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Farming & the land, 1880

1,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 63

Catarrh in Sheep. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 39

SIR,—In your issue of 21st instant, your correspondent, "White Rose," asks for a remedy for a complaint amongst sheep, and, from the symptoms he describes, there is no doubt the sheep in question are suffering from catarrh…

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Show of Stud Sheep at Melbourne

Evening News · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A number of stud rams from the best flocks in Victoria, were exhibited at Melbourne, yesterday, prior to sale, and the following were awarded prizes by the…

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Wool Sales. London, August 26

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day 9300 hales were offered. The market was animated. [The following additional items are from an evening contemporary:--]…

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

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 37

The fat stock market continues unchanged, the sales made being only to meet local wants. Store cattle are very dull of sale; good well-grown bullocks would bring 50s to 60s; 200 mixed cattle sold at auction on…

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A Dairy Farm in Holland

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 21

AN American lately visited one of the leading stock and dairy farms in Holland, and gives the following interesting account of what he saw:—" They used the very same stable at the farm that they did in the…

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SHOW of Stud Sheep in Victoria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 6

Draughts of stud rams from the principal stud flocks in Victoria were on view to-day prior to sale, and include some magnificent specimens. The awards were made to-day in connection with the…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 19

We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, and stock ag their experience line proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…

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Farm and Garden Memoranda for September, 1880

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 20

IN our memoranda for the three preceding months, successively, we have stated that there were indications of approaching drought, and now for the fourth month we have the same remark to make, with the…

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Ostrich Farming at the Cape

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 21

ABOUT three-and-a-half years ago public attention was drawn to the fact that ostrich farming was one of the most profitable businesses in which a man could engage, and a farmer at the Cape in a letter to…

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Agricultural, Pastoral, &c

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 August 1880 · page 7

The want of rain still continues to be felt throughout the colony, and the general condition of the country districts is indicated m the following recent telegram which appeared in our columns:—There is no sign of rain, and the…

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Wool Market

Evening News · Wednesday 1 September 1880 · page 2

LONDON, August 30.—The foreign demand for wool has increased…

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The Wheat Crop in England. London, August 30

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 September 1880 · page 3

The total yield of the English wheat crop is estimated at 11,500,000 quarters, which is below the average of former years. The harvest has been nearly completed in…

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The Wheat Crop in England. London, Aug. 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 September 1880 · page 5

The total yield of the English wheat crop is estimated at 11,500,000 quarters, which is below the average of former years. The harvest has been nearly completed in…

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The Wool Sales. London, August 30

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 September 1880 · page 3

At the wool sales today 7400 bales were offered…

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The Wool Sales. London, August 30

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 September 1880 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day 9200 bales were offered. The market was improving…

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The Wool Market

Evening News · Friday 3 September 1880 · page 2

LONDON, September 1.—At the wool sales greasies realised 1d a lb higher. LONDON, September 2.—The tone of the wool market is decidedly improving…

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The Tobacco Crop

Evening News · Friday 3 September 1880 · page 2

LONDON, September 2.—The latest advices from Cuba state that the tobacco crop in estimated by the agricultural department of the provincial government at…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 20

One-third of an inch of rain fell on Wednesday night at Deniliquin. The weather is now wild and spring-like. No crossings to report at Hay Bridge. The only crossing reported at Balranald is that of…

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Sheep-Breeding

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 450

Under the above title, Mr. G. A. Brown, of Victoria, has just issued, through the Victorian press, one of the handiest little books on the subject of the Australian merino we have had yet published. In many respects,…

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Candelo Tinned Butter

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 451

Shortly after the commencement of the movement in this end of the district for exporting butter to England (says the I lawarra Mercury), Mr. A. Campbell, of this office, wrote to Mr. A. J. Cook, proprietor of the Candelo Butter Factory,…

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