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Farming & the land, 1872

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 October 1872 · page 11

As to the use of plaster of Paris as a manure, if a person will sow plaster when the laud is dry and warm and likely to keep so for a few days, he will be surprised at the results, for plaster is a great…

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Agricultural Notes. The Crops, &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 October 1872 · page 12

The weather according to the Free Press still continues wet, a grout deal of rain having fallon in the Bathurst district during the week. The growth of young grass has been remarkably rapid, and the hills…

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Arrival of the Suez Mail Latest Telegraphic Dates, London, September. 26. Closing of the Geneva Tribual. English Indemnity Fixed at 15,500,000 Dollars. Meeting of the Emperors of Rissia, Austria, and Germany. the Autumn Military Manœivres. Death of the King of Sweden. the Queen at Dunrobin Castle. Warlock Won the St. Leger. Deficient Wheat Harvest. Loss of the Steamer Metas.eighty Persons Drowned. the Melanesian Bishopric. the Port Darwin Cable. Postal Services, &c. Floods in Ceylon and India. American Steamer Burned at Japan. Advance in the Price of Wool Decline in Copper. &c., &c., &c., (From Our Adelaide Correspondent.) Adelaide. Friday. 5.40 a.m

Empire · Saturday 19 October 1872 · page 3

The Branch Steamer, Rangatira, with the English mails via Suez, was telegraphed at daylight this morning. The following are the heads of…

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Telegrams This Day the Border Duties Correspondence. Appointment of Agent-general for Victoria. the Pental Island Case. the Alleged Tallow Swindle. [?] at Sand. Hurst. Suicide at Wollongong. Fatal Accident at Goulburn. the Araluen Murder. Whalers at Jervis Bay. Mr. Sutherland in the Clarence District. the Approaching Melbourne Meeting. Catholic Pastoral on Education. the Adelaide University. Latest Betting, Commercial Medical Board of Victoria. the Suez Postal Service. Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt. Latest London Markets. Advance in Wool and Preserved Meats. Melbourne. Monday, 6.56 p.m

Evening News · Tuesday 22 October 1872 · page 2

The Border Duties correspondence is to be tabled in the House of Assembly to-morrow. Mr. Francis has telegraphed to-day to Sir James M'Culloch, who is in Scotland, to the…

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Yesterdays London News. Telegrams This Day. the British and Australian Cable in Operation. Press Messages From England. Important Commercial. Apology of the Victorian Minister for Lands. Alleged Fraud by a Station Superintendent. Beechworth Bushrangers Still at Large. Bishop Goold's Pastoral Letter. the Suez Mail Route. the Victorian Government Accepts Treasury Proposals. the Border Duties Question. Fatal Boiler Explosion. Goulburn Assizes. Sudden Death at Braidwood. Riot at Marylastd. New Scots Church Melbourne. the Victorian Racing Club Meeting. Cable News From England, to October 22. Adelaide, Tuesday. 5.2 p.m

Evening News · Wednesday 23 October 1872 · page 2

The first private message from London, dated 8.48 on Monday evening, was received in Adelaide at 12 noon to-day (Tuesday). A message dated Java, 1 p.m. yesterday, reached…

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A Baby Show in a Cattle Market

Empire · Thursday 24 October 1872 · page 4

A baby show was recently held in Dundee Cattle Market. Mr. Carswell, the proprietor of Vaughan's auction establishment, was the director, of the exhibition. He it was who offored a prize for the heaviest baby, one for…

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A Baby Show ia a Cattle Market

Evening News · Thursday 24 October 1872 · page 3

A baby show was recently held in Dundee Cattle Mar-ket. Mr. Carswell, the proprietor of Vaughan's auction establishment, was the director of the exhibition. He it was who offered a prize for the heaviest baby, one for…

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Pastoral Intelligence

Empire · Friday 25 October 1872 · page 3

During the present week (says the South Australian Advertiser of the 14th inst.) the discovery on the Parara Run has been visited by the best mining authoritie on the Penlusula, and all doubt of its genuineness, if there…

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Farming in California. (From a Correspondent of the New York Tribune.)

Empire · Friday 25 October 1872 · page 4

BETWEEN Stockton and Merced lie about 600 square miles of wheat. The railroad train runs through what appears to be au intermediate wheat-field, with small houses and barns at great distances apart, and no…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 517

SQUATTING affairs generally have a very bright aspect, notwithstanding that in some of the Southern districts the lambing has not been altogether satisfactory. There have been rains in all the pastoral regions: on…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 12

The weather, says the Burrawa Advocate during the past week has been such us to satisfy even the most grumbling disposition. A few light…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and the Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 517

IN Sydney and the surrounding country, the week up to Wednesday has presented little change of weather. There has been no rain, and the only variation has been in temperature, some of the…

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Goldsbrough and Co.'s Wool Warehouses, Melbourne. [From Our Special Correspondent]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 12

BEFORE entering into a description of the most extensive of Australia's Wool Warehouses, a few preliminary remarks about the wool trade of Melbourne will not be inappropriate. During the year ending 1st October,…

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A Prize Farm

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 517

THE Agricultural Gazette has the following description of the farm which won the prize offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England:— The award of the prizes for the best cultivated farm…

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Our Farm

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 18

WE now increase our draught power, by an additional team of bullocks, and some dozen strong well-bred 3-year old steers, to break in and help to do the work, and then to…

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Farming in California

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 10

(From a Correspondent of the New York Tribune.) BETWEEN Stockton and Merced lie about 600 square miles of wheat. The railroad train runs through what appears to be an intermediate wheat-field, with small…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 11

There must now be over a thousand beet sugar factories in Europe. While both the manufacture of beet sugar and the growing of the beets are seen to be profitable, it would seem, however, that the peculiae…

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Romance of Cattle-stealing

Empire · Monday 28 October 1872 · page 3
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A RATHER important case of this character, says the Armidale Chronicle, will shortly come before the judicial authorities at Bundarra. Pending the result, and the affair being now sub-judice, we refrain from…

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London Wool Sales. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 October 1872 · page 6

SIR,—The discrepancy in weights of wool to which attention was called by Sir Daniel Cooper some months age, was referred by us to our London house for explanations, and in a letter received by last mail they state…

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