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Farming & the land, 1876

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph] (Owing to Thursday being a public holiday we have not received all our regular pastoral telegram.) HOMEBUSH

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 November 1876 · page 33

Messrs, Harrison, Jones, and Devliu report—There was a fair supply of fat cattle forward, and the quality on the whole was very good. Prices may be quoted at from 10s to 13s lower than last week. Prime…

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The Farmer Feedeth All

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 November 1876 · page 19

PORT OF FREMANTLE.My lord rides through his palace gate, My lady sweeps along in state, The sage think? long on many a thing, And the maiden muses on marrying:…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 November 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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The Weather and the Crops

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 November 1876 · page 18

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN THE NORTH.—Since our last issue (reports the Tanwirtg Examiner) the weather has continued dry and sultry, and as we write there are no indications…

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Season and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1876 · page 613

IN the country around the metropolis the week up to Wednesday was one of hot, dry, summer weather, with occasional strong gusty breezes. No rain has fallen; but vegetation has not yet lost the verdure or the effect of the strong…

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Farming Good and Sad

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 11 November 1876 · page 3

THE following, taken from an American Rural Journal will be us[?]ul to most of our Cumberland husbandmen:— “It is a very popular idea that men…

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Feed for Dairy Cows

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 11 November 1876 · page 6

If one considers for a moment the important services which the dairy cow renders to every class of settler, and indeed to every portion of the community, the duty must at once be admitted of properly caring for her. Not only…

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Choice of Crops

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 11 November 1876 · page 6

WE have spoken of variety as a distinctive feature of Agriculture in New South Wales. This arises from the variety of soil aud climate, which enables the cultivators in different portions of thc territory to produce a wide range of articles…

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The Cultivator. The Farmers Remedy for a Dry Reason

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 November 1876 · page 16

IF Mr. Russell, the Government Astronomer, has not succeeded in impressing on the minds of our squatters and farmers a wholesome dread of the frequent droughts this colony is subject to, surely…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 November 1876 · page 16

PRESERVING EGGS— A correspondent sends us the following, and says— "Wood-ashes are preferable to anything else for packing eggs in and keeping them fresh. In 1847 I came to New South Wales with a…

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Splendid Yield of Wool

Evening News · Tuesday 14 November 1876 · page 2

Mr. John Ross, of Balaclava, informs the Glen I[?]rt Guard an, that be lately had five ram and five e[?]e limbs shorn, which gave a most wonderful yield. The fleece of the rams weighed 21½lb,18½b,17½lb, and…

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English Trade Circulars. Wool. [Jacomb, Son, and Co.] London, September 27, 1876

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 November 1876 · page 6

THE importers' committee have this day fixed the fourth and concluding series of colonial wool sales to commence on the 31st October. During the inteival there has been little business done. The few parcels that have changed hands have been quitted at…

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Splendid Eav Crops

Evening News · Tuesday 14 November 1876 · page 2

A splenc[?]d crop of oaten hay has just[?] cut by machine, on the property of Dr.Tucker at [?]anter bury. The yield of 8 a[?]s was over 40[?] and the fact shows what can be done by through cultivation…

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Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press. the Wool Sales. London, November 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 November 1876 · page 5

THE London Colonial wool sales opened yesterday. The total arrivals to date amount to upwards of 170,000 hales, and 3000 were held over from last sales. Upwards of 7500…

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The Weather and Crops — Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 November 1876 · page 7

The weather in the metropolitan districts andthroughou the colony has been very dry and warm daring the pastmonth, and rain would now be welcomed everywhere, as it is much required to freshen the herbage, and bring on the…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1876 · page 645

ANOTHER week has passed without rain in the pastoral districts, and the season is assuming very much the character of the corresponding period of last year, at the beginning of the drought. About Narrabri dams…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 November 1876 · page 15

Lambing at Gundaroo is now over, and it has not been so good as in past years, the increase being about fifty percent, only. Shearing is about to commence…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1876 · page 645

THE old maxim, "Too many cooks, &c," applies to judging at agricultural shows as well as to the followers of the culinary art, at least so our experience teaches. Long ere this we have arrived at the conclusion that it is just…

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Introduction of Sheep Across the Murray

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 November 1876 · page 18
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

THE following regulations, made by his Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, for carrying into effect the Diseases in Sheep Act of 1866, were published in…

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