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Farming & the land, 1869

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Pastoral Letter of the Right Reverend Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland, on the Annual Collection for the Pope, and the Jubilee. James, by the Grace of God and of the Apostolic See, Bishop of Maitland, to the Catholic Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Maitland

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 July 1869 · page 9

DEARLY BELOVED BRETHREN IN CHRIST.—The recurrence of the glorious Festival of St. Peter and Paul, which for the last few years has been availed of by all true Catholics throughout…

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Wool

Empire · Tuesday 6 July 1869 · page 3

The report of the wool sales is unsatisfactory. On the day of the opening the bank rate was unexpectedly raised to 4½ per cent. This created a panic among the holders of…

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Wool Report

Empire · Tuesday 6 July 1869 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The May sales commenced on the 6th, and took a course similar to the August sales last year. Prices showed no material reduction, but competition was we[?]k, with a tendency decidedly downward;…

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The Farmer's Friend. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 July 1869 · page 3

SIR,—Your Cudgegong correspondent writes to asecrtain if sugar has yet been made from the juice of the Imphee, and what process should be adopted in order to make it on a small scale, &c…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. Disturbances in Ireland, Danger of a Rupture with the United States. Strong Opposition by the Lords to the Irish Church Bill. Great Conflicts in Paris—366 Killed 500 Wounded. Decline in Wool. by Electric Telegraph. [From Our Adelaide Correspondent.]

Empire · Tuesday 6 July 1869 · page 3

The branch mail steamer, from King George's Sound, with the May mails by the Geelong, arrived at Glenelg at 2 p.m. this day…

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Exhaustion of Soils by Wheat Culture

Empire · Friday 9 July 1869 · page 4

A Sacramento paper has the following sensible remarks about the wheat crops of California:—The chief of the Bureau of Statistics at Washington, in his October…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 July 1869 · page 8

FROM the weekly stock reports of the Wagga Wagga Express of the 3rd instant we take the following:—The weather since our last has continued moist, mild,…

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The Colonial Wool Sales. (Helmuth Schwartze's Circular.)

Empire · Saturday 10 July 1869 · page 4

Since the commencement, on the 6th of May, of the London public sales of colonial wool, the following quantity has been catalagued:—Victorian, 39,056 bates; New South Wa es and Queensland, 11,127…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 July 1869 · page 8

DURING the past week the weather has been remarkably fine, the days being unseasonably hot, and the nights and mornings severely cold. In the early part of the week there were heavy…

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"Don't Leave the Farm."

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 July 1869 · page 11

Come boys I have something to tell you; Come near, I would whisper it low: You are thinking of leaving the homestead—Don't be in a hurry to go…

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Trade Circulars. Wool. [Hughes and Son.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 July 1869 · page 3

Sales opened at a reduction of about 1d per lb, on the average of February and March. After the first few days, a further fall took place, and prices may now be quoted 2d to 3d per lb. lower, and in some instances even more. Biddings are fairly brisk, but…

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Rust in Wheat. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 July 1869 · page 2

SIR,—Being desirous, if possible to discover the true [?] of rust in wheat, will any of those interested in agricultural pursuits be kind enough to answer the following query:—Had any of you rast previous to seaking in…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1869 · page 5

WITH so fine a season it is not matter of surprise that flookowners and all interested in pastoral matters should be more hopeful of the future than they were some three or four months ago; and so we find them,…

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Pastoral and Agrigultural

Empire · Wednesday 14 July 1869 · page 2

The state of the country generally is in the highest degree favourable for pastoral pursuits, though in several localities of the Southern districts the caterpillars have…

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Weather and Crops, Pastoral. Weather and the Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1869 · page 5

THE last month has been one of almost uninterrupted fine winter weather, the few rainfalls having been brief, and not heavy in the metropolitan district. In the Hunter district there was a pretty general intermittent rain, continuing…

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Exports of Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c

Empire · Wednesday 14 July 1869 · page 4

Nineveh, for London: 1884 boles wool, 47 bales cotton, 46 bales leather, 708 [?] cocoanut oil, 679 [?] tallow, 1 cask oil, 5841 hides, 7688 horns, 8920 bonos, 15 cwt paint ore, 226 packages copper ore, 415…

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Wool, Tallow, and Hides. [Monthly Report.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1869 · page 9

MY last monthly letter commenced with a paragraph expressing the general regret that the telegrams, via India, did not bring us any intelligence of the opening of the May series of public sales. We are now no…

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Contempt of Court. (From the Pastoral Times, July 10.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 July 1869 · page 5

IN our last issue we referred briefly to the fact that the proprietors of the Sydney Herald were ordered to be attached by their Honors the Judges of the Supreme Court for alleged contempt of Court. The manner in which the…

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Pastoral. the Wagga Wagga Express of Saturday contains the following, in its stock report:—

Sydney Mail · Saturday 17 July 1869 · page 8

Since our last report the district has been visited with several heavy soaking showers, and the appearance of the country is all that the most thankless of pastoralists could desire. The news-by the mail of the decline in the price of…

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