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Farming & the land, 1877

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The Melbourne Wheat Ring

Evening News · Tuesday 12 June 1877 · page 3

The Melbourne Herald states that the "ring," which has been playing such havoc with the pockets of the working and other classes during the last two or three months, is "burst up;" but we are unable to…

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Gallant Arrest of two Cattle Stealers

Evening News · Tuesday 12 June 1877 · page 3

THE following are further particulars of an occurrence referred to in our telegraphic columns last week:—The depredators, Wilson and Manby.—These two men made their appearance here on Sunday, 27th ultimo,…

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Cattle Sale Yards

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 June 1877 · page 7

Yesterday morning a deputation, consisting of Mr. Wallis and Mr. Joubert, of the New South Wales Agricultural Society, and Mr. Pitt, Mr. Devlin, and Mr. Maiden, cattle salesmen, waited upon the Colonial…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. HOMEBUSH

Evening News · Friday 15 June 1877 · page 3

Hessrs, Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:—[?] cattle were forward for the week. Prices still show a decline, the butchers being so fully supplied. The Sydney Most Company helped the market considerably, they having bought…

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Diseased Cattle. To the Editor

Evening News · Friday 15 June 1877 · page 2

SIR,—I beg to inform you that a herd of cattle passed through here yesterday in which upwards of twenty have died. Another herd is on the way down in which upwards of thirty head have died since leaving the station…

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A Bill to Regulate the Travelling of Horses and Cattle

Evening News · Friday 15 June 1877 · page 3

THE following measure has been introduced to the Assembly by Mr. Thomas Dangar, and was read a first time on June 1. As the question of regulating the travelling of horses and cattle is of wide-spread…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 742

THE tone of the reports from the sheep and cattle country is still cheerful, as the mild weather following the rains continues and is bringing up the grass. The hopes of getting a fair supply of grass for the winter are…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 15

A magnificent lot of horses, to the number of 100, have just left the Duntroon estate for Melbourne, prior to their shipment to India. A large majority of them (70) were bred by Mr. George…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 741

THE reports from various localities lead us to believe that a very large area will be placed under wheat this year. The excellent rates obtained for that cereal of late have encouraged our old fanners to persevere with the crop, and…

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Cattle Sale Yards

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 747

On Tuesday morning a deputation, consisting of Mr. Wallis and Mr. Joubert, of the New South Wales Agricultural Society, and Mr. Pitt, Mr. Devlin, and Mr. Maiden, cattle salesmen, waited upon the Colonial…

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Gallant Arrest of two Cattle Stealers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 28

THE following are further particulars of an occurrence referred to in our telegraphic columns last week:—The depredators, Wilson and Manby.—These two men made their appearance here on Sunday, 27th ultimo…

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Outbreak of Cattle Plague Near London

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 27

By far the most serious outbreak of cattle plague that has occurred in Middlesex for some time was discovered at Willesden on Saturday, when more than a dozen valuable cows belonging to Mr…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Homebush

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 33

Hessrs, Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:— 1148 fat cattle were forward for the week. Prices still show a decline, the butohers being so fully supplied. The Sydney Meat Company helped the market considerably, they having bought…

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The So-called New Disease in Victorian Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 741

FOR a very important addition to ourlibrary we are indebted to Mr. Graham Mitchell, M.R.C.V.S., of Victoria, who has, in a valuable exhaustive work on the so-called "New Disease" in Victorian sheep, collected information which…

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A Bill to Regulate the Travelling of Horses and Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 14

THE following measure has beeu introduced to the Assembly by Mr. Thomas Dangar, and was read a first time on June 1. As the question of regulating the travelling of horsea and cattle is of wide-spread…

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Hints for Dairy Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 16

THE importance of the dairy farming interest, and the wonderful success that has lately attended the dairy farmers in America, are largely owing to the unity of effort and the mutual help brought about…

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Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 32

Wool.—The information rewired from time to time per cable regarding the progreso of the home sales has not been of a very satisfactory character, as showing groat fluctuation in the value of this staple and generally with a lowering…

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Dressing Seed Wheat. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 743

SIR,—Can you inform me if pinched wheat is as good for seed as sound wheat? A letter in the Melbourne Australasian of the 1st instant states that bluestoning wheat injures a lot of the grain…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 18

[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…

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The Grazier. County of Cumberland Stock Farming

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 14

IT'S very soldom I miss an opportunity of looking among good cattle or horses; and not having visited any of the home circuit farms for a long time—by which I mean those to and from which…

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