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Farming & the land, 1880

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Mort and Co.'s Annual Wool and Produce Circular. Sydney, Oct. 12, 1830

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 October 1880 · page 756

Wool.—The past season has been an exceptional one in many respects. Commencing upon the basis of values previously established in London, and when the discouraging nature of English account sales was forcing itself upon the attention of…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 October 1880 · page 18

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

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The Cultivator. Among the Farmers in Dubbo District. Farming on Mograguy Creek

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 October 1880 · page 19

'WAY on the eastern side of the Castlereagh, road, on the banks of the Mograguy creek, stands the selection farm of John Read, embracing an area of 640 acres free selection, 1920 pre-lease…

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Wheat Market

Evening News · Wednesday 20 October 1880 · page 2

LONDON, October 18.—The tone of the wheat market is flat…

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Wool Market

Evening News · Wednesday 20 October 1880 · page 2

LONDON. October 18.—The total quantity of wool catalogued was 12,000 bales; 18,000 bales are held over for next sales…

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Kiama Co-operative Farmers' Association

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 October 1880 · page 3

Our Kiama correspondent writes:--"In my last communication I mentioned that the Kiama Agricultural and Horticultural Association were inaugurating a scheme for the establishment of a…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 October 1880 · page 6

Sale of 477 bales, from Sydney, by Edenborough and Co., on Saturday, August 21, 1880:— Ex Atalanta, Scphocles, and Smyrna, from Sydney; GF, Beaconsfield, 22 at 21½d, 15 combing at 21½d, 10 at…

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The Wool Market

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 October 1880 · page 2

Messrs. Mort and Co. report:--Our sales for the season commenced to-day. There was unusually large attendance, and competition very brisk, especially fort good lines of greasy, which brought up to 13d. The advance as compared with…

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The Wool Season

Evening News · Thursday 21 October 1880 · page 2

THERE was a large attendance at Messrs. Mort and Co.'s wool stores on Wednesday, the occasion being the first-wool sale of the season. About 1500 bales were catalogued, and submitted, as a test. The…

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Goldsbrough's Wool Sales. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Thursday 21 October 1880 · page 2

Messrs. Goldsbrough and Co. catalogued 4000 bales of wool yesterday. The biddings were very spirited at firm prices. Greasy realised 8d to 13½d the latter price for the Gobbagumbalin…

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Mort and Co.'s Annual Wool and Produce Circular. Sydney, Oct. 12, 1880

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 October 1880 · page 6

Wool.—The past season has been an excepted one in many respects. Commencing upon the basis of values previously established in London, and when the discouraging nature of English account sales was forcing itself upon the attention of…

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The Farmers and the Railway

Evening News · Thursday 21 October 1880 · page 2

IN our issue of Monday last a letter from Mr. SYDNEY SMITH on the charges for Laytrucking from the Southern and Western districts will have been noticed by those…

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The Wool Season

Evening News · Friday 22 October 1880 · page 2

Messrs. Harries, Jones. and Devlin rits, saking as on state that is was firm first opened the wool sales season on Monday last. They submitted a large ostalosue and succeeded in placing a fair…

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Farm Produce

Evening News · Friday 22 October 1880 · page 2

At the Darling Harbour Railway Terminal, this morning, there was s small supply of forage and produce (owing to heavy rains up country) from the numerous intermediate stations on the Western and…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 20

FAT BULLOCKS.—Mr. Angus Bell, of Gerogery, who purchased the two prize bullocks at the Albury show and slaughtered them, informs us (ALBURY BANNER) that the heavier of the two weighed 1156lb,…

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Central Butter Market

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 18

A meeting of dairymen on the central butter market question took place at Kiama, on Friday evening. Mr. D. L. Dymock, president of the Kiama A. and H. Association, presided, and…

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Footrot in Sheep

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 18

An inquiry through the columns of the Australasian has elicited the following information regarding treatment for footrot. One correspondent says:—…

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The Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 797

At midnight on Tuesday a favourable change occurred in the weather along the coast. Rain set in which proved constant until late on Thursday afternoon, when there was a slight cessation, but still signs of more moisture were held…

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A Central Butter Market

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 788

The influential meeting of delegates from the dairy districts of Kiama, Gerringong, Broughton Creek, Kangaroo Valley, Shoalhaven, Ulladulla, Burrawang, Dapto, and Shellharbour, which took place at the close…

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Cattle Saleyards for the Metropolis

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 788

There seems at last some prospect of the early construction of stock saleyards of a character worthy of the metropolis. So much has been said and written on the subject during the past 10 or 12 years in the way…

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