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Farming & the land, 1877

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South American Wool and Mutton

Evening News · Tuesday 13 February 1877 · page 4

SOME time ago I called attention to the enormous growth of River Plate wool, and my attention has keen again called to this subject by an announcement which recently appeared in the Standard and River Plate Mail…

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The Wheat Market. London, February 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1877 · page 5

The price of wheat is declining…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 197

THE latest news from the pastoral districts does not in the least degree mitigate the gloominess of the reports received during the last month. The effects of the continued dry weather, which has been almost general throughout the…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 15

The Tenterfield Independent has been reliably informed that several cases of pleuro have made their appearance among the cattle in the vicinity of Barney Downs and Bryan's Gap…

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Cattle Importation

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 12

I REGRET that my contribution to the "Grazier" columns this week should have been unalterably in type, at the time I became aware that the deputation on the above question had waited on the Premier; and I…

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Essays on Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 15

THAT we must go from home to hear the nows is evident, when the following information reaches us through the medium of the Live Stock Journal, of December 1. Strange, the new Agricultural Society's…

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Diseases in Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 211

THE following bill to amend the "Diseases in Sheep Act of 1866," was lately introduced into the Legislative Assembly by Mr. J. S. Smith, M.L.A.:— Preamble…

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Important Sale of Pastoral Property

Evening News · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 4

At the Town Hall, Adelaide, on Friday, February 9, Mr. J. H. Pan offered for sale by auction the Poolamacca Station, part of the estate of Messrs. Bagot and Bennett, consisting of about nine hundred square miles…

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Smithfield Club Cattle Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 15

THE seventy-ninth Smithfield Club Cattle Show, which opened on Dec. 4, at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, is said by the Times to be the largest and best which has been seen in that building, not because the crack beasts…

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Cattle Plague in Europe

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 199

BY our English telegram of January 29, we learn that the cattle plague is extending in Germany and Eastern Europe, and that importations into England from France and Belgium have been prohibited. The Mark Lane Express…

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The Land. Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 197

FROM what we (Wellington Gazette) can learn, it is not probable that an agricultural show will he held in Wellington this year, owing to the drought. The Southern Argus says that many of the cattle in the…

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The Grazier. Our Cattle Importations

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 14

I BELIEVE it would be a great wrong to the cattle interest of the colony, were the statements made by "Prohibitee," in the Maitland Mercury, allowed to pass unchallenged, save so far as the cursory notice I was able…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Homebush

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 32

Messrs. Harrison, Joues, and Devlin report:—1050 cattle were forward, which was about equal to requirements. Prime quality showed an advance of 10s to 15s per head; medium and indifferent quality were difficult to quit. Best…

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Sales of New South Wales Wool in London

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 16

Alexander Duthie—Gordon & Flood over Gowrie, fleece, 12 bales 2s 2½d, 10 2s 2d, broken, 12 1s 9½d, pieces, 4 ls 6d, damaged, 5 10d. Cynosure and Windsor Castle—DHR, fleece 13 1s 9½d, 32 1s 9d, pleces 2 1s 1½d. Windsor Castlo—BW in…

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Lenten Pastoral. John Bede, by the Grace of God, and Favour. of the Holy Apostolic See, Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan, to the Faithful, Clergy and Laity, of the Archdiocese

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 16

"Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold; for alms delivereth from death, and the some is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting." (Tobias, c. xii, v…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 19

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

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Season and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 197

IN the metropolitan district the atmosphere, after the few days of light rain at the beginning of last week, cleared up and the heat gradually increased. This week the sultriness of the days has been excessive, and the nights brought very…

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Diseases in Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 February 1877 · page 6

THE following bill to amend the "Diseases in Sheep Act of [?] was lately introduced into the Legislative Assembly by Mr. J. S. Smith, M. L. A.:— Preamble…

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Bill to Amend the Sheep Diseases Act of 1866

Evening News · Friday 23 February 1877 · page 4

THE following is a copy of the Bill to amend the "Diseases in Seep Act at 1886" now before the Assembly, brought in by Mr. J. S. Smith, 13th February. 1877:—Preamble…

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Diseases in Sheep Act Amendment Act.—class Legislation. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 February 1877 · page 7

SIR,—Permit me through your paper to call the attention of small sheep farmers and others, and also the framer of the Diseases in Sheep Act Amendment Act, to the 11th section of the said Act, by which any person travelling with sheep…

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