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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1879

1,221 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 62

Overcrowding Cattle Trucks

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 3

TO THE EDITOR OF TICK DAILY TELEGRAPH. Sir,--it is now quite time that the inspector of the " Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals," took a walk into Sydney yard on Thursday…

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The Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 17

The weather of the first half of the past week was remarkably inclement along the coast. Southerly gales accompanied by showers of rain were experienced, while in districts inland the weather was of an average wintry character…

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Annual Pastoral Rent List for 1879

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 10

The attention of Crown Lessees and others is directed to the QURENSLAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE of 20th June, 1879, containing a list of all Pastoral Rents aue and payable at the Treasury on or before 30th September, 1879…

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Pastoral Letter of Theright Rev. Dr. Quinn

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 17

DEAR REV. BRETHREN AND DEARLY BELOVED BRETHREN,— Our Divine Lord established His Church on earth and cemented it with His blood. So strong did He make it that "the gates of hell…

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The August Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 9

LONDON, July 2.—The arrivals of wool to date, for the sales commencing August 12, amount to 260,000 bales…

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Richmond River Pastoral and Agricultural Show. Casino

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 17

The Richmond River Pastoral Agricultural Show yesterday on the society's new ground passed off on the whole very successfully. The weather was splendid, and the attendance about 700. Fanning, Griffiths, and Co., of…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Tamworth

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 37

There is a slight improvement in fat cattle. Rodgers's bullocks sold at from £3 17s to £5 2s, averaging £4 9s 6d; Williams's mixed, £3 6s 6d. Fat sheep are in limited demand. Watson's wethers brought 8s 6d; Jackson's ewes,…

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South Australian News. The Wheat Market. ADELAIDE

Evening News · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 4

Sales of wheat have been made a 4s 9d at Port Adelaide…

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Latest by Wire. the Next Wool Sales. London, July 2

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 24

The arrivals of wool to date, for the sales commencing on August 12, amount to 260,000 bales…

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Farm Notices

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 20

[We shull 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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Seasonable Hints for the Farm. (Australasian.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 20

The season being unusually backward wheatsowing has not yet been wholly completed in some few portions of the colony. At some of the recent ploughing matches dry soil has been met…

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Farm Notes for the Month

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 14

The weather of the past month has been so favourable to operations on the farm that we assume there are few if any districts where much cereal Bowing remains to be done. There may, however, be a few farmers backward in this…

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Poultry, Eggs, Dairy Produce, &c, and the Commission Agents

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 15

We read with considerable interest the article "A Proper Market for Dairy Produce" in last week's Mail, and fully endorse the sentiments expressed by Mr. Dymock, the president of the Kiama Agricultural Society, before that…

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The Best Floor for a Dairy. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 16

Sir,—Would yon kindly inform me if laying down a floor with tar pavement in a dairy will have an injurious effect on the milk? H. SCHMIER…

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Farm and Garden. Garden Calendar for July

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 2

KITCHEN GARDEN.—Potatoes : Any time after the middle of the month will be soon enough for planting. The cultivator should, however, make…

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The Cultivator. Farm and Garden Memoranda for July

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 20

THE month of June has passed away, leaving prospeets in farming and grazing for the remainder of the cold season as favourable as any June could. However, this should not let us forget that there are many…

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The Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 July 1879 · page 7

The weather during the past fortnight, however much it may have been enjoyed by new arrivals from [?]mes which are usually cold, has not been of the most ag[?]able nature to Australians. The nights were cold and in many…

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Conveyance of Sheep by Railway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 July 1879 · page 7

Owing to the complaints that hive from time to time been made both in Parliament and in the public Press of the loss sheepowners—notably on the Southern line—have sustained while their sheep are in transitu to Homebush,…

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Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Mudgee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 July 1879 · page 5

The Pastoral and Agricultural Show commenced to-day. The weather was showery and very cold, and the attendance was not large, being under 500, including a fair sprinkling of strangers. The show of sheep…

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Fat Cattle Yards

Evening News · Friday 11 July 1879 · page 2

A DEPUTATION of fat cattle salesmen waited on his Worship the Mayor at 11 o'clock this morning, at the Town Hall, in connection with the new cattle saleyards, which will shortly be required for the…

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