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Farming & the land, 1882

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Training the Sheep Dog. e

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 19

IN training a shepherd dog, you should begin when it is six months old, or as Boon after as possible. If left too old, he becomes stubborn, and is not near so teachable as when taken…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 221

The reports from, various parts of the colony indicate that the rain, which has been looked for in come districts with anxiety, is not far off. Indeed, at several towns in the South and North-west showers are already reported the…

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Goldsbrough's Monthly Wool Circular

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 229

The business transacted in this market since the date of our last circular has been limited to one public and a few private sales, at which, about 500 bales were disposed of. Competition continues active; and although the wools brought forward…

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The Grazier. The Coming Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 20

The third series of sales in London of the wool of 1881-2 commences on Tuesday, the 22nd instant. For the series it is calculated that 350,000 bales are likely to be catalogued. Of this lot some 60,000 bales are…

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Wheat Per Acre in New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 23

Would some of the readers of your valuable paper inform me through its columns the greatest number of bushels of wheat grown on an aere in the counties of Cumberland, Camden, and Argyle?…

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RURAL NOTES.r the Approaching Wool SEASON.r

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 19

IF the extensive and elaborate preparations which are being made both by the Sydney auctioneers and the Railway Department are to count for anything, the wool season of 1882 willl…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 August 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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Experimental Farming in South Australia

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 20

Professor Custance, the Government agricultural chemist for South Australia, is reported as bein busily occupied at the experimental farm at Roseworthy. He has 62 experimental plots, plantep…

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The Hop Crop

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 10

LONDON, July 31.—Accounts of the hop crop from Kent are more favourable. The crops will be very short, and of extremely indifferent quality…

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Cardinal M'Cabe's Pastoral

Evening News · Tuesday 8 August 1882 · page 3

Dublin, June 29.—Cardinal M'Cabe, in a pastoral read in all the Roman Catholic chapels of Dublin Diocese to-day, says: An unnatural warfare rages through the land, and crimes that call…

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The Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 August 1882 · page 9

The reports from various parts of the colony indicate that the rain, which has been looked for in some districts with anxiety, is not far off. Indeed at several towns in the South and North-west showers have been reported, the fall…

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Maitland Horse, Cattle, and Sheep Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 August 1882 · page 6

The first annual spring parade of horses, cattle, and sheepI under the suspices of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held on the association's showground to-day, in the presence of about 600 people,…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 August 1882 · page 6

Sale of 102 bales, from Sydney, by Henry P. Hughes and Son[?]:- Ex Northumberland, from Sydney: MD connected 7 at [?] BN over C, 5 at 18d; J. Power, 11 at 17d; RB over G. 4 at 17d;…

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Commercial. London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 August 1882 · page 6

Sale of 2033 bales from Sydney and Queensland, by Hel[?]th Schwartse and Co., on Thursday, June 1:- Ex Northumberland and Irvine, from Sydney: Charlton over BB, 17 scoured at 24½d, 16at23½d, 6 at 21½d. 4 pieces at 20d;…

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Maitland Horse, Cattle, and Sheep Show. West Maitland

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1882 · page 271

The first annual spring parade of horses, cattle, and sheep under the auspices of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held on the association's show ground to-day, in the presence of about 600 people,…

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Sheep Quarantine

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 August 1882 · page 19

A DEPUTATION consisting of Mr. J. Abbott (Mort and Co.), Mr. J. Devlin (Harrison, Jones, and Devlin), Mr. P. N. Trebeck, and Mr. J. Clark (Maiden, Hill, and Clark), waited a few days since…

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Sheep-farming Considered as a Popular Pursuit

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1882 · page 259

The windy patriots of the platform are again raising the cry of "land monopoly," in much the same way as their political parents did 22 years ago, and perhaps with as little clear conception of any practicable or reasonable reform…

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Deputations. Sheep Quarantine

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1882 · page 281

A deputation consisting of Mr. J. Abbott (Mort and Co.) Stir. J. Devlin (Harrison, Jones, and Devlin), Mr. P. N. Trebeck, and Mr. J. Clark (Maiden, Hill, and Clark), waited upon the Minister for Mines on the 4th instant, to…

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The Sheep Sales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1882 · page 259

On the day following the Show, Messrs. F. and A. Piggin held a sale of sheep from the herds of Mr. J. G. Grey, of Sandy Ridges, near Corowa. The Show was largely attended by most of the stationholders and selectors in the…

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Quarantine of Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 August 1882 · page 19

THIS matter was pretty well ventilated by a deputation which waited on the Minister for Mines (who has charge of the Stock Department). The deputation consistod of Mr. J. Abbott (Mort and Co.), Mr. J…

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