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Farming & the land, 1876

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The Cultivator. Experimental Farming. No. 15. Sheep-farming and Green Crops

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1876 · page 15

THREE years ago we stated, in a pamphlet published at that time, that sheep-farming in connection with tillage, would be found the best system of farming for New South Wales, and the cheapest…

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Old and New Agricultural and Pastoral Associations

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1876 · page 486

THERE is something very pleasant in looking back to past efforts in material improvements concerning the welfare of the colony, especially when present endeavours promise to go far beyond the most sanguine hopes of the first promoters,…

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Australian Wool Market Report. [Griffiths and Co.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1876 · page 32

Our Wool markot has been very quiet this month, and scareely any pareels of Importance have been offered at the weekly sales. There has, therefore, been no special attraction for buyers, so that we have not much change to note since we…

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F. L. Barker's Sydney Wool and Produce Report

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1876 · page 487

STOCK.—The transactions in stores are still limited, and until a general fall of rain but little will be done. I have inquiries for wethers for the north-west, and hope to place a good number of mixed sheep out westward shortly. Cattle…

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Proposal to Counteract the Effect of the Drought on Sheep. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1876 · page 15

SIR,—Several stockownors having called on me to see if I could remedy any assistance at this juncture of affairs in the pastoval districts through the drought, I replied that I was just going to put a plan into the…

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Police Court. Wednesday, April 12, 1876. (Before Messrs. George Langley, and J. Golledge, J. s’ P. ) Cattle Straying

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 15 April 1876 · page 2

William Burge, William Hayes, Thomas Moxham; and Thomas Whiteman were eacgh fined the sum of 2s 6d for allowing their horses to stray in the…

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Farm Notes. Seasonable Hints for the Farm

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 April 1876 · page 18

THE weather having become favourable for ploughing and sowing, not a day should be lost. It is quite possible that the drought may be succeeded by weather of an opposite character, and that…

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The Season and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1876 · page 485

THIS week Sydney and the metropolitan county have had the benefit of a release from the drought by which they have long suffered in common with the rest of the country. On Saturday and Sunday some light rain fell, and on…

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The Shaw Farm at Windsor, England

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1876 · page 486

I CANNOT tell how many acres it contains (says a contributor to the Cultivator and Country Gentleman) or give any facts about its productiveness, but trust my impressions and recollections may interest some of your readers…

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Farmers' Brevities for April

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1876 · page 16

"WE are very much troubled with flies," writes a correspondent from Northern Queensland. Washing the skin well, a few times, with carbolic soap, greatly lessens this nuisance, and applied pretty strong, to…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 April 1876 · page 5

SALES of 320 bales, by Charles Balmo and Co., on Tuesday, February 15:- Ex Alexandri[?] (Queensland): Green and Co., Goomburra, [?] clothing at 2[?]d, 4 at 22d, 3 ditto damaged at 21½d, 2 super…

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Wholesale Sheep Stealing. (Abridged from the Tamworth News, April 7.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 April 1876 · page 3

ON Thursday and Friday last, at the Tamworth Circuit Court, before Mr. Acting Judge Davis, William Godfrey Haydon and David Orchard were severally arraigned for that they did, on the 20th November, 1875, at Llangollen,…

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Wholesale Sheep Stealing at collaroy

Evening News · Wednesday 19 April 1876 · page 3

ON Thursday and Friday last, at the Tarmverth Cir[?]nt court, before Mr. Acting Judge Davis, William Godfrey Haydon and David Orchard were severally arraigned for that they did. on the 20th November, 1875, at…

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Trade Circulars. Wool. [Jacomb, Sox, and Co.] February l8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 April 1876 · page 3

THE firSt series of public sales of colonial wool for this year opened on the 15th instant and will close on the 4th of March; a second series is fixed to commence on the 28th of March. There is a very good attendance of both home and foreign buyers, and…

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Con. by a Demented Dairy-Man

Sydney Punch · Friday 21 April 1876 · page 8

Why are the cattle that are allowed to graze in the Domain, like hotels? 'Cos they are licensed public cowses!…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 April 1876 · page 518

IN nearly all the pastoral districts the late rains have been very welcome. Wagga, up to the 15th, had not partaken of them, but on that day appearances indicated the probability of an early fall. At Dubbo there are foretokenings…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1876 · page 15

A fine lot of 800 cattle, the property of Mr. Adams, passed Surat recently, going to Port Cooper, 800 more will soon follow, also a large mob of horses. At Yass since the rain the young grass…

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The Cattle Prohibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 April 1876 · page 519

ALTHOUGH this subject has received some ventilation in your columns, there are still so many important interests connected with it, and such various standpoints from which it may be viewed, that I have been tempted to address…

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Wholesale Sheep Stealing

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 April 1876 · page 17

ON Thursday and Friday last. at the Tamworth Circuit Court, before Mr. Acting Judge Davis, William Godfrey Haydon and David Orchard were severally arraigned for that they did, on…

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Western Agricultural, Pastoral, and Horticultural Society

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 April 1876 · page 518

THE annual show under the auspices ot the above society was held on the show ground on the 12th instant. In view of the heavy and protracted drought from which the Western district, in common with the other districts of the…

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