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Farming & the land, 1878

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POSTSCRIPT. Strange Death of Sixty Head of Cattle

Evening News · Tuesday 5 March 1878 · page 3

GUNDAGAL, Tuesday.—On last Friday a mob of about 600 head of cattle, belonging to Mr. Jobson, of Goulburn; passed through this town, James [?]. On arriving at a lagoon two…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. [R. Goldsbrough and Co.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1878 · page 6

Wool.—We have not held an auction sale this week, as we are waiting advices of the opening of the London sales before offering the lots now in store. No doubt full telegrams will reach here this week, in which case we shall hold a sale on Wednesday…

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Melbourne Wool Market

Evening News · Thursday 7 March 1878 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Messrs. R. Golds-borough and Co. report:—At our weekly sale to-day, we offered 1900 bales and cold 1500 at advanced rates. Twenty-three lots of exhibition…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 294

Those interested in the state of the pastoral districts are now pretty well assured that the drought has thoroughly broken up. There are patches of country where little rain fell last month, and which still present an arid aspect, but…

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Our Pastoral Interests.—

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 19

As showing what is regarded in certain quarters as a successful land system, says the Melbourne LEADER, the remarks of a reporter in a contemporary devoted to pastoral…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 293

THE North-Western Pastoral and Agricultural Society held its annual meeting recently, and decided to hold a show this year on the 28th of May. Through the drought and the state of the district the 1877 event fell through;…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 295

THE eighth annual show, under the auspices of the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association, took place on the 28th ultimo on the showgrounds at North Yass, and was, taking all the circumstances into consideration, successful…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 37

Two inches of rain fell to-day, and this evening it is falling at the rate of half an inch per hour. The river is rising. WAGGA WAGGA, Thursday. There is no change in the fat stock market; it is well…

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London Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 20

EX Christiana Thompson, from Sydney: Biscoe, at 20½d, 15 at 16½d, 4 at 15½d, 1 at 11½d; RLJ over Calladoon, 4 at 22d, 28 at 21½d, 27 at 21d, 26 at 20½d, 5 at 20d, 10 at 17½d, 35 at 15½d, 6 at 15d, 1 locks at 13½d…

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Sheep Drafting Yards. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 19

SIR—I notice in your last paper an inquirer asks for a plan of yards for drafting sheep. I also saw a plan by " Pro Bono," which, I think, ought to work well where the constant racing of sheep, is concerned…

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Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool Circular

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 36

Wool.—The uncertainty which has continued to exist as to England being involved in war, has naturally tended to induce caution on the part of buyers, but prices realised throughout the month have, on the whole, been exceedingly…

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Australian Wool Market Report. [Griffiths and Co.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 36

Since the date of our last circular we have to report that this market has continued pretty steady. The quantity of wool coming to hand is now rapidly decreasing, and there is consequently not a very great choice offered to buyers, so…

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Farmers’, Gardeners’, and Graziers’ Column

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 2

THE SEASON.— The season continues favourable for farmers and agriculturists generally, and in all parts of the country herbage is growing plentifully…

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Detective’s Album. From the Australian Journal. the Wattle Farm Tragedy

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 2

WHEN I commenced the “Detective’s Album.” — now so many long months ago—I gave you fair notice that you were not to literally translate my…

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Selected Poetry. the Farmer’s Daughter

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 2

She may not in the mazy pence With jewelled maidens vie; She may not smile on courtly swain With soft bewitching eye ;…

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H. Schwartze and Co.'s Annual Report on Wool. London, January 16, 1878

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 March 1878 · page 6

THE past year has been a very unfavourable one of the woollen Industry, which has suffered alike from the increased and now almost universal commercial depression, and from the uncertainties of the political situation. The war in the East has not…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 326

THE season continues of the most auspicious nature for those interested in the pastoral districts of the colony. Since the break-up of the drought last month the grasslands have improved so much as at present to afford an…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 325

A MEETING in connection with the Carcoar Agriculture Association was held on March 4, as we learn from the local chronicle. It was announced by Mr. Isaacs that ground had been selected at Stroke, on which to hold the show and…

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Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 331

THE Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association's general show, which came off on the 12th instant, cannot certainty be ranked as a success. The exhibits, with the exception of a few sections, were few in number, and not by…

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The Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 7

Since the 28th ultimo, the date of the last summary, the weather in Sydney has been extremely sultry, and the atmosphere unusually humid. Light showers have sustained the mositure occasioned by the rains of February,…

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