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Farming & the land, 1874

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Facts for Farmers

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

The objct of all maunring is simply to supply the soil with those clements which are eapable of being taken up by plants and by the mysterous agency of orgainc life transmuted into stem leaf and kernel. There…

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Favourable State of the Wool Market. London. February 19. Received in Sydney Febraury 23rd 1.11 p.m

Evening News · Monday 23 February 1874 · page 2

The Marquie of Normanby, Sir Alfred Stephen Sir James M'Culloch and the Hon.John O'Shannassy have been appointed knights Commander of St. Michael and St.George…

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Murder of an English Farmer

Evening News · Monday 23 February 1874 · page 3

A shocking occurrence took place at a large farm-house near Towcestar od Sunday evening last. Mr. John Newitt, a respectable and well-to-do farmer, living at Burcote wood Farm, about a…

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Favourable State of the Wool Market. London, February 19. Received in Sydney, February 23rd, 1.11 p.m

Empire · Tuesday 24 February 1874 · page 2

The Marquis of Normanby, Sir Alfred Stephen Sir James M'Culloch, and the Hon. John O'Shannassy have been appointed Knights Commander of St. Michael and St. George…

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Fatal Disease in Cattle

Empire · Thursday 26 February 1874 · page 2

THE following letter, of which a copy was handed to us for publication, has been forwarded by Mr. Pottie, veterinary surgeon, to the Hon, the Minister for Lands:…

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Pastoral Intelligence

Empire · Friday 27 February 1874 · page 4

The past week, says the Hay Standard, has been somewhat changeable, and culminated in a slight thundre storm on Sunday. Since then the atmosphere has been fine and bracing—rather pleasant for this season of the year…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association, 1874

Empire · Friday 27 February 1874 · page 4

Patron: His Excellency the Governor, Sir H. Robinson, K.C.B. President: Mr. James Ramsay, of Nanama. Vice-Presidents: Mr. James Roberts, of Harden; Mr. R…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 271

THE season continues favourable to all interested in the rearing of live-stock and the growth of wool. In most parts the weather of the week ended the 21st instant appears to have been varied, fair days being frequently…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 14

A flock of sheep which had been placed in the pnddouk of Mr. Turland (says the Burr[?] Argus) vere disturbed hy dogs on Saturday last. Seventeen were, destroyed, and one is at the present time lying dead in the…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 270

IN the Metropolitan district the rains of the past [?] have been constant, and at times very heavy; they have put a stop to all out-door work, and have been very injuries [?]ons to ripe and ripening fruit. This is not all the damage [?]…

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Salt for Sheep

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 19

INQUIRIES arning sheep farmers have led me to the following canclusions:—(a) Salt possesses no property of curing fluke after it has once reached the liver; the use of it may,…

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The New Cattle Disease

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 21

FROM time to time occasional reports have appeared in the newspapers respecting the mysterious death of cattle in various parts of this and the adjoining colonies…

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Fatal Disease in Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 20

THE following letter, of which a copy was handed to us for publication, has been forwarded by Mr. Pottie, veterinary surgeon, to the Hon. the Minister for Lands:—…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association, 1874

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 14

Patron: His Excellency the Governor, Sir H. Robinson, K.C.B. president: Mr. James Ramsay. of Na[?]ma. Vice-Presidents: Mr. James Robearts, of Harden; Mr. R…

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The Grazier. Pedigree Cattle in the West

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 14

I TOLD your renders in my last that, from seeing Mr. J. T. Lee's bulls at Claremont, I took my way to Mr. Henry Lee's, which is but a short distance further from Bathurat.; and being still under thc careful…

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The Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Fifth Annual Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 269

THE following is an abstract of the Courier's report:— The show which came off on the 15th instant may certainly be considered as one of the most successful that has ever been held by the society, if the number of persons…

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Farming in the Albury District. a Visit to "The Olives."

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 269

WEST of Albury 20 miles, and 6 miles north of Howlong, is situated the celebrated farm of Messrs. Burrows, Brothers (3), which bears the name of "The Olives," or Moorwartha, and is the largest cultivation under grain…

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Murder of an English Farmer

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 23

A SHOCKING occurrence took place at a large farm-house near Toweester on Sunday evening last. Mr. John Newitt, a respectable and well-todo farmer, living at Burcotewood Farm, about a…

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Garden and Farm Memoranda for March

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 15

PRESENT indications premise a wet autumn, and floods may be considered a very probable accompaniment. Surely settlers will some day be convinced that it is unwise to persist in cultivating on lands liable to…

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Facts for Farmers

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

In a farmer's family, neither hair, moss, nor feathers need be procured for beds. Soft inside husks, woll hetohered, are wholesome, clastic, and durable. For rough out-door work there is nothing better…

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