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Farming & the land, 1876

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Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 October 1876 · page 549

IF the old maxim "There is no friendship in business" should be accepted as a rule, we are about to record a most irregular proceeding on the part of a Victorian pastoral firm. A well-known stock agent of this city is responsible…

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Australian Wool Market. [Griffiths and Co]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 October 1876 · page 32

We have now received catalogues of the closing, on the 12th August, of the third series of the London sales, and all reports appear to acknowledge that a panie did occur, and that a lower scale of value was acceded to than was justified…

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Bottle in Sheep. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 October 1876 · page 19

SIR,—A correspondent in a recent issue asked for information regarding the cure of this desease. I give your readers what I have learned from experience…

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Opening of the Yanko Reserve. (From the Pastoral Times.) Urana, Wednesday, October 18

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 October 1876 · page 28

FOR several weeks past the opening of the Yanko and Colombo Greek Reserves has attracted much attention in Southern Riverina, and agood deal of prominence…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 October 1876 · page 19

[We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, or stock as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…

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Season and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 October 1876 · page 550

THE incoming of the hot season has been evidenced during the past eight or nine days by the persistently high temperature. No rain fell in the metropolitan district daring the week ended Wednesday last. The evaporation is becoming…

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The Weather and the Crops

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 October 1876 · page 24

Wine from the vineyard of Mr, Macleay is continually passing through Gundagai. Two waggon loads went en route to Bowning on Monday last. In Goulburn and surrounding districts the crops…

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The Cultivator. Garden and Farm Memoranda for November. Flower Garden

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 October 1876 · page 16

CUTTINGS of azaleas, pinks, carnations, geraniums, fuchsias, roses, and many other hard and soft-wooded plants of spring blooming kinds can now be propagated, if cool shaded pits be available. Tulips, hyacinths,…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 October 1876 · page 17

For scales or lice on apple trees a number of remedies have been proposed, either of which requires patience and perseverance to promote the desired end. Scrubbing with Btrong soap-suds during summer is…

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Telegrams This Day. Cable Messages. War Rumours-panic on the Stack Exchange. Death of Lord Lisgar. Healthy Tine of the Wool Market. London, October 20

Evening News · Tuesday 31 October 1876 · page 2

The prospects of a general war over the Turkish question have caused a panic on the Stock Exchange. Foreign stocks fell heavily-Russian especially. All home securities suffered severely…

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Telegrams This Day. Cable Messages. [?] Wool and Produce Market

Evening News · Wednesday 1 November 1876 · page 2

The following telegram has been received from London by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited:-…

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The Queensland Sheep

Evening News · Thursday 2 November 1876 · page 2

The Board appointed by the Queensland Parliament, to inquire as to the causes of diseases affecting livestock and plants, have apparently done some valuable work at a very small cost. Their exertions give…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1876 · page 583

WHAT the coming reason will be is still a matter of anxiety to stockholders, the spring not having been of such a beneficial character as to fit the interior runs to with stand another drought. On the Lachlan fine weather has…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 November 1876 · page 15

The Bourke Telegraph of the 21st says: —We have to report quite a dearth of stock intelligence this week. Only item to hand is that 15,000 sheep, property of Mr. Armitage, of Wapwealah station, have…

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A Pastoral Letter

Sydney Punch · Saturday 4 November 1876 · page 7

[?], by the Grace of Playful Fancy and Favour of Imagination and Delicate Humour, Archbishop in partibus Facetiarum, to the Clergy and Laity of his Archdiocese. DEARLY BELOVED,--…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1876 · page 582

"PRICKLY Comfrey, its history, cultivation, extraordinary production, and uses," is the title of a letter published in a pamphlet form, which has been addressed to his Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, as the President of the…

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Sheep From Adjacent Colonies

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1876 · page 582

IN a proclamation dated October 25th, on the ground that scab in sheep is not known to exist in the colony of Queensland, his Excellency, with the advice of the Executive Council, suspends for a further period of six months from…

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The Swartz System of Butter-making

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1876 · page 584

THE following description of the Swartz system of butter-making, as followed in Sweden, was communicated to the Department of Agriculture by Hon. C. C. Andrews, United States Minister at Stockholm:—…

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The "New Disease" in Victorian Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1876 · page 584

THE Chief Inspector of Stock, Mr. E. M. Curr, has furnished to the Chief Secretary the following report upon the "new disease" in sheep in the western district, accompanied by the report of the veterinary surgeons, Messrs…

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Ear Marks on Sheep. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 November 1876 · page 15

Silt,—In a country where pastoral occupations are so largely carried on as in Australia, and where the owners of sheep are so multitudinous, the branding and ear-marking of the flocks are of paramount importance. This, then. Is the…

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