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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1873

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The Grazier. Grass and Sheep Farming. No 4. Grasses As Influenced by the Soil

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 June 1873 · page 11

IT was stated in our last notice of Mr. Farrer's pampphlet that we did not concur in his opinion in reference to the source of the great difference between the ash contents, as shown by the quoted analysis, of two closely…

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Cattle Diseases. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 June 1873 · page 4

SIR,—My attention has been drawn to the following paragraph, which appeared in your columns on the 16th May, headed a "New Cattle Disease," and purporting to come from Wild Meadows:—…

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The Cultivator. The Preservation and Application of Farmyard Manure. Read Before the Lavenham Farmers' Club, by Mr. E. LINGWOOD

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 June 1873 · page 12

I DON'T think I need fear contradiction when I assert that no part of the farmer's business is of greater consequence than the proper manufacture (if I may be allowed to use the term), preservation, and application of…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 June 1873 · page 13

"A Farmer's Son," in a letter to an Agricultural Journal, on the subject of cross-breeding says: — "I have kept them pur[?], crossed the shorthorn cow with the Devon bull, and crossed the Devon cow with…

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Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture. (CONTINUED.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 June 1873 · page 13

THE intention of the accompanying engravings of elevation and ground-plan is to show a more ornamental and extensive building than any we have hitherto depicted. The design is for a gentleman's residence, in the gothic…

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Our Farm

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Tuesday 10 June 1873 · page 21

IN our last issue, at page 19, we gave an account of a very valuable plant—the Brassica caulorapa, commonly called the Kohl-rabi —and we now present our readers with…

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The Earl of Warwick's Sewage Farm

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Tuesday 10 June 1873 · page 21

WE extract the following, by Col. George E. Waring, jun., of Ogden Farm, from that very valuable paper the American Agriculturist. This practical detail of the management of…

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Telegrams This Day Latest From Bathurst. Reprieve of Sheridan. the Charini Circus Troupe. Harrison's Frozen Meat. Governor Musgrave's Arrival. the Adelaide Wheat Market. Bishop of Goulburn at Balranald. Bathurst. Monday, 8.31 p.m

Evening News · Tuesday 10 June 1873 · page 2

The Hill End coach was upset about a mile and a half from Peel to-night. It is reported that the driver is killed and several passengers severely injured. The agent is gone out to…

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Telegrams This Day Lincoln Sheep for Melbourne. Heavy Sales of Maize. Latest From New Zealand. Return of Mr. Samuel to Melbourne. New Zealand Declines to Cooperate Pacific Mails. Uncertainty of Affairs at the Waikato. More About the Victorian Mail Contract. the Victorian Finances. Desgraves V. M'mullen—verdict for the Plaintiff. Fire at Braidwood. Yield of Gold at Hill End. Latest From Bathurst. Indications of Floods. Singleton Tweed Factory. Legislation at Melbourne. Murder at Yarra Bend. Melbourne Grain Market. Adelaide Events. Latest Mining and Commercial, &c., &c., &c. [From Our Correspondents.] [A portion of the following appeared ia our second edition of yesterday.] GUNNEDAH. Thursday, 5.10 p.m

Evening News · Friday 13 June 1873 · page 2

The river is now running in Maitland-street, which is deserted. The town is surrounded with water. No mails can arrive or depart. The Liverpool Plains are covered with water…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 743

IN the extensive tract of country watered by the northern affluents of the Darling, as well as on the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee, there have been heavy and continuous rains These are proving beneficial to the herbage, which had been…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 12

The death of a valuable pedigree bull, Baleo the property of Mr. Evans, of Dapto, is recorded in the Wol longong paper. The animal referred to was purchased at the Exhibition last your by Mr, Evans, at a cost of sixty guineas…

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The Weather and the Crops— Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 6

THE winter has fairly set in, but the weather has not been so severe as usual at this time of the year. There have been frosts in the colder part of the country, but on the coast it has been comparatively mild. A considerable fall…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 743

IN the county of Cumberland there has been warm drooping weather during the past week, rain having occasionally fallen in small quantity. The soil is in first-rate order for farm and orchard work, which is being proceeded with…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Empire · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 3

WE have not much to record as the to the month's agricultural progress the dry weather that prevailed in the interior having impoede operations. In pastoral matter, though ther has from a recent persistent rainfall…

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Disease in British Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 12

PROFESSOR Cobbold, now of the Royal College, of Veterinary Surgecns, one of the greatest living authorities on worms and fluke, has been giving a series of lectures on this subject, which is of so much importance to the…

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The Grazier. The Shark Island Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 11

HAVING been away from Sydney for some weeks, during which there had been several now arrivals of cuttle from England, I made a couple of trips down to Shark Island since my return, and can now give your readers particulars of most…

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Appendix. Wool. May 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 8

The first public sale subsequent to the departure of the Baroda with the outward mall of this month, was held by Messrs. Mort and Co., under the above date. The catalogue represented 567 bales, but there was little animation in the market, and only 202…

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Shelter for Sheep on the Plains

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 12

"WE are indebted for the accompanying plans and engravings, as well as for most of the suggestions contained in this article, to the American Agriculturist. The writer in that paper had in view the providing of shelter…

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Red Rust in Colonial Wheat

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 742

IN the Agricultural Gazette for June 8, 1872, Mr. Mechi wrote as follows:—" The following fact may prove interesting as regards the red rust which is so extensively injurious to the wheat crops in Australia and Canada. A very…

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Wool, Tallow, and Hides. June 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 8

THE Bangalore, with the inward mails, arrived in port early on the morning of the 3rd instant, and we were in receipt of English advices three and a half days in anticipation of the actual due date. The usual brokers' circulars…

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