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Farming & the land, 1882

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London Wool Sales. London, March 15

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 March 1882 · page 3

At the wool sale, to-day, 9000 bales were offered. Prices are firm, and there was an active demand. The following telegrams are from other…

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Cattle Branding

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 16

NOT the least important work connected with the department of Lands is the Registry of Brands and other marks used by squatters and farmers for the purpose of…

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"Restaurants" for Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 19

When the skill and care devoted to the trade in cattle by the Americans is taken into consideration, their success in the markets of Europe is no longer astonishing. When the export of fresh meat and…

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Weight of English Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 19

SOME of our southern contemporaries are exercised greatly concerning a series of tables published by the London "Times," giving average weights of sheep exhibited recently at Smithfield. "The Times" says,…

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London Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 10

LONDON, March 9.—At the wool sales to-day 9600 bales were catalogued. Prices continued to be fairly maintained. LONDON, March 11.—93,000 bales have…

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The Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 13

LONDON, March 15.—At the wool sales to-day 9900 bales were disposed of The market remains firm, and all classes are in active demand…

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Wool and Station Produce

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 3

Messrs. Maiden, Hill, and Clark report:--Wool: At our sale on Thursday the attendance of buyers was large, and competition was spirited. We offered a catalogue, comprising 526 bales, out of which we…

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Burrs in Australian Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 19

In the last circular of the New Zealand Land and Mortgage Company, it is mentioned respecting the trefoil burr that it seems every year to become more prevalent in this country, and during this season has…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wagga Wagga

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 40

The crossings during the week are only local. Through the continuance of the dry season the fat and store stock market is very quiet, the difficulty of travelling being so great. The water supply on all sides is becoming short,…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 16

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 5

At the wool sale today 12,500 bales were offered. The demand was rather less, and prices were occasionally easier; 6200 bales were withdrawn…

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The New Wool Exchange in London

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 14

THE following description of the new London Wool Exchange is from the Home News:—" In a fine central situation, in the heart of the city of London, stands the new Wool Exchange, which, after considerable…

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Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 6

WOOL.—The quantity of wool coming for ward from the country is becoming less and less eleven week: and Messrs. Mort and Co. and Harrison, Jones, and Denlin die not hold their usual sales, and for the re[?] of the season they…

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Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 39

Wool Since we wrote on the 14th ultimo the market has been fairly active at values on the average about equal to those previously current. For the better descriptions prices have been, if anything, a trifle firmer, but medium…

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The Farmer and Crazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 March 1882 · 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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A Hen Farm

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 8

Why is not attention more turned to the keeping of poultry? Mr. Hawkins,on a comparatively small plot of land in Massachusetts, keeps 2,000 laying hens, in five…

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Our Defence Force. to the Editor of the Sydney Dairy Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 7

Sir,--One of your contemporaries mentioned last week certain rumours to the effect that the Permanent Artillery was not in an efficient state. The truth is that the force is in precisely the same condition in…

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The Farm & STATION ArtiSsial Rain Supply

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 18

THE frequency of droughts in Australia has repeatedly led to suggestions more or less impracticable for breaking the rain clouds passing over a neighbourhood suffering from scarcity of moisture, the most remarkable,…

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Colonial and Farm Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 39

WHEAT MARKET.—There is no great quantity of wheat in the market; any arriving finds purchasers at fair value. We noticed one lot at Mort and Co.'s sale brought 5s 10d. We think our farmers should…

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The Farming Difficulty

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 21

THE Paris correspondent of a contemporary suggests the following remedy as between farmers and farm owners:—At the present moment, when the relations between landlord and tenant are the order…

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Mutton and Butter per s.s. Protos

Evening News · Tuesday 21 March 1882 · page 2

LONDON, March 20 (Afternoon).—The steamship Protos, which left Melbourne on January 4 with, a cargo of frozen mutton and butter, arrived here to-day. Upon…

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