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Farming & the land, 1873

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Rotation of Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 September 1873 · page 361

EXPERIENCE has demonstrated that one crop after another of the same kind greatly reduces the fertility of all classes of soils. This conclusion might be drawn from reason as well as experience, since it is reasonable to suppose that…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 September 1873 · page 13

Mr. James Davison, of Georgia, United States, has experimented very extensively with stable manure and several of the commercial fertilizers He proved from these experiments that Peruvian guano…

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Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 22 September 1873 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Since the opening of the sales on the 10th July, a further advance upon most descriptions has been realised. The chief peculiarity of the series is the strong competition among foreign…

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The New Premises of Messrs. Farmer and Company

Evening News · Monday 22 September 1873 · page 3

THE ceremony of laying the foundation store of Messrs. Farmer and Company's new Victoria House, Pitt-street, was performed on Saturday afternoon by Thomas Sutcliffe Mort, Esq. The event was celebrated…

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Messrs. Farmer and Co's New Drapery Establishment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 September 1873 · page 2

FOR some time past our citizens will have observed the work of demolition of a large portion of the extensive pr[?] mises of Messrs Farmer and Co, drapers, of pitt-street, and the appearance of the dutlines of a n[?] structure of…

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The New Premises of Messrs Farmer and Company

Empire · Monday 22 September 1873 · page 2

THE ceremony of laying the foundation stone of Messrs. Farmer and Company's new Victoria House, Pitt-street, was performed on Saturday afternoon by Thomas Suteliffe Mort, Esq. The event was celebrated…

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Pastoral Intelligence

Empire · Tuesday 23 September 1873 · page 4

It seems from the Albury Banner that a mare belonging to Mr. Durhy, or Bimgowannah, dropped, a few days ago, a fine feal to Glencoe. This is the first of Glencoe's stock foaled this season…

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[From Another Correspondent.] London, Augnst 7th, the Wool Market

Empire · Wednesday 24 September 1873 · page 3

The cable anticipates the most important items relative to the wool market; so I must confine myself generals. Wool, yon will be glad to learn, is sailing well, and…

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Telegrams This Day Murder at Clermont. the Mount and Morris Case. Mr. Grants Vote of Censure. the Hotham Child Murder. the Kilmore Steeplechases. the South Australian Budget. Adelaide Wheat Market. Latest Commercial, &c., &c., &c. Clermont, Queensland. I Tuesday, 4.51 p.m

Evening News · Wednesday 24 September 1873 · page 2

A frightful murder is discovered to have taken place at old Beligand's-road, twenty miles from Clermont. The body of the victim, though apparently dead for about a month,…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 September 1873 · page 399

THIS buy time on the stations seems to be as much favoured by weather as was the preceding season of lambing, and reports from all quarters are jubilant about the good quality and extent of the clip. In the country round…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 September 1873 · page 11

It seems from the Albury Banner that a mare belonging to Mr. Darby, of Bimgowannah, dropped, a few days ago, a fine foal to Glencoe. This is the first of Glencoe's stock to ted this season…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 September 1873 · page 399

FROM Tenterfield it is reported by the Star of the 18th instant that there has again been a fine week. The equinoctial gales still continue, and have done so with more or less violence all the week. The temperature has…

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Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 September 1873 · page 21

Since the opening of the sales on the 10th July, a further advance upon most descriptions has been realised. The chief peculiarity of the series is the strong competition among foreign…

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The Grazier. Anaemia in Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 September 1873 · page 11

ANAEMIA in sheep is simply a deficiency of blood in the system; not that there is ess liquid in the veins and arteries; they may be pretty well filled, but that which is there is deficient in the living life-giving elements—…

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Sheep Shearing in New South Wales

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 27 September 1873 · page 7

AS the first of the shearing months is now at hand, we give, in this issue, an illustration of that busy scene—an Australian woolshed at shearing time. To those who have…

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Agricultural Society.—Dr. Jenkins's Paper on Cattle Breeding

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 September 1873 · page 12

A SPECIAL meeting of the Council was called by circular and advertisements, to receive Mr. R. L. Jenkins' paper on "Cattle." His Excellency the Governor took the chair at 11 a.m…

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Messrs. Farmer and Co.'s New Drapery Esta Establishment

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 September 1873 · page 7

On Saturday afternoon lust Mr. T. S. Mort laid the chief stone of the new drapery establishment of Messrs. Fanner ami Co , now in course of erection in Pitt-street. The event was…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 September 1873 · page 12

TO preserve eggs fresh you require to stop their transpiration, the method of doing which is, by stopping up the pores with matter which is not soluble in watery fluids, and on this principle it is that all…

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Stock, Stations, Wool, and Preserved Meats. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 September 1873 · page 3

SIR,—Pursuing the course adopted by our Prior for many years at this senson, we do ourselves the pleasure of addressing you with a brief review of matters relating to the pastoral interest in these colonies…

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