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Farming & the land, 1874

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Sheep Directors

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 7 February 1874 · page 14

At the Court-house, Corowa, the annual meeting of Sheepowners competent to vote for the election of Directors took place on Thursday, the 5th inst. A sufficient number…

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The Farm and Garden

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 7 February 1874 · page 22

THE FARM.—Cover all lay and com stacks, where this was hitherto reglected, and shelter them from bush fires. Treat root-crops with the hand-hoc or light plough. Green fodder is to be…

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Meeting of Sheep Owners

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 11 February 1874 · page 2

The annual meeting of sheep owners took place at the court-house, Hay, on Thursday, 5th inst. There were present Messrs. C. W…

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Pastoral Memoranda

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 2

TRAVELLING STOCK.—The following stock has passed through Daiby during the past month: — January 10th—500 head of cattle, travelling to Tooloombilla station. January 12—3000 sheep…

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London Wool Report

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 2

HESSRS WEBSTER, DARVALL, AND Co say:—The fifth and concluding series of public sales in the year commenced on November 27, and after being suspended for two days— December 9 and 10—consequent on a dense fog, were…

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To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 2

Sir,—As you have published in your [?] Saturday what purports to be a report of the meeting held on the Tuesday previous, and [?] of advice to those “ bona ade selections” [?]…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 2

SIR,—I have lately met with the [?] panying passages in some numbers [?] Athen[?] of the year 1872, if you will [?] them, I believe they will help to open [?]…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. [?],Friday Morning, February 13,1874

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 2

WE are beginning to get reliable data from the far northern inlands respecting the heavy falls of rain there—certainly the showers have been such as the white man does not remember, and the rain which…

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Goldsbrough’s Wool Report. Melbourne, February 11

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 2

WOOL.—We have not bad an auction sale this week, season being now almost over. We have placed 170 hales by private contract at fully late rates, scoured ranging from 1s 3d to 2s 1½d, [?]1s 4d to 1s 9d, and…

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Pastoral Memoranda

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 3

[?] RICHARDSON AND WRENCH sold by auc[?] Monday, in Sydney, on behalf of the New [?] Wales Government, lease for two years of [?] blocks of unstocked country in the…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times. Moulamein School. a little learning is a dangerous thing

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 3

SIR,—The above line, from classic Pope, was vividly brought to my mind upon perusing some most fallacious doggerel about St. Silas’ Schoolhouse, Moulamein, which appeared in your…

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Commercial. Wheat and Flour Market. Albury

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 10

We have no alteration to record in local prices. Wheat continue to come in steadily. Latest quotations are—Wheat, 4s. 3d. to 4s, 6d.; Hour, £12 10s,…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March 13, 1874

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 March 1874 · page 2

SETTLEMENT on the rear of the Darling River is rapidly extending—large areas are being taken up there and stocked, and many millions of acres bounded by the Darling and Lachlan Rivers, that…

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The “Doughty Tichborne” Bowled Out. (From the Pastoral Times, March 7, 1868.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 March 1874 · page 4

When, many mouths ago we exposed this impudent attempt on the part of Tom de Castro, otherwise “Tom the Cutter,” once of Deniliquin, to secure for himself and his heirs…

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Commercial. Wheat and Flour Market. Albury

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 21 March 1874 · page 10

The depression in the local market, alluded to in our last, still continues, no improvement having taken place during the week. We quote —Wheat to 4s. 5d.; flour, £13…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin. Friday Evening. March 10, 1874

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 March 1874 · page 2

THE season continues fine and propitious for pastoral purposes, though recent heavy rains have been irregular in their fall: On [?] stations the rain has[?] very heavy , while on others the quantity…

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London Wool Report. [Webster, Darvall, and Co.] 30 Coleman-street, London EC

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 March 1874 · page 2

The arrivals of the new clip have thss far been very scanty, few of Melbourne and Sydney vessels having yet appeared off the coast. From Adelaide a better proportionate supply has come to hand, but,…

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The Late Sheep-stealing Prosecucution at Ten-mile Creek. to the Editor of the Albury Banner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 21 March 1874 · page 15

SIR,—You will have observed from your reports of the proceedings at the Ten-mile Creek Police Court, that during the past two months I have been subjected to a prosecution for sheep-stealing,…

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Sandhurst Stock Market. [Powers, Rutherford, and Co.] Sandhurst, March 17. Fat Cattle.—563 yarded, consisting almost entirely of indifferent quality, and stores. Fonr best seacriplions’

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 March 1874 · page 2

FAT CATTLE.—563 yarded, consisting almost entirely of indifferent quality, and stores. For best descriptions the demand was brisk, and a number of buyers remained unsupplied. We quote prime beef 30s per 100lbB, other…

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The Largest Sheep Farm in the World

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 25 March 1874 · page 4

Senor P. C. Armijo, of the great sheep and wool raising firm of Armijo & Baca, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was in Kansas City recently, on his way home from New…

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