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Farming & the land, 1882

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The English Hop Crop

Evening News · Wednesday 21 June 1882 · page 4

LONDON, June 19.—The accounts of the hop crop from the Kentish districts are more favourable…

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The Hop Crop. London, June 19

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 June 1882 · page 3

The accounts of the hop crop from the Kentish districts are more favourable…

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The English Hop Crop. London, June 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 June 1882 · page 5

The accounts of the hop crop from the Kentish districts are more favourable…

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The Production of Wheat. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 June 1882 · page 3

Sir,--Certain correspondents of yours have recently been discussing the question of the cultivation of wheat. It seems to be generally admitted that the figures of the "Statistical Register" are reliable; in…

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[Pressure of Parliamentary Business. the Wool Sales. London, June 21. LONDON, June 20

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 June 1882 · page 3

As it is not anticipated that the important business remaining transacted in the House of Commons will be disposed of during the present session, it is expected that an autumn At the wool sales to-day 12,000 bales were offered. There was less demand, and consequently the tone of the market was easier. Low to inferior qualities were generally in…

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The Wool Sales. London, June 21

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 June 1882 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day 8,100 bales were offered. The market is steady, but there is not an active demand for the commodity…

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The Wool Shearing Season. Ii.—sheep Drafting Yards

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 19

FIG. 1 is drawn to the scale of a chain to an inch. a, receiving yards: b, lanes leading to swing gates, furnished with sliding gates that lift up, thus leaving a clear way for the sheep when yarding up, except at…

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Hornless Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 19

The Americana would seem to be taking to the poley cattle in extraordinary fashion. It is a development of the meat trade with England, to supply which it is most important to have quiet-tempered,…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 999

The beneficial effects of these public competitions are so fully recognised that rival or kindred agricultural societies are springing up in all directions. In Deniliquin the enterprise of the district is well illustrated by a good society…

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The Forthcoming Sheep Sales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 998

Messrs. Mort and Co. have almost completed their arrangements for the forthcoming sales of stud sheep, which will commence on the 12th proximo. The interior of the warehouse has been thoroughly cleaned…

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The Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 9

LONDON, June 14.—At the wool sales to-day, 10,600 bales were offered. Good competition prevailed at full rates. LONDON, June 18.—At the wool sales there i[?]…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 19

The public wool sales at Antwerp opened on April 19. The circular of the New Zealand Land and Mortgage Co. says the quantities offered and sold were—…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 1014

The rainfall of the week now closing has been light and partial. Several districts inland have received good showers. New England and Liverpool Plains have been moistened, Dubbo and Mudgee have received good showers,…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Tamworth

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 38

Messrs. Nathan Cohen and Co. report:—Fat Cattlo: There is a full supply of inferior quality, which realised from 12s to [?]s per 100[?]. We sold L[?] b[?]ocks from £3 12s to £[?] 2s; culls at £2 15s. Fat Sheep: There…

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Wool Rates from Distant Stations

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 19

It would seem that the railways towards the more distant stations are to be a genuine boon to those who have to send wool to port. A further reduction has been made in the freight of wool riverborne to…

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Stock of Wheat in South Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 6

It is pretty evident (says the S. A. Register of the 19th instant) that there is some mystery about the wheat trade in South Australia during the present season, which is not capable of easy comprehension except by those who are…

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The Grazier. The Growing Wool Trade

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 19

THE wool warehousemen of Sydney are not of those who are expecting a falling off in the staple of Australia. New buildings are the order of the day, and next season seems destined to see several worthy…

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Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 6

WOOL.—There have been no public sales in our market this week, and we can make no alteration in quotations. The firm tone in London tends to maintain prices here at a high level. Latest telegrams show that, except for coarse…

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Mort and Co.'s Annual Sale of Stud Sheep

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 6

The matter is hardly open to dispute whether agriculture should not, in such a colony as N[?]W South Wales, grow and increase with the number of the population and the addition that is…

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Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 37

Wool.—Owing to the limited supply as usual at this time of the year, the sales have been unimportant. The firm tone of the London salea has not been without its effect on the local marget, and despito the fact that recent…

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