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Farming & the land, 1865

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Wool Report

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 August 1865 · page 9
Also in Freeman's Journal, The Sydney Morning Herald

168,000 bales were offered at the last sales. The Continental buyers bought largely, giving confidence to the market. Sales closed at full rates, and present prices are expected to be…

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Commercial. Wool Sales

Empire · Saturday 12 August 1865 · page 5

The wool sales progressed with great uniformity throughout the series. The sales closed at full rates. Sydney wool, though much depressed at the opening, recovered ½d…

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Sydney Horse and Cattle Market

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 12 August 1865 · page 3

FAT CATTLE.—Burt and Co. report—The Market unusually bare of anything like fat stock. The few lots offered have been of a very middling quality and realised high rates. Several good lots are reported near at hand and we anticipate that in eight or ten days the…

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The British Wool Trade

Empire · Monday 14 August 1865 · page 3

More than ritual interest has been shown by the importing and exporting houses in reference to the future course of the wool trade. For the public sales of colonial wool, now in progress, upwards of 168,000 bales…

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Land Scurvy and Its Remedy. [From the Pastoral Times, August 5.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 August 1865 · page 2

WE have frequently felt it our duty to direct public attention to the miserable existence that too many shepherds and hutkeepers are forced to endure. We have pointed out that whilst on some stations masters…

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London Wool [?]—June 24, 1865

Empire · Tuesday 15 August 1865 · page 8

The sales have progressed with remarkable unifor[?] [?] the whole [?] which considering the [?] [?] quantity offered, is a [?] of the [?] [?] of our market. No [?] the quantity [?]…

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Cattle Crossing the Murray

Illustrated Sydney News · Wednesday 16 August 1865 · page 3

THE river Murray, or Hume, is by far the largest stream in Australia. Its total length is 2,400 miles, of which nearly 2,000 are navigable in certain seasons. It is fed on the New South Wales side by the Edwards, Lachlan, Murrumbidgee, and…

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Intercolonial Exhibition of Merino Wool

Illustrated Sydney News · Wednesday 16 August 1865 · page 7

IN January last an exhibition of merino wool, open to all the colonies, took place at Melbourne. The results were reported in our February number. The arrangement, as described by Messrs. Cunningham and Macredie, of the Australian Wool Stores, was…

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Sydney Horse and Cattle Market

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 19 August 1865 · page 3

HORSES.— Burt and report—Market very bare of made aorses, for which there are numerous enquiries; anything with style and quality sells readily at good figures, heavy draughts arenot so much sought for as usual in the winter season, the requirements…

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Sydney Horse and Cattle Market

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 26 August 1865 · page 2

HORSES.—Burt and Co report the market rather better supplied; a few useful lots have come in from the country, and were sold readily at prices varying from £15 to £25 for draught horses, £8 to £20 for hackneys…

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Chinese Sheep. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 August 1865 · page 3

SIR,—My attention was drawn to the Chinese Sheep by two articles which appeared in the Melbourne Argus and Age of the 17th instant. This peculiar breed has unfortunately not hitherto attracted the attention of…

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Killing Cattle. (From Buenos Ayres and Argentine Cleanings. by Thomas J. HUTCHINSON, F.R.G.S, &c.)

Empire · Tuesday 29 August 1865 · page 3

There were three corrals ia a line, each containing a number of animals, while outsite were half a dozen scaffold stalls, on whose hooks carcases were suspended in variously…

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The Pastoral Question

Empire · Friday 1 September 1865 · page 3

The allowing is from the South Australian Advertiser of Wednesday week, August 23rd:- The lessees of the pastoral lands, included in the second and third classes in the Amended Assessment…

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Rust in Wheat. To the Editor of the Australasian

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 September 1865 · page 2

SIR,—In the Australasian of last week, you gave an article on rust, and you inculcate upon farmers the necessity of early so wing and thin seeding as calculated to prevent rust. In reference to these two points,…

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Ploughing Match of the Farmers' Improvement Society. (From the Bathurst Free Press of Saturday.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 September 1865 · page 5

THE ploughing match in connection with the above Society came off yesterday. The day was beautifully fine, and although the sun shone out in great splendour it was by no means unpleasantly warm. The attendance was good, the…

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Ploughing Match of the Farmers' Improvement Society

Sydney Mail · Saturday 9 September 1865 · page 5

THE ploughing match in connection with the above Society came off yesterday. The day was beautifully fine, and although the sun shone out in great splendour it was by no means unpleasantly warm. The attendance was good, the…

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The Pastoral Letter of John Bede. by the Grace or God, and Favour of the Holy Apostolic See, Archbishop of Sydney, Metropolitan of Australia, &C, on the Jubilee Granted on the 10Th Anniversary of the Definition of the Immaculate Conception. to the Faithful of the Archdiocese, Clergy and Laity

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 September 1865 · page 569

DEARLY BELOVED,—In December last, the tenth Anniversary of the Definition of the Immaculate Conception, the Holy Father addressed to the Bishops of the Catholic Church…

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Talk About Crops and Prices, From the Interior Press of California

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 September 1865 · page 5

The Auburn (Placer county) Stars and Stripes of June 21st, speaking of the manœuvres of grain speculators to raise or depress the market as it happens to suit their purpose, remarks:—"In accordance with this system, we are…

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