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Farming & the land, 1857

20 stories in Murray's papers

Sheep Insurance

The Border Post · Saturday 10 January 1857 · page 2

OF the various descriptions of colonial produce, there are none which have earned a higher celebrity than the Australian wool, and this branch of…

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A Sydney-road Farmer. Pontoon Bridge Over the Murray

The Border Post · Saturday 31 January 1857 · page 2

It will be in the recollection of many of our roaders, that Mr George Bute, of Yarra-berg, Richmond Flat, displayed at the late exhibition of the Victorian Industrial Society…

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Farms Wanted

The Border Post · Saturday 7 March 1857 · page 3

SLOWLY, but surely, is the population moving in the direction of the Ovens and Murray districts. The Victorian diggers are getting tired of the…

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The Cattle Disease

The Border Post · Saturday 14 March 1857 · page 1

Dr M’Cartney continues to [?] information and reports respecting the cattle disease, and to make the information public at once through the local press…

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A Dill to Regulate the Impounding of Cattle

The Border Post · Saturday 14 March 1857 · page 4

This measure, after setting forth, in the preamble, the expediency of repealing the Impounding Act of 1855, and making other provisions relative…

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Police Report. Week ending 11th April, 1867. Cattle Starling

The Border Post · Saturday 11 April 1857 · page 2

James [?]ney was brought up on remand, and the evidence for the defence was gone into. Thomas Dolan nephew to the prisoner,…

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The Pastoral Resources of Australia

The Border Post · Saturday 18 April 1857 · page 2

At the meeting of the Sydney Agricultural Society held on the 7th, a paper was read by Mr Shepherd, on the “Pastoral Resources of Australia” We…

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Farmers’ Petitions

The Border Post · Saturday 16 May 1857 · page 4

The following petitions to the Legislative Assembly have been prepared in accordance with the resolutions passed at the different meetings of the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Border Post · Saturday 19 September 1857 · page 3

A NEW SOUTHERN FOR MAKING ENOUGH —The “Echo Agriculture,” one of the most respes[?] and influential French newspapers refers to the new process…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Border Post · Saturday 3 October 1857 · page 3

ALPACAS IN NOW SOOTH WALES.— The following is from a Liverpool newspaper :—” We have been favoured with the right of a letter from Mr C…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Poet Phillip Farmers’ Society Exhibition

The Border Post · Saturday 10 October 1857 · page 3

The past Wednesday and Thursday may, indeed, be reckoned proud days in the Victorian Calendar, for the show of machinery and implements on the one,…

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Horticultural and Pastoral

The Border Post · Saturday 17 October 1857 · page 3

THE VINEYARDS OF CANTONAL.— The following extract form the New York “Tribune” .may be read with equal advantage and interest by…

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Ceoug[?]’s Wool Celular

The Border Post · Saturday 17 October 1857 · page 2

We have had a continued demand, and any good parcel coming forward early will find a ready market, as buyers ere anxious to get as much of their purchases forward for the…

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Clough’s Wool Circular

The Border Post · Saturday 24 October 1857 · page 2

Since our last we have experienced a quieter market. The non-arrival of the English Mail for so many day after bring due, has prevented active enquiry; and the…

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Clouos’s Wool Circular

The Border Post · Saturday 31 October 1857 · page 2

WOOL.—The arrival of the European with the English mail, bringing advices of a further advance on the opening rates at the July Sales, of one halfpenny to a penny per…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Transfer of Pastoral Leases. (From the Government Gazette.) Department of Land and Public Works, Sydney, Oct 1st

The Border Post · Saturday 31 October 1857 · page 3

There being reason to believe that the requirements of the Government Regulations of 1st March, 1851, having reference to the Transfer of Leases…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Border Post · Saturday 7 November 1857 · page 3

Tobacco IN VIRGINIA, —As a sigar the Virginian leaf is naught; the native article baa a vile acrid flavour, resembling these patronised by Polish Jews…

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Colourist Wool Circular

The Border Post · Saturday 7 November 1857 · page 2

Wool.,—The heavy weather experienced the last ten days has prevented the arrival in town of various clips advised some time bank as being on the way; and hovers in…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Border Post · Saturday 12 December 1857 · page 3

IMPROVED MODR OF SHEEP WASHING. —The “Bathurst Free Press” thus describes an improved process adopted at Carcoar by Mr. Thomas lcely. The…

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Remarks on Foot-bot in Sheep

The Border Post · Saturday 12 December 1857 · page 3

The diseases in a sheep called foot-rot a [?] alarmingly prevalent in many districts in Victoria, and even [?] to banish those valuable…

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