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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1870

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London Wool Report

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1870 · page 8

IT has been resolved by the Committee of the New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Commercial Association that, in 1670, there shall be Five Series of sales, instead of four the dates appointed for the commencement of each…

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The Show of Sheep at Armidale

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 7

THE exhibition (under the Pastoral and Agricultural Society of New England) of unshorn sheep, as advertised, came off on last Thursday week, in Mr. Starr's paddock, on the hill N. of Armidale…

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Pastoral Combination

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1870 · page 7

IN urging a system of organised combination among the Crown tenants of this colony, many obstacles bar the way, of which isolation, selfishness and in difference are the principal. Few are sensibly…

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The Agricultural Society's Prizes for Wool

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1870 · page 8

THE Agricultural Society of New South Wales have inaugurated their great Intercolonial Exhibition for 1870 by holding a show of wools at Messrs. Mort and Co.'s stores, Circular Quay, and…

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More Money Spent for Drink Than Is Received for Wool

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1870 · page 7

THE last annual report of the New South Wales for the suppression of intemperance contains the following passage:—We hare much cause for thankfulness that the interest in the subject of…

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The Dignity of the Farmer's Life

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1870 · page 6

THERE is a higher dignity than that of poetry of painting that attaches to the farmer's profession; a dignity which makes him walk as…

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Tuesday, February 15, 1870. His Honor took his seat at 10 o'clock. CATTLE-STEALING

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 19 February 1870 · page 7

Thomas Tingey was placed in the dock, charged with that he did, on the 1st September, 1869, at Bondi, Bmobala, felouiously steal and drive away one ox, the property of…

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Catarrh in Sheep

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 7

THE following notes from the experience of a Darlings Downs sheep-owner on reading Mr. Bruce's pamphlet on the above subject and contributed to the Brisbane Courier has a special interest for the…

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Compound for Destroying Burrs in Wool

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 5

THIS is a compound patented by William H. Jubb, of Connecticut, United States. It is composed of the following ingredients:—Sulphuric acid, one hundred parts, by weight; refined saltpetre, two parts, by weight; dissolved in the…

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Farmers' Clubs

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 7

WE are glad to perceive that the project of forming Farmers' Clubs is being mooted in some of the country districts. At Patterson the subject has come under discussion within the past two or three…

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English Commercial. Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 19 March 1870 · page 5

The London wool sales are postponed till February 17th, in consequence of the smallness of arrivals: it is expected that 90,000 bales will then have arrived for the the opening sales. Prospects are fair…

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Are Large or Small Sheep Stations the More Profitable?

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 19 March 1870 · page 6

PEOPLE siting at an English fire-side listening to an Australian budget of news, contained on four closely written sheets of "post" (such budgets as first-year settlers are in the habit…

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Land and Pastoral Association

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1870 · page 7

A meeting of gentlemen interested in the formation of a Laud and Pastoral Association wag held on the 17th instant, at Messrs. Raynes, Treeve, and Co.'s Rooms, Pitt-street, Sydney. Mr. T. S…

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London Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1870 · page 8

THE following report of the several London wool brokers we extract from the European Mail of the 28th January:— On January 27, the Importer's Committee postponed the opening series of sales till February 17. About 43,000bales…

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Model Farming in France

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1870 · page 6

The Inverness Courier has the following account of a recent visit to the Emperor Napoleon's model farm at Vincennes:—"The farm is a comfortable-looking place,…

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Land and Pastoral Association

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1870 · page 6

On Tuesday afternoon, in pursuance of an advertisement signed by Mr. Thomas Sutcliffe Mort, the Hon. Thomas Holt, M.L.C, Mr. N. D. Stenhouse, and numerous…

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Proposed Public Cattle Yards

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 7

As the Legislative Assembly will shortly go into committee on Mr. Driver's bill for enabling the Municipal Council to borrow £10,000, with which to erect public yards for the sale of fat cattle and…

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Concert of Action Among Farmers

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 8

WITH the exception of husbandry, every money making interest in this our age of money is thoroughly organised and ever ready for aggressive or defensive action as the occasion may require, whether in…

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London Wool Circular. Annual Report

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 April 1870 · page 5

THE rapidly increasing production in the colonies and at the River Plate, which for years past has formed a principal subject of comment, appears at length to haw received an effectual check. As regards the latter country, the export…

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How to Find the Weight of Cattle by Measurement

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 7

The following rules for the measurement of cattle are supplied by the Coonamble correspondent of the Dubbo Dispatch —Take a string, put it round the beast, standing square…

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