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Farming & the land, 1876

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The Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Society. Sixteenth Annual Show. [From Our Special Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 July 1876 · page 3

WHEN instructed to visit the Sixteenth Mudgee Annual Show my experience of former trips across the mountains led me to believe that I should make ample provision in the shape of wraps and rugs, and I was well furnished…

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The Largest Farm in Victoria

Evening News · Tuesday 11 July 1876 · page 4

HAVING heard so much during the past few years of the farming speculations of Mr. C. Koch (at Nangeela, on the Glenelg River) we determined to pay his property a visit, and accordingly drove over the other day…

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Second Edition Cable Message. Important from the Wool Market. London, June 21st, Via Hongkong, Singapore, and Townsville. London Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 13 July 1876 · page 2

The arrivals of wool to date are 407,100 bales, of which 9798 were offered; Port Phillip and Sydney wools preponderating. The attendance of both home and foreign buyers…

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The Wool Market. London, June 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 July 1876 · page 5

The arrivals for the June series of wool sales amount to 407,100 bales, of which 9798 bales have been offered. The sales are marked by considerable languor. Prices as compared…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 68

RAIN seems to be much required in most of the pastoral districts. At Forbes there has been nothing but a succession of frosts. The weather has been mild at Deniliquin, but the dry season has retarded the growth of wool. In…

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Pastoral Items

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

The weather during the week (says the Wilcannia Times) has been very cold—fine healthy weather, but necessitating a liberal use of fuel in-doors, which is at present a rather expensive commodity. Stock…

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The Grazier. Cattle Prohibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 14

ANOTHER great point to be looked at when the question of prohibition is mooted, must of necessity be, whether our system of quarantine as it was would again be sufficient, and if not, what alterations are…

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Sheep Disease in Western District, Victoria

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 70

ON the above subject the following letter from Mr. Graham Mitchell has been published in the Victorian journals:—"Will yon permit me to state through your columns, in reply to numerous inquiries in reference to the sheep…

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Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Sixteenth Annual Exhibition

Evening News · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 2

THE sixteenth Annual Exhibition in connection with the above [?] on Wednesday, the 5th instant, and the following day. The recent drought, which the district can namely be said to have…

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The Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Society. Sixteenth Annual Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 69

WHEN instructed to visit the Sixteenth Mudgee Annual Show my experience of former trips across the mountains led me to believe that I should make ample provision in the shape of wraps and rags, and I was well furnished…

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Lincoln Sheep. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 71

SIR,—In your issue of 10th June last, we notice a paragraph copied from a local journal, headed "Breeder' Fact," stating that a certain landowner living near Wellington had purchased at your late exhibition and safely brought to their…

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Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Sixteenth Annual Exhibition. (From Our Special Correspondent.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 9

THE Sixteenth Annual Exhibition in connection with the above Association took place at the Society's ground on Wednesday, the 5th instant, and the following day. The recent drought, which the district can hardly be said to have…

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Mort and Co's Monthly Wool and Produce Circular

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 77

WOOL.—The branch steamer Avoca, bringing the New South Wales portion of the English mail via Suez, arrived on the 28th ultimo, and furnishes us with particulars to the conclusion, on the 6th May, of the second series of the…

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Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular

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

Wool — The branch steamer " Avoca," bringing the New South Wales portion of the English mall via Suez, arrived on the 28th ultimo, and furnishes us with particulars to the conclusion, on the 6th May, of the second series of the London…

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Cable Message. [Reuter's Special Telegram.] Important on the Wool Market. London, June 21st

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 12

Via Hongkong, Singapore, and Townsville. LONDON WOOL SALES. The arrivals of wool to date are 407,100 bales, of which 9798 were offered; Port Phillip and Sydney…

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THE P. V. F. Brigade at Duck RlVER WOOL-WASH. (To the Editor of the Cumberland Mercury.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 5

SIR,— I noticed in your issue of the 8th instant, a very untruthful statement, from the over seen of the Woolwash establishment. Duck River, concerning the…

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Latest Intelligence. London Telegrams. Via Hongkong. Fall in the Price of Wool. Gigantic Failures. Death of Dr. Featherstone. London, June 21

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 81

The arrivals for the June series of wool sales amount to 407,100 bales, of which 9798 bales have been offered. The sales are marked by considerable…

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To the Farmers of New South Wales

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

MY FRIENDS—I wrote to you, some time ago, pointing out the necessity of immediate and united action on your part to prevent, if possible, the ruin to not only yourselves, but to the…

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Farm Notes. Gardening Operations for the Week

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

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—From eight to ten years ago occurred two or three seasons in which a good hit of carrots, onions, and beet from August sowings in the earlier districts was a…

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The Season and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 68

DURING the latter part of the previous week and the beginning of the present one the weather in the metropolitan district was drooping and moist; little rain fell, and that over only a very limited area, but for several days the…

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