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Farming & the land, 1876

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The Wool Market. London, February 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1876 · page 13

On the second day the opening competition was well sustained. The sales will close on the 4th March. The following ships have arrived since the opening of the sales:—…

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Australian Wool Market Report. [Griffiths and Co.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 February 1876 · page 32

The wools which have come to band since the date of our last report have been chiefly composed of inferior to average sorts. These descriptions being much neglected, even at reduced rates, and producers in most cases…

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European News. the Wool Sales. London, February 16

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 February 1876 · page 241

The London colonial wool sales opened yesterday. The total arrivals, up to date, amount to over 100,000 bales ; upwards of 3300 bales were offered, of which Cape wools preponderated. The attendance of both…

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TELEGRAMS. Cable Messages. Opening of the London Colonial Wool Sales. London, February 16

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 February 1876 · page 6

The London Colonial Wool sales opened yester day, 15th February. The total arrivals were upwards of 100,000 bales…

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The Season and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 February 1876 · page 229

THERE has been a week of varying weather in the metropolitan district, though on most of the days the air was sultry and hot. Several thunderstorms brought a little rain at the end of last week and during the first days of the…

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The Cultivator. Experimen al Farming. No. VIII

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 February 1876 · page 16

IT may be interesting to those who have followed us through our experiments in this trying season to tnow how we stand affected at the preset time, now over three months since we turned the…

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Commercial Circulars. [Per Mail Steamer China.] Wool and Produce Circulars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 February 1876 · page 8

MORT AND CO.—This market has to the present ruled quite on steady as the condition of the home demand, as shown at the November-December sales, would warrant us in expecting. The unsatisfactory outturn of some of the shipments realised at the…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 261

THE accounts this week from the sheep and cattle districts are still gloomy and unhopeful in tone. At Dubbo the weather has been dry and hot; thunderstorms have yielded some water for the dams and tanks, but the slight rain has…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 15

The stock movements at Jerry's Plains, for the week ending 14th February, have been as follows:— 8th February, 23 fat cattle, from Moonahbrook, to Maitland, in charge of their owner, Mr. James…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 8

THE seventh annual Exhibition of the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association took place on Thursday, February 24. Patron: His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, K.C.M.G…

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The London Wool Market

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 15

HELMUTH Schwartze and Co., under date London, December 16th, 1875, report:— The commencement of the first series in 1876 has been fixed for Tuesday, the 15th February…

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Armidale and New England Pastoral and Agricultural Association

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 15

THE first show, for many years past, took place at Armidale last week. Notwithstanding several drawbacks the show was fairly successful, and argues well for future prosperity. The weather was fine, the…

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The Land. the New Sheep Quarantine Ground

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 260

ABOUT two months back it was determined by the authorities to shift the sheep quarantine station from the site it occupied on the water-reserve at Randwick to some leased land near Petersham, and orders were issued to have…

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The Wool Market. London, February 17

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 265

On the second day the opening competition was, well sustained. The sales will close on the 4th March. The following ships have arrived since the opening of the sales :—…

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The Chltivator. Experimental Farming. No. 10. Can Green Crops Be Grown in a Dry Season

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 16

WE are but young in our experimental farming, but nevertheless, on account of the season, we have had an opportunity to put to the test some of the most important questions that can be raised, as to…

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Farmers' Brevities for March

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 261

THE month is rapidly drawing to a dose, and still the serene drone at continues, and not alone to the suburbs, bat to many of the country districts, is the cost of obtaining water for the imperative wants of the household very expensive…

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The Season and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 261

AT Sydney, during the week up to Wednesday, no rain fell, or at leattnone of any appreciable benefit to the land. Frequently, however, the sky has been thickly overcast with moisture, part of which fell in heavy showers in the western…

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Alleged Sheep-Stealing

Evening News · Monday 28 February 1876 · page 2

A case against William Godfrey Haydon, charged with stealing 500 ewes with lambs, the property of John Donald Macansh, John Windeyer, and Fredk. Griffiths (executors of the law Dr. Traill, of Collaroy…

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The Sydney Wool Sales. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1876 · page 3

SIR,—Having, during a recent visit to your colony heard much talk about the rapid extension of your railway lines towards the Victorian border, and the expectation of attracting to Sydney, as a centre, all the trade of Riverina…

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Salting the Sheep

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Friday 3 March 1876 · page 10

TO preserve sheep effectually from rot or fluke it is indispensable that they should have a regular supply of salt, especially when the pasturage is wet or near marshy ground. Some flockmasters provide common covered…

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