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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1879

1,221 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 62

The Weather—Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 753

An agreeable temperature, with bright skies occasionally darkened by rain clouds, has fallen to the lot of the city and the country districts of the colony during the past week. Our table of rainfall indicates that light rains have fallen…

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The London Wool Market

Evening News · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 4

The Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Co., Limited, have received the following telegram from Messrs. Helmuth, Schwartze and co., dated London, October…

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Prize Sheep at the Garden Palace

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 7

DESPITE the assertion that the end of September and the beginning of October is an unfavourable period for holding a sheep show, that recently held at the Garden Palace was fairly successful; although the absence of specimens not…

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A Wool Sale at Melbourne

Evening News · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Hastings, Cunningham, and Co. held a successful sale of wool yesterday afternoon, and sold 1900 bales from a catalogue of 2700. The rates established on…

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The Next London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 23

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 758

Further arrivals of wool have taken place. The market is firm, and prices are ½d. to 1d. higher…

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The Abattoirs and Cattle Sale Yards. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 747

Sir,—If the time has not arrived for removing the Abattoirs from Glebe Island it certainly cannot be far distant. Recent revelations respecting them are sufficiently startling; but, apart from these, people living in their neighbourhood…

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Emigration and Crops in Great Britain

Evening News · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 5

The following interesting letter bas been received by a member of our Assembly from Mr.—,a well-known colonist. The class of emigration which this gentleman has organised is one that commends itself…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 November 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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Large Farming a Precarious Business

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 9

The following figures are given by a San Francisco correspondent of a Philadelphia paper as evidence that farming on a gigantic scale is profitable neither to the country nor to the…

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Farm and Garden. Culture of the Orange in Cumberland

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 2

THE following is the Prize Essay read before the meeting of the Fruitgrowers’ Association on Saturday, October 25th. A prize of five guiness was offered for…

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Notes for the Farmer and Free Selector. the Diseases of Live Stock, and Their Remedies. Calves

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 22

Constipation of the Bowels.—For this doses of castor oil (or linseed oil), of 2 or 3 ozs., are the best remedy. Hoose, or Catarrh.—Good nursing, bleeding, and then a dose of Epsom salts, with half-an-ounce of ginger in it…

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Farming Notes

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 19

For store pigs nothing more will be requisite than the pickings of the fold-yard, with a few chopped turnips and a little sour wash in winter. In summer they may run out in the grass fields, and have a little wash, in…

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Colonial and Farm Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 36

At the railway station, Darling Harbour, during the, week, there has been extensive supplies of [?] potatoes, &c., from the different stations on the lines of rail west and south of Sydney, which was disposed…

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The Cultivator. Farm and Garden Memoranda for November

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 19

FOUR years in succession, and two of which were [?]urrent with drought of superlative intensity, New South Wales has been favoured with bountiful harvests of wheat—the royal [?]al. The average…

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Effect of Nitrogen upon Crops

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 20

ACCORDING to the AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, some interesting experiments have been made in Scotland by the Aberd[?]nshire Agricultural Association as to the effect of nitrogon upon crops. Nitrogen alone had…

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Facts for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 20

The first thing after finding a calf is to milk the cow, the next is to give her a bucketful of good drinking water, fresh from the well-such water as a thi[?] man would relish. In about half aa hour after [?]…

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The Wool Market

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 November 1879 · page 3

The Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company (Limited), have received the following telegram from Messrs. Helmuth, Schwartz and Co., through Reuter's agency…

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Commercial. Wool Sales.—thursday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 November 1879 · page 6

By Mr. Barker.—WPP over W, 5 bales greasy at 7¾d per 1b.; WB&Co, 7 bales pieces at 6d; DLW over silsoe, 1 greasy (seedy) at 5¼d, 2 looks at 3½d; WB&Co, 1 looks at 2½d, 1 crossbred at 3d, 2 pieces at 4½d; RS, 1 greasy (crossbred) at…

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South Australian Wheat Crop

Evening News · Tuesday 4 November 1879 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Monday.-Very favourable reports continue to come to hand as to the prospects of the wheat crop. The yield throughout the country is expected to be splendid…

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Failure of the Butter Show. a Blunder Somewhere

Evening News · Tuesday 4 November 1879 · page 2

At an early stage of the International Exhibition work the Executive Commissioner issued invitations to all the districts of the colony to contribute specimens of their products to show its various…

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