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Farming & the land, 1881

1,222 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 62

New Zealand. Sale of Pastoral Leases of Crown Lands. Preliminary Notice. General Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 7th November, 1881

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 December 1881 · page 8

Three million acres of Crown Lands will shortly he open for sale and lease in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zeland. This country is at present held under lease in large runs untill 1st March, 1833…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 14 December 1881 · page 4

LONDON, December 12.—The December series of London colonial wool sales closed to-day. The total quantify catalogued during the coarse was 143,000…

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Telegraphic News. [By Submarine Cable.] the Colonial Wool Sales. London, December 12

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 December 1881 · page 3

The London colonial wool sales closed today. Of the total quantity catalogued 120,000 bales have been sold, and 10,000 have been held over for the series to be held in…

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Farm Produce

Evening News · Friday 16 December 1881 · page 2

At the Darling Harbour railway terminus, this morning, there was a very large supply of forage forward from the intermediate stations on the western and southern lines. The market was fairly…

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Agricultural Pastoral Forthcoming Shows

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 1014

Queensland National Association Wool Show. January 2,1882. Inrerell P. and A. Association, March I and 2,1882. Kiatna Agricultural Association, March 8 and 9…

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The Wheat Harvest

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 20

IT has commenced, and the prevailing hot weather will soon make it ceneral, So far, in Now South Wales, the indications are that fair returns of grain will be got in the loading' wheat districts, but there…

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London Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 10

LONDON, December 10.—The tone of the wool, market is weaker. Ten thousand bales, have been withdrawn. The series close on Monday, 12th instant…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather-agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 1032

Summer is commencing with dry, warm, agreeable weather, and finds the colony in a condition to resist her dry winds and other parching influences. Stock are in good health, and the pastures sufficiently strong to answer the…

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The Wool Reports and Prospects

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 19

We say it in no spirit of egotism—it would be better for many who declined to take the prices ruling in the colonial markets, and who sent their wool to London on producers' account if they had…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. by Electric Telegraph Wagga "Wagga

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 38

Crossings—Thursday—6OOO wethers (Ricketson), going to Tumbarnmbn. Fat stock are dull, and store cattle are almost neglected. Store sheep are in fair demand. A sale of 10,000 young sheep took place…

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The United States Duty on Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 19

Strange it is that our mercantile man take so little share in the efforts being made to have 'reductions made upon the United States wool tariff. They are not so sluggish in New Zealand, where, as will be '…

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Marketing Wheat in Victoria and South Australia

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 1015

A public meeting of farmers was held in Horsham on the 1st December, for the purpose of hearing Mr. Darling, of the firm of Messrs. Darling and Son, grain merchants, of Melbourne and Adelaide, give, by request, an explanation…

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Messrs Mor and Co.'s Weekly Wool Report

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 11

WOOL.— We held two large sales again since the date of our last report, and sold over 3000 bales at the following range of values: Greasy fle[?]e, faulty 7½d to 8½d, fair to good 9½d to 10½d, good to superior 10½d to…

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Cowardly Outrage at Fish River. Houses And. Many Sheep Destroyed, [By Electric Telegraph.] Carcoar

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 12

INTELLIGENCE has been received of a cowardly outrage being perpetrated at the Fiah Elver, about aevon miles from Dryburgh. Whilst Miss Fraser was absont from her house on Tuesday…

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A Tour through the Southern Wheat-growing Districts. No. Iii.—mdrrumburrah, Young, Grenfell, and Cootamundra

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 1014

The recent seasonable weather has had a very beneficial effect upon the crops in the abovementioned districts. The country for a distance of 60 miles ia a north- easterly direction from Murrumburrah is beautifully undulating, being…

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The Camden Farmers' Union

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 1014

We learn from the Camden Times that at a recent meeting of this union, the following resolutions were carried:— 1. "That this meeting considers it desirable to have a Central Market established in Sydney for the disposal of all…

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Farming Notes

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 21

A MAGAZINE devoted to the sugar interests in promised to commence with the year in Mary borough, Queensland. The district is a centre for sugar production, and the magazine. coming out as it does…

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Another Farmer Shot. (From the Correspondent of the "London Standard," NOVEMBER 3)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 27

Dublin, Thursday Night.—Another agrarian murder was committed on Wednesday night, at a place called Currigan, within two miles of Crongwell, in the county of Galway. The…

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The Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 December 1881 · page 7

Summer is commencing with dry, warm, agreeable weather, and finds the colony in a condition to resist her dry winds and other parching influences. Stock are in good health, and the pastures sufficiently strong to answer the…

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A Model Farm—the Dry-earth System. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 December 1881 · page 6

Sir,—It is pretty generally acknowledged, I think, that Sydney has a grand future wiihin its grasp. The world seems now alive to the fact that it is the place of attraction. Ita harbour is universall (and deservedly) extelled. If we…

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