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Farming & the land, 1876

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The Season and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1876 · page 294

THE weather of the past eight or ten days in the vicinity of the metropolis has been clear and warms partaking in every respect of the character of spring. All kinds of vegetation, plantations, gardens, and…

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Farming Notes for the Month

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1876 · page 3

August has been distinguished for mildness, both as regards winds, frosts, and rains. This has had tho effect of prolonging the existence of large numbers…

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The Cultivator. Garden and Farm Memoranda for September

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 September 1876 · page 16

LOCAL indications promise auother dry spring, The winter, now almost at an end, has fortunately been generally mild and favourable, though he loss of stock has been terrible, owing to the previous long continued…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 327

THE weather in the pastoral districts is at present unsettled, the warmth of spring alternating with the cold of winter. In most quartern the country is presenting a better supply of feed, and stocks are regaining substance. About Hay…

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Pastoral Items

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

The Tumut Times says — A fine flock of, sheep the property of Mr. P. Gardiner, crossed the bridge from Brungle on Tuesday en route for Yass, we believe.. There has been a further rainfall on the plains,…

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Pastoral Leases and Rents

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 16

The Herald has the following remarks on the returns lately ordered by the Assembly:—According to the returns for which Mr. [?] moved, it appears that under the…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 326

ALL persons interested in the progress and welfare of Australia have cause to be grateful to Mr. J. Clarke, of Victoria, for the enterprise he has of late displayed in advancing the pursuit of agriculture. The introduction of Mr…

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Dysentry in Cattle

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 3

THIS disease is very prevalent, at the the present time, in this and adjo[?]nt districts, amongst calves and [?] cattle. It is both dangerous, und very…

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Intercolonial Sheep Traffic

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 326

THE trade of that fine strip of country along our southern border commonly known as Riverina we have always regarded as being of great importance to our neighbours in Victoria, but high as we estimated its value we had no…

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Forbes Pastoral and Agricultural Exhibition, 1876

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 327

THE holding of the society's third annual show had been looked forward to with no little degree of apprehension, in consequence of the very unfavourable season through which we have just parsed. Hopes and fears had been of…

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Destraction of Sheep by Dogs

Evening News · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 4

Yesterday a case was heard in the District Court, in which Mr. W. Oakes sued for, £30, as compensation for loss sustained by him in consequence of a person's dog killing a number of his sheep. A verdict…

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Wheat Growing. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 17

SIR,— In an issue of your paper of not many weeks back I observed an article headed as follows, to the best of my recollection: " Can wheat growing be made to pay in this colony As have seen no reply to the writer's remarks on…

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The Albury and Border Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society. Thursday, August 31

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 327

SINCE the month of March, 1871, there has been neither pastoral nor agricultural shows held in the town of Albury, and leaving for others to presume the causes which led to their discontinuance, we are satisfied to record the success…

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Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 32

The adverse intelligence in regard to wools is, we regret.to say, verified by the account sales now to hand of the first few days of the Juue-August series. 'The brokers report that for a while the depression in prices even deepened. The buyers…

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Farm Notes. How to Raise Potatoes From Cuttings

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 19

For this purpose any ordinary hot-bed may be used. About the 1st March take the potatoes to be propagated, dividing them lengthwise, and laying these pieces with the cut side down upon…

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The Season and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 326

THE atmospheric temperature in the metropolitan district on most days as high as in early spring, has occasionally been so cold in the course of the week ended Wednesday last, as to remind us that the season has not yet…

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Woodend Farm

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 2

"YES, we are safely out again, sir, and here we mean to stay. My wife and I are heartily thankful that, after all our wanderings round the world and our toseings on the sea, we an back to the old quiet nook where we passed so…

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China and Australian Wool. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 September 1876 · page 3

SIR,—In your issue of August 31st ultimo there appears a letter signed "W. H.," asking- Is New South Wales prepared for a crisis? The same question might be asked of each of the colonies—Is Australia prepared for a crisis,…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 September 1876 · page 6

SALE of 443 bales by Edesborough, Doxat, and Co., on Tuesday July 4. Ex Sepia: CCover Late over L&B over Yamala, 2 bales extra supper at 22d, 11 at 21d, 42 at 20d, 6 at 19d, 4[?] mixed at 17d, 10…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Notes. (From the Sydney Mail.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 September 1876 · page 7

ALL persons interested in the progress and welfare of Australia havs cause to be grateful to Mr. J. Clarke, of Victoria, for the enterprice he has of late displayed in advancing the pursuit of agriculture. The introduction of Mr…

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