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Farming & the land, 1877

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Charge of Stealing Wool From the Dock Warehouses

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 December 1877 · page 30

Three men named Ryan, Sinclair, and Bird were brought up on remand before Mr. Chance, at the Thames Police Court, on October 19, charged with stealing four bales of colonial wool from the…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 December 1877 · page 18

[We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, or stock, as thier experience has proved to be useful By writing for this journal…

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Tile Best Breed for the Dairy. (Concluded.)

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 December 1877 · page 806

SOME authority say that many years ago the Alderney cattle were black and white, but within the last forty years the colour has settled into a yellow and white or fawn, which sometimes becomes a mouse or slate. The latter…

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The Cultivator. Farm and Garden Memoranda for January

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 December 1877 · page 20

No change has taken place in the weather prospects since our December memoranda were written. The southern districts, generally, are well furnished with water and pasturage; but, for the most part, the…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 December 1877 · page 21

To facilitate the parturition [?]of cows, the administration of a few handfuls of linseed with their drink for three or four weeks before their calving, is strongly recommended by a writer in the LANDWIRTH,…

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