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Farming & the land, 1879

1,221 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 62

Farm Notes for November

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 938

This should be a busy month in the vineyards, where the work should be to keep down weeds, to stop and tie, and to keep a sharp look-out for Oidium. On every well-kept vineyard we assume a supply of…

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Farmers' Plagues

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 938

With regret we learn from the Pastoral Times that the district of Deniliquin is sorely troubled by grasshoppers and caterpillars, bo much so that a petition to the Legislative Assembly has been drafted by Mr…

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Farm Work in December

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 945

Our notes which appear under the head "Farm Notes for November," in another page, refer more to the close of this month and the opening of the coming one than to the early part of November. Pressure of other matters precluded…

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Farm and Garden. Successful Transplanting

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 2

When a boy, an uncle of mine, who was successful as a gardener, taught me when ;sowing seeds in drills always to press the seeds in with the back…

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The Cultivator. Farm and Garden Memoranda for December

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 20

ANOTHER magnificent spring has been experienced throughout the colony, and in consequence both farming and grazing prosper. The crops of wheat are generally above the average, so far as that can…

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The Wool Market

Evening News · Monday 1 December 1879 · page 2

LONDON, November 28.—Biddings commenced with great spirit at the wool sales to-day. There is a preponderance of home over foreign bayers. The catalogue…

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The Wheat Market Rising

Evening News · Monday 1 December 1879 · page 2

LONDON, November 28.—The grain market has advanced 6d to 1s per quarter. Australian wheat is selling, ex store, at 59s to 60s per 480lb. Australian flour is worth…

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The Joint Pastoral and the Public Schools Act. Iv

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 December 1879 · page 3

1. Much has been said against purely secular instruction. "Sow secularism," said Dr. Moorhouse the Protestant Bishop of Melbourne, to the people of Victoria,l "sow secularism, and you wil reap…

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The Wool Market. London, November 27 (later)

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 December 1879 · page 3

Washed and scoured crossbreds are 3d to 4d higher…

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The Rise in Wool. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 December 1879 · page 5

Sir,-Will you grant me space in your paper to point out that the press telegrams from London, quoting the recent rise in wool, are caloulated to mishead, as thay do not state the fact that the rise is on a great fall, which occurred in…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 December 1879 · page 6

During the past week the weather was exceeding cold for this time of the year. Reports from different parts of the country state that the people were compelled to have a fire on the hearth during…

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Occupation of Pastoral Reserves

Evening News · Wednesday 3 December 1879 · page 3

A meeting of persons interested in the mode of occupying pastoral reserves was held last week, at the Glebe Hotel, Deniliquin. The form of a petition to the Legislative Assembly was adopted, and is now…

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 3 December 1879 · page 2

LONDON, December 1.-Considerable business is being done in wool at full rates. The entalogu[?] today comprised 9029 bales…

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The Joint-pastoral and the Public Schools Act. [By a True Catholic.] (Continued Prom "Sydney Daily Telegraph," Monday, December 1.)

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 December 1879 · page 3

1. It is a fact of public notoriety that the Church has often raised her voice against Public schools, and strongly condemned secularism. But then it must be remembered that it was the Church dispersed, and…

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The Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 December 1879 · page 7

Spring is closing with variable weather. During the past fortnight the temperature has at times been almost wintry, while for days it seemed as if a very warm summer has been established. Light rains have fallen, which were…

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The Wool Market

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 December 1879 · page 3

The Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company have received the following telegram from Helmuth Senwartze and Co., dated London, 2nd December, through Reuter :--"Since our last…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 4 December 1879 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-At the wool sales yesterday the American buyers secured no[?] all the best clips of greasy, English and Continental buyers being outbid. Greasy wool brought is to…

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Friday 5 December 1879 · page 2

LONDON, December 2.-The market is brisk, the demand is better, and prices are strong. LONDON, December 3.-At the wool…

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Orange Wool Traffic

Evening News · Friday 5 December 1879 · page 2

ORANGE, Friday.-A great quantity of wool is arriving at Orange daily, and 4000 bales have passed through to Sydney, per "Wright, Heaton, and Co., since Monday last. Up to the 3rd of this…

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A New Farming Appliance

Evening News · Friday 5 December 1879 · page 3

A splendid new farming appliance has just been I imported. It ia called the "Header," and it is manufactured in America. With this machine it is claimed that it can head, thrash, thoroughly clean…

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