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Farming & the land, 1880

1,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 63

Wool Sales. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 4

The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co.'s wool sales yesterday attracted a full attendance of buyers. Competition was active, and the market firm at last quotations. Eleven hundred…

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The London Wool Market

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 9

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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To Cure Foot Rot in Sheep

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

THE preparation of the foot is Just as essential as the remedy, for if every part of the discase is not laid bare the remedy will not effoot a cure. A solution of blue vitriol as strong as can be made and hot as you…

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Opening of the Sydney Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 13

THE wool sales for the season of 1680-81 opened here this week, and the increasing importance of Sydney as a market for this staple was patent from the faot that the attendance at the…

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Opening Wool Sales of the Season

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 796

As indicated in our agricultural columns, the opening wool pales of the season 1880-81 commenced on Monday, at Harrison, Jones, and Devlin's rooms. 1282 bales were catalogued, and one lot of fleece realized 2s. 2d. for NSL…

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The Wool Market. London, October 20

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 4

The wool market is [?]animated and quiet. The arrivals for the next series amount to 60,000 bales…

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Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 3

Instead of the stock and station agents' weekly reports hitherto published by us, we purpose giving a report compiled by a member of our staff from information which the agents have courtcously promised to supply, including the…

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Mort and Co.'s Annual Wool and Produce Circular

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

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

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The Opening Sale of the Wool Season of 1880-81

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 789

On Monday last Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin opened the wool sales of a season which promises to be highly propitious to the owners of sheep in this and other colonies, and the importance of the event is…

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The Farmer and Crazier

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

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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Points of a Farm Horse

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

The relative proportions of and exact shape desirable in our domestic animals vary considerably in the various breeds. Thus, when speed and activity are what are sought for, an oblique shoulder blade is a sine qua non; while for…

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The Cultivator. Farming in Dubbo District[?] Mograguy, and Ganoo

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

I SHALL briefly glance at the farming on Mogragny Creek and Ganoo, and then sum up from evidence gathered from most of the farmers there located. Most of these farmers have had about four years'…

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Russian Wheat Supplies

Evening News · Monday 25 October 1880 · page 2

LONDON, October 23.—The great grain-producing districts of Russia have failed, in the last harvest, to yield even enough wheat for the requirements of the…

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Melbourne Wool Market. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Monday 25 October 1880 · page 2

Messrs. E. Goldabrough and Co. will offer 10,000 bales of wool this week, at the sales on Wednesday next. The sale will be the largest ever held in Australia, The market is firm competition…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 October 1880 · page 6

A little while ago the continuously dry weather occasioned not unnatural and wide-spread alarm ; but Nature herself has long since come to the rescue, and fear has given place to confidence well…

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Sydney and Its Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 October 1880 · page 9

It was announced a few days ago in a telegram from Bourke, that the first consignment of Toorale wool. 300 bales, had just passed through that town, on its way to Sydney. This was the first wool that had…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Wednesday 27 October 1880 · page 2

R. Goldsborough and Co. are offering to-day 11,400 bales of wool, being the largest wool sale ever held in Australian, and including clips from all the colonies. The sale is [?] great…

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The Wool Trade of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 October 1880 · page 7

The International Exhibition in Melbourne has been the means of eliciting one of the most remarkable testimonies to the supremacy of New South Wales as the great wool-producing colony of the Australasian group which has been…

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The Western Farmers and the Railway Rates. (By Our Own Reporter.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 October 1880 · page 9

In the Orange district there exists a Farmers' Union, called the Spring Hill Farmers' Union, which was formed twelve months ago for the purpose of encouraging mutual assistance among agriculturists by…

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The Weather and the Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 October 1880 · page 7

Although the season is far advanced, frosty nights are being experienced in several of the high districts. The days in these, however, are warm, and gradually we are approaching what promises to be a favourable summer…

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