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Farming & the land, 1875

720 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 36

Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 806

IN the metropolital district there has been another week without rain. Within the last ten or twelve days the incoming of winter has been indicated by occasional changes in temperature, which now seems to have become steady near…

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An Irishman's Wheat Farm

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 7

A Sacramento paper says that Dr. Hugh J. Glenn, of Jacinto, California, has raised and harvested the past season on his own farm 600,000 bushels of wheat. This would…

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A Butter Factory

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 15

AN American paper states that, at Marengo, in the State of Illinois, a factory has been established by Messrs. Boies and Son, the receiving room of which is 20 feet square. Here the milk is weighed as it is brought in, and here are the…

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The Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 5

The following telegram baa been received by the Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance ComCompany:— London, June 16th…

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Wool Sales London, June 19

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 822

The wool sales, after a course of remarkable steadiness, closed slightly weaker. 271,272 bales were catalogued; 130,000 of which were taken for export on an advance en March rates as…

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Wool Samples. Philadelphia and Melbourne Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 819

THE Committee on Animal Products, to whom was referred the business of arranging for the Exhibition of New South Wales wool at Phili delphia, have considered the question at two or three meetings. Final arrangements were made on…

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New South Wales Wool at the Philadelphia Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 10

AT a mooting of the committee on animal products, held on Monday-present, the Hon. James White, M.L.O., in the chair, the Hon, Thomas Holt, M.L,0., tho Hon. Edward King Cox, M.L.O., and Mr. P. N…

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Farm Mechanics, &c. XXXIL

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 805

BEFORE proceeding further, it may be wall to describe a very perfect arrangement either for sheep washing, irrigation, or drainage, and one that, where it can be used, [?]etrongly recommend to the notice of every…

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Trade Circulars. Wool. [Edwin [?]Olt and Co.] May 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 June 1875 · page 6

T[?] second series of colonial wool sales commenced on the 4th instant. The arrivals were—279,447 bales. Quantities catalogued to date 67,87[?] bales. Out of the arrivals about 12,000 bales were forwarded direct to the interior and the continent. The sales…

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The Weather and the Crops. Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 July 1875 · page 8

THE weather has been changeable during the past month as usual at this time of the year. The early part of the month was mild, but within the past few days the weatyher has taken a change and become very cold. There have…

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A Political Past-oral Ballad

Sydney Punch · Friday 2 July 1875 · page 7

"My banks they are furnished with bees," So at least I can judge by the sting, That Partes tries to use; but harmless the breeze Will pass by and not ruffle my wing…

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Wool Warehouses. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 July 1875 · page 2

SIR,—We observe in your paper of the 12th March a copy of a letter addressed by Messrs. Browne and Eagle to Messrs. P. W. Flower and Sons, in answer to some remarks made by Mr. Broadribb, in a letter…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 6

NEWS from the Namoi speaks of the continued favourable state of the season, as far as all kinds of Stock are concerned. Feed there is in full supply. The advices from the north-west are also satisfactory: the weather remaining fine,…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 16

The following (says the MURRURUNDI TIMES of Saturday) is an account of the stock movements at Merriwa since the 13th instant: Juno 13th, 3000 fat sheep from Liverpool Plains to Sydney, owner Mr. York in charge of Mr…

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Dogs Versus Sheep. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 15

SIR—Much as we admire the moral instinct and, as some would say, the reasoning powers of the lower creation, we certainly regard Messrs. Lamb and Co. as justified in taking exception to the nocturnal carousals of the…

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Pastoral Letter of the Right Rev. Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland. To the Catholic Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Maitland

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 14

DEARLY BELOVED BRETHREN AND CHILDREN IN CHRIST,—It becomes my pleasing duty to announce to yon that Our Holy Father, Pope Pius the Ninth, has been pleased to grant a…

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The Land. Crops and Population

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 4

A TELEGRAM from Braidwood, which came under our notice last week, stating that at a late plonghing-match there only eight ploughs contested, when placed by the side of an announcement which appeared in the Sydney…

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Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 6

DURING the week ended Wednesday last, the fine cool weather in the metropolitan district was interrupted on Sunday and Monday by continued rains, the fall being at some periods heavy. Although land cultivator could have…

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Farm Mechanics, &c. No. XXXIII

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 4

THE plan of irrigation I have described in my last is calenlated only for situations in which the inclination of the surface of the land is not considerable, and is specially suitable for irrigating the great saltbush plains; and a…

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Garden and Farm Memoranda for July

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 17

WINTER has made its approach with comparative mildness, and the prospects for both the farmer and the grazier are of more than average promise for the trying season…

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