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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1880

1,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 63

Colonial and Farm Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 36

THE WHEAT MARKET.—In the wheat market there are no great supplies to hand, and owing to further advances in home and southern markets prices are firm. Adelaid wheat, 5s; New…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 6 December 1880 · page 2

LONDON, December 4.-At the wool the sales to-day competition was active, and prices were well sustained…

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Wheat Market

Evening News · Tuesday 7 December 1880 · page 2

LONDON", December 6-The tone of the wheat market is deelining…

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Commercial. Wool Sales.—wednesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 December 1880 · page 6

By Messrs Mort and Co —Wool: AK, 3 locks and clips at [?] [?] over 2,11 grease at 10[?] J in circle, 12 grease at ll[?] lambs at 9[?] 2 bellies and p[?]ces at [?] Collingwood over JHH, 22 crossbred fleece at [?] 2 pieces at [?] 4 clips at 9[?]…

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Melbourne Wool Market. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Thursday 9 December 1880 · page 2

Messrs. R. Gold-borough and Co. report:-We have sold 4800 bales this week. Greasy from 7d to 13[?]d; inferior to good average flecce and scoured, 13d to 22[?]d. Prices firm at about last…

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Wool Market

Evening News · Friday 10 December 1880 · page 2

LONDON, December 8. - The wool market is buoyant, and sales progress satisfactorily…

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Shea's Creek Sewage Farm

Evening News · Friday 10 December 1880 · page 2

Two deputations writed on Mr. Lackey, Minister for Works, to-day to urge him to stop all works in connection with the proposed sewage form at Shea's Crook, and the drainage of the city into…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 19

At Brewarrina, beyond a steadily increasing heat —which, the excitement of the election does not appear to affect—we have nothing to report. We could do with two or three clay's rain now; but of that…

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Agricultural Pastoral Forthcoming Shows

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 1114

Agricultural Association of Kiama, at Kiama, 2nd and 3rd February, 1881. The Goulburn Agricultural Society, in March. The Agricultural Society of New South Wales, on Alfred…

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Ireland. De. M'cabe's Pastoral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 7

The pastoral of his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin which appeared in the Dublin press on Monday morning has elicited from the English and the landlord journals a cry of…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 1135

The year is closing on prospects which for agriculturists and pastoralists, must be considered as cheerful. True, we have experienced a winter which was throughout rather dry and a spring which was not quite moist enough to overcome…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Tamworth

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 40

Messrs. Nathan Cohen and Co. report:— Cattle: Heavy supply, and prices down to 10s per ewt. We sold— Eckford's bullocks from £3 is to £4 2s; M'Donell's bullocks, £3 10s; cows, £3. Fat Sheep: Market glutted…

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Late-sown Wheat and Rust

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 18

A correspondent of the Queenlsander, writing of the prevalence of rust in the late-sown crops on the Darling Downs, says:— "This experience very clearly points to the beneficial…

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Early and Late Wheat Sowing

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 1114

The beneficial effects of sowing wheat early in districts which are liable to attacks of rust are being realized this reason in Queensland. The farmers of Towoomba have been most successful with early…

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Alarming Explosion at Wool Wich

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 9

LONDON, December 8.—An alarming accident has taken place at the Woolwich arsenal. A rocket accidentally became ignited, and, communicating with other…

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Victorian Wool Market. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 4

The Australian Mortgage and Agency Co. offered to-day 2150 bales of wool, and sold 1720, There is no improvement in inferior to medium sorts, but good qualities bad active competition,…

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The Wool Sales. London, December 9

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day, 4100 bales were submitted. There was more inquire to-day, but it was principally speculative. 10,000 bales have been withdrawn from sale…

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Latest Commercial. the London Wool Market

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 9

LONDON, December 3.—At the wool sales to-day, the market was weaker, and there was an apparent tendency to a decline in prices…

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Dairy Farming

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 1115

As much of the butter which is so largely produced in various parts of France is generally acknowledged to be of superior quality, and that portion of it which is exported to our markets ranks deservedly high in London and is…

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