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Farming & the land, 1870

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How Our Cattle Are Inferior

Evening News · Tuesday 21 June 1870 · page 4

To deal properly with this branch of my subject I ought to be able to say to what particular breed the cattle first introduced into the colony belonged, and whether they were good or bad specimens of that breed…

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The Wool Inquiry. to the Woolgrowers of Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 June 1870 · page 3

I WAS one of the gentlemen named by the Sydney meeting, lest December, to inquire into the sale and warehousing of wool in London, and although I have sent two reports on the subject to the Sydney…

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Farming in the County of Cumberland

Empire · Tuesday 21 June 1870 · page 4

THE following interesting letter on the pastoral, agricultural, and horticultural capabilities of the county of Cumberland has been published by Mr. James Pye in the columns of a daily contemporary. Mr. Pye is well…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 8

WE take from the stock report of the Dubbo Dispatch of the 17th, the following remarks:— The weather during the week has been dry. The days have been warm, and the nights and mornings frosty. On…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 5

REPORT of the Committee apppointod by the New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Association, to inquire into the system pursued in the Warehousing, Sampling, Showing, and Delivering of Colonial Wool, in…

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A Sheep-Breeder's Story

Sydney Mail · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 9

A GREAT deal of information it often conveyed in the records of improvements effected in the plants and animals that minuter immediately to the service of man, even to those who are not directly concerned in the experiments…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Prospects, Movements of Stock &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 29

WE have very few items of progress to report from the country distrits; ploughing for wheat is still being earned on by some of the persevering farmers of Argyle and neighbouring southern counties, and although late…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Prospects, Movements of Stock, &c

Empire · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 4

WE have very few items of progress to report from the country districts; ploughing for wheat is still being carried on by some of the persevering farmers of Argyle and neighbouring southern counties, and although late…

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How Our Cattle are Inferior; No. Iii. (Continued

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 11

HAD owners been guided by the principles to which allusion has just been made, the majority of our herds would long ere now have been in a far more advanced slate of improvement; and the fact that they are in…

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The Wool Inquiry. to the Woolgrower of Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania

Sydney Mail · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 10

I WAS one of the gentlemen named by the Sydney meeting, Jut December, to inquire into the ule and warehousing of wool in London, and although I have cent two reports on the subject to the Sydney…

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The Grazier. The London Wool Sales Question. to the Woolgitowers of Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania. Sydney, 8th June, 1870

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 10

I WAS one of the gentlemen named by the sydney meeting, last December, to inquire into the sale and warehousing of wool in London, and although I have sent two reports on the subject to the Sydney com…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 8

THE weather in the metropolitan district has, with the exception of a few showers', been fine during the past week, although the nights and mornings have been more than usually cold…

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The Farm, the City, and the Sea, Chapter Xxvi

Sydney Mail · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 11

ON the day before Christmas all the household at Cloverly were astir at the first streak of daylight, for there was much to be done in the way of preparation for the approaching great festival of the year. The usual work…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 15

Rotted sod is a manure of which the farmer and fruitgrower cannot make too much use. A grindstone exposed to the sun grows tough; and if left with one side in water it wears unlike and becomes…

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Farmers' Clubs

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 15

THE success of the attempts that have been made in South Australia and Queensland, to establish farmers' clubs, should commend them to emulation of the small freeholders and free selectors of New South Wales…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Prospects, Movements of Stock, &c

Evening News · Tuesday 28 June 1870 · page 4

WE have very few items of progress to report from the country districts; ploughing for wheat is still being curried on by some of the persevering farmers of Argyle and neighbouring southern counties, and although late…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 June 1870 · page 2

THE adjourned meeting of merchants, bankers, and others interested in the mode in which the sales of Australian wools are conducted in London was held at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. There were present about sixty…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 29 June 1870 · page 2
Also in Empire

THE adjourned meeting of gentlemen interested in the London wool sales was resumed yesterday afternoon, at the Chamber of Commerce: Mr. J. B. Watt in the chair…

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Chamber of Commerce. Sale of Australian Wool in London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 June 1870 · page 2

THE adjourned meeting of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce for the consideration of the reports on the late inquiiy respecting the sale of Australian wool in London, was held yesterday afternoon, the upper hall of the…

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