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Farming & the land, 1870

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London Wool Brokers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 May 1870 · page 6

EVIDENCE taken before the joint sub-committees of New South Wales and Victoria on the present system of wool brokerage in London. Charles Jacomb, Esq., called in and examined…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 8

FROM the weekly Stock Report of the Dubbo Dispatch of the 29th ultimo, we take the following:— The rain, which commenced on the day of our last report,…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence—stock Movements

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 30

THE accounts from the interior, as far as they have come to hand, lead us to anticipate that most unwelcome and disastrous news has yet to be received. The settlers cannot get their wheat to market. At Breeza the…

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

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 11

IT the been shown, by Ann's letter to her parents, that the mistake which caused Mrs. Billeter so much, excitement, and Ann so much distress, was satisfactorily cleared up, through the instrumentality of…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 8

ALTHOUGH we have been favoured with a little sunshine during the past week, still the weather remains unsettled, and hardly a day has passed by without bringing with it two or three…

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Farm and Garden

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 8

KITCHEN GARDEN.—.Early sorts of peas, [?]s, [?], and radishes, not sown too abundantly, will probably do very well if put in just now, as since the late excessive rains, the weather has again become warm and seasonable Rhubarb, seakale,…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 14

VIRGINIA farmers say that one year of tobacco growing will exhaust the soil more than five years' of wheat growing. To know how plants grow, and what they feed upon,…

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London Wool Brokers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 May 1870 · page 8

EVIDENCE taken before the joint sub-committees of New South Wales and Victoria on the present system of wool brokerage in London. Helmuth Schwartze, Esq., called in, and examined…

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London Wool Brokers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1870 · page 3

EVIDENCE taken before the joint sub-committees of New South Wales and Victoria on the present system of wool brokerage in London. S. B. Edenborough, Esq, called in and examined…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. Sydney Wool One Penny Higher. Acquittal of Prince Pierre Bonaparte. Fortnightly Mail to Australia. Revenue Seventy-five and a Half Millions. [From Our Adelaide Correspondent.] Adelaide, Monday Afternoon

Empire · Tuesday 10 May 1870 · page 3

The branch steamer arrived here yesterday with the English mails from King George's Sound…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. Sydney Wool One Penny Higher. Acquittal of Prince Pierre Bonaparte. Fortnightly Mail to Australia. Revenue Seventy-five and a Half Millions. [A considerable portion of the following telegram appeared in our second edition of yesterday.] Adelaide, Monday Afternoon

Evening News · Tuesday 10 May 1870 · page 2

The branch steamer arrived here yesterday with the English mails from King George's Sound…

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London Wool Brokers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 May 1870 · page 2

MINUTES of Meeting of the Joint Sub-committee for New South Wales and Victoria, held at 52, Lombard-street, on Friday, 21st January, 1870. Present—P. W. Flower, Esq., in the chair; Sir Daniel…

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London Wool Brokers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 May 1870 · page 3

EVIDENCE taken before the Joint Sub-committee of New South Wales and Victoria on the present system of wool brokerage in London. Thomas Chandler, Esq., and Mr. William Walker,…

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Sale of Australian Wool in London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 May 1870 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon, a meeting of merchants, bankers, and others interested in the disposal of wool in the London market, was held at the Chamber of Commerce. There were about thirty gentlemen present. On the motion of…

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Sales of Wool in London. Meeting at the Chamber of Commerce

Evening News · Thursday 12 May 1870 · page 2
Also in Empire

A MEETING of the bankers, merchants, squatters, and others interested in the sale of wool in London, was held, yesterday afternoon, at the Exchange. Mr. J. B. Watt was moved into the chair. Present: The…

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Our Cattle Stock

Evening News · Friday 13 May 1870 · page 4

HAVING in my last stated the different points of quality and form, I will now give an estimate of their relative values, and, for convenience sake, put them at 100. There will no doubt be considerable difference…

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London Wool Brokers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 May 1870 · page 3

EVIDENCE taken before the Joint Sub-committee of New South Wales and Victoria on the present system of wool brokerage in London. John Cooper, Esq., public wool warehouse-keeper, called…

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Prevention of Smut in Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 May 1870 · page 2

THE Santa Cruz Farmers' Club discussed the use of bluestone at their last meeting, Mr. Humphrey, as reporter in the Sentinel, said, by experience he had found that wheat sown from the sack without…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 8

FROM the Weekly Stock Report of the Dubbo Dispatch of the 6th instant we take the following:— The flooded state of the country has prevented the…

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