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Farming & the land, 1877

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The Wool Season

Evening News · Thursday 4 October 1877 · page 2

Everything at the wool stores on Circular Qu[?]y presents a very lively appearance and indications of a successful wool season. Talbot's and Flood's are in full swing, and there is a large quantity of wool in both…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 423

ALL reports continue to speak in a cheerful tone of the character of the season. In the districts about Wagga the weather generally has been fine, with occasional showers. The growth of feed is rapid. Shearing is proceeding, or…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 422

A PLOUGHING match, open to all comers, under the auspices of the Clarence River Agricultural Society, took place on the 26th ultimo, near Grafton. There were seven entries, and the attendance was satisfactory. For the…

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The First Pastoral. No. Xii

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 3

IN our last we saw three of Dr. Vaughan's Holy Fathers, Infallible Popes, impersonators of Supernatural religion, " fighting the World, the Devil, and the Flesh,"…

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The Grazier. Cattle Importation, &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 19

I HAVE very little doubt that we shall be looked upon as a colony of maniacs when it is discovered in England that our rulers have put their veto once more on the importation of cattle and sheep from Europe and…

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The Sydney Markets. Cattle Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 6

THERE were between 700 and 800 head of cattle offered for sale on Thursday at homebush. The quality, for the most part, was not first class, and the bidding was duly animated for prime yards. For superior quality prices showed on adcanced of about 10s. per…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Homebush

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 37

Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:—Fat Cattle— 1860 were forward for the week, being a full supply, the quality, with one or two exceptions, being only middling. On both sale days, the salesmen only offered of those…

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Tumut Horse and Cattle Show. [From Our Correspondent.]

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 423

WHEN it was proposed to hold a horse and cattle show in Tumut, considerable doubt was expressed by many as to the expediency of doing so; some broadly asserted that it must result in failure, believing that one annual exhibition…

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Mort & Co's Monthly Wool and Produce Circular

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 20

WOOL—The cablegrams which have come through from time to time during the past month have shown a good deal of fluctuation in the demand in the Home market, and that it…

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Mort and Co's Monthly Wool and Produce Circular

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 37

Wool.—The cablegrams which have come through from time to time during the past month have shown a good deal of fluctuation in the demand in the Home market, and that it was found desirable to withdraw a portion of the intended…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 19

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

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The Cultivator. Science of Agriculture. Rotation of Crops

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 20

IT is now well-known that the blood, bones, hair, &c., as well as all the organs of the animal body, contain a certain quantity of mineral substances, and that, without these in the food which…

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The Cattle Driving Act

Evening News · Monday 8 October 1877 · page 3

Last Thursday evening there was a public meeting of the [?] of the Berough of Marrick[?] at the Council Chambers, when on the motion of Mr. G. Halligan, seconded by Mr. Al cock, it was…

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Weekly Wool. Talloav, and Hide Report. [R. Goldsbrough and Co.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 October 1877 · page 6

WOOL.—No sales have been held this week, and there is not likely to be any business transacted worth no nothing the regular sales of the new clip are opened, which will probably be in two or three weeks' time, no date having yet been fixed…

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London Wool Market. LONDON, [?] 2

Evening News · Tuesday 9 October 1877 · page 2

The London wool sales closed last [?] The wool market was quiet owing to [?] Prices, however, continued firm…

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The Wool Sales. London, October 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 October 1877 · page 5

The wool sales conclude to-night. 295,529 bales have been catalogued, 20,000 of which were withdrawn. Foreign buyers took 120,000; and 72,000 bales are held over until…

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The Wool Sales. London, October 6

Evening News · Friday 12 October 1877 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Messrs. Helmuth, Schwartze, and Co. report that the sales exhibited a marked distinction between combing and clothing. The former ruled firm, and quickly recovered a temporary fall; the latter…

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Cable Messages. General News. Great Pedestrian Feat. Death of an Operatic Singer. The London Wool Market. Commercial. Pedestrian Feat. London, October 7. Death of an Operatic Singer

Evening News · Friday 12 October 1877 · page 2

Gale, an English pedestrian, has accomplished the greatest pedestrian feat ever known. He has walked 1500 miles in 1000 hours. A great deal of money was staked on the event, and the man's…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1877 · page 454

THE generally gratifying nature of the intelligence from the pastoral districts as to the present state of the season and the rapid growth of feed is mingled with apprehensions lest some large sections of country, especially in the…

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