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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1868

351 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 18

The Baby Farming Interest, and Improper Advertising

Sydney Mail · Saturday 18 April 1868 · page 11

WITHIN the last few years a class of advertisers has sprang up who owe to this means very much of their success in business both of an immoral and criminal character, we allude to…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 18 April 1868 · page 14

WITH reference to a paragraph respecting the silver cup recently exhibited in Maitland, the Mercury of Saturday last makes the following correction :—We desire to correct an error in our notice of the Silver…

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Archbishop Polling's Pastoral Letter

Illustrated Sydney News · Monday 20 April 1868 · page 9

THE Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney has addressed a pastoral letter to the clergy and laity of his Church, directing a service of thanksgiving for the recovery of Prince Alfred. The letter contains an indignant repudiation of any sympathy with…

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Deniliquin Stock Report. (From the Pastoral Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 April 1868 · page 6

APRIL 10.—The demand for good cattle stations with well-bred cattle still continues firm, although the prices which buyers offer are not near so high as they have been, still they are higher in proportion than are offered for sheep stations. Some few years…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Empire · Wednesday 22 April 1868 · page 2

A most important impetus to our pastoral interests is now in course of proof. We allude to Mr. Mort's meat freezing precess. A company of gentlemen, merchants and stockholders, have arranged for the…

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The Pastoral Interest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 April 1868 · page 9

WHAT with the somewhat sudden advent of winter with its frosts and bleak winds, the long drought and the consequent scarcity of food and water for stock— the prospects of the squatters are not at present…

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Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c

Empire · Wednesday 22 April 1868 · page 4

Modusa for London: 1762 bales wool, [?]11 bales cotton, 204 hogsheads treacle, 291 casks tallow, 180 casks cocoanut oil, 50 casks sperm oil, 85 bundles whalebone, 47 bags bones, 67 casks hide cuttings,…

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Sydney Wool Market. [Richardson and Wrench.]

Empire · Wednesday 22 April 1868 · page 3

In the three sale days which have occurred since our last citcular there have been offered at auction 1478 bales wool, of which 934 bales were sold under the hummer, at the same rates which ruled at the close of…

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The Weather and the Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 April 1868 · page 9

DURING the past month the weather has on the whole been favourable throughout the country, and though the residents of one or two districts have been [?]menting the paucity of the rainfalls, these complaints are…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 25 April 1868 · page 14

THE Dubbo Dispatch, in its weekly stock report, says:—" The news of the week has been very uninteresting. Nothing of interest has transpired; and the continued absence of rain tends to much dullness in…

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Production of Butter and Milk

Empire · Saturday 25 April 1868 · page 6

The various cause which combine to produce an effect so desirable as the manufacture of first-class butter cannot be too closely considered. The subject has been…

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Seed Wheat. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 April 1868 · page 7

SIR,—Among the many subjects that are engaging the attention of the public mind at the present time, none is of greater importance—not only to the farmers of the colony but to the whole community—than the…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 25 April 1868 · page 14

FROM one end of the colony to the other, complaints of the went of rain and of the perishing of the feed hare come in upon us. In the interior and on the table lands, frosts hare already set in, so that there is…

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Deniliquin Stock Market. (From the Pastoral Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 May 1868 · page 3

APRIL 24.—Summer weather still clings to us—we have had some [?] warm days since our last. The prices for fat cattle and sheep still fluctuate, and will continue to do so, until settlers establish a better plan than is at present in vogue in sending fat…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 2 May 1868 · page 14

IN its weekly stock report, the Dubbo Dispatch of the 24th says:—" Since our last we have received advices from several parts of the district which display a very bad state of affairs, owing to the continued dry…

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Lenten Pastoral Op Dr. M'hale

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 May 1868 · page 6

The Most Rev. Dr. M'Hale, Lord Archbishop of Tuam, in his Lenten pastoral says:—"Having deemed it our duty to advert repeatedly to the subject, we should hare wished to be spared…

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Seed Wheat. To the Editor of the Sydney Mail

Sydney Mail · Saturday 2 May 1868 · page 14

SIR,—The only remedy against Rust is to grow the Egyptian wheat. I have been a grower of wheat in the Hunter district these thirty-five years; have had the above the last four;…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 2 May 1868 · page 14

THE Manning River News of the 25th says:—"The weather is again line and clear. A few showers have fallen since our last issue, but more rain is needed. A few of the farmers have commenced sowing wheat,…

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Seed Wheat. (From the S. A. Register.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 May 1868 · page 2

THE fact that rusty and shrivelled wheat will germinate and produce well-matured grain may be regarded as generally established; but there is another weighty consideration for the farmer, namely, what…

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Rust in Wheat. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Tuesday 5 May 1868 · page 3

Sir,—Amidst all the discussion relating to rust in wheat, I think I ought to say a word or two, as I have been a grower in the Hunter district for some thirty-five years. I have to say that ever since…

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