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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1881

62 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers · page 3 of 4

The Farmer. Aylesbury Ducks

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1881 · page 2

The Aylesbury trade is not conducted is Urge establishments, but is carried on exclusively by cottagers, who, it has been computed, manage to divide but when them…

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Chained Himself. How a Telae Farmer Arranged for His Death From Hydrophobia

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1881 · page 1

A DALLAE, Tex., letter says: "A tragis death has just occurred in our neighbouring County of Hill worth relating, and worthy of virginine or any other Roman lather…

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Manaro Pastoral, Agricultural, and Ploughing Association

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 31 August 1881 · page 3

AT the meeting to receive entrance[?] at Mr. E. Dodds' Free selectors' Hotel, Cooma, on Monday night a fair number of members attended. Some of the prises were…

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The farmer

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 31 August 1881 · page 2

DURING OF HAME AND SHOULDERS.—There are two methods; one by dry salting, the other by pickling. We have used both with equally good results. For the…

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Manaro Pastoral, Agricultural, and Ploughing Association

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1881 · page 3

THERE were upwards of five hundred people at the ploughing matches held at Dairyman's Plains on Wednesday last, a large number of ladies…

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The Farmer

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 7 September 1881 · page 2

AN ELECTRIC [?] Dr. J. H. Connelley of Pitsburg, Pa., has applied to cattle the old device employed by country druggists to keep Loungers from…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool and Produce Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 1

Messrs. Mort and Co.'s weekly report:— Wool; The now clip is coming forward, but no considerable parcels will be offered…

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Melbourne Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 14 September 1881 · page 4

R. Goldsbrough and Co. report:— Wool.—We have no transactions worthy of note to report for the week. There is still a strong local demand, and fall prices…

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Wool by Rail

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 28 September 1881 · page 4

A MEETING of wool-raisers was held at the Australian Hotel Cooma, on Thursday afternoon, Mr. David Ryrie being in the chair…

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Railway Charges on Wool

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 October 1881 · page 3

The woolgrowers of Manaro are to be congratulated upon the interest they showed in the public meeting that was held at the Australian…

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Telegrams. Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 October 1881 · page 2

Messrs. MORT and Co. have telegraphed as follows:— SYDNEY, Thursday. We had a large attendance at our…

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Wool by Railway

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 26 October 1881 · page 3

THE following letter is published for general information, and a meeting is to be held on Thursday afternoon at the Australian Hotel to discuss the matter:—…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Oil Yielding Plants—castor Oil

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 26 October 1881 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the [?] of vegetable oil is already numbered amongst colonial industries, there is abundance of room for extension, and for increasing the trade. It…

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Roads and Wool Rates

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 2 November 1881 · page 3

MR. R. D. Tooth, M.P., has sent the appended communication, accompanied with copies os the S.M. Herald and Daily Telegraph of Saturday last, to Mr. Geo. Spring,…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm and Garden. Oil Bearing Plants and Vegetable Oils

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 2 November 1881 · page 2

RETURNING to the subject commenced in our paper, upon the growth of the castor oil plant and the treatment of its seed in order to obtain the castor oil of commerce, it was…

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The Farmer Feedeth All

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 2 November 1881 · page 2

My lord rides through his palace gate, My lady sweeps along in state, The sage thinks long on many a thing, And the maiden muses on marring…

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Sheep on Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 November 1881 · page 2

A RECENT "Hallarat Courier" has the following:—An extrodinary discovery was made by the grand in charge of the half past [?] train to Melbourne on…

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The Old Farm Gate. (In Harper's Weckly.)

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 30 November 1881 · page 2

In gilded saloons, where the fairest of belles Flung around me their subtlest of glamour and spells. I broke through their magic, I mocked at…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm and Gardes. Harvesting Machinery

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 30 November 1881 · page 2

THE harvest promises to be memorable for the mir[?] of harvesting machines, even in excess of those of preceding year—which is saying not a little. In…

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Cooma Quarter Sessions. Tuesday, 6Th December. Before Judge McFarland. Sheep Stealing

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 December 1881 · page 1

Vincent Kanfline (on bail) was charged with having, on the 27th September last, at Green Hills, stolen seven she[?]p the property of Alexander Montague; there…

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