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Farming & the land, 1880

1,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 63

Wool, Cattle, and Coal Tax Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 July 1880 · page 3

Yesterday a bill founded on the resolutions of committee of Ways and Means, imposing export taxes on wool, coal and shale, and a tax on horses and cattle, was introduced to the Legislative Assembly by the Colonial Treasurer…

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Wool, Cattle, and Coal Tax Bill

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 37

On Thursday a bill founded on the resolutions of committee of Ways and Means, imposing export taxes on wool, coal and shale, and a tax on horses and cattle, was introduced to the Legislative Assembly by the Colonial…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 19

From Bourke, on the Upper Darling, favourable accounts continue. At Naraudera there have been some severe frosts, retarding the growth of the grass…

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American Wheat Crop

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 12

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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Agricultural Pastoral Forthcoming Shows

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 18

Deniliquin P. and A.. Society, at Deniliquin, 22nd July. Corowa Agricultural Society, at Corowa, 5th August. 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 3 July 1880 · page 40

The first fortnight of winter has proved to be unusually cold and dry. Westerly winds have prevailed, and frosts have been experienced in all high localities. Light showers fell along the coast, but these were scarcely heavy…

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Principal Wheat-yielding Districts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 18

In 1879, when it was shown by the agricultural statistics that there had been an increase on the previous year of 56,566 acres under wheat, with an increase of yield which amounted to nearly 1,000,000…

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The New Wool Clip

Evening News · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 4

The first of the clip of new wool arrived yesterday from Mr. W. F. Buchanan's station, Warrana, near Coonamble. It was consigned to Messrs. Wright, Heaton, and Co…

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The Cultivator. Pastoral and Agricultural Shows to Come

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 20

Hay Pastoral Association, Hay, 14th July. Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society, 22nd July. Corowa Pastoral and Agricultural Society, at Corowa…

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The Wool and Stock Tax. [By Electric Telegraph.] Bourke

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 5

The most important meeting yet held at Bourke took place at the Courthouse yesterday, to protest against the tax on wool and stock. There were fifty persons present, representing two millions of…

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The Grazier. Can the Fluke, Worm, and Rot in Sheep be Prevented? No. [?]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 19

THIS is a question of primest importance to the wellbeing of the people of New South Wales and Australia generally, because the permanence and prosperity of our chief resource—present and future…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 20

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 ge useful. By writing for this journal…

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Farm Notes for the Month

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 18

The weather of the past month has been so favourable to farming work that opportunities to sow cereals were not in any districts lacked ; hut there are many agriculturists who believe in late cropping. We…

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Farm and Garden Memoranda for July, 1880

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 20

JUNE of the current year has been a rather dry month, and those farmers who have to deal with stiff land, and have, unwisely, delayed ploughing for, and sowing, their wheat and oat or barley crops,…

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Colonial and Farm Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 36

THE WHEAT MARKET.—There has been a fair quantity of arrivals from Adelaide during the week, sufficient to meet all requirements, and in most cases it has been bought to arrive, also, some inferior…

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The Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 July 1880 · page 8

The first fortnight of what is now regarded as the coldest winter known for many years has passed. Westerly winds have prevailed, frosts on all the high localities have been experienced, and snow has fallen in several districts…

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The London Wool Market

Evening News · Wednesday 7 July 1880 · page 2

LONDON, July 5.—The total quantity of wool offered since the opening of the wool sales until date has been 7700 bales, and the prospects of the series are not…

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Wool, Stock, and Coal Tax Bill

Evening News · Wednesday 7 July 1880 · page 3

The bill founded on the resolutions passed in committee of Waye and Means to impose taxes on Wool, stock and coal, was read a second time in the Legislative Assembly, last evening by a majority of two…

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Export Duty on Wool. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 July 1880 · page 3

Sir,—A telegram has re[?]ed these distant parts, that it is proposed to commence the[?]uinous system of export duties by the still more barbarous and unconstitutional method of squeezing them out of unrepresented classes…

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Farm Produce

Evening News · Wednesday 7 July 1880 · page 2

At the Darling Harbour railway dittos to-day there was a fair supply of forage and produce from the country districts on the western and southern lines. A good attendance of buyers, and…

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