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Farming & the land, 1878

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Detection of Disease. Stomach Disease in Cattle and Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1878 · page 1015

In the greater number of cases, the stock-owner will not experience any difficulty in deciding as to the kind of stomach disorder from which cattle and sheep may suffer because it most commonly happens that the rumen is the…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. HOMEBUSH

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 December 1878 · page 37

Messrs. Maiden, Hill, and Clark report.—Fat Cattle: 1057 yarded on Monday, which was the only sale day this week. owing to the Christmas holidays. The supply was made up of drafts from the western districts, and a few odd lots by…

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Freehold and Pastoral Association of New South Wales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1878 · page 1028

In the recent debates in the Legislative reference has been made to the formation of the above association by Mr. M'Elhone, Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Day, and other members, and it has been freely condemned…

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Experiments with Wheat in England

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1878 · page 1014

The agriculturists of Britain, and, indeed, we may take a wider range and write the world, hare no better friend than the English farmer, Mr. J. B. Lawes, of Rothamsted. During the past 35 years he…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 December 1878 · page 19

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

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Farm Notes for January

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1878 · page 1014

In the midst of what we are pleased to say is the busiest harvest season which has been known for many years in this colony, we will not expect our friends to study many farm reminders, but it is well to remember that when the…

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The Weather and the Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1878 · page 1017

High winds and average summer temperature have been the prevailing characteristics of the weather throughout the colony during the past week. These have been slightly varied by thunderstorms, which brought down welcome…

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Mr. E. Perkins's Hotel, Private Museum, and Farm, Auckland

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 December 1878 · page 18

The Occidental Hotel,with its private museum, Vulcan-avenue, off Queen's-street, Auckland, s the greatest wonder of an hotel in the southern hemisphere, and the proprietor, Mr. Edward…

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The Cultivator. Farm and Garden Memoranda for January

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 December 1878 · page 20

THOSE who may consult our remarks, either on farming or gardening, should bear in mind that whilst endeavouring to make our remarks useful to husbandmen, either professional or amateur, over the whole of…

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