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Farming & the land, 1875

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Forbes Pastoral and Agricultural Exhibition

Evening News · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 5

The exhibits of thoroughbred Mood stock were nine teen in number as against thirteen of last year. Mr. Batcher s Messenger took first prize in the list of stallion over three ycm, and was also awarded the…

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The Forbes Pastoral and Agricultural Exhibition, 1875

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 325

THE Forbes Show was held on the 31st ultimo, and suffered to some extent from rainy weather. The Times, from which the subjoined particulars are taken, states that exhibitors were unable to show their stock to advantage, and…

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Sale of Stock Sheep in Victoria

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 325

MESSRS. POWERS, RUTHERFORD, and Co. commenced their annual sale of stud sheep on 26th August, when, with a large attendance of stockowners, some very fine merinoes were disposed of…

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The Glazier. a New Market for Australian Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 14

THE following article, extracted from the MELBOURNE ARGUS, refers to a matter of no small importance to wool growers in this colony:— From time to time, during the last year or two,…

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Farm Mechanics. No. 43

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 324

THERE may appear little in the direction to head your horses, east or west, when your commence to "drill in[?]cat," but there is a good reason for it. When Silver Watch north and south the sun gets at the g[?]ewest design the…

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Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 326

[?] our last [?] on the season the whether in the country of C[?]land has shown much variation, though no rain has fallen. Several days were piercingly cold, this state of things, however, at the beginning of the week were…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 16

Salt your hay, says the CALIFORNIA FARMER. If our hay-makers will take a little more pains with their hay and cure it better, they would realise from 20 to 25 per cent more in price than they do in the…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 359

DURING the post fortnight shearing has been an absorbing mater of interest in all the squatting districts, and the work in most quarters is now well advanced. The reports in. general, with regard to the lambing, are in a tone of…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 16

A correspondent from Werris' Creek informs the SINGLETON TIMES that shearing will commence in a few days at most of the stations in the vicinity. The grans looks well, and with some rain there would be a…

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John Bede's Pastoral. No. Ii

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 6

HAVING brought a "railing accusation" against the people of Rome as "infidels and sensualists,". and as having exhibited great ingratitude towards the Pope, "who…

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Australian Wheat As Seed in England. (From the Farmer, June 21st, 1875.)

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

AT various times I have sown among my own wheat crop[?] portions of fine wheat sent to me for trial from Australia. In every case the plants, just before development, have became blighted and worthless, although the home-grown…

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New Market for Australian Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 14

"ANTWERP versus London," as the title of an appeal to the British people of Australia, is by no means likely to be popular at first sight; Yet such is the heading of a pamphlet…

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Mort's Freezing Process for Preserving Meat, Fish, Eggs, Butter, &c

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 14

THE hope which long deferred is said to make the heart sick is peculiarly applicable to the experiments which have been going on for the last seven years at Sydney, at the expense of Mr. T. S. Mort, for the purpose, principally, of preserving…

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Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 359

A [?]ERICD of dry weather unusually long for the late winter season, especially in the coast district, terminated last Sunday. For ten weeks very little rain had fallen. On Monday morning a south wind set in, cool and humid;…

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Farm Mechanics. No. XLIV

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 356

THERE are of course many other ways of cultivating the potato, but the plan I have described I have seen give very satisfactory crops. The establishment of two or three model farms, one in the northern district, and one in the southern…

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Meeting of the Sydney Skating Club in Farmer's Carpet Store

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 7

SYDNEY has been somewhat slow in following the fashion of the day in England. For a long time past Rink Skating has been exceedingly fashionable in Tasmania, and lately some of the more energetic of our Sydney people…

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A Meeting of the Sydney Skating Club in Farmer & Co.'s Carpet Store

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 20

Trove gives no preview of this one. Open it to read the story on the page.

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A Model Hay Farm

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 19

THE following description of a well—managed farm at Werribee, Victoria, is from the Bacchus Marsh Express. "The extent of the Indian trade in horses, may be judged in some measure by noticing the quantity of hay and chaff…

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How I Make Farming Pay. a Paper read to the Midland Counties' Farmers' Club, Birmingham, on April 1, 1875, by J. J. Mechi

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 14

ON June 4, 1868, I had the pleasure to read to you a paper "On the Exhaustion of the Soil, and the Means of Restoring its Fertility," which is recorded in the second volume of my book, "How to Farm Profitably." You have again kindly…

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Telegrams This Day. Cable Message, the English Press on the Victorian Budget. the New Guinea. Colonization Scheme. Departure of Clergymen for Australia. Commodore of the Australian Station. the Wool Sales. London Markets. English Shipping. London, vis Singapore, September 17th. Received in Sydney, September [?]. 7.10 p.m

Evening News · Tuesday 21 September 1875 · page 4

The London STADARD comments unfavourably upon the Victorian budget compared with that of New South Wales. The Standard eondemns Lieutenant Armit's…

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