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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 37
Messrs, Malden, Hill, and Clark report:—Fat Cattle: 819 head yarded on Monday, which, on top of last week's oversupplied market, was a good deal in excess of the demand. Prices opened very low, bnt the agents determined to make a…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 54
When the late Mr. Mort opened his establishment at Lithgow, from which it was intended to supply the city with animal food, it will be remembered that the evil effects of overdriving cattle and sheep were…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 54
A farmer, "Dane," who, it is evident, has lost much of his wheat this season by rust, writes:—"I found, when reaping my wheat this season, that, over the holes of the stumps and other parts of the paddock where I had burnt…
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Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 4
MELBOURNE, Friday.—The Murray River trade has closed for the season, and all the boats are being laid up. In the Railway Department the wool season is during the last four months of the…
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Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 4
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Messrs. Hastings Cunningham, and Co. report offering yesterday 1650 bales of wool, of which they sold 1260 bales of greasy and scoured, at prices fully maintaining…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 20
SIR,—Having seen, with considerable interest, tue several plans of cattle yards that have appeared in your columns, I send you the plan of a yard that is one of the handiest I have ever worked in. The plan (a rough one) is on the scale of…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 18
GATTLE and sheep importation from England is once more a fact; and on Monday I made my first visit to the quarantine grounds at Bradley's Head and Shark Island. My visit was too hurried to…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 20
THE following table of the holdings of out pastoral lands in the several thirteen districts enumerated below will doubtless be read with interest. The information has been obtained from the parliamentary…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 2
The following are the instructions in full issued by the Chief Inspector of Sheep for Queensland, for dressing sheep infected with disease or…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 9
A PARLIAMENTARY return moved for in the Assembly last February, and published a few weeks ago, gives the names of the pastoral occupiers of the colony at that date, the area of…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 67
A parliamentary return moved for in the Assembly last February, and published a few weeks ago, gives the names of the pastoral occupiers of the colony at that date, the area of their several holdings in our thirteen…
Continued on Trove, page 67 →Science—invention— Construction. New Wool Scouring and Rinsing Machine
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 21
THE usual method of removing wool from the scouring vats is to throw it out by means of forks. By this slow and laborious proceas it is often difficult to throw it all out, especia Hy if it is short staple wool…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 18
[We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions us 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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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 57
The weather during this week has been of the average summer character, the heat being excessive in but a few districts. Deniliquin, Euston, Muswellbrook, Bourke, Wentworth, and Narrabri registered over 100 degrees, but…
Continued on Trove, page 57 →[?] and Roles for [?] DRAINING. (From W[?]ring’s Farmers’ [?]nual.)
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 2
1. Every drain (unless there is some special reason to the contrary) should run directly down the steepest de[?]t of the land —not obliquely but straight…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 8
The questions for landowners are how long the comparative independence of the foreign market will continue ; whether, as has happened with wheat, the foreign…
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Evening News · Tuesday 14 January 1879 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Messrs. J. H. Clough and Co. report that their wool sales, held yesterday, passed off very briskly, and prices generally rule higher…
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Evening News · Wednesday 15 January 1879 · page 2
One of our special reporters, who has just returned rom the Riverine district, states all the wool has been cleared away from the stations along the Murray, Murrumbidgee, and Darling districts. This is due to…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1879 · page 5
Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co. advise us as follows:— MELBOURNE, WEDNESDAY. We have sold 1600 bales of wool this week at last week's…
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Evening News · Thursday 16 January 1879 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Messrs. R. Golds-borough and Co. report having sold 1600 bales of wool during the week. Prices are firm at last quotations. Messrs. Powers, Rutherford, and Co…
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