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Farming & the land, 1880

1,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 63

The Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 December 1880 · page 7

The weather of the latter half of November was rather variable. Changes from summer heat to chill blasts have been rather frequent, and showers have fallen in nearly all districts. The southern districts have been most favoured in…

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London Wool Market

Evening News · Thursday 2 December 1880 · page 2

LONDON. November30.-At the wool sales to-day, greasy merino realised ½d higher…

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Commercial. Wool Sales.—wednesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 December 1880 · page 3

Messrs. Mort and Co. sold as follows:—Wool: SMPCo in diamond, 19 scoured skinwool at 131/2d, 9 scoured at 12d, 11 scoured at 14d; JM, 42 grease at 11d; JD, 22 at 13d; SW over White, 11 washed lambs at 131/2d; John, 32 grease at 10[?]d; 7 over TM, 5 at…

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Melbourne Wool Market. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Thursday 2 December 1880 · page 2

Messrs. R. Goldsborough report:-We have sold 4000 bales this week,greasy from 7d to 13[?]d, the latter price was obtained for 174 biles from Geraldra Station fleece and scoured from 13d…

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Persecution of Tenant Farmers

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 December 1880 · page 7

who refuse to obey the commands of the Land League still continues. They are ostracised with a vengeance. The course adopted to enforce obedience may be understood from statement of facts…

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[?] a Great Wheat Crop

Evening News · Friday 3 December 1880 · page 3

It will interest wheat growers in Australia and New Zealand to learn that the crops of wheat upon the famous farm of the Messrs. Dalrymple, at Dakotah, U.S., will this year amount to more…

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MELBOURNE Wool Show. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Friday 3 December 1880 · page 2

The entries for the Exhibition wool show are as follows:—Merino wool, washed: Victoria, 28; South Australia, 3; Tasmania, 8; New Zealand…

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Wool Sales. London, December 1

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 December 1880 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day, 8600 bales were submitted. The prices were firm…

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Pastoral Items

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

Wool-teams, heavily iaden, are almost daily passing through Gundagai to Bowning, says the TIMES of Friday last. Yesterday nine tons of Messrs. Rankin Bros. wool crossed the bridge from Tumut…

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AGRICULTURAL [?] PASTORAL Forthcoming Shows

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 1070

Agricultural Association of Kiama, at Kiama, 2nd and 3rd February, 1881…

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The Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 1087

The weather during the past week has for the greater part been dry and sultry, but we note a rainfall of about 2 1/4 inches in the Tenterfield district. A few very light showers fell on the coast. In some localities westward the thermometer has…

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Branded Cattle and Tattooed Hides

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 21

STOCK-OWNERS in hide-exporting countries would do well to note the deterioration in the value of hides caused by eareless branding and other ill-usage of cattle and their skins. Hides are imported by scores…

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Wool Sales. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 4

Messrs. Hastings, Cunningham, and Co., re-report :—We offered at auction to-day 2550 bales of wool, and sold 1640. The biddings were very irregular, and inferior to ordinary greasy fully 1d…

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The London Wool Market

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 9

LONDON,. November 26.—Home buyers are purchasing freely, but the continental demand is limited. LONDON, November 29.—Greasy wool…

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Late English News. the Wheat Market

Evening News · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 3

There is at length a pause in the advance in our wheat markets, but no signs at pr[?]nt of a reaction. A rise has been established of about [?] or 6s per quarter from the lowest point touched…

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Sales of Shorthorn Cattle in England. (From the Field, September ll.) the Skaesgill

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 19

A NUMEROUS company assembled at Capt. Gandy's on Tuesday last, September 7, to witness the distribution of his shorthorn herd. To a southerner the dwelling place, the pleasant nook in which the cattle…

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Business Habits for Farmers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 19

There is probably not one farmer in ten thousand who keeps a set of accounts from which he can at any moment learn the cost of anything he may have produced, or even the cost of his real…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 19

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

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How Farming may be made pay

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 1070

The depressed condition of agriculturists in Great Britain recently prompted the proprietors of the Mark Lane Express to offer a series of prizes for the best essays on the subject of "How Farming in Great…

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An American Farm

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 21

SOME interesting details are given in the American papers with respect to the famous Dalrymple farm, twenty-five miles west of Fargo, Dakota, which is the largest oultivated farm on the West Continent. It…

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