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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1880

1,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 63

New Taxation. Startling Financial Proposals. Decline of the Land Revenue. Wool, Coal, and Stock to Be Taxed. a Deficit of £440,000

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 June 1880 · page 6

IN the Legislative Assembly, Wednesday, the Colonial Treasurer, Mr. Watson, took the House by surprise by delivering a supplementary budget speech containing the most in portant proposals for increased…

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Dairying—how to Do So with the Most Profitable Results

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 June 1880 · page 19

This subject requires a great deal of study, and experience is far bettor than all the books that can be published for the manager of a dairy. There are a few very difficult points to be…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 June 1880 · page 19

We shall be happy to received 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 the journal…

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London Colonial Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 21 June 1880 · page 2

LONDON, June 18.—The quantify of wool arrived to date, including amount bald over from last sales, amount to 260,000 bales. The total probable…

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Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association

Evening News · Tuesday 22 June 1880 · page 2

WAGGA, Tuesday.—The Morrumbidgee pastoral Association's sixteenth annual show is announced to take place on September 8. The prize schedule contains money prizes to the value of £228…

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Wheat Market

Evening News · Wednesday 23 June 1880 · page 2

LONDON, June 21. — The tone of the wheat market is flat…

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The Golden Grove Farm Case

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 June 1880 · page 3

The Equity appeal case, Roberts v. Gibbons and others, was heard in the Supreme Court yesterday, before the Primary Judge (Mr. Justice Hargrave), Sir William Manning, and Mr. Justice Windeyer…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 June 1880 · page 19

At Cooma, the weather has been fine, with frosty nights. On the Darling the weather has been threatening, but no rain fell…

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Notes on Farmers' Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 June 1880 · page 20

MILKERS.—To develop milking properties or to perpetuate them, breed with bulls descended from milking families. Keep the cows constantly in milk for from nine to ten months, giving plenty of good…

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Sheep and Sheep Farming. Influence of Food on the Quality of Mutton

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 June 1880 · page 19

Diet has a powerful influence on the constituents of the body. A rank, succulent pasture taints tho flesh, or renders it insipid and unpleasant, while a dry, aromatic herbage…

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AGRICULTURAL & PASTORAL Forthcoming Shows

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1880 · page 1150

Central Australian Pastoral Association, Bourke, 1st July Deniliquin P. and A. Society, at Deniliquin, 22nd July. Forbes Pastoral and Agricultural Association, at Forbes, 5th and 6th August…

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The Weather—Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1880 · page 1168

The first week of winter has passed, and proved quite chilly enough to satisfy those who enjoy frosty weather. In many districts the temperature at night was unusually low. On the Blue Mountains and in New England it descended to…

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Wild Cattle Hunting in the Back Blocks

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 June 1880 · page 27

THE youthful sons of India, Africa, and America, when they come of age, and feel themselves imbued with a warlike spirit, a love of chase, and a thirst for the heroic, follow in the footsteps of…

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Shearing Sheep in Winter. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 June 1880 · page 19

SIR,—I quote the following from DUBBO DISPATCH of June 4, to which I would direct your kind attention:—"Mr. W. F. Buchanan, of Warana, has started shearing to-day in his shed. The wool is in…

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Wool at the Melbourne Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1880 · page 1150

The wool show of the Melbourne International Exhibition will be held early in January next year. The time for receiving entries has been extended to the 1st of next December. According to the special…

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How They Preserve and Pack Butter in Illinois, U. S.

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1880 · page 1151

It matters little what package is used (says a writer in the Country Gentleman) provided the flavour of the butter can in no way receive harm from anything in the material. If wood is used, every particle of the woody taste must be…

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Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 June 1880 · page 37

Wool.—Transactions have been very limited during the month, owing to the small quantity available, and for the same reason, the market will remain quiet for some months yet. For the few lots offered competition was active at…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 June 1880 · 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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American Wheat Crop

Evening News · Tuesday 29 June 1880 · page 3

The American wheat crop will, it is estimated, be at least 15 per cent. larger this year than in any previous years…

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Wheat Market

Evening News · Wednesday 30 June 1880 · page 2

LONDON, June 28.—The tone of the wheat market is firm…

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