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Farming & the land, 1865

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Wool Drays "Going to Town."

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 16 December 1865 · page 5

THE progress of a number of wool drays en route from the station to Sydney or Maitland is a bit of Australian bush life, true to nature, and as common as the wool season comes round. By many denizens of the distant bush the wool drays are looked…

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Cattle Disease

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 December 1865 · page 3

THE following bill for regulating the importation and exportation of horned cattle, and for preventing the introduction or propagation of infections or contagions diseases among cattle, was read a second time on Friday in the…

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Scab in Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 December 1865 · page 3

THE following bill, to continue for a limited period, and to amend the Scab in Sheep Act of 1863, was read a first time on Friday in the Legislative Assembly:— Whereas the Scab in Sheep Act of 1863 will expire on…

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Paddock Feeding for Sheep

Empire · Monday 18 December 1865 · page 3

The following letter appears in the Maitland Ensign:- Sir,— I am glad to see that a subject, the importance of which cannot be over-estimated, is at length…

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The Cattle Plague and Cattle Panic

Empire · Wednesday 20 December 1865 · page 8

Nothing can be more commendable that the alertness shown by the agriculturists in all directions to take sctive means for self-help against the apprchended spread of the disesse which has broken out in the…

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The Pastoral Interest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 December 1865 · page 8

FROM what we have already said under our last head, it will be readily imagined that squatting affairs are not very promising in the extreme western districts of the colony. Many of our Riverine squatters are…

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Wool, Tallow, and H Des, &c

Empire · Thursday 21 December 1865 · page 3

Woolloomoolo, for London; 2650 bags copper ore, 2514 hider, 119 caske fallow, 1570, bales wool, 49 bales [?]kins 41 [?] drapery. Nineveh, for London: 2922 bales wool, 61 bales shropsking…

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The Weather and the Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 December 1865 · page 8

ALONG the whole coast line of the colony the weather has been all that could he desired. There have been au alternation of fine warm days, of days that have been oppressively hot, and have ended with…

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The Cattle Plague

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 December 1865 · page 3

THE following letter has been addressed from the Hague by Mr. Caird, M.P., to the editor of the Times. It is dated October 13:— "Having bad an opportunity while passing through…

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The Cattle Plague

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 December 1865 · page 5

THE following letter has been addressed from the Hague by Mr. Caird, M.P., to the editor of the Times. It is dated October 13:—"Having had an opportunity while passing through…

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"Paddock Feeding for Sheep." to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 28 December 1865 · page 3

Sir,—I perceive in your issue of the 18th instant, an extract from the Maitland Ensign, of a letter signed "Veritas," under the above heading. Of course I can only judge of the intentions of the writer by his…

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The Cattle Plague

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 December 1865 · page 6

THE following paper, by Dr. Masch, Veterinary Professor at the Agricultural College at Altenburg, Hungary, was translated by Kerr H. Kunde, Edinburgh, and appeared in the North…

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On Crossing Sheep. (From the Scottish Farmer, for October.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 December 1865 · page 8

AMONGST the many changes and improvements which have been effected in farming during the last twentyfive or thirty years, there are few of greater general importance, in certain points of view, than the…

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