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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1873

881 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 45

Escape and Re-arrest of a Prisoner. Police Protection for Cobbora. Satisfactory Yield of Wool Near Dubbo. the Dubbo Gaol. Harvest Prospects in the North-west. the Metropolitan and Illawarra Railway. the Running for the Wagga Cup &c., &c. the New York Financial Panic. the Melbourne Flour and Grain Market. Latest From San Francisco. Parliamentary and Press Cricket Match at Melbourne. the Melbourne Bakers and the Eight-hour Question. Collision in Hobson's Bay. Attempt to Revive "The Duello." Governor Bowen at Kyneton. Another Poisoning Case. Serious Coach Accident. Telegraphic Extension. [A portion of the following appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday.] DUBBO

Evening News · Friday 28 November 1873 · page 2

A person named Talbot remanded from Walgett to Orange escaped on Wednesday night from the constable escorting him. He was re-arrested yesterday…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1873 · page 687

IN the north-west the weather has been variable, with heavy showers at intervals; the country is said to furnish plenty of good feed, and cattle and sheep are in thriving condition. with the clip which in now completed there is…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 November 1873 · page 11

The Dubbo Dispatch recently reported that the Murrumbidgerie clip of wool had been sold in the grease for 11½d per lb. The same journal has since heard that the purchasers, without taking delivery, have disposed of it at…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1873 · page 687

ALTHOUGH we are so close upon the first summer month, the weather of the last week has been more like that of early spring; and, indeed, in some parts of the interior the temperature has been quite wintry. In the metropolitan…

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Cattle in Quarantine

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1873 · page 686

A COMPLAINT which strikes us as being a reasonable one has been made to us by one of one district graziers relative to the conduct of certain newspaper critics, who have chosen to handle him very severely in the metropolitan…

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The British Wheat Crop of 1873

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1873 · page 686

THIS is the third season in succession in which I have had to record a deficient wheat crop. The deficiency on the produce per acre of the harvest of 1873 is rendered the more serious since there is not only a somewhat diminished total…

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Mr. R. L. Jenkins' Paper on Cattle Breeding

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1873 · page 685

THE following is the reply of Mr. R. L. Jenkins on the correspondence invited by the Agricultural Society of New South Wales upon the subject herein, treated:— As I am leaving the colony for a time, I desire to have a…

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Farm Mills

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1873 · page 686

The horse-power mill sketched below is one used in the United States for grinding coarse feed for stock. There are two kinds, namely those with steel plates to form the grinding surfaces, and those with burr stones. Those with…

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The Cultivator. Farm and Garden Memoranda for December

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 November 1873 · page 12

THE severe dry weather which signalized the first half of the present spring has happily been succeeded by magnificent growing weather. The moisture that has fallen at moderate intervals during the past month has…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 November 1873 · page 12

No class of men and women in society can do without bread and meat, and the various agricultural products of the earth. And hence we all have a direct and permanent interest in everything that will make our…

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The Weather and the Crops— Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 December 1873 · page 6

THE weather has been changeable during the month, and some days and nights have been unusually cold for the season of the year. Indeed, in New England thers has been a fall of snow. Nice rain has fallen in most parts of…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Empire · Monday 1 December 1873 · page 3

THE follwing report from the Town and Country Journal is a roliable resume of the pastoral and agricultural prospects of New South Wales: The severe dry weather which signalised the first half of the preseat…

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Wool, Tallow, and Hides. November 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 December 1873 · page 9

THE inward mail per Bangalore, to hand on tha 18th instant, has put us in possession of advices up to the 3rd ultimo, and, amongst other intelligence, gives us the detailed results of the first day of the sales, which we…

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Unsettled Districts. Pastoral Leases Act of 1869. Crown Lands Office, Brisbane, November 8, 1873

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 December 1873 · page 2

The attention of Pastoral Lessees in the Unsettled Districts and others, is directed to the List of Runs, situated in the unsettled districts, upon which the rent was not paid on or before the 30th September last, published in the…

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Latest Intelligence. Australian Associated Press. Reuter's Telegrams the Wool Sales. London, November 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 December 1873 · page 5

THE London wool sales opened this evening. The arrivals amounted to 50,000 bales. Sydney and Cape wools preponderated. There was a preponderance of home over foreign buyers. The…

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Cable Messages. Telegrams This Day the Restoration of the Virginius. Defence of Carthagena. Latest From Cape Coast Castle. the Ashantees Routed. Wool a Penny Lower. Australian Preserved Meats. (Reuter's Special Telegram.) London, December 1

Evening News · Wednesday 3 December 1873 · page 2

Spain restores the steamer Virginius and the survivors of her crew, and submits the question as to the legality of her capture to a mixed tribunal. If it is declared by that tribunal that…

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Burrowa Post and Telegraph Offices. the Northern Press on the Chief Justiceship. the Ballarat Races. Fiji Sugars and Maize in the Melbourne Market. Fire Inquest at Tamworth. Seamens' Strike at Melbourne. the London Wool Sales. Wife Shooting at Forbes. Sudden Death at Brisbane. Great Fire at Melbourne. Latest Commercial Mining, &C., &C., &C. Tamworth. Wednesday, 12.31 p.m

Evening News · Wednesday 3 December 1873 · page 2

An inquest into the cause of the fire at Myers's in March last, began on Monday, and stands adjourned for a week. A large quantity of quartz from the Marquis…

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The Intercolonial Tobacco Duties. Mining Accident at Gulgong. Mr. Cooper at Sofala. Melbourne Stock and Wool Market. the Ballarat Cup. the Nelson Exhibition. Loss of the Rotumah. Barratry on the High Seas. the New Zealand Grain Markets. the Forbes Mail Service. Accident to the Island City. Latest Joining, Commercial, &c, &c., &c. YASS. Thursday, 1.36 p.m

Evening News · Thursday 4 December 1873 · page 2

A banquet is to be given to the Mayor of Yass to-night. Burton and Taylor's United Circus Company, en route to Goulburn and Sydney, will perform…

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Telegrams This Day the East Macquarie Election. the Recent Riot at Colley Creek. the Gulgong Escort. the Melbourne Judgeship. Rise in Maize. Melbourne Flour and Grain Market. Robbery at a Post Office. Ballarat T. C. Spring Meeting. the Arrow Winner of the Cup. Legal Difficulty at Mudgee. Victorian Rifle Association. Telegraph Messages by Transcontinental Line. the Tasmanian Hop Crop. Railway Accident in Tasmania. Latest Mining, and Commercial, &c., &c., &c. GULGONG. Thursday, 3 p.m

Evening News · Friday 5 December 1873 · page 2

At a meeting held last night at the Canadian, it was resolved that Mr. J. G. O'Connor should be requested to assist Mr. Buchanan in laying the memorial adopted before the…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1873 · page 719

FROM the districts to the north-west the latest information speaks of fine weather, and states that, whilst the country looks well, there is plenty of feed and no lack of water. is the country round Narrabri feed is getting short, but water…

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