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Farming & the land, 1881

1,222 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 62

Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 669

The first day of this week proved damp in the metropolis, and so frequent were the showers that wet holidays were confidently anticipated: but, before noon on Monday, the clouds dispersed, and the weather since then has bean fine…

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A Simple Plan to Preserve Butter

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 19

THE following American plan of preserving butter made in the flush of the season till the price improves should come in handy to enable summer time. After…

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Murrumbidgee Wool Trade—Hay

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 660

Of equal, if not of greater, importance than the towns which form the centres of the Darling wool trade is the town of Hay, which is situated 460 miles from Sydney, in the heart of Southern. Riverina…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Tamworth

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 38

Messrs. N. Cohen and Co. report:—The fat cattle market is very dull this week. Sold Short and Bolton's bullocks from £ 2s 6d to £4 10s; Wilshire's bullocks. light, £3. Fat Sheep: Dull sale; sold Ross's wethers…

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Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 6

WOOL.—No business was done at auction this week, and we hear of nothing to indicate change in values. The lots yet to be offered this season are chiefly remnants and scoured fleece…

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Facts for Farmers and Graziers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 19

NINE million rabbits and half-a-million hares are annually sold in Great Britain. Sydney consumes weekly 2000 head of cattle and 14,000 sheep…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 April 1881 · 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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Farmers' Unions

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 662

The co-operation of farmers and working as a Union for the purpose of advancing the district to which they belong, or it may be, perhaps, to watch and protect their own interests, is a matter that has not received…

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The Burrawang Farmers' Club

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 663

The second day of the Moss Vale Show was quite of successful as the first day, of which 1 furnished an account last week. About 1700 well-dressed, comfortable, and contented looking people were on the ground, and although…

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The Farm & STATION English Agricultural Affairs. (From Our Own Correspondent)

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 18

DURING the past month the weather in England has been subject to very violent changes; I cannot remember greater or more unseasonable fluctuations in the temperature. After Christmas the weather continued cold…

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Colonial and Farm Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 37

WHEAT MARKET.—Of Adelaide wheat there in none in the market, the South Australian quotation being relatively higher than ours, also New Zealand and Tasmanian wheat, whilst Victorian is not much…

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Farmers' Clubs

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 20

IT would be a great advantage to the colony generally, and to the agricultural section of the people in particuar, if, in eveyr district in which farming is located, a Farmers' Club were to be established. We…

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Commercial. Wool Sales.—monday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 April 1881 · page 6

By Messrs Harrison Jones,mid Devlin—Wool: DIS, 6 greasy at 8[?]d; R over WR, 7 at 7½d; WIT, 8 scoured at 16[?]d; L. M.Namara, 20 scoured at 18[?]d. Sheepskins: WB, 12 skins at 1s 1d, ER, 1 bundle at 5¼d; A, 1 at 4d; Blue rag, 2 at 5d; GW…

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Exhibition Farm Produce Awards

Evening News · Tuesday 26 April 1881 · page 2

We understand that Sir. James Manning, of Warragubra. whoso exhibits of farm and dairy produce formed the most interesting and creditable feature in the produce departments of the…

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Dairymen's Association

Evening News · Tuesday 26 April 1881 · page 2

A meeting was hold last night at the Burrangong Hotel by the members of the Dairymen's Association. The business was of a formal nature and referred mainly to a ball which is to be held at Botany by the…

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Commercial. Wool Sales.—wednesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 April 1881 · page 6

By Messrs. Mort and Co.—Wool: RY over Armatree, 6 lambs at 7½d; DK, 9 grease at 8½d; Blue X, 5 grease at 9d: RW, 5 lambs at 7d; JCW, 8 grease at 8½d; J in hat over H&J, 9 grease at 7d; JL over K, 10 grease at 7½d; PGN over New England, 22 scoured…

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Commercial. Wool Sales.—thursday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 April 1881 · page 6

By Messrs. Maiden, Hill, and Clark.—Wool, McLean and Co. over Queenborough, 7 bales Lincoln and merino places at 5½d, 7 ditto bellies at 5½d; JB, 9 scoured first pieces at 12[?]d, and odd lots under five at various prices. Sheepskins: OJ, 1 bundle…

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Exhibition Farm Produce Awards. To the Editor

Evening News · Friday 29 April 1881 · page 3

SIR,-Every crow thinks its own bird the whitest. This is generally the case with the public in general, and it ia almost a traism: I am led to these remarks [?]…

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Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 April 1881 · page 14

The oattlo seotion, whioh it was hoped would do much towards making up for the general failure of the exhibition, only did so to a very limited extent. When a first attempt at an agricultural exhibition in…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 April 1881 · page 19

The weather is fine at Wiloannia. Food and water are plontifnl. A slight rise in the river is expected. Two hundred head of fat cattle are shortly to leave Ferry's Nco Noe station, Maranoa, for Sydney…

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