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Farming & the land, 1874

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Farm and Garden Memoranda for December

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 16

NOVEMBER, on the whole, has been distinguished by more seasonable weather than was experienced during the previous month, or the November of 1873. The grass and herbage are every where abundant; and stock…

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Pastoral Intelligence

Empire · Tuesday 1 December 1874 · page 4

A Lachlan correspondent of the Hay Standard, writing on 17th November, says: The locust pleague still continues, and they are spreading desolation far ana wide. As they are [?] on the wing, we are in hopes that they will ere long…

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Catarrh in Sheep

Empire · Thursday 3 December 1874 · page 4

The Conference advise that all sheep infected with catarrh be destroyed…

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Cata[?] in Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 December 1874 · page 5

The Conference advise that all sheep infectad with cata[?]h be destroyed…

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Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press. the Wool Sales. London, December 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 December 1874 · page 5

THE attendance at the wool sales declining; competition has languished; prices are now easier. Faulty wool is lower. 60,000 bales have been sold, and 25,000 withdrawn…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 711

ONLY some of the late districts now remain to finish the clip of the season, and at Manaro and the higher districts of New England the work is being rapidly proceeded with. Around Dubbo there has been rain which was required to…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 16

Mr. D. Bell, of Spring Flat (says the Bombala Times), obtained one hundred and forty-seven pounds of wool off the backs of ten rams, some going 13 to 13 lbs each The Western Post says: Mr. William Blackman's…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 711

PLEASANT mild rammer weather prevailed in the metropolitan district during the week ended Wednesday. The wins of the previous week freshened up vegetation in garden, orchard, and field, and now everything looks…

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Catarrh in Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 15

The Conference advise that all sheep infected with catarrh be destroyed…

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The Central Australian Pastoral Association Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 16

THE first show of this association was held at Bourke on Monday and Tuesday, this week. The weather was magnificent, and everything propitious, with the exception of the fire at Tattersall's hotel on the…

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Wholesale Wool-stealing

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 5

A most diabolical case of wool-stealing (writes the Merri Merri correspondent of the Dubbo Dispatch), was brought to light on Saturday. Taylor Brothers (Cardwell station) not having…

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The Crops in the Orange District. December 2

Evening News · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 3

As I know yon take an interest in all matters pertaining to agriculture, permit me to make a few remarks upon the present state of the wheat crop, that is, at Pretty Plalus, Guyong, the Forest, and King's Plains. Having heard great…

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Farm Mechanics, &c. No. VIII

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 709

IRON WEBB HARROWS.—To the late Mr. Smith, of Deanston, we owe this admirable harrow. If he did not invent it, he was the first to introduce it to the notice of the public. It consists of round rings of cast iron four inches…

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A Large Hay Farm

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 710

As one of the specimens of example farming of South Australia may be mentioned that of the hay farm of Mr. Sudholz's, which is, perhaps, the largest in Australia. The Adelaide Observer informs us that—…

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La Rose Stud Farm

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 15

I DON'T know whether I have already told the readers of the T. and C. or not, but to my fancy there's no prettier place in the neighbourhood of Melbourne than the residence of Mr. William M'Culloch, at La Rose;…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 19

The immersion of hides for hours in a two per cent. solution of carbolic acid, and then simply drying them, has (says the Scientific American) been recently substituted for the tedious and extensive process of…

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The Crops in the Orange District. (From a Correspondent.) December 2

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 34

As I know you take an interest in all matters pertaining to agriculture, permit me to make a few remarks upon the present state of the wheat crop, that is, at Pretty Plains, Guyong, the Forest, and King's Plains. Having heard great…

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Characteristics of Ayrshire Cattle

Empire · Thursday 10 December 1874 · page 4

THE leading cattle breeders of Britain have of late years for the most part aimed to establish in their stock some particular property in a high degree, beef or milk, according to circumstances, being the…

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Fluke in Sheep

Empire · Friday 11 December 1874 · page 3

A Paper prepared by Mr. Edward M. Curr, Chief Inspector of Stock, Victoria, and laid before the Conference, of Chief Inspectors of Sheep, held in Sydney, in November, 1874…

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Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press the Wool Sales, London, 8Th December

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 December 1874 · page 5

THE wool sales closed with increasing weakness. Qnotations show a decline as compared with the September rates of a 1d. to 3d. Faulty wools showed the heaviest fall. Sound fleeces were…

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