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Farming & the land, 1873

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The Cause of Unsuccessful Sheep Farming in Tropical Queensland

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 December 1873 · page 11

In, the history of industrial enterprise it must be a phenomenon almost without precedent, that a purpose upon which money has been expended by millions of pounds in which thousands of hard working men have…

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Wheat-Growing in California

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1873 · page 749

OUR readers will get a good idea of how cereals are cultivated in California from the following letter written by the San Francisco correspondent of the Hour in June last. The writer says: "In ten days from this present date the…

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Telegraphic. By Cable and Overland Line. European Intelligence. the Wool Market. London, December 3

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1873 · page 753

AUSTRALIAN is a penny lower; second-hand lots are prejudicing the market. The Liverpool sales are proceeding languidly…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 December 1873 · page 13

Young men on farms, if you will quality yourselves by reading and study, as well as by intelligent labour, there lies before you a world of usefulness and honor, of which many of you have never dreamed,…

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London Wool and Produce Markets. October 24th

Evening News · Monday 15 December 1873 · page 2
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The fourth series for the year of the London Colonial Wool Sales closed on October 23rd. At the opening, prices for all kinds Australian fleece wool were firm; combing and half-bred…

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The Wool Sales. London, December 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 December 1873 · page 5

The close of the November wool sales had to be postponed, owing to a dense fog on shore and afloat. Of 61,000 bales offered, a considerable quantity has been withdrawn…

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Unsettled Districts. Pastoral Leases Act of 1869. Crown Lands Office, Brisbane, November 8.1873

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 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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The London Wool and Produce Markets

Empire · Wednesday 17 December 1873 · page 3

WOOL.—Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co., report under date October 23 The Fourth series of public sales of colonial wool, which commenced on the and of October, has closed this evening. There has been throughout the series a full attendance…

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The Weather and Crops, Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 December 1873 · page 6

VERY hot summer weather has prevailed during the past fortnight, the heat[?] being feit all the more from the fact hat the month of November was unusually cool and pleasant. The entire country almost has been favoured…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Empire · Friday 19 December 1873 · page 3

THE pastoral and agrieultural prospects of the colony have been suddecly endangered by the sudden coming in of anummer, and the hea[?]to a[?] parts of the country has been alarmingly intense Apprehedsione have…

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Wool, Tallow, and Hides. December 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 December 1873 · page 7

THE mail this month, brought by the Nubia, was delivered in Sydney on the 16th instant, being three days within the contract time. The latest dates via Brind[?] are to the 31st October, and amongst the various details of importancs…

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The Gulgong Escort. Cattle Stealing at Wallabadah. Advance in Sugars at Melbourne. Prosecution of the Clune's Rioters. Blood Stock for Sydney. Serious Accident to a Clergyman. Smelted Tin From Newcastle. Serious Accident at Melbourne. Bendigo Races. Arrival of a Pioneer Settler. the Wimmera Dummy Cases. Captain's Certificates Suspended. Prorogation of South Australian Parliament. Live Stock and Vegetables for Port Darwin. Latest Commercial, &c., &c., &c. GULGONG. Thursday, 5.37 p.m

Evening News · Friday 19 December 1873 · page 2

The escort this morning took down 5296oz 14dwt gold, and £134 in cash. A complimentary supper was given on Tuesday evening, at Stephen Green's hotel, to Mr…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 December 1873 · page 782

UNMISTAKABLE summer weather has now evidently set in throughout the country, and it is well that nearly all the important operations connected with sheep fanning have been concluded, and that in prospect of dry or scanty feed…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 December 1873 · page 11

The Clarence Examiner reports the arrival of the Anent lot of Lincolnshire rams that have ever been landed in this district. The owner, Mr. M. Fletcher, having imported them from Melbourne intends proceeding to Glen…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 December 1873 · page 782

IN the north the season appears to be giving every satisfaction, the latest advices containing news of beneficial rains intervening with fine summer weather. At the Lower Clarence it seems likely that more attention will be given…

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Long-Woolled Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 December 1873 · page 781

MR. J. Martin, one of the members of the Ballarat Fanners' Club, recently delivered a lecture at Craig's Hotel, on "Long bright wool, its quality, and the uses to which it is applied."…

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The London Wool and Produce Markets

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 December 1873 · page 23

Wooli.— Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co., report under date October 28 i Thcf fourth series of public sales of colonial wool, which commoiioad on the 2nd of October, has clonad this evening. There has been throughout the series a full attendance…

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The Wool Sales. London, December 13

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 December 1873 · page 790

[?] November wool sales had to [?] dense fog on shore and [?] sales offered, a considerable [?]…

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London Wool and Produce Markets. October 24th

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 December 1873 · page 21

The fourth series for the year of the London Colonial Wool Sales closed on October 23rd. At the opening, prices for all kinds Australian fleece wool were finn; combing and half-bred…

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