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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1883

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Telegrams. Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 2

Messrs. Hill. Clark, and Co telegraph as follows:— SYDNEY. Thursday, At our wool sale, to-day,…

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Importation of Sheep

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 30 May 1883 · page 4

A SUPPLEMENT to the Government Gazette contains a vice-regal proclamation with references to the importation of sheep from the United States of America, from which…

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New Wool Warehouses

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 2 June 1883 · page 3

ABOUT eight months ago we noticed the fact that the firm of Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co., limited, had concluded arrangements for the…

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Telegrams. Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1883 · page 3

Merri[?]. Hill, Clark, and Co. telegraphs form Sydney to us on Thursday:—We [?] 124 bales of wool to-day. The competition for well got-up parcels of [?]ured and grossy wool…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1883 · page 3

Messrs. Hill, [?] and Go. wired on Thursday afternoon as follows:—At our wool sale to-day, competition was brisk, and prices rnled very firm. Low quality…

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Telegrams. High Class Stud Sheep

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 11 July 1883 · page 2

MESSRS. MORT and Co. telegraphed from Sydney on Monday :—The steamers Esk and Corinna have arrived from Tasmania with a large…

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Cooma Police Court. Monday, 30Th July. Before the Police Magistrate, CATTLE-STEALING

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 1 August 1883 · page 3

Frederick Townsend was charged with having, at Billyrumback, on or about the 3rd instant, stolen a steer the property of Joseph Woodcroft…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1883 · page 2

Messrs. Hill Clark, and Co., of 129, Pitt-street, Sydney, wire as follows:— SYDNEY, Thursday, 67. p.m. At our wool sale to-day, competition was…

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Green Crop Manuring and Rotation of Crops. (Concluded.)

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1883 · page 2

There are several plants which have been in extensive one as green manures in Europe and America, and which, being well adapted to our climate, deserve the attention of the colonial…

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Melbourne Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 22 August 1883 · page 4

R. Goldsbrough and Co.'s weekly report:— Wool. The market remains without change, transactions being limited to a few unimportant private sales, consisting of fellmongers'…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1883 · page 3

Messrs. Hill, Clark, and Co. wire the following:— SYDNEY, Thursday. At our wool sale to-day, competition was…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1883 · page 3

Messrs. Hill, Clark, and Co. wire the state of the market. SYDNEY, Thursday. At our wool sale to-day, competition was…

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Why Some Farmers Fail

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 12 September 1883 · page 4

THEY are not active and industrious. They are slothful in everything. They do not keep up with improvement. They are wedded to old methods…

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Cooma Ploughing Match and Sheep Show

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 3

NEARLY every resident in the district intended to visit the grounds at Mittagong on Wednesday last, which had been proclaimed as a public holiday through the…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1883 · page 3

Messrs. Hill, Clark, and Co. wire to us as follows:— SYDNEY, Thursday night. We catalogued 236 bales of wool to-day,…

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Cooma Pastoral, Agricultural, and Ploughing Society

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 26 September 1883 · page 3

MORE than ordinary interest was manifested in the proceedings at the meeting held in Mr. Henry Thornton's Railway Hotel on Saturday…

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Telegrams. Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1883 · page 3

MESSRS. Hill Clark and Co., of 129 Pitt-street, wire to us:—SYDNEY, Thursday. At our wool sale to-day, prices ruled firm,…

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Melbourne Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 10 October 1883 · page 4

R. Goldsbrough and Co.'s weekly report:—Wool.—The warehouses are filling rapidly with the now clip, and buyers and sellers are anxiously awaiting the opening of the [?]on,…

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Telegrams. Sydney Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 October 1883 · page 3

Messrs.MORT and Co. telegraph the state of the market:— SYDNEY, Wednesday. Mort and Co. (limited) held the opening sale…

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Agriculture. Mistakes in Farm Work

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 October 1883 · page 2

A WRITER in the Rural Home tells of several mistakes he has made. One was in cutting potatoes and allowing the pieces to remain in a barrel, where in a few days they…

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