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Farming & the land, 1870

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Pastoral Show for Riverina

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

WE perceive by the Deniliquin journals that a meeting of members of an association, recently formed there in aid of a yearly pastoral exhibition, had been held. Upwards of sixty special written invitations were sent…

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The Central Cattle Sale Yards

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 3

The Legislature having passed the necessary enactment, empowering the Corporation of Sydney to establish Central Cattle Sale Yarda—the only point remaining to be decided is the site on which the Yards are to be…

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No. 2.—What Our Cattle Are

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 11

With the exception of a few herds, among which may he mentioned those of the Australian Agricultural Company (S) *; Mr. Lee (S), of Bathurst; Mr. Dangar (S), Mr. Loder (H), Mr. Durham (S), Messrs. Russell (S),…

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The Manufacture of Butter from Thames Mud

Evening News · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 3

Another ray of light has been shed on the mystery of the conversion of Thames mud into butter. It seems that the banks of the river swarm with animal lite—worms and so forth—and these are alleged to be the…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelli gence, Movements of Stock, &c., &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 29

THE continued rains have prevented all proeress with farming operations, and consequently there is nothing to record of special interest to the agricultural reader. Our notes of the week are as follow:—…

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Sale of Australian Wool in London

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 3

ON Wednesday 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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Correspondence. Wheat Growing. To the Editor of the Sydney Mail

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 8

SIR,—There is no doubt but that the late harvest in the Western district has been a most abundant one. I find upon inquiry that the average yield of wheat is about twenty-five bushels per acre. I, myself, had a yield of…

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Our Cattle Stock. by Alexander Bruce, Chief Inspector of Stock. No. 1 (CONTINUED)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 11

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

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 6

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

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 8

IN the metropolitan districts the weather still continues most unsettled. We have experienced one or two fine days during the past week, but no twenty-four hours have gone over…

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

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 11

THE day after Ned Summers sailed from Sydney he had his first experience of a gale of wind at sea; but it did not come up to his preconceived ideas of its sublimity. He expected to see the waves rolling as high…

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Farm and Garden

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 8

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

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Farms and Vineyards of the Hunter. Kaloudah Vineyard. [Bt Our Special Reporter.]

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

ABOUT a quarter of a mile from the small township of Lochinvar, on the Great Northern-road, between West, Maitland and Branxton, the traveller passes a sort of "lodge," similar in appearance to the lodges so common…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 15

GOOD paper can be made from tba stems and tendrils of the hop. IF human beings were as kindly, as patient, and as useful as cows, what a lovely world would ours be…

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Pastoral Show for Riverina

Evening News · Monday 16 May 1870 · page 4

We perceive by the Denil[?] journals that a meeting of members of an association, recently formed there in aid of a yearly pastoral exhibition, had been held. Upwards of sixty special written invitations were sent…

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London Wool Brokers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1870 · page 6

EVIDENCE taken before the Joint Sub-committee of New South Wales and Victoria on the present system of wool brokerage in London. Minutes of Meeting of the Joint Sub-committees for New…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Intelligence, Stook Movements, &c

Evening News · Monday 16 May 1870 · page 4

THE continued rains have prevented all progress with farming operations, and consequently there is nothing to record of special interest to the agricultural reader. Our notes of the week are as follow :—…

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The Manufacture of Butter from Thames Mud

Empire · Monday 16 May 1870 · page 3

Another ray of light has been shed on the mystery of the conversion of Thames mud into butter. It seems that the banks of the river swarm with, animal lite— worms and so forth—and those are alleged to be the…

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Prospects of the Wool Market

Empire · Monday 16 May 1870 · page 3

THE following, with reference to the forthcoming wool sales, is from the circular of Mr. Helmuth Schwartze: —"Since my last circular of the 8th instant, reporting on the close of the first series, the market has remained…

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Public Sales of Colonial Wool. Southey Balme and Co.'s Circular

Empire · Monday 16 May 1870 · page 3

THE first series of wool sales of the year, which opened on the 17th ultimo, closed this day. The following constitute the total amount offered, the proportion being as follows:—Sydney, 12,266 bales; Port Phillip,…

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