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Farming & the land, 1875

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The Second Annual Sale of the Greystanes Pure-bred Shorthorn and Devon Cattle. [From Our Special Reporter.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1875 · page 3

THE 8.30 train yesterday morning from Sydney conveyed a large number of gentlemen, on stock-buying sent, to Parramatta, where, in accordance with the terms of the advertisements from Mr. Walter Lamb, conveyances were…

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The Weather and Crops.—pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1875 · page 5

WARM summer weather has prevailed throughout the past month, and very little rain has fallen, either in Sydney of the country. Last Thursday a thunders orm broke over the city in the evening, and was followed by light rain…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Empire · Friday 15 January 1875 · page 3

The squatters are just now undergoing tribulation, and their complaints are not made without reason. The dry weather, which we noticed as having fairly commenced in our last summary for…

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Wool and Produce Circular

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1875 · page 7

FANNING, GRIFFITHS, AND Co.—The various phases through which the Australian wool trade has passed during the year just closed exhibit [?] irregular features, whilst they afford abundant grounds for congratulation and hope, and, with the gradually…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 January 1875 · page 71

THE tone of the reports from the stock-farming districts is still the reverse of satisfactory. The spell of dry weather has scarcely been broken—a few thunderstorms, with little rain, having favoured some portions of the country. With…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 January 1875 · page 15

The Merriwa correspondent of the Murrurundi Times reports the stock movements during the week to be as follows:—160 bullocks from Culgo to Maitland, owner, Mr. Adams; 4000 wethers, prime lot, for Sydney, owners,…

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Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 January 1875 · page 71

The draught of the previous six weeks was in the Metropolitan district broken at the end of last week by a light fall of rain. The fall commenced with a cool temperature on the 7th instant, and continued on the 8th and 9th, but…

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The Late Irish Pastoral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 January 1875 · page 10

THE Irish Episcopate has seized the occasion afforded by the recent Materialistic address of Professor Tyndall to the British Association at Belfast to issue a very…

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Diseases of Sheep

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 16 January 1875 · page 18

THE sheep, which seems a special prey to disease aud misfortune, is subject to attacks from various parasites. Probably the most injurious of these are those which infest the lungs and the liver. The first, called Strongylus filaria, is…

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Pedigree Stock. the Second Annual Sale of the Greystanes Pure-reed Shorthorn and Devon Cattle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 January 1875 · page 83

THE 9.30 train on Wednesday morning from Sydney conveyed a large number of gentlemen, on stock-buying bent, to Parramatta, where, 'in accordance with the terms of the advertisements from Mr. Walter Lamb, conveyances were…

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Farm mechanics, &c. No. XIV

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 January 1875 · page 69

THE want of a good and cheap molive-power for driving small machines, such as pumps, circular saws, &c., has long been felt on our farms and stations. Water, the cheapest of all motive-powers, very few can command,…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 January 1875 · page 16

Hea lice are a great source of trouble to fowlkeepers. As the summer heats increase the posts multiply, and the broods need constant looking after. It is a safeguard to put tobacco in the nosts of…

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The Cultivator. Farmers' Poultry. Raising for the Market. &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 January 1875 · page 15

As much has been written on the subject of advantageously breeding, keeping, and fattening poultry and producing eggs for the market, and many suggestions and numerous theories have been…

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Colonial Wool Sales in London

Empire · Tuesday 19 January 1875 · page 2

The fourth, and last serles of public wool sales for the year commenced on the 17th November, on which day Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. reported: " A brisk consumption of wool has been going on since last public sales:…

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New Sea-Wall Farm Cove

Evening News · Tuesday 19 January 1875 · page 2

The new sea wall, extending from the Government Jetty to within about 60 yards of what is known as the Governor's Baths, in Farm Cove, is finished, all the rooks having been removed…

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Farmers' Poultry. Raising for the Market, &c

Empire · Tuesday 19 January 1875 · page 4

As much has been written on the subject of advantageoualy breeding, keeping, and fattening poultry and producing eggs for the mrket, and many suggestions and numerous theories have been…

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Trade Circulars. Wool. [Edwin Holt and Co.] November 27, 1874

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 January 1875 · page 3

The fourth and last series of wool sales for the current year commenced hero on the 17th instant, and, an previously arranged, were to close on the 4th December, but, up to date, two days have been lost in consequence of dense fogs…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1875 · page 102

AFFAIRS in the squatting districts, owing to the continued drought, are now assuming a very serious aspect. With the exception of a few favoured localities, the land in all parts is parched by the heat, and the herbage is extremely…

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Pastoral Prospects

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 January 1875 · page 9

As indicating the state of the great Western plains and Saltbush country, we quote as follows from the Dubbo Despatch;—The weather during the past week has been on the whole…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 January 1875 · page 15

There is little to report from Deniliquin. The Chronicle says:—Fat stock going through for market have been represented by four flocks of sheep. These passed as under—Sunday, 4.000 of P. Tyson'n; and to-day 1,450 of…

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