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Farming & the land, 1876

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 613

THE telegraphic reports published in the metropolis on Monday and Tuesday afforded the gratifying information that, plentiful rains had fallen over nearly the whole of the colony. The information supplied by the country press up…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 16

"We have been informed (says the Burrangong Argus) that the winter season has already set in on the Snowy Mountains. The stock that have taken refuge there for grass will perish unless quickly removed…

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The Wheat Crop of California

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 26

The reports of the crop prospects in California are of the most encouraging character. In Kern farming generally promises to he more successful than ever before known in that section. In Tulare…

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Farm Notes. on the Cross-breeding of Sheep

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 20

Now that the long-woolled sheep are becoming more numerous, and are consequently falling a little in price, farmers who are desirous of working into a flock of crossbreds may do so at no…

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Our Illustrations. Champion Cattle at the 1876 Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 617

Continuing our portrait series of the champions at the late metropolitan show in this week's illustrated, supplement, two fine specimens of the Shorthorn breed—Mr. E. B. Woodhouse's Royal Purple 1st, a two-year-old bull of very…

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Australian Wool Market Report. [Griffiths and Co.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 32

Since the date of our last report no great amount of business has been done, partly on account of the paucity of offerings, and partly because of the Easter holidays, which have occurred during the interval…

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The Grazier. Cattle at the Metropolitan Exhibition To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 15

SIR,—The eighth annual exhibition of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, which has just come to a close, is generally admitted to have been the best that has yet taken place. In the report of the Executive…

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The Cultivator. The Growth of Wheat in N. S. Wales. No. 1

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 16

IN our vast dominion of 208 millions of acres, with a population of 600,000, is it to be said that we cannot grow wheat enough to supply our own wants? Many people say," It is not necessary to…

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Police Court. Friday, May 12, 1876. (Before Messrs, H. Byrnes and G. Langley, Js.’P.) Cattle Straying

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 5

William Byrnes, junior, was summoned for allowing a calf to stray in the streets, and was fined 1s. Horse Straying…

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The Season and Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 9
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

DURING[?] closing days of last week and the first two days of that just passed plen[?]us rains fell in and about the metropolitan district. Some anxicty was felt as to whether a like boon had been accorded those parts of the…

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The Exhibition Outside the Cattle Ring

Evening News · Thursday 18 May 1876 · page 3

I AM glad to see that the special correspondent of your contemporary, the Queenslander, has "done" the stock thoroughly, and given his opinion on the merits of the different exhibits. It is in this way that our…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 645

THE intelligence from the pastoral districts is now assuming a more cheerful tone, and hopes are entertained that the hardships tit was anticipated stock would have to endure in the course of winter owing to the destruction of the feed…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 15

Mr. Francisa Kingvett, of Dubbo, in conjunction with his two brothers, has purchased the unstocked station Bundijoe, in the Bligh district, consisting of 30,000 acres of splendidly grassed country, besides being…

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Farm Notes. Pedigree Wheat

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 19

A gentleman (Mr. Hallet), whose farm is in the immediate neighbourhood of Brighton, showed me and my friends, with much kindness, the result of his experitments in the growth of wheat…

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The Pastoral Rents Revenue

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 656

THE House made some progress with the Estimates last week. In connection with the vote for the expenses of appraisement of runs, an interesting debate arose upon Mr. PIDDINGTON'S complaint…

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The Exhibition Outside the Cattle Ring

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 15

I AM glad to see that the special correspondent of your contemporary, the Queenslander, has "doue" the stockthoroughly, and given his opinion on the merita of the different exhibits. It is in this way that our…

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Champion Cattle at the 1876 Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 649

Thin week's illustrated supplement contains the portraits of the two champion Devons of the year—Buttercup 2nd, an imported cow of grand quality, and Sunflower, a young bull; both the property of the well-known Northern…

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Destruction of Vegetable Matters in Wool, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 646

A REPORT has been made to the Paris Academy of Sciences on this important subject by MM. Barral and Salvetat. The economy in using Australian and South American wools alone shows the importance of such an…

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The Grazier. Cattle at the Metropolitan Exhibition. No. 2. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 15

SIR,—The number and quality of Herefords and Devons exhibited show that some of our wealthy stockholders have beeu at considerable expense in the introduction of choice speciemens of these famous old breeds…

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