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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1882

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Telegrams. Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1882 · page 3

MESSRS. MORT and Co. Woolbrokers, wire the state of the market:— SYDNEY, Thursday. We report a brisk demand at our…

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Agriculture. Station. Farm, and Garden. the Prospects for a Australian Wool

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1882 · page 2

THAT a great change is overtaking the wool trade of Australia, in the matter of markets, is a feature patent to all who observe the signs of the times in the wool…

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Farmer Allen Talks

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1882 · page 2

I SOT in the amen corner whar' I've not for many a year, An' I [?] every word yo [?] with a g[?]nooin[?] hearty tear;…

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Telegrams. Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 11 January 1882 · page 2

MESSRS. MORT and Co., woolbrokers, wire the state of market:— SYDNEY, Saturday. We have sold over 3500 bales of…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. the Sheep for the Farmer

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1882 · page 2

WHILE averse to saying a single word that could be considered as opposing the introduction of other breads of sheep, amongst our farming classes, we don't suppose there…

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Telegrams. Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1882 · page 3

MESSRS. MORT and Co., woolbrokers, wire the state of the market:— SYDNEY, Wednesday. We report a firm market for good…

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Telegrams. Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1882 · page 3

MESSRS. MORT and Co., woolbrokers, wire the state of the market:— SYDNEY, Saturday. We had two wool sales this week…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. the Merino, the Farmer's Sheep

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1882 · page 2

RENEWING the subject d9lt with in a previous paper, we are desirous of [?]ing how the marine compares as a [?] yielding animal with the coars[?]wools, [?]…

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Australian Butter in Europe. LONDON, January 14

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1882 · page 3

THE Australian [?] by the Europa, which, as already announced, arriver in excellent condition, has been placed gradually on this market…

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Experimental Farming

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1882 · page 2

THE experimental farmer, we are informed, is disappearing from the ranks of those who till the soil and develops the grand cattle, horses, and sheep of the mother country…

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Telegrams. Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1882 · page 3

MESSRS. MORT and C[?] woolbrokers, wire the state of the market:—SYDNEY, Thursday. We offered over three thousand…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Milk-making and Egg-making

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1882 · page 2

IT stands declared by Act of Parliament in England that milk cannot be made by artificial means; and there is much comfort to humanity in the assurance, It is not for…

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Telegrams. Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1882 · page 3

Messrs. MORT and Co., woolbrokers, wire the state of the market:—SYDNEY, Thursday. We sold about 1400 bales of wool…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm and Garden. Water in Waterless Country

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1882 · page 2

WE published recently the opinions and experiences of a valued contributor who had proved by actual results that under certain [?] pigs gained…

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Prime Sheep Pay

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1882 · page 3

THE twenty-six Prize sheep exhibited by Mr. H.T. Edwards, of Bibbenluke, at the Bombala Society's Show last week yielded (or there was shore…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Chemistry in Farming Economy

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1882 · page 2

WHILE A firm believer in the value of chemical knowledge as an old to agriculture practise, I do not subscribe blindly to all the chemistry books teach. For, and…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm. and Garden Systematic Wheat-farming

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1882 · page 2

WITH the common sense, which is characteristic of quite a good many of the public movements in South Australia, that colony is taking a leading part in…

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Method of Depasturing Sheep

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 1 March 1882 · page 3

EXPERIMENTS are now being made in the old country on a new system of sheep-farming by means of the chevaux-de-frise, or turn over hurdle,…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. the Shorthorn As a Miler

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1882 · page 2

IN a preceding paper we dealt somewhat fully upon the relative merits of the Ayrshire and shorthorn breeds as milkers. For colonial purposes, and under the…

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Farming. Spinnach

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 15 March 1882 · page 2

Spinnach, German greens and sprouts should now be sown to be wintered over for spring use…

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