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Farming & the land, 1878

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Cattle Sheds at the Paris Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 414

The English agricultural journals are unanimous in the statement that the cattle at the Paris Exhibition were well housed. A description of the building may servo some of our agricultural societies. It was 34 feet wide, with a…

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Naturally Ear-marked Cattle. To the Elitor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 20

SIR—Having seen several letters on the subject of naturally ear-marked oattle. I beg to state I had a cow on Gininderra ear-marked as If the tip of the ear had been torn by dogs, and every calf from that cow was born with the same ear-mark…

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Failures in the Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 8

The failure is announced of the old-established firm of Hazard and Caldecott, wool-brokers, of 1. New Basinghallstreet, with liabilities roughly estimated at half a million sterling, of which about £300,000 is covered. It is…

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Australian Wool Market Report. [Griffiths and Co.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 36

A few bales of the new clip have arrived in town, but no sales have yet been held and the interest of the moment is centred rather in the progress of the London sales than in the local market…

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Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association. Fourteenth Annual Show. (By Electric Telegraph.) Wagga Wagga

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 11

THE fourteenth annual show of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association was held at Wagga to-day, and was very successful. The attendance was large and the weather fine, after a beautiful rain…

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ALBURY and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.] Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 5

The annual show of the Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society took place to-day. The weather was glorious, but owing to last night's heavy rain, the show-yards wore knee deep in mud. The…

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Treatment of Wool on the Skin—-new Process of Messrs. Puech. Brothers

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 417

"Amongst the questions of the greatest interest, we must place foremost the work of preparing wool, and the treatment it must undergo before combing. Mesrss. Puech Brothers have been constantly occupied in preparing wool,…

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A Model Farm Homestead in New Zealand

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 414

We learn from the Canterbury Times of a recent date that the work of erecting the Canterbury College Homestead Buildings, in connection with the model farm, for the formation of 'which a sum has been voted by the…

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The Weather and the Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 417

A glorious spring should follow the late rains. The weather reports from all districts are highly satisfactory. Last week's weather was fill that could be desired, but, to crown the country, last Monday brought more moisture,…

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The Farm and Garden. on Shows and Showing.[a Lecture by a Gardener.] From “The Siz of Speeds.”

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 2

Is it a good thing for gardeners to show? That’s a question as should have a cautions anwer about as cautions as a speech which I once heard from a…

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Root Crops

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 21

THE fact that the most progressive and successful farmers in the dairy districts, where the prices received for the products of the dairy stimulates to the highest enterprise, are raisers of roots (by…

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The Weather and Crops

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 21

THE general rain of last week could not have fallen at a more seasonable time for carrying on to an abundant harvest all kinds of autumn and winter sown crops. It will, unless followed by a superabundance,…

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Farm Notes

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 21

It is rather early in the season to speculate on the forthcoming harvest, but it may be said that all reasonable indications are in favour of an abundant crop. The general report from the members of the free…

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Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association. [From Our Correspondent.] Wagga Wagga, September 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 September 1878 · page 3

The fourteenth annual Exhibition of the Murrumbidgee Postoral Association was held on the show-grounds on Wednesday. The rain of the two or three days previous had given rise to a good deal of anxiety as to the prospects of…

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Wool. [Willand and Overbury.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 September 1878 · page 6

During the past month on undoubted, if not a very great. Improvement has taken place in the woollen trade generally, and this favourable turn of affairs has not failed to affect the value of colonial wool. It is not that there are either large or numerous…

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Abundant Crops Expected

Evening News · Tuesday 17 September 1878 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Fine rains have fallen the northern agricultural areas. The crops are looking well, and an abundant harvest is expected…

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ALBURY and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society. (From Our Correspondent.) Albury, Sept. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 September 1878 · page 8

The annual show of this society took place on Friday, the 13th instant, and, taken as a whole, may be reckoned as the most successful of all the exhibitions yet held in Albury. The only drawback was the wretched sloppy state of the…

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Commercial. Wool Sales.—wednesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 September 1878 · page 6

By Messrs. Mort and Co.—M, 1 bag greasy wool at 8½d, 1 at 7d, 4 skin wool at 6d, 2 wool and skins at 3½d; A&TM'D, 1 greasy at 8d, 1 pieces at 3d, 1 handwashed at 7½d; Add, 3 bags handwashod at 5½d: DD over W, 1 bale…

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Shipping Sheep. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 September 1878 · page 3

Sir,—With reference to the case reported in your issue of to-day respecting the rough and careless manner in which several hundred sheep were used on board the Gunga (s.), at A. S. N. Co.'s new wharf, permit me to say that this is not…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1878 · page 457

The reports received during the past week from the pastoral districts all speak of full supplies of water and saturated pastures, from which grass springs luxuriantly. The Dubbo Dispatch speaks of a vast stretch of the Western…

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