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Farming & the land, 1870

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 4

THE appended report on the London Wool Sales was pretented by Mr. William Fane De Salis to the Committee of Bankers, Merchants, and Wool-growers, appointed by a public meeting held in Sydney, on the 6th October last:—…

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The London Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 29

April 22.—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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Agricultural and Pastoral Intelligence.—Stock Movements, &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 5

WE are enabled to report that some of the farmers in the Hunter district are re-commencing agricultural Operations, but towards Wagga Wagga so many heavy penetrating showers have fallen at short intervals that…

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Prevention of Smut in Wheat

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 9

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

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Sheep-shearing by Machinery. (From the South Australian Register.)

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

AN American citizen, Mr. D. O. Macornber, has produced a sheep-shearing machine guaranteed to be an effective substitute to the professional shearer. The discoverer, in a lotter dated Paris, December, 1869,…

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Dairy Farming

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 10

In the United Kingdom the dairy occupies an exceedingly prominent end important position, and is a branch of industry well suited to both the climate and soil of many districts of the country, as well as to the…

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The Farmer's Opinions of the Land Bill

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 4

The Clonokelty Union Farmer's Club, have passed the following :— RESOLUTIONS. "1.—That the proposed Irish Land Bill…

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

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 10

The difference between the routine of a merchant seamen and that of & whaler is, perhaps, as marked as that between a mail coach driver and a stockman. To the former the great ocean is but the highway for…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 9

IN the Metropolitan district have hare have had comparatively fine weather during the past week. No rain of any consequence has fallen, but occasionally the sky has been overcast and…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 13

GRASS as well as wheat may be cut too green, and may also be cut too ripe. In hot weather if milk is not set in a proper place to cool immediately after it comes from the cow, a part of…

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Advice to Small Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 13

WHOEVER finds himself the newly-installed owner and occupant of a farm, should, before doing much beyond growing a crop in the ordinary way, study well its character, determine its capacities, make himself well…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Intelligence

Empire · Monday 13 June 1870 · page 4
Also in Evening News

WE are enabled to report that some of the farmers in the Hunter district are re-commencing agricultural operations, but townrda Wagga Wagga so many heavy penetrating showers have fallen at short intervals that…

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Supplement to J.t. Simes and Co.'s Wool Circular of 7Th March, 1870

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 June 1870 · page 5

IMMEDIATELY preceding these sales, the deputation from Sydney Melbourne, and Adelalide met with a view to correct tome erroneous nation they had imparted to them from the colonics,'and were received with remarkable openness and forbearance by the…

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Sheep-shearing by Machinery. (From the South Australian Register.)

Empire · Tuesday 14 June 1870 · page 4

AN American citizen, Mr. D. O. Macornber, has produced a sheep-shearing machine guaranteed to be an effective substitute to the professional shearer. The discoverer, in a letter dated Paris, December, 1869,…

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Advice to Small Farmers

Evening News · Tuesday 14 June 1870 · page 2

WHOEVER finds himself the newly-installed owner and occupant of a farm, should, before doing much beyond growing a crop in the ordinary way, study well its character, determine its capacities, make himself well…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 June 1870 · page 6

The continued prevalence of mins and floods is reparted in the pastoral districts. Many of the inland rivers and creeks have again overflowed their banks at various places, and submerged large areas of pasturago, in some instances…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Empire · Wednesday 15 June 1870 · page 3

WE are enabled report that some of the farmers in the Hunter district are re-commencing agricultural operations, but towards Wagga Wagga so many heavy penetrating showers have fallen at short intervals that…

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Weather and Crops, Pastoral, &c. the Weather and Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 June 1870 · page 6

DURING the greater part of the past month there has been a continuance of the unsettled weather that was recorded in our two last summaries; Rain fell almost every day in May, sometimes heavily. The present month, so far as it…

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Sheep-shearing by Machinery

Evening News · Wednesday 15 June 1870 · page 4

AN American citizen, Mr. D. O. Macomber, has produced a sheep-shearing machine guaranteed to be an effective substitute to the professional shearer. The discoverer, in a letter dated Paris, December, 1869,…

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