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Farming & the land, 1874

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1874 · page 743

DRY summer weather seems to have prevailed in all the pastoral districts during the week ended Saturday. The grasshoppers have bared the land in many parts. In those places and in most other quarters, especially on the back…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 December 1874 · page 15

The Riverine Grazier states: We have had somewhat cool weather since last issue. The grasshoppers have bared the pastures, so that sheep and cattle on runs which were fully slocked are being reduced a little, which, is really the…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1874 · page 743

THERE has been no change [?] the weather in [?] during the week ended Wednesday. Both [?] and nights have been [?] but cool bree[?]es have [?] the temperature of the shade, so that…

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Fluke in Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 December 1874 · page 14

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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Worm Disease in Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1874 · page 742

THE following paper prepared by Mr. P. B. Gordon, Chief Inspector of Sheep, Queensland, was laid before the Conference of Chief Inspectors of Stock, held in Sydney, November, 1874:—…

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The Grazier. Characteristics of Ayrshire Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 December 1874 · page 14

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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Cattle Disease. "Hold to the bridge that carries you safely over." To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 December 1874 · page 15

SIR,—Having read Mr. T. S. Ralph's letter in your issue of the 14th instant, upon the above subject pleuro-pneumonia in particular, I cannot refrain from giving my experience of inoculation…

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Telegraphic. By Cable and Overland Line. European Intelligence. the Wool Sales. London, December 2

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1874 · page 755

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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Farm Mechanics, &c. No. IX

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1874 · page 741

SCARIFIERS and cultivators, with curved tines of wrought iron or steel fixed into a framing of wood or iron, were certainly known thirty years ago, but only became standard implements within the brief period that railway travelling…

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The Wool Market

Evening News · Thursday 17 December 1874 · page 3
Also in Empire

Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. report under date October 26th, 1874: Since the close of the public sales on the 1st instant, there has been nut little business done in colonial wool in this market The home woollen districts are doing…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 December 1874 · page 8

SALE of 209 bales by Hoare and Hudson, on Wednesday, September 30. Ex City of Benares: DM, 8 hoggets at 22½d, l8 wethers at [?]d, 7 cwes at 20d, 1 locks at 12½d; B2, 1 super combing at…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 December 1874 · page 6

SALE of 1458 bales by Balme and Colon Tuesday, September 29. Ex Centurion: N, 28 at 20½d. Ex Samuel Plimsoll: Mihi, 23 superior at 28d, 57 at 27½d, 22 at 27d, 1 two sorts at 21d, 22 pieces at 25d, 1 looks at 18d: [?]…

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How to Judge Shorthored Cattle. (From a Correspondent)

Empire · Friday 18 December 1874 · page 3

THE Exhibition of 1874 is now a thing of the past; the usual routine of show, examination, criticism, and judging has been gone through, and now comes the usual scrutiny of the judges by a discerning public, Few…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 December 1874 · page 775

Now that the business of the wool clip is over, pastoralists are called upon by the state of the season to look to their water supply. There has been no rain of any importance for several weeks, the high summer temperature fast dries…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 December 1874 · page 14

Some stud rams have been purchased by Mr. Joseph Becker from the Hon. G. H. Cox, Mudgee, for Kerribree, the station of Messrs. Davis, Gibb, and Co. Pastoral matters in the Deniliquin district, for…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 December 1874 · page 774

IN the metropolitan district the weather for the week up to Wednesday was favourable for harvesting; for growing crops rain is required. A little fell on the 10th, since which there has been a marked fall in the atmospheric…

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Butter Making—spring Houses

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 19 December 1874 · page 7

THERE is no better method of preserving that equable temperature, which is necessary for the best management of a dairy, than the use of a permanent spring of water. In winter and summer the temperature of water, which issues…

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Drill Sowing Wheat

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 19 December 1874 · page 7

EVERY year's experience is in favour of drilling wheat. It shows more and more that, as against sowing the seed broadcast, it is economical in labour and in seed, and gives a better crop. The difference in labour is at least five shillings…

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The Wool Market

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 December 1874 · page 33

Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. report under date October 28th, 1874: Since the close of the public sales on the 1st instant, there has been out little business done in colonial wool in this market. The home woollen districts are doing…

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