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Farming & the land, 1873

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Pastoral Letter of the Right Reverend Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland, To the Catholic Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Maitland. Dearly Beloved Bretheren and Children

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 December 1873 · page 11

IN CHRIST,—It affords me great pleasure to forward to you a translation of some of the decrees adopted by the bishops at the Provincial Council held at Melbourne in the…

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Example Farming

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

LAST week we gave from the columns of the Leader reports of some of tie prize farms at Smeaton. Now we follow with, some account of the unsuccessful competitors from the same source…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 December 1873 · page 12

The excellence of Jersey cows for butter, is becoming bettor known every day, BO say the American farmers. " Thirteen cows made in January inst, 282 lbs 12 oz of butter— all sold at 75 cents per lb." To this…

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What Is Good Butter?

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Tuesday 23 December 1873 · page 21

SHOULD we pay 18d. per pound for butter, when this essential at our breakfast table is sold at 7d.? It is not pretended that this modest figure commends an article possessed…

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London Wool Sales

Empire · Tuesday 23 December 1873 · page 3

Golden Sea; ROY, 2 his flece at 22d; 2 at 21d; I camaged st 20½d; JLT, 5 scured at 17d, 2at 15d; JMK, 5 flecce at 21d. 7 damaged at 19d; JG over Bogo, 23 flece at 21d, 1 damaged at 19d¼, at 18½d, JG in diamond, 12 scoured at 20d. 2 at 19d,…

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Shipment of Live Cattle to Europe

Empire · Wednesday 24 December 1873 · page 3
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A NOVEL feature in American exports is the shipment of live cattle from New York to Glasgow, to be slaughtered for the Scottich market. This enterprise was lately undertaken by the Glasgow firm of john…

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Trade Circulars. Wool. [J. T. Simes and Co.] [?]8, Coleman-street, London, 23rd October

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 December 1873 · page 3

THE fourth series of public colonial wool sales for this year was concluded this evening, [?]aving commenced on 2nd instant. The condition of the market during the course of these sales has not been altogether so firm and buoyant on the high range of prices…

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The Queensland Sugar Crop of 1873

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 December 1873 · page 5

THB Queenslander contains the following review of the season:— The sugar-making season of 1873 is coming to an end. North and South the mills have stopped, or will stop by…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 December 1873 · page 814

ADVICES from the country speak of the extreme heat experienced during last week, and of the ravages of bush fires, which have destroyed a large extent of fearing. Some welcome rain has fallen on the Murrumbidgee. In the…

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Pastoral Items

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

The Hay Standard says, the squatters have had another year of prosperity, the sheep and cattle have thriven well, and maintained favourable priceless the several markets. The signs and reports from our correspondents are…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 December 1873 · page 814

THE dry hot weather of last week has continued, and seems to have set in with every appearance of a steady continuance. The wheat is now being harvested as quickly as available labour will allow in every part of the…

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Cattle Breeding. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 December 1873 · page 10

SIR,—I have read Dr. Jenkins' Paper on Cattle and several answers, with great interest. My experience and observations cause me to differ from the Doctor. Fifteen years ago I went to the M'Intyre River, and worked under an able manager of…

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The Queensland Sugar Crop of 1873

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 December 1873 · page 813

THE Queenslander contains the following review of the season:— The sugar-making season of 1873 is coming to an end. North and South the mills have stopped, or will stop by…

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Facts for Farmers

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

It is related of an English farmer[?] that he condensed his practical experience into this rule, " Feed your land before it is hungry, rest it before it is weary, and weed before it is foul."…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Empire · Monday 29 December 1873 · page 3

The season has lattterly been very dry and hot in the pastoral districts, and some anxiety has been felt as to the prospects of a drought, but a salutary change of the weather occurred…

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Exports of Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c

Empire · Monday 29 December 1873 · page 3

Per Ben Lomond, for London: 2372 bls wool, 6 bls skins, 8 bls cotton, 289 csk tallow, 3112 cas meat, 1152 csks copper, 899 slbs tin, 52 csks tin ore, 15 csks gold tailings, 250 hhds treacle, 85 csks hides cuttings…

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Cable Messages. Telegrams This Day. Improved State of the English Money Market. London Wool, Wheat, and Metal Markets. Arrival of the Australian Mails at Galle. Ex-marshal Bazaine's Imprisonment. Partial Recovery of the Emperor of Germany. the Civil War in Spain. Received in Sydney, December 29, 1 a.m. London, December 27

Evening News · Monday 29 December 1873 · page 2

Money is in moderate demand; discount at 4 1/2. Exchanges favourable. Wool stocks are exhausted, and the market is flat…

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London Wool Sales. Jacomb, Son, and CO.—October 13

Empire · Tuesday 30 December 1873 · page 3

Windsor Castle; M & L over M[?] 6 bis fleece at 21½d. 11 broken at 29d 2. scoured at 20d, 1 damaged at 16d, 4 pleces at 17½d; DA & Co over G in diamond, 47 fleece ayt 32½d, 14 at 24d, 10 at 23d, 1 damaged at 22½d 2 pleces at 22½d; HH, 17…

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Pastoral Intelligence

Empire · Wednesday 31 December 1873 · page 3

From Cobbedah, we learn that shearing is now over at all the sheds, and the wool pretty well all gons down. There are no fat cattle going down, and good beef is very scarce, while mutton is out of the question, not to be…

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