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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1869

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Labour in the Pastoral Districts. (From the D[?]quin Chronicle.)

Empire · Wednesday 18 August 1869 · page 3

Shearing may now be said to have commenced, and the old and the young, the skilled labourer and the ignorant, are travelling through to take their share, such as they may obtain, in the wool harvest of…

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Railway Extension. (From the Pastoral Times, August 14.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 August 1869 · page 5

YASS, Gundagai, and Wagga Wagga have recently spoken, out on the railway question. Yass is pretty sure to got the Southern line extended thereto from Goulburn, and we hear it rumoured that there is little prospect of the main…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 August 1869 · page 8

FROM the Weekly Stock Report of the Dubbo Dispatch of the 13th instant, we extract the following:— The demand for Australian preserved meat in England…

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Hay Pastoral Association

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 August 1869 · page 8

THE second anniversary show of the Hay Pastoral Association took place last week, and was well attended. There was scarcely any competition amongst horses and cattle— there being but very few exhibited. Mr. Palmer's entire…

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The Archbishop of Westminster's Pastoral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 August 1869 · page 11

In the Pastoral Letter of the Archbishop of Westminster, which was read in the principal London churches, his Grace thus expresses himself on the subject of education :—…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 August 1869 · page 8

IN the metropolitan district the weather has been uninterruptedly fine during the past week, and the spring is now fast progressing. The news from the interior for the preceding…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 August 1869 · page 8

IN the stock report of the Wagga Wagga Express, August 20, the following intelligence appears:— Since our last report the days have been warm, dry, and…

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The Archbishop of Westminster's Pastoral. (Continued)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 August 1869 · page 11

Four Possible Systems of National Education.—Now, there are four supposable systems of national education. The first, in which the whole people, being of one mind in religion, are…

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Newly-shorn Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 September 1869 · page 2

The following on this subject, from the Gardeners' Chronicle, may be interesting to Australian sheep-farmers: "Newly-shorn sheep are washed by some of our bast hill shepherds once across the pool, for the twofold purpose of…

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Trade Circulars. Wool. [Windeler and Bowes.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 September 1869 · page 5

THE depressed tone that has so long hung about the wool market is new considerably lightened, the main causes of this change being increased consumption and readier sale for manufactured articles. From France our reports are still dull, and it is chiefly…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 September 1869 · page 8

IN its weekly stock report the Dubbo Dispatch of the 27th ultimo says:—On Sunday last we had a few hours' rain, but with this exception the weather during the week has been dry and…

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Newly-shorn Sheep

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 September 1869 · page 3

The following on this subject, from the Gardeners' Chroni[?], may be interesting to Australian sheep-farmers: "Newly-shorn sheep are washed by some of our best hill shepherds once across the pool, for the twofold purpose of…

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Farming in the Vicinity of Large Towns

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 September 1869 · page 8

THE recent talk about the probable price of wheat a year or two hence leads naturally to considerations directing the future of farming in general, and this again to the different systems of management that…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1869 · page 5

THE intelligence from the great squatting country in the north-west, sometimes designated Northern Riverina, is to the effect that the season continues propitious, and that advices from the several parts are encouraging. On the…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Empire · Wednesday 8 September 1869 · page 2

The accounts received during the month from many parts of the interior are encouraging. The favourable accounts of the wool market received by the last mail were…

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Weather and Crops, Pastoral. Weather and Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1869 · page 5

THE fine clear weather which has predominated so largely through the winter has continued up to the very opening of spring, and as yet there have been none of the rains usual on the inauguration of the warm season…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1869 · page 13

THE inward mail this month has brought us English news fully four days in advance of contract time— an event which would have been a great boon to shippers of wool if it had occurred when a series of…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 September 1869 · page 8

FROM the weekly stock report of the Dubbo I[?]patch of the 3rd instant we take the following:— The season in this part of the country continues to be…

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The Sheep at Singleton. To the Editor of the Sydney Mail

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 September 1869 · page 13

SIR,—If you will not deem it out of place, and if I am not usurping the place of the writer on "The Durhams at Sydney." I should like to have my say on "The Sheep at Singleton." In a district, which was never been very famed for its wool, I…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 September 1869 · page 8

IN the Metropolitan district the weather was fine ap to Tuesday last, although the strong westerly winds made the nights and mornings very cold. On Wednesday there was a charge…

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