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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1879

1,221 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 62

Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 19

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

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Farm and Garden. Over - Feeding of Breeding Stock

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 2

THE Aberdeen Weekly Journal a paper published in the centre of the largest cattle raising county in the United Kingdom, devotes an article, at the…

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The Farm & STATION Agriculture in England. [From Our Special Correspondent.]

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 10

ONE of the most interesting events of the past month has been the publication, by Dr. Burdon-Sanderson, of the results of his experiments at the Brown Institution on pleuro-pneumonia. Most of the details had been…

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Interesting Farming Experiment

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 21

AT Meldrum House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, some seven years ago, a service drain was laid five feet deep in stiff clay, almost impervious to water, part of it through a piece of wood of beech, ash, alder, and a…

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Practical Mode of Farming. by a Selector

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 20

HAVING made choice of a suitable piece of rich land upon the banks of a never failing fresh-water creek, and heavily timbered, I commenced in the month of June to fall the trees upon the most open portion…

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The London Wool Market

Evening News · Monday 16 June 1879 · page 2

LONDON, June 12.—The wool sales continue brisk, and the prices firm. 9932 bales were catalogued to-day…

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The Wool Market

Evening News · Wednesday 18 June 1879 · page 2

LONDON, June 16.—The wool market is animated, and prices realised show a general advance as compared with late sales. Greasy wools are fiat…

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Cable Messages. The Wheat Market

Evening News · Wednesday 18 June 1879 · page 2

LONDON, June 16.—The wheat market is drooping and languid. Australian wheat ex Darra, is selling at 4s per 480lb…

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The Weather, Agriculture, and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 June 1879 · page 7

Autumn is closing with weather far more agreeable than that of which accounts were furnished in the last summary. The mornings and evenings are cold but not unpleasant, while the mid-days are all that dwellers in the colony could…

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London Wool Market

Evening News · Friday 20 June 1879 · page 2

LONDON, June 19.—The competition at the wool sales continues strong, wad the market firm. To-day 7359 bales were catalogued…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 19

The weather at Deniliquin is desirable just now for pastoral and agricultural pursuits. At Grenfell lambing is progressing favourably. On one station 8000 lambs are already dropped. Grass…

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Australian Merino Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 19

THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST of May pnblishes in its columns the following, interesting account of the merino sheep on Australian squattages:— The pastoral industry of Australia was well…

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Fluke in Sheep

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 19

The following article from the Irish Agriculturalist sets forth clearly and ably the nature and causes of a disease from which our Rocks in this country are by no means exempt, and deserves…

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The Weather—Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 977

This, the last week of autumn, has been accompanied by weather which may serve as a reminder of colder weeks to come. In some localities, notably along the coast, on the high lands, heavy frosts were felt each night, and in some…

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London Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 9

LONDON, June 12.—The wool Bales continue brisk; and the prices firm. 9932 hales were Catalogued to-day. LONDON, June 13.—The wool sales are being…

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London Wool Market

Evening News · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 4
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

LONDON, June 18.—The wool market, to-day, me very buoyant; 5763 bales were catalogued. Delayed in trim Emission.]…

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Griffiths and Co.'s Wool Market Report

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 36

Since our last printed report we have been kept well informed by telegrams of the progress of the present series of Bales in London, and we are glad to notice that, the firmness evinced from the first has gradually culminated in a slight…

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The Grazier. The Riverina Trade. Vast Increase in Wool Receipts

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 18

HOME three years back the parliament of New South Wales, fully alive to the necessity of scouring for its natural port, Sydney, the trade of that wonderfully rich pastoral district Riverina, determined…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 June 1879 · 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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