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Farming & the land, 1878

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The Orange Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 484

BOUND for Orange, the great agricultural district of the west, your correspondent left Sydney by train on Tuesday to take part, for the first time, in the proceedings of an agricultural show on the Western line. The journey,…

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Pastoral Interest of the Australian Colonies

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 20

Mr. J. S. Hill, presiding at the last half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Union Bank of Australia, said, in moving the adoption of the report, that ne was unfortunately obliged to refer to…

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Queensland Pastoral Items. (From the Queenslander.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 20

DARLING DOWNS, April 2.—This week the only movements I have to report are 40 head of draft colts and fillies from Warialda; proprietor, Mr. M'Ghee. Rome's fat cattle will arrive here in about fourteen…

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The Production of Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 19

SOME very interesting statistics on the production and consumption of wool have just been published by Messrs. John L. Bowles and Brother, of Liverpool, in their "statistics relating to wool…

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Prohibition of Cattle Importation Into Australia

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 471

IN the "Veterinary Journal" for January, 1877, when alluding to the proposal to establish a Veterinary school in Melbourne, we urged the necessity for this step, in view of the great benefits it might be made to confer on the colony,…

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The Grazier. Prohibition of Cattle Importation into Australia

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 18

WE published the other day an extract from the Live Stock Journal on this much vexed question, with portion of a private letter from Mr. Booth, of Warla[?]y; and we now supplement these with…

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The Orange Pastoral and Agricultural Society. [By Our Special Reporter.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 7

BOUND for Orange, the great agricultural district of the west your correspondent left Sydney by train on Tuesday to take part, for the first time, in the proceedings of an agricultural show on the Western line. The journey…

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The Wool Clause in the New American Tariff

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 19

The following clause was submitted to the Committee of Congress on January 30:—"Hair of alpaca, goats, and other animals is divided into three classes. First class—Clothing wool, merino, metz, or…

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Largest Number of Sheep Shorn in a Day. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 18

SIR,—In reference to your answer, respecting the largest number of sheep shorn in a day, I beg to state, that there was 300 shorn by David Robinson, at Mr. Logan's, Harrow, Victoria. The ARGUS said they…

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Deniliquin Jockey Club Annual Races. First Day—thursday, March 28. (From the Pastoral Times.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 34

THE annual race meeting of the Deniliquin Jockey Club commenced on Thursday, 28th ultimo. The rain that fell on Monday and Tuesday, combined with the threatening aspect of the weather on Wednesday morning, caused much…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 19

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

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Farmers’, Gardeners’, and Graziers’ Column

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 2

THE SEASON.—The weather continues on the whole favourable for agriculturists generally, but during the past fortnight we have been visited with one or two…

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Blayney Pastoral and Agricultural Society. [By Our Special Reporter.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 April 1878 · page 3

YOUR correspondent during the past week succeeded in performing the wonderful feat of killing two birds or two agricultural shows, with the one return ticket. The proceedings of the Orange show on the Wednesday have…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1878 · page 6

SALE by Charles [?]me and Co., on 26th February, of [?] bales:- El Ascalon, from Sydney[?] [?] over Garrawilla, [?] bales (superior [?]coured) at 20½d, 16 at 19½d, 12 at 15[?]d; York & Walsh, 2[?] (superior combing) at 2[?]d, 2[?] at 21½d, 21 at 21d, 1[?] at 1[?]½d…

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Western Pastoral and Agricultural Society. [By Our Special Reporter.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 April 1878 · page 2

THE sixteenth annual show of the Western Pastoral and Agricultural Society, which represents the district around the city of Bathurst, or, as it is generally known, the City of the plains, opened on last Tuesday on the new showground,…

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The Inverell Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show. [From Our Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 April 1878 · page 3

THE annual show of our lo[?]al Pastoral and Agricultural Association took place here on Wednesday and Thursday ast, and was a great success. Considering the severe drought from which our district has but lately emerged,…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 April 1878 · page 513

The late rains have come most opportunely, and fortunately have been nearly general all over the country, extending across the continent to South Australia, to the borders of Victoria on the south, and to Queensland on the…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 April 1878 · page 20

A private letter from Bourke says:—"The country round here is looking first-rate Bince the last rains, grass in some places being over a foot high. The read between here and Wilcannia is very bare from…

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Coming Cattle Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 April 1878 · page 19

WHAT with the usual sales on the Show ground; and the great private distributions of stock, belonging to those breeders who have been frightened off the Prince Alfred Park, by the defective arrangements, under…

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Training Sheep Dogs

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 April 1878 · page 20

A correspondent forwards the following account of how sheep dogs are managed in Texas:— The pup is taken from its mother before its eyes are opened and put to a ewe to suckle. After a short…

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