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Farming & the land, 1874

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Brutal Murder of a Farmer

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 209

A shocking occurrence took place at a large farmhouse near Towcester, on Sunday evening, December 21. Mr. John Newitt, a respectable and well-to-do farmer, living tit Burcotewood Farm, about a mile and a half from…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 16

For worms in hogs, copperas is a good medicine besides being a fine tonic and appetizer. This, mixed with ashes and salt—another excellent vermifuge—will prevent worms, and give tone to the system. The best…

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Sales of New South Wales Wool in London

Empire · Tuesday 17 February 1874 · page 3

By C. BALME AND CO., November 27:- Ascaion: HG over N, Engd. 5 bls scoured at 27½d, 3 at 23d, 3 fle[?] at 26d, 1 at 25¼d. 2 at 25d, 5 at 21½d, 5 at 23rd 5 pieces at 20d, 4 at 18d, 4 at 15½d. 6 pieces, damaged at 19d 1 at 15d;…

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Brutal Murder of a Farmer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1874 · page 3

A shocking occurrence took place at a large farmhouse near Tow[?]cester, on Sunday evening, December 21. Mr. John Newitt, a respectable and well-to-do farmer, living at Burootwood Farm, about a mile and a half from…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 February 1874 · page 5

The wool sales commence on the 17th instant…

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Wool Sales. London, February 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 February 1874 · page 5

The February wool sales opened this evening, with total arrivals to date amounting to upwards of 160,000 bales. There was a large attendance of home and…

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Pastoral

Empire · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

Station properties, owing to the high prices of stock, continue largely on demand, and the season is one of promise to the pastoral interests. Grass ia plontiful, and stock largely inquired for…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 16

Two flocks of fat sheep in charge of Matthews and Fraser respectively, have left Lianilio for Sydney. Mr. J. P. Coghlan reports to the Invcrell Couricr having sold at Attunga station 74 head of cattle, which…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 239

EVERYTHING in the shape of vegetation in the Metropolitan district has an aspect of luxuriance, and as much freshness as the season of maturity will admit. The whole of the week up to Wednesday last may be said to have been…

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Largest Sheep Farm in America

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 238

SENOR P. C. ARMIJO, of the great sheep and wool-raising firm of Armijo and Baca, of Albuquerque, How Mlexio, was in Kansas city recently, on his way home from New York. This gentleman represents more pastoral wealth…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 250

The wool sales commence on the 17th instant…

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An Efficient Butter-Worker

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 17

THE butter-table herewith figured is very convenient, and well adapted for economizing lobour. The top is a slab three or four inches in thickness, so as to have weight and solidity; four-feet long and two…

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Sheep Washing. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 16

Sir,—It was stated last month at a meeting held by the Agricultural Socicty that raining on sheep artifically, and afterwards subjecting them to a temperature of 130 degs, in a close room for a few minutes acted as well or better than the…

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Pedigree Cattle in the West

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 15

BEING at Bathurst at the time the English cricketers were there, I devoted a day and a half to looking thiough some of the pure Durhams which are to be found within a few miles of the town; and as your…

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Wheat and its Culture

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 238

THERE is still a controversy concerning the origin and the perpetuation of the cereals going on between the heretical and the orthodox masters of philosophy—the former holding the opinion that wheat and other cereals are only a…

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Notes at Birmingham Fat Cattle Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 238

The Hereford, as usual, stand first in the list, and they number 28. As a whole they are a good collection, but not equal to many past shows, particularly in regard to the females. No. 1 from Baysham, Ross, is a fine specimen of…

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The Grazier. The Black-Leg in Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 15

FROM the earliest days of the colony, a very malignant inflammatory disease, under the above name, has been known to those settlers of New South Wales who have been engaged in the raising and…

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Wool Sales. London, February 17

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 248

The February wool sales opened this evening, with total arrivals to date amounting to upwards of 160,000 bales. There was a large attendance of home and…

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Wool, Tallow, Hides. February 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 6

THE Bangalore, with the English mails, reached Melbourne on the 8th instant, being two or threedays within the contract time; but the Sydney portion of the mail by the branch steamer Ellora had not roached us up to the…

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