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Farming & the land, 1870

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The Weather and Crops—agricultural and Pastoral Items, Movements of Stock, &c

Evening News · Monday 28 February 1870 · page 4

The oppressive heat of the past month, which portended disaster to the agricultural and pastoral interests, is about to be superseded by more genial weather. The following are the principal items of…

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The Australian Wool Trade in England. (To the Editor of the Argus.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1870 · page 5

SIR,—Some attention having lately been called to the Australian wool trade, we beg to forward you a letter upon the subject, which perhaps you may deem of sufficient interest to place before your readers…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 5 March 1870 · page 8

WE take from the weekly stock report of the Dubbo Dispatch, of the 25th, the following remarks upon the stock market:— The news by the mail steamer, though giving no…

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The Pastoral Letter

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 March 1870 · page 13

OF JOHN BEDE, BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE AND FAVOUR OF THE APOSTOLIC SEE, ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY AND METROPOLITAN OF AUSTRALIA…

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The Dairy. Cheese and Butter. No. II

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 March 1870 · page 13

WE concluded our last with the very natural inquiry— Why our dairymen, especially in the depressed state of the butter market, have not turned their attention more exclusively'to the manufacture of cheese? We…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence.—Stock Movements, &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 March 1870 · page 30

THE pastoral reports of the week are highly encouraging. Though the prospects of the squatters were by no means calculated to allay anxiety, grass was still comparatively abundant, and stock was kept generally…

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Weather and Crops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 5 March 1870 · page 8

IN the metropolitan districts we experienced a change on Wednesday last, when heavy southerly winds accompanied by rain set in, and continued till Monday of the present week;…

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

Sydney Mail · Saturday 5 March 1870 · page 11

ANN had often wished for a nursemaid's place, for she thought the duties would be lighter thin those of a general servant, and would perhaps agree better with her health, as she could have more out of doors…

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Advice to Young Farmers. How to Keep Yourself Poor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 March 1870 · page 14

Not taking a good paper. Keeping no account of home operations. Paying no attention to the maxim, " a stich in time saves nine," in regard to the sowing of grain and planting of seed…

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Colonial Farming. To the Editor of the Town and Country Journal

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 March 1870 · page 15

SIR,— The pursuit of Agriculture in New South Wales is not of the most attractive character. The term in its proper acceptation indicates more than mere growing grain, or erecting here and there a rickety slab hut…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 March 1870 · page 15

DESIRE is a tree in leaf; Hope is a tree in flower; Enjoymeat is a tree in fruit. GENERALLY speaking, nine pounds of milk will make a pound of pork, eleven a pound of cheese. THE Germans have found out that wetting yard…

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The Northern Farmer. (From the neto volums of Poems by the Poet Laureate.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 March 1870 · page 18

Dosn' thou 'ear my 'erse's'legs, as they canters awaity? Proputty, proputty, proputty —that's what I 'ears 'em saay. Proputty, proputty, proputty—Sam, thou's an ass for thy paiiins;…

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Advice to Young Farmers. How to Keep Yourself Poor

Evening News · Monday 7 March 1870 · page 4

Not taking a good paper. Keeping no account of home operations. Paying no attention to the maxim, "a stich in time saves nine," in regard to the sowing of grain and planting of seed at…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence.—stock Movements, &c

Empire · Tuesday 8 March 1870 · page 4

The pastoral reports of the week are highly encouraging. Though the prospects of the squatters were by no means calculated to alley anxiety, grass was still comparatively abundant, and stock was kept generally…

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Cheese and Butter

Evening News · Thursday 10 March 1870 · page 4

WE concluded our last with the very natural inquiry—Why our dairymen, especially in the depressed state of the butter market, have not turned their attention more exclusively to the manufacture of cheese ? We…

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Cheese and Butter

Empire · Friday 11 March 1870 · page 4

We concluded our last with the very natural inquiry— Why our dairymen, especially in the depressed state of the butter market, have not turned their attention more exclusively to the manufacture of cheese? We…

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Pastoral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 8

FROM the weekly stock report of the Dubbo Dispatch of the 3rd instant, we take the following extract:— Since writing last week, the weather has greatly changed…

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Wool Washing

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 5

MR. THOMAS SHAW, jun. has addressed the following lettor to the editor of the Australasian:- Sir,—Mr. Macknight has ably done what I have only been thinking of doing, viz., commenting upon the…

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The Dairy. Practical Hints for Ensuring Good Butter, and Plenty of it

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 15

IT is a well-known fact, that perfectly sweet cream will not make the very best butter. It will make good sound butter, but it will be insipid; that is, it will be inferior in flavour to that made from…

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Agricultural and Pastoral intelligence.—The Weather.—Movements of Stock, &c., &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 7

RAIN has fallen generally throughout the colony during the past week, and a heavy flood has taken place at Tam worth. Some apprehensions arose on the banks of Hunter, in consequence of the fresh, and, according…

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