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Farming & the land, 1880

1,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 63

The Wool Sales. London, March 3

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 March 1880 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day 8400 bales were offered. The market is firm, with an active demand for all descriptions, and a general advance of a halfpenny…

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Cable Messages. The London Wool Sales

Evening News · Friday 5 March 1880 · page 2

LONDON, March 3.—The total quantity of wool offered to-day was 9000 bales, and there was an active demand for all kinds…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 20

From Cudgellice we learn that during the last few days it has been visited with splendid rains, which were very much needed, as both grass and water were getting very scarce…

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AGRICULTURAL [?] PASTORAL Forthcoming Shows

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 450

Bombala Agricultural Society, at Bombala, 9th and 10th March. Liverpool Plains Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Association, at Tamworth, March 30 and 31…

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Sheep Washing Establishment

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 18

ALLOW us to fabricate a sheep washing establishment, suitable for the work, without using warm water, and by means of which sheep can be washed both clean and white. Having found a place in a…

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Sheep Directors for 1880

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 446

ALBURY.—Messrs. William John Lyne, Bowna; Samuel Watson, Gerogery; Charles Hill Douglas, Walla Walla; Patrick E. Fallon, Albury; Thomas Hore, Cumberooma. ARMIDALE.—Messrs. C. D. Fenwick, Saumarez, Walcha…

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The Prices of Wheat

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 450

In an old volume of London Fun an English farmer is pictured gazing over the gate of his stackyard, which is almost crammed, the harvest having been extraordinarily good. " You have cause for…

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The London Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 9

LONDON, February 26.—The wool sales progress satisfactorily, prices being well sustained, and the attendance large. The number of bales catalogued to date is…

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Railway Cattle Yards at South Wagga

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 443

Mr. H. S. Badgery, M.L.A. (of Pitt, Son, and Badgery), introduced Mr. Minchin (of Wilkinson, Graves, Minchin, and Lavender, Sydney, Wagga, and Hay), who came to ask the Minister for Works on behalf of the squatters of the Wagga…

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Further Rise in Wool

Evening News · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 4

LONDON, March 4.—The quantity offered to-day was 9900 bales. Competition by both home and foreign buyers is not he. The demand for greasy wool is increasing…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wagga Wagga

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 40

Fat stock market continues without alteration, and business is entirely confined to small lots for local consumption. In store cattle a slightly better tone prevails, but buyers refuse to give more than 50s, unless for very…

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The Weather—Agricultural and Pastoral. (Continued from page 452.)

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 472

The fears regarding drought which were entertained during the past few weeks happily have proved premature, for light rains have fallen of late in nearly all localities. This week's register shows that the Northern districts have…

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POSTSCRIPT. Cable Message. the London Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 16

LONDON, March 3.—The total quantity of wool offered to-day was 9000 bales, and there was an active demand for all kinds…

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Wheat from Central Riverina. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 472

Sir,—Please excuse the liberty I take by sending you by this mail a email sample of wheat grown on the Lower Lach[?]n, in Central Riverina, in the heart of the saltbush country. It was grown on land on which wheaten hay was…

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The Grazier. The Wool Show at the International Exhibition. No 1

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 18

A PLACE was worthily given in our Garden Palace to the leading Australian export; that indispensable world-famed product which has so materially contributed to the condition of civilised…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 21

[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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Colonial and Farm Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 36

At the Darling Harbour railway torminus during the week, the supply of forage and produce has been moderate from the country districts west and south of Sydney. The market has been generally dull. Prices…

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Wheat. 1

Evening News · Wednesday 10 March 1880 · page 2

LONDON, March 8.—The total quantify of Wheat afloat is 1,885,000 quarters. The wheat market is quiet but steady…

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A Central Butter Market

Evening News · Wednesday 10 March 1880 · page 2

A deputation of dairy farmers raiding in the southern coast districts waited [?] the Mayer and Aldermen this morning, at the Town Hall, for the purpose of urging the establishment of the Central Butter Market in Sydney. In…

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 10 March 1880 · page 2

LONDON, March 8.—The quantity of wool offered to-day was 9000 bales. Only a small quantity of colonial wool is declared for next series…

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