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Farming & the land, 1870

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Pacts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 13

EVERYBODY practically acquainted with the mode of working draught animals knows that they pull best the closer they are to the load, and that consequently three horses abreast will draw better than if placed in…

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Pastoral and Agrigultural

Empire · Monday 5 December 1870 · page 4

Weather has been changeable and unsettled at Wagga Wagga. In the early part of last week, reports the Express, showers were of frequent occurrence, and the temperature at times was so low that fires had very…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Evening News · Monday 5 December 1870 · page 4

weather has been changeable and unsettled at Wagga Wagga. In the early part of last week, reports the Express, showers were of frequent occurrence, and the temperature at times was so low that fires had very…

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The Sugar Crop in Queensland

Evening News · Tuesday 6 December 1870 · page 4

OF the crushing season in the Mary district, a corres-[?] of the Brisbane Courier writes on November 1:—"We ought to be now at full summer heat, but though warmer than it has been for many months, it is more…

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The Murrumbidgee Pastoral Show. (Abridged from the Wagga Wagga Advertiser.)

Empire · Friday 9 December 1870 · page 4

THE sixth show of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association was held last week on the usual ground. Notwithstanding several circumstances that somewhat militated against the perfect success of the show, it…

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The Murrumbidgee Pastoral Show. [Abridged from the Wagga Wagga Advertiser.)

Evening News · Friday 9 December 1870 · page 4

THE sixth show of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association was held last week on the usual ground. Notwithstanding several circumstances that somewhat militated against the perfect success of the show, it…

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The Baby Farming Case at Brixton

Evening News · Friday 9 December 1870 · page 3

THE following is the report of the first day's proceeding on the trial of Margaret Waters and Sarah Ellis for the murder of John Walter Cowen[?] at the Central Criminal Court, in London. The prisoners…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 December 1870 · page 9

WE learn from our exchanges that fine weather has set in in the interior, and that the floods are fast subsiding. The country is drying up quickly, and as a consequence foot-rot is…

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Murrumbidgee Pastoral Show

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 December 1870 · page 10

ON Tuesday last the sixth annual show of the Marrumbidgee Pastoral Association Came off on the grounds of the association on the racecourse. Since last your thirty additional cattle and eighty permanent sheep p[?]s, furnished…

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Pastoral and Agricultural—Stock Movements, &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 December 1870 · page 7

THE crossings at Deniliquin of fat stock to market have not been so numerous as was expected. Of fat cattle there have been 674 head, and sheep 10,900. There werw, on Thursday, 400 fat cattle, Darley and…

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Wheat Growing in America

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 December 1870 · page 9

THERE are few practices in American farming in which there is more loss than in the careless, imperfect manner of putting in wheat. It is very probable that more than half of the land sown in the United Slates produces crops that…

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Butter for Export. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 December 1870 · page 9

SIR,—I. Do any of your readers know of a method of churning butter on a very warm day, so as to prevent its going into grease, as is so often the case in summer, for then it is almost impossible to make butter…

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The Murrumbidgee Pastoral Show. (Abridged from the Wagga Wagga Advertiser.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 December 1870 · page 11

THE sixth show of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association was held last week on the usual ground. Notwithstanding several circumstances that somewhat militated against the perfect success of the show, it…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 December 1870 · page 9

FINE weather has at length unmistakably set in, and the sun during the day comes out in all his full midsummer power. Clouds occasionally arise, threatening a change, but all the…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 December 1870 · page 14

The common growl that "farming don't pay." is one of the vicious popular delusions. The truth is that many persons engage in farming who have neither sufficient means nor the requisite knowledge to fit…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Empire · Monday 12 December 1870 · page 4

THE crossings at Deniliquin of fat stock to market have not been so numerous as was expected. Of fat cattle there have been 674 head, and sheep 10,900. There were, on Thursday, 400 fat cattle, Darley and…

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The Baby Farming Case Atbrixton

Evening News · Monday 12 December 1870 · page 3

IN our issue of Friday last we published the first day's proceedings at the trial of Margaret Waters. The following is a continuance of the case, and the sentence of the Judge:—…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Evening News · Tuesday 13 December 1870 · page 4

THE crossings at Deniliquin of the fat stock to market have not been so numerous as was expected. Of fat cattle there have been 674 head, and sheep 10,900. There were, on Thursday, 400 fat cattle, Darley and…

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The Baby Farming Case at Brixton

Empire · Tuesday 13 December 1870 · page 3

THE following is the report of the first day's proceedings on the trial of Margaret Waters and Sarah Ellis for the murder of John Walter Cowen, at the Central Criminal Court, in London. The prisoners…

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Sheep Washing and Shearing at the Station of Gibson Brothers

Empire · Friday 16 December 1870 · page 3

A SPECIAL reporter of the Goulburn Herald has paid a visit to Narrawa, the homestead of Messrs. Gibson Brothers, and gives a description of the station and the shearing and sheep-washing establishment, which we…

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