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Farming & the land, 1871

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

Pastoral and Agricultural Items

Evening News · Friday 29 December 1871 · page 4

The weather at Wagga. Wagga during the past week has been suffocatingly hot, and the country u, in consequence, beginning to dry np fait, and the water, in some instances, to run very low. Some little feed,…

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Wool, Tallow, and Hides

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 December 1871 · page 7

THE inward mail this month was delivered a day over the contract time; the delay having arisen from bad weather and a divergence of the steamer from the direct route to King George's Sound, in order to obtain a supply of coal at…

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The Collingwood Wool-washing Establishment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 December 1871 · page 3

THE application of machinery to supersede manual labour has now become so general that there is little of absolute labour, and even of neat handicraft, that is not performed by means of the steam. In a colony like New South…

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The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 December 1871 · page 6

DURING the past month warm weather has provailed, with occasional showers. In the North and North-western districts it has been very hot, and the country needs rain. The Southern and Western parts of the colony have been…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 1382

THE intelligence from the various sheep districts of the colony speaks of the weather as having been extremely hot during the preceding week, and rain is now needed. The sheep are healthy, and the…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 1381

THE greater part of this week (Bays the Armidale Express of the 23rd) has been very hot; it has also been dry, with the exception of a shower on Sunday, and another on Tuesday evening. It is favourable for harvesting, but for…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 10

THE weather at Wagga Wagga during the past week has been suffocatingly hot, and the country is, in consequence, beginning to dry up fast, and the water, in some instances, to run very low. Some little feed,…

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Butter Exportation

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 1381

THE dairymen of the colonies appear to have laboured under a great difficulty, according to their own ideas, in shipping butter to England; but from advices of date September last, the difference in value between good butter and…

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Wool Association

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 1380

THE following correspondence has been handed to us for publication:— "10, Basinghall-street, London, 13th October, 1871. " Pear Sir,—Your letter of 2nd instant, enclosing certain…

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Pastoral of the Irish Catholic Bishop

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 11

We have now before us an authorized statement of the policy adopted at the recent meeting of Irish Roman Catholic Bishops, from which we make the following important extract:—…

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The Profession of Cattle Stealing.—

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 7

The Walgett correspondent at the Wagga Wagga Express thus relates the trial of the Peel River cattle stealing case as follows:—"For many years past it has been generally understood that companies do not pay in squatting business,…

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The Pastoral of "John Bede." No. II

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 4

IN our last we gave some specimens of how "the church," which claims to be the only, infallible, and divinely appointed Interpreter of Holy Scripture, makes…

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The Wool Trade in England

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 10

THE movement for better securing in England the rights and interests of Colonial wool-growers still continuos vigorously. The Secretary of the New South Wales and Van…

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Farming Items from South Australia

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 1381

FRUIT GROWING AND DRYING.—The site of the Moorooroo Estate is familiar to those who have often passed along the Tanunda-road, and its wooded slopes, picturesque homestead, and gardens are particularly pleasing in the…

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Reading by Farmers

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 1381

THE value of information obtainable from books and general reading in the pursuit of agricultural success is thus descanted upon by a well-known American cultivator, Mr. David Dickson, of Sparta:—What is book farming ? It…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 12

CORN planting in the great corn growing districts of the United States is now almost universally done with two-horse two-rowed planter, with which-one man to drive and a boy or a girl to drop—from 12 to 16 acres…

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