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Farming & the land, 1880

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

Wheat Production and Consumption of the World

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 7

New York, November 13.—Bradstreet a Circular to-day, makes a close estimate of the production find consumption of wheat in the world, and places the net surplus at 27,000,000 bushels…

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What an Old Farmer Says

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 19

This is the advice of an old man who has tilled the soil for 40 years: I am an old man, upwards of three score years, during two score of which I have been a tiller of…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 December 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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Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Our Special Telegram. (From Our London Correspondent.) Depression in the Wheat Trade. London, Dec. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 December 1880 · page 5

The failure of several grain speculators in chicago, through Louis' Bank refusing their demands for further advances, has depressed the wheat market here. A large quantity…

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The Industries of the Colony. (By Our Special Reporter.) Xxvi.—wool in the North-west

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 December 1880 · page 7

The large increase in the quantity of wool which has been sent by railwayu to Sydney this year has brought the north-western districts of the colony into prominent notice, and the time is considered not for…

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Sheep Registration Act. To the Editor

Evening News · Wednesday 29 December 1880 · page 3

SIR,-The people in this district are somewhat exercised at the prospect of having to pay a penalty of [?]20 should they fail to furnish a return of their stock, between the 1st and 31st instant, to th local…

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The Weather.—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 December 1880 · page 7

In some parts of the colony intense heat has prevailed. At Mudgee the thermometer last week reached 100° in the shade; at Cootamundra the thermometer is over 100° in the shade; and at Cowra it was 100° in the deep shade, with…

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