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Farming & the land, 1879

1,221 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 62

Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 97

The stock of the colony are in a fair state as regards health, but from Bathurst, Forbes, and Goulburn, we have reports of outbreaks of pleuro. From all the pastoral districts the accounts of pasture and water supply are…

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The Triform Railway Truck. to Carry Perishable Goods, Cattle, or Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 95

The great difficulty that exists in arranging the railway rates of carriage, not only to meet the desires of consignors and consignees, but at the same time to carry profitably at the lowest possible charge, has long been the want of…

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Metropolitan Cattle Saleyards

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 94

From the answer received by Messrs. Badgery, M.L.A., G. M. Pitt, James Devlin, and R. P. Simpson, the gentlemen who waited on the Colonial Secretary, on the 10th instant, as a deputation…

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Parasites in Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 19

A very interesting paper on this subject was recently read by Mr. G. Galpin before the monikers of the Blandford (England) Farmers' Club. Mr Galpin dealt with the subject in a manner which…

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Wheat-sowing

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 94

Among the many moot points connected with apiculture, perhaps there is not one about which a greater diversity of opinion exists than the mode in which wheat should he sown. Few agree regarding the quantity of seed, and…

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Farm and Garden. (From ‘Waring’s Framers’ M[?].) Soiling Cattle

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 2

THIS is a rather unmeaning expression, and its origin is no more clear than is the fitness of its application; still it has come into such general use that it is now…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 103

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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The Grazier. Late Cattle Importations

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 19

AFTER only a casual glance at the cattle in quarantine, I told you last week that from their goneral excellence there appeared no grounds to suppose that "speculators" intended to inundate…

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Cattle Growing in the United States

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 18

The following letter from Chicago from a Queenslander travelling in the United States, gives some information of interest on this head. "I joined the Union Pacific lino again at…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Deniliquin

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 37

The following are the only crossings during the week:— Friday, 100 fat cattle, Wilson's, Coree. Monday, 180 Rudd's, consigned to Walker and Co. Tuesday, 40 Cahill'a, for Howat, all for the Victorian markets. Messrs. Wooldridge…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 18

[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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The Weather and the Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 97

This week is, as regards the weather experienced in the metropolis, remarkable, through its first two days being unmistakably wintry. Of these Sunday was the chilliest, the temperature being below 64, which was the maximum…

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The Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1879 · page 8

The weather during the past fortnight has been of the average summer character. In some districts thermometers registered over 100, but the average temperature shows that summer so far as it has advanced is not remarkable for the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1879 · page 5

Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co., advise us as follows:— MELBOURNE, WEDNESDAY. We have sold 1100 bales wool this week; merino, firm;…

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Sheep Marks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1879 · page 6

The regulations of the Stock Branch made under the authority of the Diseases in Sheep Act Amendment Act of 1878, have been published for general information. They provide as follows:—…

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Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1879 · page 137

The markets for fat stock still continue depressed, and the demand does not meet the supply. The report of our contributor "Wanderer," who has visited the works of the Sydney Meat-preserving Company, specially to afford…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 January 1879 · page 19

Again we have to refer to the news which readies us from all parts of the colonies re the considerable decrease in the price of fat stock, and unless, as we have before said, the squattera take some united…

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Polled Cattle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1879 · page 134

The Scotch are proud of their polled Angus cattle, and justly, for the breed, has long served them well, both a home and in the English markets. The recent victories of the polled Angus at die Fans International were…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. HOMEBUSH

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 January 1879 · page 40

Meters. Maiden, Hill, and Clark report:—Fat Cattle: Supplies still continue to arrive from all parts, and the market remains in a very unsatisfactory state for graziers. In most cases hardly store prices are being netted for North-western…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1879 · page 143

Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co. advise us on Wednesday as follows:— WEDNESDAY. We have sold 1100 bales wool this week; merino, firm…

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