Book Farmers
LISTEN to Major Alvord in the Christian Union. He puts it well: "The farmer must apply to himself, and to the son or sons to succeed him, a standard similar to…
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Farming & the land, 1883
55 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 3
TELEGRAMS. Cattle Market
SYDNEY, Friday.—At Homebush the cattle market was scarcely so firm. Best cattle fetched £4 10s to £9 13s. 1600 sheep were penned, prices, 9s 6d to 16s;…
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IN Brisbane the Pastoral Butchering Company have erected premises in which they have air-tight cellars, non-conductive of heat, where they store…
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LORD Llanover once told an agricultural meeting how, when his father wanted to introduce turnips as winter food in his native country, his tennants and…
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LONDON, March 4.—The United States Government has recommended a reduction of 18 per cent. on the wool duties…
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THE debate in the Assembly on Tuesday night upon Mr. WILLIAM CLARKE'S notion, "That in the opinion of this House, schools of agriculture and…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At Homebush sales, cattle and sheep were barely so high. Best beef brought 22s per 100 lbs. Some prime merino sheep fetched 11s 11d…
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LONDON, March 10.—192,000 bales of wool were catalogued. 13,000 bales were withdrawn. Biddings were less animated than before. Prices of good…
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AN American has proved that the regulation of the weather is no longer the monopoly of the great medicine men of the Indians. Proceeding from the well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →M'ivor's Farmers' Annual
THE above is the first brochure of the kind that has yet been issued from the Australian Press, and is certainly a very useful and creditable production. It is what it…
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WE (Braidwood Dispatch) are glad to notice a general disposition amongst the farmers of this district to improve their breed of cattle, and a very good example in this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →(From Our Sydney Correspondent.) The Irish Tenant Farmers
LONDON, June 13.—The House of Commons has passed a resolution in favour of State grants to Irish tenant farmers, to enable them to purchase freehold farms…
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LONDON, July 25.—A large sale of Australian wool has been held at Antwerp. Fifteen thousand bales were offered, and the most of it was sold, the balance being…
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WE have already pointed out the advantages likely to be derived from the Great Northern Wool Dumping and Shipping Company of Newcastle. Our up-country contemporaries evidently fall in with the…
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LONDON, August 21.—The September wool sales opened with 11,000 bales catalogued. Sales were a ½d lower than at the close of last series…
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WE are credibly informed that a proposition has been made by some, at least, of the Sydney merchants to the directors of the two steamship…
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LONDON, August 29.—The wool sales show a slight improvement…
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THE s.s. Gulf of Carpentaria by six o'clock yesterday evening had loaded nearly 2000 bales of wool for London, having commenced to take in and stow her cargo at 6 a.m. on Thursday. She requires now about 700…
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COBAR, Tuesday.—Three loads of this season's wool clip passed through Cobar yesterday. The River Darling is almost dry, and there is a severe drought along…
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THE "Evening News" has an able article on the above subject, and the remarks made therein are very encouraging. After giving a history of the industry, and alluding to a former attempt to start…
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