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Farming & the land, 1874

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Wool and Produce Circulars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 October 1874 · page 8

RICHARSON AND WRENCH.—Wool: This market has now opened for the season 1874-75, and the few lots of the new clip which have appeared in the catalogues for public auction have been actively competed for, and show an improvement on the…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 518

THE ardent temperature of summer seems to have come upon the country very suddenly, without any mild season to soften the transition. It is now several weeks since rain of any consequence fell, and the young rising grass is…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 15

Whilst in our immediate neighbourhood (writes the Narrabri Herald) feed is parching up rather quickly, end the complaint is heard of an insufficiency of rain, otherwise good reports reach us of the state of the country down the…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 518

THE dry weather which has prevailed in the Metropolitan district for the last three weeks and the summer heat were beginning to tell unfavourably upon vegetation, and all interested in agriculture have been anxious for rain. In…

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Choice Table Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 16

IN order to make a choice tub of butter at all times see that your cows are provided with the best kind of food for that purpose. In summer, when your cows are at the pasture, let them have the best pasture you…

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Disease in Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 14

[WE are indebted to the Honourable the Minister for Lands, through the Chief Inspector of Stock, for the following Report from Dr. Morris, on the "Disease affecting tho Sheep on Newstead Station, in the Glen…

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Bl[?]tched Brands on Horses and Cattle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 517

The subjoined paragraph appeared in the Queenslander of the 19th ultimo, in reference to a circular issued by the Registrar of Brands, Brisbane, to each of the sheep and cattle inspectors in Queensland, requesting them to…

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To Prevent Blotched Brands on Horses and Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 9

THE subjoined paragraph appeared in the Queenslander, of the 19th ultimo, in reference to a circular issued by the Registrar of Brands, Brisbane, to each of the sheep and cattle inspectors in Queensland, requesting them…

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Latest Eeports on the London Wool Market

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 14

Messrs. Edwin Holt and Co., report, under date, London, September 4th, 1874:—The third series of Colonial Wool Sales commenced here on the 18th instant. The following were the arrivals in time, and also the quantities sold to date:—…

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Diseasr in Sheep. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 517

SIR,—The letter of Dr. Morris to the Chief Inspector of Sheep, which appeared in last week's issue of the Sydney Mail, contains a point of much practical importance. The Doctor attributes this outbreak of febrile disease to the…

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Farm Mechanics, &c. No. II

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 516

WIRE-[?]NCING is now very general, and on some of the salt-bush stations may be met with many miles in extent, as boundary and cross line fences. For a long, time after it was first introduced it was very…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 16

Ashes is the heat thing for the cabbage worm. A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune wrote to say that his cabbage was attacked last year by a white worm. " I dug down to the root and put a handful…

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Telegrams This Day. Cable Messages. Confirmation of the Report of the Capture of Nana Sahib. Bismarck and French Interference with Spanish Affairs. Withdrawal of the British Representative at the Vatican. London Markets. Decline in the Price of Wool. Copper Market Excited. Shipping Arrivals. &c., &c., &c. LONDON, via Singapore, October 24. Received in Sydney, October 26, 10.47 a.m

Evening News · Monday 26 October 1874 · page 2

The Government officially confirm the report of the capture of Nana Sahib by the Maharajah of Seinde, in Gwalior, It is reported that Prince Bismarck will, in…

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Disease in Sheep

Empire · Tuesday 27 October 1874 · page 4

WE are indebted to the Honourable the Minister for Lands, through the Chief Inspector of Stock, for the following Report from Dr. Morris, on the "Disease affecting the Sheep on Newstead Station, in the Glen…

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The Silk Farm at Corowa

Empire · Tuesday 27 October 1874 · page 4

THE silk farm at Corowa, which was visited by his Excellency the Governor on his recent tour in the Wahgunyah district, is the practical outcome of Mrs. Bladon Neill's energetic efforts to introduce in…

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Australian Butter

Empire · Wednesday 28 October 1874 · page 3

SOME short time ago we published in this journal a treatise called "Milk and its Products," by Mr. James Manning, which attracted the attention of agriculturalists. Singularly enough. Professor…

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Horses and Cattle

Empire · Wednesday 28 October 1874 · page 3

THE subjoined paragraph appeared in the Queenalander, of the 19th ultimo, in reference to a circular issued by the Registrar of Brands, Brisbane, to each of the sheep and cattle inspectors in Queensland, requesting them…

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Long Woolled Sheep—their Uses and Advantages

Empire · Friday 30 October 1874 · page 4

AT the last meeting of the West Bourke, (Victoria), Agricultural Society, Mr. Wragge read a paper on longwoolled sheep, which is thus reported by the Lancefield Examiner of 6th inst.-…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 October 1874 · page 550

THREE are many parts of the pastoral districts which, while, they have experienced all the heat of the sadden change of season, have not shared with others in the occasional rainfalls of the past fortnight, and in those…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 October 1874 · page 18

The lambing is being now rapidly drawn to a conclusion (says the Connia Gazette), but we regret to state, from information received from various parts of the district, that the increase this season will be considerably below tho…

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