…

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An Act to Legalise Preferable Liens on Yearly Crops. Preamble. [Accepted the 9th December, 1862]

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 26 December 1862 · page 6

Whereas it is expedient to legalise the granting of preferable liens on yearly crops of agricultural and horticultural produce without parting with the possession thereof…

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