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Farming & the land, 1865

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Scab in Sheep

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 March 1865 · page 6

IN another column will be found the report from the Scab in Sheep Inspector, giving the results of the operation of the last Scab Act, and it is very satisfactory to find that the Act…

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Horse and Cattle Report. [Burt and Co.]

Empire · Saturday 4 March 1865 · page 3

The horse market is duller than usual. Throughout the week, several good lots have come forwrd, which we have found it difficult to clear at anything: Iike remunerative prices, the majority of the buyers confining themselves to…

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Sheep, in Van Loads

Empire · Tuesday 7 March 1865 · page 6

Will be conveyed at Owner's risk, at 7d. per mile, per wa[?]gons…

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Sheep, in Van Loads

Empire · Wednesday 8 March 1865 · page 6

Will be conveyed at Owner's risk, at 7d. per mile, per waggons…

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IMPORTS.—MARCH 7. Wave, from Victor Harbour: 1797 bags wheat, order

Empire · Wednesday 8 March 1865 · page 4

Loch[?]el, from London: 200 packages starch, E. and W. Paul: 20,000 slates. W.Long: 40 [?]ogsheads [?]tout, 50 c[?]sks beer, 70 packages, Learmenth, Dickinson, and Co.; 1 package, J.Malcolrn; 443 bags 180 bundles iron, 3 packages, E.P…

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The Profits and Advantages of Sufficient Capital in Farming. (From the Australasian, March 3.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1865 · page 3

IN continuation of our remarks last week on the want of sufficient capital being one of the chief causes of farming being so often an unremunerative pursuit, we may be allowed to point out a few of the "benefits…

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Pastoral

Sydney Punch · Saturday 11 March 1865 · page 8

Mr. ROBERTSON told a squatter's deputation the other day that " in England a cow was a respectable domesticated member of society." Surely the honorable gentleman committed a bull in saying so…

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Fat Cattle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1865 · page 8

M[?]RS. B[?] and Co. report the market as still good: and although the supply during the week has been large, prices for top lots have been maintained. At our regular sale at the Victoria Yards, on Wednesday, nothing was sold under £4, best pens of…

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Horse and Cattle Report. [C. Marttyn]

Empire · Saturday 11 March 1865 · page 3

The market is thoroughly glutted with horse stock, and it is with great difficualty that light stock sell, even at the low prices they are fetching, owing to the excessively large preportion brought down is the drafte arriving each day. The…

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The Border Duties. (From the Pastoral Times, March 4.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1865 · page 8

BY the reports we publish in this issue of the meetings held simultaneously in Deniliquin and Echuca to memorialise against the continuance of the Border duties, it will he seen that perfect unanimity prevailed…

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Fixed Facts in Agriculture. (From the Chio Farmer.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 11 March 1865 · page 4

1.—All lands on which clover or the grasses are grown must either have lime in them naturally or that material must be artiflcially supplied. It matters little whether it be supplied in the form of stone lime, cyster lime, or…

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The Darling Wells. (From the Pastoral Times, March 4.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1865 · page 8

THE Riverine Herald of the 25th ultimo contains a hightly interesting and descriptive leader respecting the country to the north of the Darling, in which the writer exposes the fallacy of condemning the country…

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The Advantages of Small Flocks of Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1865 · page 3

IT is curious to note how opinions are changing as to the feeding capabilities of the country, and this principally because of the fencing and subdividing so many sheep runs, as well as of the necessity for keeping…

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Wool Prospects. (From the Pastoral Times, March 11.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1865 · page 6

THE prospects of the wool market is a subject which directly or indirectly concerns everyone in this c[?]lony. The mere rise or fall of a penny a pound in England represents a gain or loss of one-twentieth the…

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Horse and Cattle Reports. [Burt and Co.]

Empire · Saturday 18 March 1865 · page 3

We report the market as still fuy stocked with medlum and low class horses mostly unbreken the prices for which at the Camperdown Yards, through hout the week, have ranged from £1 to £10, a few better fort going up to £15…

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Annual Review of the London Wool Market, 1864

Empire · Saturday 18 March 1865 · page 5

The opening of the year was not marked by any special feature, there were a few contracts made, but to a very moderate extont. Priees kept firm to March, at which sale there was plenty of animation, and…

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The Wool Trade

Empire · Monday 20 March 1865 · page 3

What can Western India do for the world in adjusting the wool question? is one of the new questions which has arisen. Wool is wanted: where can it be got Which is the country detined to supply the new want…

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Wool, Tallow, Hides, &o

Empire · Tuesday 21 March 1865 · page 3

Cinderella, for London; 2010[?] bales wool, 50 bales skin 808 cacke tallow, 1236 bides, 11 casce 1 quarter-cask wine, cane coral. Queen of the South, for London; 2025 bales 4 pockets 1…

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Exports of Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c. From January 1, 1865

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 March 1865 · page 10

[?]er Young England: 2507 bales wool, 9600 horns, 7760 hides, 133 casks tallow, 307 packages gum. Per Royal Edward: 4203 bales wool, 662 casks tallow, 3635 packages copper ore, 2898 hides, 1493 packages gum, 30,000…

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