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Farming & the land, 1882

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London Wool Sales. London, May 18

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 May 1882 · page 5

At the wool sales today there was good competition at full current rates; 1800 bales were withdrawn. [The number of bales catalogued for sale…

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The Grazier. High-class Wool Improving

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1882 · page 19

IT will be in the recollection of readers that the Mr. Russell referred to in this paragraph, at the sale of Mr. Thomas G. Cumming's Stony Point stud flock purchased aram for £1470, the highest price…

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Sydney Wool in English Market. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 May 1882 · page 6

Sir,—Noticing a letter signed "Shipper" in your issue of May 17, and which purported to be an answer to ours of the 13th, we trust that you will kindly insert these few lines, to refute in a manner the insinnations conveyed…

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A Cheap and Permanent Drain for the Farm

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 May 1882 · page 20

It is now the season when among the most important operations of the farm drain-making may be reckoned. The following plan of doing this necessary work will commend itself to…

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A Roundabout Farm Note

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 May 1882 · page 20

I SHALL wind up this week's budget by giving a sort of agricultural "Multum in Parvo" in which farmers will find much profitable information. I will ask them to note well the…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 May 1882 · page 19

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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Farming Notes

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1882 · page 21

A grab, termed the black leech, is devastating the fruit orchards and hedgerows in the Bay of Plenty district, New Zealand. Animals when confined and supplied with fattening…

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Colonial and Farm Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1882 · page 37

THE WH[?]AT MARKET.—The wheat market is fairly supplied, and holders are disposed to be somewhat easior. We hear of a lot ot 4000 bags of Adelaide wheat, more or less of prime quality, being…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 22 May 1882 · page 2

LONDON, May 21.—At the wool sales, yesterday, 47,000 bales were catalogued, of which 2800 were with drawn. The opening prices were generally maintained. Inferior,…

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The Hop Crop. London, May 19

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 May 1882 · page 3

The prospects of the hop crop are Somewhat Satisfactory…

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Carriage of Wool on Victorian Railways. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Tuesday 23 May 1882 · page 2

The Acting-Commissioner for Hallways has resolved to order reduction In the rates of Carriage on wool, and make the charges correspond with those imposed by New South Wales. Bales…

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Wheat Growing to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 May 1882 · page 3

Sir,--Your statement as to the production of wheat in Victoria is deeply to be deplored. A falling-oil in the course of 11 years from 19 bashels to the acre to nine seems to be a fatal prognostic for…

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Egyptian Affairs. London Wool Sales. Cairo, May 23. LONDON, May 22

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 May 1882 · page 3

No formal demands have yet been made by England France in reference to the affairs of Egypt, but informal negotiations are proceeding, [?] with a view to induce Arabi Pasha and At the wool sales today 10,100 bales were offered. The demand was good. The following telegram is from another source:--Michael Davitt, in a speech delivered at…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 25 May 1882 · page 2

LONDON, May 23.—At the wool sales to-day 9200 bales were offered. The demand was good…

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The Decline of the Victorian Wheat Crops. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 May 1882 · page 3

Sir,--Reading your account of the deficiency of the wheat crop in Victoria,, which you stats is falling so low that it is getting a question if it will pay to grow, I think there is something lost sight of--that…

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Mr. Gladstone and the Scotch Farmers

Evening News · Friday 26 May 1882 · page 2

LONDON, May 23.—A deputation of Scotch farmers had an interview with Mr. Gladstone, at which they laid before him their views on the necessity of a radical…

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The English Wheat Crop

Evening News · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 4

LONDON, May 25.—The English wheat crop will be an average one…

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The English Wheat Crop. London, May 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 5
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The English wheat crop will be an average one…

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The Butter Business in America

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 20

THE American payers report the proceedings of the tenth annual convention of the Wisconsin State Dairymen's Association, now closed, and which is said to have been the most successful meeting in its…

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