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Farming & the land, 1879

1,221 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 62

Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 257

The wool season, which, is almost, if not quite spent, discloses the fact that the Australian deficiency will not be so serious as anticipated. There are numerous estimates, and of these 50,000 bales may be taken as the mean, and it is…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 17

The journals published in the pastoral districts teem with the now stereotyped squatting complaint of lowness in prices of fat stock, and the various agents, announce that the supply is far greater than…

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Cattle Feeding

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 19

PROFESSOR Stewart lately informed tba American Dairymen's Association that he once tried an experiment with ten cows, giving each three quarts of corn meal a day, fed alone. This was continued a month…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. HOMEBUSH

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 35

Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:—Fat Cuttle: 1376 yarded for the week, being an average supply. Monday's market opened with a fair attendance of buyers, and prices ruled throughout the sales highly in favour of vendors…

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The Practice of Horning Cattle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 255

A farmer appeared before Sheriff Grahame at Dunblane to answer a charge made by the Procurator-Fiscal under the Act for Preventing Cruelty to Animals—that of sawing-off the horns of eighteen two-year-old bullocks. The…

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The Worm Disease in Sheep

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 19

Should a season become an exceptionally wet one, sheepowners may expect a slight recurrence of the "worm disease" that devastated our flocks to such an alarming extent a few years ago…

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Exhibition of Wool at Melbourne. Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 270

The Wool Show at Hastings and Ouningham's store was opened to the public to-day. It was very fine, and most perfect in every respect There are 71 exhibits of merino wool, and the exhibits are divided into five…

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London Wool Market. (New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's Circular, 20th December. 1878.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 17

THE fourth and concluding series of the present year, which was opened on the 19th ultimo, terminated on 17th instant. In consequence of foggy weather, the sales were prolonged for two days beyond the time…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 19

[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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A Proper Market for Dairy Produce

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 254

From a special report, which appears elsewhere in this issue, our readers will leant that a most successful agricultural show has been held in the district of Kiama under the management of what promises to be…

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The Weather and the Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 257

Early this week strong southerly winds brought up heavy rain clouds from Victoria, and on Wednesday night there vas steady fall of rain in the metropolis. The gardens in the suburbs look well, and the supply of vegetables is larger…

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Proposal to the Bega Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 18

A GENTLEMAN, recently arrived in our midst (says the BEGA GAZETTE), has been offering his services on amazingly liberal terms, to enable cheesemakers to so improve the qualitity of their goods as to ensure a…

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The Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 February 1879 · page 7

The weather during the past fortnight has been, although variable, much more pleasant than that of the first two weeks of summer. There have been a few cool days, and showers fell in several districts, notably in Tamworth,…

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Central Criminal Court. MONDAY. (Before his Honor Judge Faucett.) Important Case of Cattle Stealing

Evening News · Tuesday 18 February 1879 · page 3

Edward Hall, senior, Edward Hall, and Patrick Hall, junior, and Peter Irvin pleaded not guilty to the indictment charging them with having, on the 15th day of October, 1878, feloniously stolen two blood…

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Adelaide Wheat Market

Evening News · Wednesday 19 February 1879 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wednesday,—The wheat market is dull, and prices are declining…

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Central Criminal Court. Tuesday, February 28. (Before his Honor Judge Faucett.) Important Case of Cattle Stealing

Evening News · Wednesday 19 February 1879 · page 2

The following is a continuation of the evidence taken in the case against the Halls. An aboriginal named "Jimmy," who had turned informer, deposed that he had been residing and working with the Halls…

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The Adelaide Wheat Market

Evening News · Thursday 20 February 1879 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The wheat market is dull; 20,000 bushels have been sold, to be delivered at Port Pirie jetty, at 4s 5d per bushel. Country flour is declining, and has been sold at £10 2s 6d…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 February 1879 · page 19

Until some active measures are taken by the squatters of this and the adjacent colonies to provide outlets for the surplus stock, which is reported on all hands to be accumulating, we may still expect to…

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Colic (Cattle)

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 22 February 1879 · page 14

FLATULENT and spasmodic varieties of this affection are met with. The former arises from distension of portions of the intestines with gases, generated by fermentation in the process of the conversion of food or digestion. The…

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Sheep Inspectors

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 22 February 1879 · page 14

IN the interest of breeders of stock, of consumers, and of a pastoral colony, it is surely, now in 1879, high time some patriot in Parliament beckons public attention to the really sad use made of the " Scab Act " in regard to…

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