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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1875

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Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1875 · page 519

The season in the county of Cumberland continues too dry for the requirements of all interested in the cultivation of the soil. No rain fell during the week ended Wednesday last, and, under the influence of a summer temperature with…

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Pastoral Items

Evening News · Wednesday 27 October 1875 · page 3

The Uralla correspondent of the ARMIDALE EXPRESS briefly reports:—"Grass plentiful. Weather fine, with genial showers. Lambing good." Mr. Coghlan reports to the TAMWORTH NEWS…

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Trade Circulars. Wool. [Edwin Holt and Co.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 October 1875 · page 6

THE third series of colonial wool sales for the present year commenced on 17th instant, and will close on 2nd October. The quantities arrived, total 298,608 bales, of which about 1[?],600 bales were forwarded direct from the ship to the interier and the…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 549

THE Northern part of Liverpool Plains, and that portion of the Gwydir adjoining, have at length been relieved by a fall of rain. Shearing about Narrabri is going on slowly, owing to the shortness of hands. From the Lachlan, news…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 15

The GLEN INNES EXAMINER remarks the lambing is now ia full swing on most of the neighbouring stations, and we are glad to hear that so far the new crop of lambs is in a flourishing condition, owing to…

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Wool Trade Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 548

From our latest advices we learn that the new series of wool sales, which commenced in November, are looked forward to hopefully and with considerable interest by those concerned. In Messrs. Mort and Co.'s circular of the 22nd…

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The Grazier. Curious Phenomena in Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 15

WE (QUEENSLAND TIMES) publish the following letter in the hope that some of our pastoral renders may afford us some aid in the investigation of the singular subject to which it refers,…

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Mort and Co's Annual Wool and Produce Circular

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 31

Wool.—The past season was not marked by any very sensational movements in the world's maket for our chief staple There have naturally been fluctuations in the value of an article subject to such wide and varied influences, but the averege…

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Warehousing of Wool. (To the Editor of the Herald.)

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 551

SIR,—In conformity with your request, we beg to hand you the following reply to Mr. Brodribb's letter which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald of the 5th April last, in so far as it concerns ourselves. In any remarks we…

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Australian Wool Market Report. [Griffiths and Co.] Sidney, 21st October, 1875

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 32

Our market since we last reported has been character[?] by an extreme dullness, attributable partly to the discouraglng state of things reportod from the manufacturing districts partly to the tall in prices at the London August—September…

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Steam Education for Young Farmers

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 550

An English farmer writes to Bell's Messenger:—This is clearly becoming an absolute necessity as one of the sources of farm profit. Our old friends who know nothing about steam machinery dislike the idea of being troubled with it,…

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Weather and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 549

The season in the district about Sydney is still distinguished by its dryness. In the middle of last week the condition of things meteorological was so disturbed that a soaking rainseemed probable, and led to a stated expectation of a…

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Farm Mechanics. No. L.

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 548

When you intend cultivating peas it is of importance to to use those that ripen early, and then give time for another crop to follow; and the peas may often be cut and secured while there is leisure before the beginning of the wheat…

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Murder of a Sweetheart by a Farmer's Son

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 27

The death of Fanny Pleasant Clarke, a domestic Bervant ia the service of a farmer at Brantham, near Ipswich, was the subject of a long inquiry before the coroner on August 21. The post mortem…

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The Cultivatok. Farm and Garden Memoranda for November

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 17

THOUGH rain has fallen in partial showors during the month past, the drought still prevails to an injuriions extent, in the metropolitan and similarly situated districts. Dry springs seem to be more frequent now…

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Causes of Failure in Farming

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 17

IT is a very popular idea that men of quick, ordinary capacity, simple in their ideas, inferior in discernment and frugality, plainly ignorant though industrious, are capable ot farming successfully- time…

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Curious Phenomena in Sheep

Evening News · Tuesday 2 November 1875 · page 3

WE (QUEENSLAND TIMES) publish the following letter in the hope that some of our pastoral readers may afford us some aid in the investigation of the singular subject to which it…

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Patents in Connection with Pastoral Matters

Evening News · Thursday 4 November 1875 · page 3

THE Attorney General of Victoria granted two applications for letters patent, the first being to Edward Waters, of Melbourne, patent agent, for certain improvements in the construction of wool presses, which…

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The Breed of Devon Cattle

Evening News · Thursday 4 November 1875 · page 3

THERE was a time when, owing to residence in the west of England, and want of familiarity with other breeds, I was somewhat prejudiced in favour of the North Devon breed of cattle, deeming it calculated…

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Information Wanted. — Sheep Washing. To the Editor

Evening News · Thursday 4 November 1875 · page 3

SIR,—Would any of your numerous subscribers kindly inform us what is the best and most effective (and also economical in point of saving labour) machine for washing from 400 to 500 sheep per day, with spouts,…

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