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Farming & the land, 1876

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Our Wool Market

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

IN the European Mail of February 18th, the "Anglo-Australian," in London, writes:—I have long desired to say a word upon a question which seems to be agitating the colonies in connection with the London wool market…

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The English Markets for Australian Produce. This Wool Market

Evening News · Saturday 22 April 1876 · page 5

Wool.—Messrs. Jacomb, Son and Co., report, under flate February 12th:—The Wool Importers' Committee have considered propriety of postponing the opening of public sales of the season (previously fixed…

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Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1876 · page 32
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

Wool.—Since writing on the 17th ultimo, only a moderate amount of business has been done in this market, the queanity available having been compartively small. The demand has on the whole been fairly sustained, and, considering the…

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The English Markets for Australian Produce. the Wool Market

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

Wool.—Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co., report, under date February 12th:—The Wool Importers' Committee have considered the propriety of postponing the opening of public sales of the season (previously fixed…

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Farm Notes. on the Cultivation of the Potato Onion

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 April 1876 · page 18

THE crop is never obtained, like onion crops in general, from seed, but is produced by the formation and multiplication of effects, or young bulbs, upon the parent root, planted for the…

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Dairy Notes

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

MILK is an exceedingly delicate article, and requires very careful handling to make it the most remunerative, and a the same time to preserve all its luscious qualities. In this climate we should not only cool, but aerate it as soon as…

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The Season and Crops

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

THE rains which were falling in the metropolitan district last week, when our previous notice was being penned, continued, with little intermission, until Saturday, when they gradually cleared off, and up to Wednesday last were…

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The Cultivator. The Cultivation of Maize. [By an Old Farmer.] No. 2

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1876 · page 16

THE time for planting corn for an early crop varies in different parts of the colony according to the period of the year at which, in the particular locality, frosts usually cease to occur. In those districts where the…

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Farming Operations at Albury

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1876 · page 17

TAKING advantage of the softness of the soil caused by the rain of last week, several of the large farmers in the neighbourhood of Howlong commenced ploughing on the 3rd, and it is expected that it will become general…

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Experimental Farming. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1876 · page 17

SIR,—In your issue of the 8th instant, under the head of "Experimental Farming," is an article by "W. J." I agree with him that the time has arrived for "serious consideration" of our grazing prospects. We are now…

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Western Agricultural, Pastoral, and Horticultural Society. (Abridged from the Bathurst Free Press.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 April 1876 · page 3

THE annual show under the auspices of 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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London Wool Trade. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 April 1876 · page 3

SIR,—Our attention has ben called to a letter in your paper of the 23rd October last, purporting to have been written at your request in reply to a letter from Mr. Brodribb, which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald…

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Section Iii.—sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 April 1876 · page 3

Steward, A. H. M'Culloch, jun.; judges, H. W. Blomfield and John Smith. The show of sheep is again but meagre, and were it not for the presence of a few good long wools, might be termed…

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Section Vii.—wool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 April 1876 · page 6

The arrangements for exhibting the wool have been much improved th[?] [?] of a [?] of ba[?] [?]he contents of which as the exhibition progresses, became [?] over the floor, each competitor has a glass case for…

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Shipment of Australian Wool to France

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 April 1876 · page 7

THE subjoined letter with reference to the above subject has been addressed by the French Consul to Sir Hercules Robinson, as President of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales:—…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 April 1876 · page 550

ALL parts of me sheep ana came country are now deriving benefit from the late rains, except parts of the South and South West The rains which fell a fortnight ago were general throughout the North-Western districts, and…

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Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 April 1876 · page 16

The exhibits of cattle tois year far exceed in numbers those of any previous years, whilst the general impression appears to be that the quality is superior on the whole. The entries for the Durhams, or Shorthorns…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 April 1876 · page 18

The weather during the week ending 12th inst., was cool and cloudy at Wilcannia. There was every appearance of heavy rain on Tuesday evening, but unfortunately ended in the fall of a light sprinkle. Stock…

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Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 April 1876 · page 17

The exhibits, taken as a whole, were not very numerous. In Leicester and Lincolns the exhibits were very good, but with the others, and particularly the merinos, there was but a very poor show. In fat…

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