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Farming & the land, 1863

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Cattle Inoculation

Empire · Thursday 1 January 1863 · page 5

Copy of a letter from Mr. Pottie, cattle inspector, to the Secretary for Lands, relative to inoculation:— "Sydney, December 16th, 186[?]. "Sir,— I have the honour to report some further…

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Pleuro-pneumonia in Cattle. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 January 1863 · page 8

SIR,—In your issue of the 22nd ultimo I perceive an extract from the Pastoral Times, which states that it is the intention of the stockholders in that locality to inoculate sound cattle for the above disease. There can be no…

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Should the Murrumbidgee District Be Erected Into a Separate Colony, or Be Annexed to Victoria? To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1863 · page 5

SIR,—The Melbourne Press has for sometime been labouring anxiously to prove, that the Murrumbidgee District with adjoining country, is geographically part and portion of Victoria, and should be annexed…

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Pleuro-pneumonia in Cattle. the following is in extract from the Mark Lane Express on Pleuro-Pneumonia in Cattle

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 January 1863 · page 11

"A discovery of great apparent importance," writes Lord Howard de Walden, from Brussels, "has been made by a Belgian physician, in regard to a system of preventive treatment to protect cattle from a dangerous epidemic." This disease is…

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The Turkish Bath for Sheep. (From the Field, October 4th.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1863 · page 8

THE appearance of what was at first assumed to be small-pox, but which many experienced persons now believe to be an animalcular disease among our flocks, has just caused a great deal of alarm, and…

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London Wool Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1863 · page 5

Last sales commenced 14th November, with a large attendance of buyers and prices were well supported for the first two nights' sale; it was soon evident the trade…

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Wool Market. November 25Th

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1863 · page 5

Last sales for year commenced 14th November. The arrivals to that date from the Australian colonies amounted to 23,000 bales; total, from Cape, & c., 75,000 bales. The inactivity…

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London Wool Report

Empire · Wednesday 14 January 1863 · page 5

Last sales commenced 14th November, with a large attendance of buyers and prices were well supported for the first two nights' sale; it was soon evident the trade were not in position to take wool at high rates, hence…

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Should the Murrumbidcee District Be Erected Into a Separate Colony, or Be Annexed to Victoria? [Second Letter.] (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 January 1863 · page 3

SIR,—In a former letter I argued, that as our district has a special nature, requiring special management tor the development of its resources, and is capable of supporting a separate government, therefore we should…

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The Drought and Its Teachings. (From the Pastoral Times, January 3rd)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1863 · page 8

THE existing season has been a most trying one for ma[?]y engaged in pastoral pmsuits. The early and con[?]mued drought, allowing only minimum supplies both of feed and water for the herds and flocks on…

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London Wool Report

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 17 January 1863 · page 4

Last sales commenced 14th November, with a large attendance of buyers and prices ware well supported for the first two nights' sale; it was soon evident the trade were not in a position to take wool at high rates, hence…

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Should the Murrumbidgee District Be Erected Into a Separate Colony, or Be Annexed to Victoria? [Third Letter.] To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 January 1863 · page 4

SIR.—In my two former letters I have shown—1st. That our saltbush district has a special nature, requiring special management for the development of its resources, and therefore should have a separate Government. 2nd. That our…

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[?]Ould the Murrumbidgee District Be Erected Into a Separate Colony, or Be Annexed to Victoria? [Second Letter.] (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

Sydney Mail · Saturday 17 January 1863 · page 11

[?],—In a former letter I argued, that as our district [?]s a special nature, requiring special management for [?] development of its resources, and is capable of supporting a separate government, therefore we should…

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Trade Circular. Wool. [Buxton and Metcalfe]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1863 · page 5

REFERRING to our circular on the opening of the colonial woo[?] sales on the 14th instant, we have now further to report that the animation with which they commenced has since very perceptibly diminished, and a reaction in price to the extent of the advance…

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Exports of Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1863 · page 8

From 21st June to 31st December, 1862: Per Claramont—860 casks tallow, 20 tons copper ore, 6897 hides, 647 bales wool, 14,170 horns, l8 tons bones. Per Strathdon—1406 bales wool, 940 casks tallow, 10,153 hides,…

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Should the Murrumbidgee District Be Erected Into a Separate Colony, or Be Annexed to Victoria? [Third Letter.] To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Sydney Mail · Saturday 24 January 1863 · page 8

SIR,—In my two former letters 1 have shown—1st. That our saltbush district has a special nature, requiring special management for the development of its resources, and therefore should have a separate Government, 2nd. That our…

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Should the Murrumbidgee District Be Erected Into a Separate Colony, or Be Annexed to Victoria. Third Letter. [To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.]

Empire · Tuesday 27 January 1863 · page 8

SIR,—In my two former letters I have shown [?]—That our saltbush district has a special nature, requiring special management for the development of its resources, and therefore…

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Penrith Farmers' Club. Sir Stuart Donaldson on the Produce of Australian Wool. (From the Cumberland Advertiser, November 11th.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 January 1863 · page 3

ON Tuesday last, at the meeting of the Penrith Farmers' Club, Sir Stuart Donaldson, son-in-law of F. Cowper, Esq., of Carleton Hall, and for many years an extensive wool-grower in Australia, gave a very…

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Mr. Bruce's Further Report on the Inoculation of Cattle for Pledropneumonia [This letter is published by the request of the Honorable the Minister for Landa.] Ten Mile Creek, 21st January, 1863

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1863 · page 2

SIR,—From the reports which I have on different occasions had the ho[?]our to lay before you on the subject of the in[?]culation of cattle for pleuro-pneumonia, and its offects upon them, you will have observed that the swellings and…

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Mr. Bruce's Further Report on the Inoculation of Cattle for Pleuropneumonia

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 February 1863 · page 11

[This letter is published by the request of the Honorable the Minister for Lands.] Ten Mile Creek, 21st January, 1863. SIR,—From the reports which I hare on different…

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