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Farming & the land, 1875

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Montlily Wool and Produce Circular. [Mort and Co.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 32

By the City of [?] San Francisco, and the [?] via Suez, we have a[?] of the London wool sales to the 11th June, and [?] so far as they go, confirm the advices previously received by cable respecting the firm [?] of…

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To the Farmers of New South Wales. Per Favour of the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 5

THE above heading appeared in the Herald a few days ago from the pen of Mr. Myles M'Rae, who seems to think that Mr. Mort is about to lead the farmers of this country into a net from which they will find some difficulty to…

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Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 167

The advent of August has brought little change of weather in the metropolitan district. No rain in appreciable quantity had fallen during July, and the past week was fine with the exception of a slight downfall on Monday and the…

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Farm Mechanics. No. XXXVIII

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 166

The process of draining back or shutting out water for the purpose of reclaiming land must of necessity be a tedious one, if the embankment, is to stand firmly. Mr. Morgan, C.E., strongly advises "that, if the natural bed in which…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 16

The following method is recommended for private use in skin-tanning:—Take equal parts of salt, alum, and Glauber's salt, and half a part saltpetre; pulvorise and mix. Handle the skins and rub the mixture well…

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Smothered in a Bin of Wheat at Wearne's Flour Mills

Evening News · Wednesday 11 August 1875 · page 2

A miller, named Henry Giles, who resided in Redfern-street, Redfern, came to an untimely end yesterday afternoon, at Wearne'a Anchor Flour Mils, at the foot of Bathurst-strect. The particulars of the…

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Telegrams This Day. Cable Messages. Emigration to Australia. the New Zealand Cable. Price of Wheat. London, via Singapore, August 7. Received in Sydney August l1th, [?] p.m

Evening News · Thursday 12 August 1875 · page 2

At a meeting of intending emigrants and colonists, and representatives of the Corporation of London, Sir James Ferguson and Mr. Fox strongly recommended New Zealand as an excellent field…

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Unfavourable Prospects of the Wool Trade Between America and Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 August 1875 · page 2

THE Pastoral Timts has been requested by a correspondent to publish the following extract from a letter from a gentleman in the United Stales upon the wool trade with Australia…

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Flower Farms for Australia. (From the Co-operative and Financial Review.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 August 1875 · page 6

IT is not, perhaps, known to many of our readers that at present France, with some not very important exceptions, has a practical monopoly of flower production, flowers being considered here simply…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 199

THE season continues favourable to pastoral interests. The lambing in the North is said to have produced a comparatively high percentage of increase. Alternate fair and showery weather has prevailed in the Dubbo district; the…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 15

The Micalgo correspondent of the QUEANBEYAN AGE writes: —The weather just now is very favourable for the grass and crops. A very considerable quantity of land has been sown with wheat this year, and the young crops are…

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The Grazier. Diseased Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 14

SOME questions have reached me respecting a condition becoming fairly common in bullocks and travelling stock. The animal swells about the head and throat; sometimes this swelling goes down towards the chest;…

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Sheep Drafting Yards. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 14

SIR,—In your isaue of the 31st ult. I observe a letter from Omega, in which, by sneering at my " Classical Name," he attempts to show that my sheep-yard is almost beneath his notice…

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Pastoral Letter of John Bede, by the Grace of God and the Favour of the Holy Apostolic See, Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of Australia

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 16

DEARLY BELOVED,—It is our solemn and joyful duty to announce to you the commencement of the Anno Santo, or the Jubilee of the Holy Year, in this Archdiocese of Sydney. That…

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The Land. Agricultural Shows and Farmers

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 196

The rapid increase in the number of our agricultural and pastoral societies during the last three years would lead any person not thoroughly versed in our affairs to imagine that agriculture has been and is making rapid strides in our…

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The Farmer's Engine

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 196

OUR engraving represents a new traction steam ploughing and threshing engine, technically termed "The Farmer's Engine," just brought out by Messrs. James and Fred. Howard, Bedford. It has been designed to "meet the…

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Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 199

IN the metropolitan district the week past has presented no material change from the fair weather of the preceding mouth, with the exception of a few hours of light rain on Sunday, which was followed by a somewhat cooler…

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Farm Mechanics, &c. No. XXXIX

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 197

THERE can be no doubt that on every farm of any size there must be a portable engine as a necessary part of the belongings before long. Indeed, there are many now that have them; but when we come to have one or more model…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 16

The NEW ENGLAND HOMESTEAD says —"John J. Ellsworth, the well-known dairyman of Barre, writes to the the Secretary of the Franklin Harvest Club:— 'We have tried scalding milk at different…

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