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Farming & the land, 1870

920 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 46

Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 8

WE are glad to have it in our power to state that in the pastoral districts the hot season has fairly set in, and that the roads are fast drying up and becoming passable for stock…

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Staggers in Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 11

IN speaking at one of the late meetings of the British Association on the extraordinary changes of form which the insects that lived in cattle were capable of undergoing, Professor Huxley said:—It was not simply…

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pastoral and Agricultural—Stock Movements, &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 7

THE Merool correspondent of the Wagga Wagga Express reports that shearing has everywhere been completed, and in almost every instance with most satisfactory results, and without any of the squabbles…

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Sheep-Wasning and Shearing on the Station of Gibson Brothers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 10

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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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 8

IN the metropolitan district the weather has been fine, clear, and hot. The heat during the last few days has been most oppressive, the cool weather that has so rapidly succeeded the…

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The Currant Crop in Cephalonia

Sydney Mail · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 8

WHENEVER, owing to a severe winter, or the lateness of the rainfall in spring, the currant crop is backward in ripening, it rarely happens that it is harvested undamaged. During the month of August heavy rainfalls invariably…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 14

SUFFER no weeds to go to seed, is a piece of advice a good deal easier to give than to act upon. Still the nearer the farmer acts up to the injunction the easier will it be to carry out year after year. Thistles cut a few…

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Farmer John

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 15

Home from the city farmer John Arrived this morning, safe and sound, His black coat off and his old clothes on, "Now I'm myself," says Farmer John,…

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Pastoral Letteer of the Right Reverend Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland, to the Catholic Clergy and Laity of the Diocese. of Maitland, on Papal Infallibility. James, by the Grace of God and of the Apostlic See, Bishop of Maitland, to the Catholic Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Maitland

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 11

DEARLY BELOVED BRETHREN AND CHILDREN IN CHRIST,—When addressing you last year on devotion to the Blessed Virgin, and explaining the great dignity to which it…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Empire · Monday 19 December 1870 · page 4

THE Merool correspondent of the Wagga Wagga Express reports that shearing has everywhere been completed, and in almost every instance with most satisfactory results, and without any of the squabbles…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Evening News · Tuesday 20 December 1870 · page 4

THE Merool correspondent of the Wagga Wagga Express reports that shearing has everywhere been completed, and in almost every instance with most satisfactory results, and without any of the squabbles…

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Farmer John

Empire · Wednesday 21 December 1870 · page 4

Home from the city Farmer John Arrived this morning, safe and sound, His black coat off and his old clothes on, "Now I'm myself," says Farmer John,…

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Farmer John

Evening News · Thursday 22 December 1870 · page 4

Home from the city Farmer John Arrived this morning, safe and sound, His black coat off and his old clothes on, "Now I'm myself," says Farmer John,…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 24 December 1870 · page 8

THE weather in the pastoral districts continues fine, and we heat no more accounts of floods, though most of the creeks are still running. The country is fast drying up, and in the higher…

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Sheep and Wool Growing in the United States

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 December 1870 · page 13

OURS IS eminently an agricultural country. We produce most of our food and export muon more than we import of both grain and meat. Of cotton, we grow some 3,000,000 of bales annually, whereof we export…

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Wool Market

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 24 December 1870 · page 3
Also in Freeman's Journal

At public sale there was a fair number of German and Belgium buyers. French absent. At first the prices showed a little alteration by the absence of demand for France, which is now…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence Stock Movements &o. &o

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 December 1870 · page 7

The heat of the past week, says the Wagga Wagga Express, has been intenso, and the fear of bush fires which has of late so generally possessed the station holders of the district has, we regret to say, been in…

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Dairy Farming

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 December 1870 · page 12

THE following article was written with special reference to dairy farming in Britain, but, as many of the remarks 'in it are applicable to'dairy farming in general, we republish it for the benolit of our readers…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 24 December 1870 · page 8

AFTER two days of the greatest heat we have experienced this season in the metropolitan district—Sunday and Monday—a change set in on Monday evening—a southerly breeze…

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