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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1878

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Wool, Tallow, Hides

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 36

WOOL.—By the mail via San Francisco, We are in receipt of London catalogues up to 19th June, and it is gratifying to note that after the Whitsuntide holidays, buyers showed more spirit in their biddings,…

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Cattle Plague, Steppe-murrain, or Rinderpest

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 10

REFRAINING from allusion to the diseases of cattle mentioned by very ancient writers, beyond noting the probability that cattle plague was by no means unknown to our grazier and pastoral ancestors, I fix from my…

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The Thistle As a Cattle Fodder. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 19

SIR,—I would like to know what conclusion "Queenslander" has arrived at concerning the introduction of the variegated thistle into this colony after all correspondence that there has been about it in your journal. I think if he has read Mr…

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Sheep Marks Under the New Act. to the Editor of the Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 217

SIR,—I have just seen the new regulations issued under the Diseases in Sheep Act, and would like to call attention, through the medium of your columns, to their utter absurdity and impracticability. I hope the matter will be…

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Harrison, Jones, and Devilin's New Wool Stokes. Circular Quay, Sydney

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 19

THE foundation stone of some very extensive premises for Messrs. Harrison, Jones and Devlin, the well-known wool brokers of this city, and intended for wool storing and buying purposes, was…

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The Encyclical of Leo Xiii. a Pastoral Letter Ti the Clergy and Laity of the Dioceses of Sydney and Armidale

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 17

ROGER BEDE, by the Grace of God and the favour of the Apostolic See, Archbishop of Sydney and Administrator Apostolic of Administrator, to the clergy, Secular and regular, and the faithful of the said dioceses…

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Agricultural and Stock Farming in Natal

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 215

AT the Society of Arts, London, in May, a paper on the above subject, prepared by Dr. Peter M. Sutherland (Surveyor-General in Natal) was read by Dr. Mann. The chairman (Mr. J. A. Froude), in a few introductory…

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The Weather and the Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 217

Since our last issue the weather has been very fine and agreeable in the metropolis, and in the suburbs the gardens and paddocks now show the effects of last week's rain. In Parramatta the orange orchards look blooming, and the…

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The Farmers’, Graziers’ and Gard[?]ers’ Column

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 2

THE SEASON.—The [?] that we have had during the past fortnight have proved most beneficial to vegetation of all kinds in this district; and…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 20

SALT FOR DAIRY STOCK.—The use of salt for dairy cows varies with the season and the flow of milk. The larger the flow and the more immature the feed the greater the amount of salt required. In June,…

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Sheep-Shearing by Machinery

Evening News · Monday 12 August 1878 · page 2

A BOSTON inventor (Mr. J. C. Wightman, son of ex-Mayor Wightman), seems to have discovered the long-sought-for solution of the problem of shearing sleep by machinery, and his device has been…

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Commercial. London Colonial Wool Sales. [[?] and Hudson.] July [?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 August 1878 · page 6

With a moderate attendance of home and foreign buyers on the opening night there was fair competition at [?]d to 1d per lb. decline on February-March closing rates for all Australian merino and greasy cross-bred descriptions, and 1d per lb. for washed…

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The Weather—agrigultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 August 1878 · page 7

Shearers are again on the move, and in several localities west and south the shears are in operation. The reports of the lambing in the south are satisfactory, the averages being high in many instances, but from no district have we records…

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The Grazier. Breeding Sheep for Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 18

COMMENCING my inquiries on this interesting subject with the pure flock of the late Mr. Charles C, Cox, of Broombee, which I believed, from reading during some years past, to have had no superiors…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 258

The condition of stock throughout the country is reported as improving. There is very little disease mentioned as existing, except at Singleton, from which the official reports speak of a few cases of pleuro-pneumonia. In some…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. HOMEBUSH, Thursday

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 37

Messrs, Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:—Fat Cattle: 1592 yarded for the week. Of this number a portion of the two lots were turned out unsold, prices not meeting vendors' expectations…

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Sheep Quarantine in Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 254

From the Argus we learn that on the 8th instant the following regulation was published in the Victorian Gazette:— "Treatment of Sheep when Landed: Every sheep introduced by sea into the colony shall, immediately on being…

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Training a Sheep Dog

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 255

Commence breaking the pup when not older than six months. Pups from well-broke parents and ancestors on both, sides of the kennel are most likely to prove sensible and easily trained. The best place to train the pup is on…

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Dangar's Sheep Act. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 19

SIR,—I shall feel much obliged if you can afford space for a few words in reply to "Scrutator's" able letter in the Maitland Mercury of the 4th instant. I admit he has made out his case logically in a general way, but place him in the…

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Directions for Inoculating Cattle for Pleuro Pneumonia

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 19

AT the request of several correspondents we publish the following directions for inoculating cattle for pleure pneumonia. These directions were prepared by Alex. Bruce, Esq., Chief Inspector of Stock for…

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