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Farming & the land, 1880

1,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 63

Commercial. Wool Sales.—yesterday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 October 1880 · page 6

By Messrs. [?] and Co.—RM circle, 4 greasy wool at 9d, 1 mixed at 5 [?] TT, 3 grease at 10d, 1 pieces at 7d; h. 14 grease at 11d, 2 bellies [?] over HH, 17 grease at 11[?]d, 3 bellies at 7d, 1 clips at 4¾d. RY over Armatree, 45 grease at 9¼ d, 2 pieces at…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Thursday 28 October 1880 · page 2

Messrs. B. Goldsbrough and Co. report under date of 27th instant:—We catalogued 11,439 bales wool to-day, and had a splendid attendance of buyers, the sale room being crowded. Biddings…

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Wool Sales.—thursday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 October 1880 · page 6

By Mr. Bridge.—PDB, 2 bales secured wool at 20½d; EH, 1 at 18½d; HA conjoined, 8 fleece at 17d; H, 3 at 17[?]d: JP over D, 1 scoured at [?]; AM, 4 fleece at [?]; Julios. Care over Dubbo, 1 locks at 3[?]d; FWC, 1 greasy at 8[?]d; J. P. Fagan, 2 at 9d;…

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Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 October 1880 · page 6

WOOL.—Our leading auctioners held their second sales for the season this week, 3131 bales being catalogued and 1231 sold. There was again a full attendance of buyers, both from home and abroad, and competition has been…

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Sale of Ercildoune Sheep, [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 October 1880 · page 5

The third annual sale of Sir Samuel Wilson's famous Ercildoune merino rams and ewes took place to-day, on the estate, near Ballarat, where there was a large gathering, including representatives from all the…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 18

At Wilcannia ever half an inch of rain has fallen since our last report. On the Bogan things are looking well. On the Marthaguy and Merri Creek the season is reported to…

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Prime Butter

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 23

A METHOD in practice among the butter makers of England for rendering butter firm and solid during the hot weather is as follows:—Carbonate of soda and alum are used for this purpose, made into powder. For twenty…

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Agricultural Pastoral Forthcoming Shows

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 836

The Clarence Agricultural Society, at Grafton, 17th November…

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Novel Butter-making

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 18

It has long been known (says a writer in the Montreal Journal of Agriculture) that if a quantity of cream be wrapped in several folds of cloth, and buried a foot deep in the ground, at…

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Mecklenburg Sheep Exhibition

Evening News · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 6

By circular from the German Consul-General, we have particulars of a grand International exhibition of every age and race, to be held at Neubrandenburg, in the Duchy of Mecklenbug-Strelltzburg, on…

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Russian Wool

Evening News · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 4

LONDON, October 20.—During the present season Russia has commenced to export wool. It is thought that on the vast p[?]ains of Asiatic mid European Turkey, the…

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The Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 845

Fine bright weather has been the lot of the colony during the past week, and pastoralists and agriculturists look forward hopefully towards a successful passage through summer, which is now very near. In some of the higher…

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Exmoor Sheep in Quarantine

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 836

In our issue of the 11th ultimo we recorded the arrival in this port by the ship Cynisca of the first Exmoor sheep ever landed in Australia. Half-a-dozen of these interesting, hardy, useful animals…

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Experiments with Indian Wheat

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 18

The following account by Dr. Bancroft of some experiments with several varieties of Indian wheat, read at the last meeting of the Queensland Acclimatization Society, cannot but be received…

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Goldsbrough's Wool Warehouses, Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 837

Extensive additions have recently been made to Messrs. Goldsbrough'e palatial warehouses. The new warehouse lately completed is the largest in Melbourne, extending as it does in one unbroken line from Bourke-street to Little…

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Latest Commercial. Russian Wheat Supplies

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 9

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 Sales. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 4

The Australian Mortgage and Agency, late Hastings and Cunningham, report:—At our sale this day we sold 1420 bales of wool of a total catalogued of 1500, competition being very active,…

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Melbourne Wool Warehouses. (From Our Special Correspondent.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 32

MUCH has been lately written about the Sydney wool warehouses, and the great facilities offered there for the sale and shipment of wool; but au inspection of the buildings in Melbourne shows that we have much…

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The Farmers and the Railway Rates. To the Editor

Evening News · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 7

SIR,—I notice in a late issue of your paper an able letter from the pen of Mr. Sydney Smith, showing the very high rates farmers have to pay for carriage of their produce on the Government railways when…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 18

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

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