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Farming & the land, 1868

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Deniliquin Stock Report. (From the Pastoral Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 March 1868 · page 3

FEBRUARY 21.—The stock news from the interior still continues cheering, so much grass and water at this season of the year have not been known for many years. It is somewhat novel to see the great Riverine plains covered with grass in the month of…

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Farm Produce. Colonial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 March 1868 · page 5

Three bushels of best sample wheat, which must be a sample of the produce of not less than one acre, to be exhibited by the grower, £3, L. P. Doyle, 1st prize, John M'Mullen, 2nd ditto…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 14

The Dubbo Dispatch of March 6th, in its weekly stock report, gives the following account of the position and prospects of the Western interior:—…

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Deniliquin Stock Report. (From the Pastoral Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 6

MARCH 6.—We have just had information from a party, who has ridden recently many hundreds of miles through the interior, and he reports that this is the best season for grass and water that has been knows for the last ten years, the grass in the…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society of New England. Fourth Annual Exhibition

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 15

THIS exhibition was held on Wednesday, 4th instant, in the hall of the Armidale School of Arts, the enclosed yard at the rear of the building, and in the paddocks across Falconer-street…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 14

In Sydney and its immediate neighbourhood the weather has been remarkably fine during the past week, with warm days and deliriously cool evenings and mornings. Vegetation of…

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Farm Produce. Colonial

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 15

Three bushels of best sample wheat, which must be a sample of the produce of not less than one acre, to be exhibited by the grower, £3, L. P. Doyle, 1st prize; John M'Mullen, 2nd ditto…

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The Disease in Sheep Act and the Coast Scab District. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 March 1868 · page 2

SIR,—Presuming on the importance of this question, I am induced to solicit space for a few remarks respecting it. The connection of the Coast Scab District wi[?]h the Prevention of Disease in Sheep Act…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 March 1868 · page 14

IN its weekly report of March 12, the Dubbo Dispatch says:— "The weather since our last report has continued dry. Black heavy clouds, surcharged with electricity,…

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Pastoral Progress

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 March 1868 · page 14

AT a valedictory dinner given to his brother, Mr James White, M.L.A., who is leaving this month for England, by the overland route, Mr. F. White made the following observations:—He fell a diffidence in speaking on so…

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The Great Wool Challenge. Mudgee V. Victorian Wools

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 March 1868 · page 15

[THE following letters, published in the Australasian, will be read with great interest.—ED. Mail.] Sir,—You doubtless recollect that Messrs. Learmonth,…

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The Bodalla Dairy Farm

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 March 1868 · page 14

[THE following is abridged from an interesting account communicated by a Victorian visitor to Bodalla to the Australasian.—Ed. Mail.] The estate of Bodalla, consisting of about 14,000…

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Baby Farming

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 March 1868 · page 13

There is a class of advertisements constantly found in the London and provincial journals of England which never appears in an Irish newspaper. They are composed in mysterious…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 March 1868 · page 14

FROM all directions we receive accounts of the prevalence of the same weather that we have experienced in Sydney, namely, warm days and cool evenings and mornings…

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Deniliquin Stock Report. (From the Pastoral Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 March 1868 · page 6

MARCH 13.—The news from the interior, as far as grass and water are concerned, is most hopeful, For the next twelve months fat cattle and sheep promise to be abundant, and unless there should be discovered an outlet for our surplus beef and…

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Child Farming in Australia—shocking Disclosures at Ballarat

Illustrated Sydney News · Wednesday 25 March 1868 · page 11

THE fidelity with which the crimes and other phases of the worst features of humanity in the old world is reproduced at the Antipodes has often…

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Australian Wool. To the Editor of the Times

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 March 1868 · page 5

SIR,—Your very interesting article o: this day on the Trade Circulars of 1867 concludes with the following statement:— "The imports of Australian wool, which a few…

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Sydney Wool Market. [Bichardson and Wrench.]

Empire · Friday 27 March 1868 · page 6

The slight advace in prices which we reported in our last circular has been well maintained at the weekly public sales which have occurred during the month and at the last sale a further slight improvement might…

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The Weather and the Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 March 1868 · page 12

OUR record under this head unlike the chronicles of cones ponding periods in former years, will convey no unpleasent intelligence. The weather throughout the colony has been exceptionally mild…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 March 1868 · page 14

THE following report from the pastoral districts of the West is from the Dubbo Dispatch of the 20th instant:— "The want of rain is again beginning to be felt…

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