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Farming & the land, 1871

875 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 44

Worms in Sheep. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 April 1871 · page 6

SIR,—I conceive that the veterinary profession has some casue of complaint at least against wealthy M.Ds, for publishing without praise or profit, the new antidote for worms. If they would keep by human…

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Later and Most Important European News. Reuter's Latest Express to Greville. Paris Insurrection Increasing. National Assembly removing to O[?]eans. Prussians will probably Re occupy Paris. Langlois appointed Commander-in-Chief National Guard. Wool Firm. Wheat Advancing. Reuter's Latest Express to Greville's Telegram Company. London, March 21, EVENING

Evening News · Friday 14 April 1871 · page 2

All the regular troops have gone to Veraailles. The National Guard is now the only force in Paris. Barricading continues in all quarters…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1871 · page 197

THE weather continues to be all that could be desired for stock and feed in the pastoral districts, the recent fine warm days having caused a good spring of young fresh grass, which will…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1871 · page 196

DURING the past fortnight the weather in the metropolitan district has been all that could be desired for the agriculturist or horticulturist. These warm and even hot days have set in to…

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Wool

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 April 1871 · page 3

The February Bales terminate on the 27th. The tone continues animated and prices firm. Superior wools command the gretest advance, say 1 1/2d. to 2d. per lb. Sydney scoured and…

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Worms in Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1871 · page 198

The lung-worm disease in sheep, to which attention has been recently called, seems to have been long known in various parts of the colony. It is common only during long periods of wet…

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The Wool Market

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1871 · page 23

The February sales terminate on the 27th. The tone continues animate dand prices firm. Superior wools command the greatest advance, say 1½d to 2d per lb. Sydney scoured and fleece, also Port Phillip and Adelaide…

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Pastoral and Agricultrual Intelligence—stock Movements, &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1871 · page 6

VERY little change has taken place this week in pastoral matters. From the Pastoral Times we learn that squatters in Southern Riverina are beginning to cry out for more rain, notwithstanding the great floods…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1871 · page 14

England finds sheep-breeding profitable, but then she goes in for mutton mainly, the wool being only an incident. Cannot our Australian farmers, in the settled districts, adopt a modification of the English system,—…

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An Ideal Small Farm

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1871 · page 14

IN order to see what intelligent industry may do on a small farm worked on the Belgian principle, I will make the following calculation; and as all farming must begin in the brain, I have tried to arrange the farm that it will…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 April 1871 · page 3

SIR Daniel Cooper is evidently net content with a partia success. He is deeply imbued with a belief to the effect that a great wrong exists, and nothing less than a perfect and thorough remedy will satisfy him. We announced…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Items, Stock Movements, &c

Evening News · Monday 17 April 1871 · page 4

VERY little change has taken place this week in pastoral matters. From the Pastoral Times we learn that squatters in Southern Riverina are beginning to cry out for more rain, notwithstanding the great floods…

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Worms in Sheep. Report by the Chief Inspector of Sheep to the Minister for Lands

Evening News · Monday 17 April 1871 · page 4

As I ha already reported, a small white worm, about the thickness of a No. 14 cotton-thread, and from half an inch to an inch in length, has been prevalent on many runs in the upland portions of the colony, and…

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Trade Circulars. Wool. [Messrs. Windeller and Bowlers.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 April 1871 · page 5

THE general improvement in business manifested during the past two months has become further developed; all branches of woollen manufacture in England are fully employed. The very large consumption of medium and coarse wools for military…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 April 1871 · page 3

SALE of 4242 bales by Jacomb, Son, and Co., on Wednesday, February 15th. Ex Decapolis (Queensland): FJII over MP, 7 at 16½d, 3 at…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Show. (Abridged from the Courier.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 April 1871 · page 2

ON Tuesday last, the 11th April, the second annual exhibition under the auspices of the above named society, was held at Yass. There were 63 entries of horses, 59 of cattle, 26 of sheep, 6 of dogs, 10 of…

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History of Wool-growing in England

Evening News · Tuesday 18 April 1871 · page 4

ENGLAND, from a very early period, has produced sheep of two distinctly marked classes—a short, comparatively fine wool, adapted solely for making fulled cloths, and which supplied the cloth manufactory…

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James Morrison and Co.'s Wool and Produce Circular. London, 23rd February, 1871

Empire · Tuesday 18 April 1871 · page 3

The year 1870 has closed since the date of our last circular (30th November), and it did not, in its course, realize the commercial expectations which we had cherished at its commencement. During the first half…

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New Appliances for Farming and Domestic Purposes

Evening News · Tuesday 18 April 1871 · page 4

AMONGST the most recent inventions from the teeming brains of our American cousins in the way of labour saving machinery, we notice that the slavery of churning has been softened by a weight power that with…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 April 1871 · page 7

THE pastoral news is on the whole of a gratifying nature. On the Macquarie there is said to be an abundance of everything for stock, some dry weather having prevented the herbag[?] becoming rank. Farther in the interior the…

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