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Farming & the land, 1870

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, June 17

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 June 1870 · page 2

THERE stations were under offer at Sydney (Harrison and Jones), and really good stations, with a fair amount of good stock are saleable there at reasonable prices. Brewster and…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, June 24

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 2

THE detention of some of the northern mails owing to to the very heavy floods has prevented us giving our usual stock report, and we are indebted to the Dubbo Despatch for much of…

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Sheep-shearing by Machinery

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 4

An American citizen, Mr. D. O. Macornber, has produced a sheep-shearing machine guaranty [?] to be an effective substitute to the professional shearer. The discoverer, in a letter…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, July 1

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 2

THE floods still prevail—the Darling. Lachlan, Murrumbidgee, and Murray waters are descending at the same time and in great volume ; the creeks and reservoirs within the reach of the…

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Open Column. Hay Pastoral Association. To the Editor

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 July 1870 · page 3

SIR,—I enclose for insertion in your first issue, an advertisement, as to change of day of exhibition of the forth[?] May Show. At a meeting of Committee, held yesterday, it…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Deniliquin, Friday Evening, July 8

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 July 1870 · page 2

THE losses in Carpentaria from floods arc severe, the Norman and Flinders rivers being overflown; the Plains of Promise were submerged ten feet, and at Floraville station 7000 sheep…

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Carriage of Wool.—deputation to the Minister of Victorian Railways

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 July 1870 · page 2

The deputation a report of the proceeding of which we give below was ini[?]ated by Mr. W[?]. M’Culloch (of Wm. M’Culloch and Co.) aided by the exertions of Mr. M’Gaw, of Burrabugle, and of…

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London Wool Brokers

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 July 1870 · page 4

IF the London wool brokers are the rogues some people suppose them to he, the meeting of last Monday, consisting of merchants, bankers and others interested in the mode in…

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Stock Report. Pastoral. Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, July 15

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 July 1870 · page 2

THE delightful change in the weather has caused a little stir in stock matters, and if the weather continues favourable, the quantities of store stock travelling from Queensland and the…

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A Review of Certain Books on Sheep

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 4

“The Practical Shepherd, a complete treatise on the Breeding, Management, and Diseases of Sheep,” by Henry S. Randall, L.L.D., author of “ Sheep Husbandry in the South, &c.”…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, July 22

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 2

THE stockowners of Queensland are rising in their demands for store cattle and sheep. At Dalby there has been a marked improvement in the purchase and sale of sheep and cattle…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, July 29

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 2

AT Sydney, Brewster and Trebeck report a steady demand for really good paying pastoral properties, and have placed some under offer with a view of inspection, sales of which we trust shortly to be able…

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Wool Seen Through the Micro-scope. (From the Mark Lane Express )

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 2

THE microscope sh[?]ws us that an apparently solid hair is not really so. Wool is distinct from hair considered commercially, but physiologically they are identical. Our best…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, August 5

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 2

LIBBEATED by the floods, the store stock from the northern districts are now advancing to the southern markets, where there is so much demand for both cattle and sheep ; but stockowners here…

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The Central Pastoral Show of Riverina. [Abridged From the “Pastoral Times.”]

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 13 August 1870 · page 2

This exhibition, pursuant to public advertisement, came off at Jerilderie on Friday the 5th August. This is the first show under the auspices of those stockowners and others who are [?] to…

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London Wool Report

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 August 1870 · page 3

WILLIAMS OVER[?] & Co Report:—The third series of Colonial Wool Sales for the present year commenced 10th June, with the following catalogue. viz.:—Cape 1130 bales, Sydney 1731, Port…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin Friday Evening, August 12

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 August 1870 · page 2

THE long continued rains have much retarded business in stock matters, but although the roads are everywhere in a frightful condition, yet we are glad to report that the Riverina and Hay…

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The Jerilderie Show of the Riverina Pastoral Society. (From the [?] )

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 August 1870 · page 2

On Friday last the first central show of the Riverina Pastoral Society came duty off as advertised, at the township of Jerilderie. For some weeks past the weather has been almost continuously wet,…

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By Electric Telegraph. Saturday, Aug. 13. Hay Pastoral Show. List of Winner

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 August 1870 · page 3

Champion ram—M’Gaw, M'Kinnon and Co., Burrabogie. Champion cwe—J. Rutherford and Co., [?]…

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Facts for Farmers

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 August 1870 · page 4

New varieties of grape cuttings sometimes sell in England at from 5s. to £5 each. Raspberries are said to grow better if planted in rows like a hedge and cut back to a…

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