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Farming & the land, 1882

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The Wool Sales. London, September 22

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 September 1882 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day, 8,500 bales were offered. The market was quiet. The following telegrams are from other sources :--…

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The Wool Sales. London, September 23

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 September 1882 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day, 10,000 hales were offered. The market is quiet. The following telegrams are from other sources:--…

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How to Slaughter Cattle. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 September 1882 · page 4

Sir,—The revolting revolutions recently made with reference to the maladroit method of killing cattle for the Jews appear, so far us I can at present ascertain, to be unlikely to lead to any reformatory results, unless that useful…

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A Wool Transaction

Evening News · Thursday 28 September 1882 · page 2

At the District Court yesterday, before Mr. District Court Judge Josephson, Mr. H. G. Lomax. of Erowanbank, Carcoar, sued Messrs. Trebeckand Co., Sydney, to recover a sum of money alleged to be due…

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The Wool Sales. London, September 20

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 September 1882 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day, 8800 bales were offered. The market was steady, hat the demand was inactive. The following telegrams are from other…

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Rise in Fat Cattle

Evening News · Friday 29 September 1882 · page 2

At Homebush sales yesterday a short supply of fat cattle was yarded, and prices rose 15s per head; best beef making 27s 6d per 1001b…

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Farm Produce

Evening News · Friday 29 September 1882 · page 2

At the Darling Harbour railway terminus this morning there was only a short supply of forage forward from the intermediate country stations along the western and southern lines. Business was…

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Fine Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 19

As an instance of what Queensland pastures can do, together with good breeding, King and Cuningham report the sale in Melbourne, on the 13th instant, of 135 head of cattle for Messrs. D. Macgregor and Co.,…

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The Fat Cattle Trade

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 19

IT being well to hear all sides of a question of such moment as that regarding the cattle trade, the following sent by a correspondent is welcome:- Th matter of pastoral interest which has been agitating…

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London Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 11

LONDON, September 21.—At the wool sales, to-day, 11,400 bales were offered. There was a les[?] demand, and prices were occasionally easier, scoured especially being neglected; 22,250 bales…

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Wool and Woolsorters

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 19

I HAVe often been surprised that there has not been a woolsorters association organised in Sydney. It is strange that such a valuable and useful body of men as woolsorters have never formed themselves into a…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 576

Another dry week lias to be added to the long list which this year's record presents. On the coast the weather is more like that which usually falls to the lot of midsummer than the first weeks of spring. Hot winds and duststorme…

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Sheep at the Midland Show, Tasmania

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 555

The show of sheep (says the Tasmanian, of the 16th instant) without doubt was a grand one, and though not superior to last year's, was but little inferior. The display was almost exclusively confined to merinos, as the other…

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Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 9

WOOL.—No business was done in our staple product this week. The new clip is coming forward freely. The opening sales of the season are likely to take place towards the end of next month…

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Direct Shipments of Wool to America

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 576

The agents of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company are not unmindful of the advantages which may arise to both buyers and sellers of wool by the facilities which a direct steam service to America affords. In this issue, by…

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The Wool Sales. London, September 27

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day, 11,100 bales were offered. The market is steady, but not active. September 28…

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WHEAT c. Tea. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 1

Sir,--Mr. Heydon's proposal to reduce or dispense with the duty on tea and place a Protective duty or wheat, is a transference of duty on what is not essential as food to what is, and is therefore opposed…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 September 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 bo useful. By writing for this journal…

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Australian Farming

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 18

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Farmers and their Agents

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 554

Although a very long period has elapsed since the farmer of the West and South first commenced to publicly express their dissatisfaction with the practices of metropolitan agents, very little has actually been…

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