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Farming & the land, 1870

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Sheep-shearing by Machinery

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 11

FKANK D. Curtis, J, W. Gregory, and A. Preterro, the committee appointed to witness the operation of the sheep-shearing machine exhibited to the Now York Farmers' Club by P. Anderson, patontee,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Items. Movements of Stock, &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 5

GENERALLY speaking, the prospects of the farmers had improved during the past week, but it is matter of regret to report that the indications, so far as the middie districts of New South Wales are concerned aae not…

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Australian Dairy Farms

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 12

BUTTER and cheese making as a profitable industry has hitherto been comparatively little carried on in the Australian colonies, although no country in the world is better adapted for it by nature; and it seems that…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 6

IN the metropolitan district the weather remains unsettled. We have heavy fogs night and morning, turning into a Scotch mist or heavy cloudy weather during the day…

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

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 9

SOON after the Dash water got into dock all the crew were paid off expect Ned, who was told by the captain that he must star on board. On his venturing to ask if he were soon to be bound apprentice to the…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 14

Too much root injures tomato plants. Root pruning is the cure. THE Prairie Farmer, discussing the best carly and the best late potato, decides in favour of Early Rose and…

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The Shady Side of Farming

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 13

WE have met with numerous instances where persons engaged in pursuits which confined them to a town life were apt to envy the lot of a farmer, and sigh for the time when they, too, could leave the town with its…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Items

Evening News · Monday 6 June 1870 · page 4
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Generally speaking, the prospects of the formers had improved during the past week, but it in matter of regret to report that the indications, so far as the middle districts of New South Wales arc concerned aae not…

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London Wool Report

Evening News · Monday 6 June 1870 · page 3

Helmuth Schwartze reports on 20th April:—The sales, which opened firmly at the closing rates of last sales, progressed with good spirit; a large number of home and foreign buyers attended, and owing…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. News to May 13th. the Bridgewater Bribery Case. Further Advance in Wool. the Peace Preservation Act in Ireland. Eight Counties Proclaimed Libel on the Prince of Wales. the French Reforms Carried. Plot to Assassinate the Emperor. Shocking Brigandage in Greece. [From Our Adelaide Correspondent.] Adelaide, Saturday afternoon

Empire · Monday 6 June 1870 · page 3

THE mails from Europe by the Geelong arrived here this morning per the branch steamer Alexandra, from King George's Sound…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. News to May 13th. the Bridgewater Bribery Case. Further Advance in Wool. the Peace Preservation Act in Ireland. Eight Counties Proclaimed Libel on the Prince of Wales. the French Reforms Carried. . Plot to Assassinate the Emperor. Shocking Brigandage in Greece. [A portion of the following appeared in our second edition of Saturday.] ADELAIDE. Saturday afternoon

Evening News · Monday 6 June 1870 · page 2

The mails from Europe by the Geelong arrived here this morning per the branch steamer Alexandra, from King George's Sound…

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Australian Dairy Farms

Evening News · Tuesday 7 June 1870 · page 4

BUTTER and cheese making as a profitable industry has hitherto been comparatively little carried on in the Australian colonies although do country in the world is better adapted for it by nature; and it seems that…

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Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c. The Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 8 June 1870 · page 3

WOOL.—The wool sales commenced on April 7. The attendance of buyers has been very numerous, and prices have been maintained firmly at about the closing rates of the last series. At the sale rooms on…

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Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c. The Wool Sales

Empire · Thursday 9 June 1870 · page 3

The wool sales commenced on April 7. The attendance of buyers has been very numerous, and prices have been maintained firmly at about the closing rates of the last series. At the sale rooms on…

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Australian Dairy Farms

Empire · Thursday 9 June 1870 · page 4

BUTTER and cheese making as a profitable industry has hitherto been comparatively little carried on in the Australian colonies although no country in the world is better adapted for it by nature; and it seems that…

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Shipping Wool in the Port of Sydney. (From the London Shipping and Mercantile Ga[?]tle, April 20.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 June 1870 · page 3

ON the night of the 9th of last February, as our readers are aware, a fire broke out in the Blackwall Stores, Sydney, whereby a quantity of wool and flax, valued at£30,000, was destroyed. In our present…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 9

The Dubbo Dispatch of the 3rd instant, in its weekly stock report, hag the following:— The weather in the early part of the week was fine, bat on Tuesday evening, the black clouds, which had…

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Wool Report

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 3

Helmuth Schwartze reports on 20th April:— The sales, which opened firmly at the closing rates of last sales, progressed with good spirit; a large number of home and foreign buyers…

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London Wool Report

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 22

Helmeth Schwartzo reports on 20th. April:—The sales, which opened firmly at the closing rates of last sales, progressed with good spirit; a large number of home and foreign buyors attended, and owing…

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