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Farming & the land, 1877

865 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 44

Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 November 1877 · page 589

MESSRS. GODSBROUGH'S MONTHLY WOOL, TALLOW, AND HIDE REPORT.—Wool: The opening sale of the season was held at our warehouses on the 24th instant, and the attendance of foreign and colonial buyers was unusually numerous, English, Scotch,…

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The Land. Australian Deficiencies in Stock. Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 November 1877 · page 582

THERE is springing up in every district where good land and pasture are plentiful as industrious class of small graziers, who are becoming generally known and appreciated under the thoroughly English title of yeomanry. In…

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Scots Farmers on Successive Crop Growing

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 November 1877 · page 20

At the monthly meeting of the East Lothian Agricultural Club, Haddington, Mr. Smith and Mr. Paton reported the result of a visit they had recently paid to the celebrated farm at Rothamsted, where Dr. Lawes…

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Water Supply for Stock and Crops

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 November 1877 · page 17

IN the Journal of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales io opportunely published a a paper on the " Storage of Water for Pastoral and Agricultural Purposes," which was seat in…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 November 1877 · page 18

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

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Agriculture. [Written Expressly for This Journal.] Machinery and Its Relation to the Economy of the Farm

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 10 November 1877 · page 10

IT is evident that the use of improved implements and machinery on the farm must become much more general than it has hitherto been in New South Wales. The extension of cultivation, though slow in comparison with…

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Hints to Farmers, Gardeners, and Graziers. a Machine for Sorting Potatoes

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 10 November 1877 · page 21

THOSE who grow potatoes largely have much trouble in sorting them into different sizes, the work being done by hand, is consequently slow. At the best it is disagreeable work, and a machine in which it could be done,…

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The Cultivator. Science of Agriculture. (Continued.) Rotation of Crops

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 November 1877 · page 20

IN my last paper on this subject I gave part of Weigmann and Polstorf 's experiments on the growth ot plants in pure land, and had proceeded so far as to give the extent of the growth, and the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. [Goldsbrough and Co.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 November 1877 · page 6

Wool.—We eatalogned 3037 bales for our auction sale to-day, had sold 2651 bales at fully last week's rates, the market being very firm. Greasy realished 7½d to 1s. 2d, the latter prices being for [?]2 bales from Narrow Plains Station. Several large clips of…

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Good News for Farmers

Evening News · Tuesday 13 November 1877 · page 2

This day, at the railway auction sales, best samples of lucerne hay of extra fine quality realised 4s 9d per cwt; medium, sound and good, at 3s 5d, Music of best quality, in shipping lots, is worth 4s 6d…

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The Wool Trade.—The Shipping

Evening News · Thursday 15 November 1877 · page 2

The present lively aspect of Circular Quay conclusively manifests that our wool season is now in its full swing. It must be harvest time with the lumpers, judging by the great number employed. The…

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Railway Extension brings more Wool to our own port

Evening News · Thursday 15 November 1877 · page 2

Judging from the enormous quantity of wool that has already been received at the railway station this year, promises to be far in excess of the last. The number of bales received last month was 9000…

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Telegrams This Day. The Melbourne Wool and Stock Market. MELBOURNE, Wednesday, 8.14 p.m

Evening News · Thursday 15 November 1877 · page 2

Messrs. R. Goldsborough and Co. report:—We have this week offered 5900 bales of wool, and sold 4700 bales at fully late rates, Greasy realised from 7½d to 16[?]d, the latter price for Gibson's, and also…

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The South Australian Crops

Evening News · Thursday 15 November 1877 · page 2

A correspondent writing from Clara, South Australia, November 3, says:—"I have just returned from strip North, having travelled 80 miles north of Clare through one splendid sea of waving wheat. I…

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The Weather and the Crops.—pastoral and Agricultural

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 November 1877 · page 7

Summer appears now to have fairly set in all over the colony. Many parts of the country are beginning to cry out for more rain, which is chiefly require for the back lands. At Bourke a good widespread rainfall is necessary…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 November 1877 · page 615

THE accounts from the pastoral districts as to the season and its prospects are not very gratifying, especially as stockwoners and woolgrowers are just now experiencing the extent of the losses from the last drought On Liverpool…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 November 1877 · page 614

A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Melbourne Australasian that he has recently had an opportunity of inspecting two most valuable inventions in connection with horseshoe and horseshoeing, resulting from the experience and ingenuity…

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The First Pastoral. No. Xv

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 17 November 1877 · page 3

BUT Gregory VII. had not finally conquered King Henry. He had only laid the ground on which King Henry would stand in his fight against the haughty and…

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Mowing Rusted Wheat

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 November 1877 · page 21

FARMERS had better not be too precipitate (says the DARLING DOWNS GAZETTE) in mowing down their wheat on the first appearance of rust. Last week Mr. Neden, of the Darlington Mills, called on us with a…

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The Sydney Markets. Cattle Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 November 1877 · page 6

AT last Thursday's cattle sales at Homebush, the rates ruling for fat cattle were a good deal in excess of the prices obtained at the sales of a week previously; but those which on Thursday last sold at the higher quotations were of decidedly superior weight and…

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