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Farming & the land, 1871

875 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 44

Cattle Sale Yards

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 September 1871 · page 9

A DEPUTATION, consisting of Messrs. Trebock, Beit, J De V. lamb, Bruce, and Cox (members of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales), and Mr. Hammond (of Victoria), had an interview with the Mayor yesterday…

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Butter-making in America

Evening News · Wednesday 6 September 1871 · page 4

1. How deep should milk be set? If in the common eight-quart pans, and the milk is to be skimmed, they should not be filled over half-full in hot weather; but in cold weather they may be filled as full as convenient…

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Appendix. Wool. August 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 September 1871 · page 7

The public sales, held under the above date, were too insignificant to require more than a very cursory notice. Messrs. Mort and Co. offered a catalogue comprising 50 bales; but though no single parcel exceeded four bales in…

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Wool, Tallow, and Hides. [Per Mail Steamer Geelong.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 September 1871 · page 7

THE inward mail this month was delivered upwards of six days in advance of the contract time, a circumstance totally unprecedented in the annals of steam communication between this colony and the mother country. The old adage that…

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The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 September 1871 · page 6

UNUSUALLY fine weather for the season of the year has prevailed throughout the past ten weeks. Scarcely any rain has fallen on the coast, or in the Southern and Western districts. Towards New England there has been…

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Pastoral and Agricul Ural Items

Evening News · Friday 8 September 1871 · page 4

The accounts which have been received during the month from the majority of the pastoral and agricultural districts are satisfacory, but in the North Coast Districts the injurious effects of thu dry weather are…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1871 · page 871

WITH the exception of a portion of the Southern districts, the country in the interior is beginning to get dried up, and there is some fear of a drought. The continued dryness at this time of year, when…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1871 · page 870

DURING the past week the weather in the metropolitan district has been fine, although on Tuesday there were seme threatening clouds hanging about, which distributed some few very light and partial showers…

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Cattle Sale Yards

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1871 · page 869

A DEPUTATION, consisting of Messrs. Trebeck, Beit, J. De V. Lamb, Bruce, and Cox (members of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales), and Mr. Hammond (of Victoria), had an interview with the Mayor on Tuesday…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence.—stock Movements, &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 September 1871 · page 6

The accounts which have been received during the month from, the majority of the pastoral and agricultural districts are satisfactory, but in the North Coast Districts the injurious effects of the dry weather are…

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Rot in Sheep To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 September 1871 · page 12

SIR,—In reply to Alfred Kemshall I would remark that the above name is applied to different diseases, and diseases are sometimes believed to be more numerous than they really are on account of various affects of the same disease being taken…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 September 1871 · page 14

THERE is a vast difference in the exhaustive powers of crops; onions, parsnips, and carrots are plain livers, and can be raised on the same ground year after year. Onions, and perhaps all garden vegetables of a…

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Useful Appliance for Farm or Station

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 September 1871 · page 12

THE accompanying sketch represents what is usually known as a trevis, an appliance which will be found very useful on a farm or station in the management of cattle and horses. It may he erected, as shown in the…

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Wool in California

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 September 1871 · page 2

A CONSIDERABLE trade in wool between the Eastern Coast of Australia and California "looms in the future." The City of Adelaide, on her last trip to San Francisco, took 250 bales, and it was then generally supposed that the factories…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 903

FROM the Pastoral districts the accounts are nearly all of the same character. The weather has set in fine, but the cold continues to prevail, the frosts being as heavy as they were in midwinter. The cold has…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 903

IN the Metropolitan district the weather has continued fine, the days getting exceedingly warm, whilst h nights are cold, with occasional frosts. Water ^beginning to get scarce in the suburbs of Sydney,…

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Wool in California

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 901

A CONSIDERABLE trade in wool between tho Eastern Coast of Australia and California "looms in the future." The City of Adelaide, on her last trip to San Francisco, took 250 bales, and it was then generally supposed that the factories…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence, Stock Movements, &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 6

THE weather at Dubbo, since our Just, says the local paper of the 7th, has not been what ought to be expected at this time of the year. The days, certainly have been genial and tine, but mornings and nights…

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Correspondence. Mr. Cox's Lecture on Sheep-breeding. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 919

SIR,—The science of breeding good sheep and fine wool is one which admits of, and requires, the most elaborate attention, and under the varying phases of Australian experience one which can never, or at least has as yet never,…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 14

MOST men are born poor, but no man, who has averago capacities and tolerable luck, need remain so. And the farmer's calling, though proffering no sudden leaps, no ready short-cuts to opulence, is the surest of all…

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