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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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