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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1882

1,140 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 57

Wool and Station Produce

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 August 1882 · page 7

Messrs. Maiden, Hill, and Clark report:--Wool: The usual fortnightly sales were held this week, the catalogues being comprised principally of fellmongered lots, competition for which was brisk, and…

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This Year's Wool Harvest

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 August 1882 · page 342

The shears are again being plied. The wool harvest of 1882 has commenced, and already small quantities of the [?]ip are being borne to the coast. It is probable that the total yield will be less than that of last year,…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Melbourne

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 August 1882 · page 37

Messrs, King and Cuuingham report:—360 cattle were yarded, and prices are lower, few prime are forward. One [?]ot from Queensland arrived in fair condition, and soldwell. We quote prime at £16 to £19, good from £12 to…

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The Wool Sales. London, August 24

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 August 1882 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day 8300 bales were offered. There was a fair demand for nil qualities. The sales close on October 6. The total number of bales withdrawn to date is…

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Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 August 1882 · page 12

Wool.—At the sales this week the catalogues were of an unimportant character only. Competition was fairly active, and scoured lots realized to 21[?]d., greasy bringing from 8d. to 10[?]d…

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The Grazier. The Wool Sales Now On

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 August 1882 · page 19

THE third of the 1882 series of colonial wool sales in London was to commonce on Tuesday last, the 22nd instant. Wo are in the hope of hoing able to give in another portion of this issue cable messages…

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Scientific and Useful. Saw and Wheat Milling Machinery

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 August 1882 · page 23

SAW milling is becoming a most important industry in this colony. With the use of modern sawmills it is found a most profitable undertaking and the consumer may look forward for a great reduction in the…

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The Arrival Op Forky-tongue, the Great Sachem of the Sucking-vampires. Author of 'The Cattle Hunter', 'The Jumbuck Hunters,' 'The Billet Hunters,' &c.. &c., &c

Sydney Punch · Saturday 26 August 1882 · page 3

IT was evening, the council fire was lighted, and the chiefs sat round it waiting the arrival of Forky-Tongue, the Great Sachem of the Sucking-Vampires. Makolo (the Stamping Bullock), Nel-nel-fa-fa (the Blowing Grampus), and other warriors of more or less repute…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 August 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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Irish Farmers for Australia

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 August 1882 · page 5

The Colonies and India says:— The Right Rev. Monsignor O'Reilly, R. C. Bishop of Springfield, U.S.A., is on his way to London from Rome, to confer with a number…

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A Farmer and His Daughter, or the Way of the World. Serio- comic Duet foSoprano and Bass. Written and Composed by James Harewick

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 August 1882 · page 26

This is a musical and poetical illustration of one of human nature's weaknesses. A young lady 18 years of age, on her birthday, tells her papa that her lover Robert had told her that he…

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The Wool Sales. London, August 25

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 August 1882 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day, 10,500 bales were offered. The demand was firmly maintained…

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Fat Cattle by Sea

Evening News · Wednesday 30 August 1882 · page 4

A SMALL trial shipment of 15 head of cattle came forward from Mr. Booker, of Maryborough, Queensland, under the advice of his agents. Messrs. Pitt, Son. and Badgary, and were disposed of on Monday…

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The Wool Sales. London, August 28

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 August 1882 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day 10,100 bales were offered. The market is firm, and the demand active…

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Cattle Sale Days

Evening News · Thursday 31 August 1882 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The adjourned meeting of persons interested in the proposed alteration in cattle sale days was held yesterday forenoon, at the Post Office Cafe. It will be recollected that it had bees proposed to have…

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The Wool Sales. London, August 29

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 August 1882 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day 10,100 bales were offered. The demand was firmly maintained…

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The Wool Sales. London, August 30

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 September 1882 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day 8700 bales were offered. There was less demand, and the market was occasionally easier. Inferior and faulty wools wore rather lower…

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Cardinal M'cabe's Pastoral

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 September 1882 · page 31

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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Cattle Sale Days

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 September 1882 · page 39

THE adjourned meeting of persons interested in the proposed alteration in cattle sale days was held on Wednesday last, at the Post Office [?] It will be recollected that it had been proposed to have only…

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