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Farming & the land, 1870

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Farming in New South Wales

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 4

AT the Agricultural Society's dinner, at Sydney, on the 1st instant., Earl Belmore, who presided, made some sensible remarks on the above subject. Having observed that he…

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BABY-FARMING. (From the Times.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 14 September 1870 · page 4

THE. "Baby Farming" case at the Lambeth Police Court is a shocking revelation of another of our social sores. This year will be notorious for the…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Companies. (From the Economist.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 24 September 1870 · page 4

THE old adage, "The shoemaker should stick to his last," has long been considered the very essence of wisdom; and there is no doubt that in an old…

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Pedigree Essential to the Improvement of Stock. (From the Farmer.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 28 September 1870 · page 3

MR. WILIOUGHBY WOOD, a capital judge of shorthorns, thus advocates the claims of pedigree:— "It is nearly twenty years since I began…

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The Growth of Wool. (From the Mark-lane Express.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 1 October 1870 · page 4

THE winter and early spring months have an influence upon the quality of the fleece, which is worthy of a passing notice. This is a season of…

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Mark Twain on the Rev. Ward Beecher's Model Farm

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 1 October 1870 · page 4

An English paper says:—Our American cousins have a crooked way of viewing and of thinking over things sometimes, but there is often a profound philosophy…

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Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association. (From the Burrangong Argus.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 12 October 1870 · page 2

A MEETING of the members of the above Association was held according to advertisement on Thursday evening, at the Criterion Hotel…

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The Wool Show. (From the Sydney Mail, October 8.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 19 October 1870 · page 4

IT is pleasant to see that the spirit displayed in one quarter incites spirit in another. Last January the Agricultural Society attempted a wool show, which was attended with great…

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Pastoral Association Dinner

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 30 November 1870 · page 2

A PUBLIC dinner was given by the Association, on the evening of the Show, at the Commercial Hotel. About forty gentlemen, including most of the squatters of the…

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The Murrumbidgee Pastoral Show

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 30 November 1870 · page 2

THE sixth Show of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association was held yesterday on the usual ground. Notwithstanding several circumstances that somewhat militated against…

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Importer Tasmanian Sheep

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 3

IT will be in the recollection of our readers (says the Herald) that Mr. Henry Blomfield, of Evahdale, near Launcoston, brought over from Tasmania a number of thoroughbred…

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Wool Market

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 24 December 1870 · page 3

At public sale there was a fair number of German and Belgian buyers. French absent. At first the prices showed a little alteration by the absence of demand for…

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