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Farming & the land, 1866

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Farming in New South Wales. No. II.—GRASSES

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 April 1866 · page 3

ALTHOUGH regarded generally as a pastoral lather than an agricultural country, it is yet surprising to find the cultivation of grasses so little attended to. Hitherto the farmers have been content in this matter,…

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Hints to Farmers on Drilling and Drainage. (From the Morpeth Leader, April 11.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 April 1866 · page 5

BETWEEN the novice in agriculture who scrapes the soil and scatters his seed, leaving whit men call chance to produce a crop, and the cultivator who studies his calling as a science, adopts every means within his power for assisting…

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Farming in New South Wales. (From the Sydney Mail) No. 11.—GRASSES

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 April 1866 · page 3

ALTHOUGH regarded generally as a pastoral rather than on agricultural country, it is yet surprising to find the cultivation of grasses so little attended to. Hitherto the farmers have been content in this matter,…

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London Wool Report.—february 24, 1855

Empire · Tuesday 17 April 1866 · page 4

Since our last report there has been considerable inquiries for all descriptions of wool, more partionialy of a combing character, and so urgent has been the requirements of many of the manufactures that all old stock was bought with…

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Trade Circulars. Wool. [From Buxton and Hunter's Trices Current, London, February 26Th, 1866.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 April 1866 · page 3

REFERRING to our circular of the 26th ultimo, we have little now to add to the remarks there made respecting the wool market. The demand then mentioned has continued during the past month, but as the time for the fixing of the spring sales…

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Pastoral of the Most Rev. Dr. Keane

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 April 1866 · page 253

In the Lenten pastoral of the Lord Bishop of Cloyne we find the following references to current subjects:— Poverty has its own dangers and temptation…

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Wool Tallow, Hides, &C

Empire · Saturday 21 April 1866 · page 4

Great Victoria, steamer, for London: 2092 bales 1 halfbalet 1 pocket wool, 9 bales skins, 216 pigs, 5300 bags copper ore, 160 casks begs, 4 casks tongus, 546 bags kaurl gum, 5 packages hundries…

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Farming in New South Wales. Iii.—farm-yard Manurs

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 April 1866 · page 3

LIEBIO has somewhere said that among the causes of the decline of nations, exhaustion of the soil is one of the greatest Startling as this announcement may be, doubtless there is more truth in it than we are apt…

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New South Wales Farming. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Monday 23 April 1866 · page 5

Sir,—The late Sir James Dowling obtained [?] grand of nearly three thousand acres of land, and, strange to say, he selected the same away up in the highlands of the Williams River, near the Chichester rivulet. It…

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Farming in New South Wales. (From the Sydney Mail.) Iii.—farm-yard Manure

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 April 1866 · page 2

LIEBIG has somewhere said that among the causes of the decline of nations, exhaustion of the soil is one of the greatest. Starting as this announcement may be, doubtless there is more truth in it than we are apt…

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Gentlemen Farmers. (From the Mark Lane Express, February 26.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 April 1866 · page 2

AT the Carmarthen Farmers Club, Mr. James Buckley, Penyfai, read the followign paper:—"How is it that gentlemen farmers usually complain of sustaining a loss by farming?" In pursuing this inquiry…

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Mr. Worms' Cure for the Cattle Plague. (From the Mark Lane Express.) (To the Editor of the Mark Lane Express.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 April 1866 · page 2

SIR,—I feel that the great importance of the subject is a sufficient apology for my requesting you to give publicity to the enclosed letter, which I have received from Mr.Worms. I may state that the Rinderpest…

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Mr. Worms' Cure for the Cattle Plague. (To the Editor of the Mark Lane Express.)

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 April 1866 · page 12

SIR,—I feel that the great importance of the subject is a sufficient apology for my requesting you to give publicity to the enclosed letter, which I have received from Mr. Worms. I may state that the Rinderpest…

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Seed Wheat. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 3 May 1866 · page 5

Sir,—I do myself the honor to place in your hands for publication, if you think proper, the annexed correspondence touching the distribution of seed wheat by the Government…

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Seed Wheat. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 May 1866 · page 2

SIR,—I do myself the honour to place in your hands for publication, if you think proper, the annexed correspondance touching the distribution of teed wheat by the Government…

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The Agricultural, Dairy, and Other Products of the Kiama District. (From the Kiama Independent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 May 1866 · page 2

THE grain crops of the district have been for several years past so much injured by rust and drought, that no one could be surprised at finding their gross produce represented in the agricultural returns by figures of very…

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Lecture on the Rotation of Crops

Empire · Friday 4 May 1866 · page 2

On Monday, April 25, a lecture on the above subject as delivered by Mr. Josiah Mitchell, of the Royal-park Farm, at the new Presbyterian Church, Brunswick,…

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The Utilisation of Water. (From the Pastoral Times, April 28)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 May 1866 · page 5

PARLIAMENT is prorogued and members are released from attendance, but the position of the colony still calls for their personal labour. The prorogation will be short, and if the country is to be benefited by the legislation of next session,…

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Bovine or Cattle Disease. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 May 1866 · page 5

SIR,—In this morning's Herald I find a short letter from Mr. Holroyd giving an extract from a recent letter from Dr. Falloon, a physician practising in Liverpool, in reference to the rinderpest or cattle-plague, in which it is stated…

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Useful Hints to Small Farmers and Others

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 May 1866 · page 3

SOME time ago, Mr. R. I. Perrott, of Armidale, delivered a lecture on Agriculture, at the School of Arts there, which deserves—from the intimate practical knowledge of the lecturer, and the popular manner in…

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