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Farming & the land, 1870

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Are Large or Small Sheep Stations the more Profitable?

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 11

PEOPLE sitting at an English fire-side listening to an Australian budget of news, contained on four closely written sheets of "post" (such budgets a first-year settlers are in the habit of sending home…

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The Grazier. Foot Rot in Sheep. Lecture by J. Pottie, Veterinary Surgeon, Sydney

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 11

In my last lecture I directed your attention towards the unqualified use of the term foot rot, necessarily casting a host of misconceptions about the practical consideration of the subject. Our analyses of the…

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Some Plain Facts to Plain Farmers. No. I.

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 8

AGRICULTURE is a science that may well be dated from the fall of man, for ever since the dread sentence went forth from the Divine Creator, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 8

IN the Metropolitan districts we have had almost uninterrupted wet weather since our last issue. There have been one or two temporary breaks, but these have lasted but a very brief…

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The Wine Crop of 1870

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 8

THERE are very various reports of the wine crop, much too various to allow of any general conclusion being formed from them. We therefore issued a circular containing a few inquiries…

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The Farm, the City, and the Sea. Chapter Xi

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 11

SOON after breakfast Miss Norris, the morning governess, arrived, when the three elder children went into the schoolroom with her, and Ann took baby into the nursery. Her duties for the forenoon…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 14

IF vain your toil, you ought to blame the cultute, not the soil. It is worth repeating, again and again, that wet land must be thoroughly underdrained…

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The Farms and Vineyards of the Hunter. [By Our Special Reporter,] No. 2.—The Dalwood Vineyard

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 13

MY last communication was descriptive of one of the most highly cultivated forms in the colony. This week I write respecting one of the principal vineyards of the Hunter River district—a portion of the colony…

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Practical Hints for Ensuring Good Butter, and Plenty of It

Evening News · Monday 14 March 1870 · page 4

IT is a well-known fact, that perfectly sweet cream will not make the very best butter. It will make good sound butter, but it will be insipid; that is, it will be insipid; that is, it will be inferior in flavour to that made from…

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The New Farm Murder at Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1870 · page 5

ON the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd instant, before Chief-Justice Cockle, in the Supreme Court, Queensland, William Pender alias Prendergast was tried for the murder of Patrick Hartnett, on the 2nd January. As the case presents some…

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The Wine Crop of 1870. (From the Sydney Mail, March 12.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1870 · page 6

THERE are very various reports of the wine crop, much too various to allow of any general conclusion being formed from them. We therefore issued a circular containing a few inquiries…

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Land and Pastoral Association

Empire · Wednesday 16 March 1870 · page 2

Several gentlemen, promoters of the above association, met yesterday afternoon, at Mort's Rooms Pitt-street, for the purpose of adopting measures for its future government. The arrival of the mail…

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Wool Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1870 · page 8

The London wool sales are postponed till February 17th, in consequence of the smillness of arrivals; it is expected that 90,000 bales will then have arrived for the opening sales…

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Land and Pastoral Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 March 1870 · page 5
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A MEETING of gentleman interested in the formation of a Land and Pastoral Association was held, yesterday afternoon, at Messrs. Baynes, Treave, and Co.'s Booms, Pitt-steet Mr. T. S Mort occupied the chair, and brought up the…

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The New Cattle Yards

Empire · Friday 18 March 1870 · page 3

So far as we are aware, the Municipal Council have not yet decided on the site for the new cattle market, and, without venturing to dictate to them on the subject, it will certainly not be out of place if we…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Intelligence.—the Weather.— Movements of Stock, &c., &c

Empire · Friday 18 March 1870 · page 3

RAIN has fallen generally throughout the colony during the past week, and a heavy flood has taken place at Tamworth. Some apprehensions arose on the banks of the Hunter, in consequence of the fresh, and, according…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Intelligence.—the Weather.—movements of Stock, &c., &c

Evening News · Friday 18 March 1870 · page 4

RAIN has fallen generally throughout the colony during the past week, and a heavy flood has taken place at Tamworth. Some apprehensions arose on the banks of the Hunter, in consequence of the fresh, and, according…

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The Farms and Vineyards of the Hunter. the Dalwood Vineyard

Evening News · Friday 18 March 1870 · page 4

MY last communication was descriptive of one of the most highly cultivated farms in the colony. This week I write respecting one of the principal vineyards of the Hunter River district—a portion of the colony…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 19 March 1870 · page 8

FROM the weekly stock report of the Dubbo Dispatch of the 11th we take the following:— The clouds which at the date of our last report were hanging overhead threatening a downpour, fully burst on…

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