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Farming & the land, 1882

1,140 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 57

Handy Boxes for the Farm

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 23

THE next thing to a good basket about the farm is a properly made box, and for many purposes boxes are preferable. They are cheaper and will last a long time. Fig. 1 represents a box holding about one bushel. Strips…

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Farming Notes

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 21

[?]T has been severe amongst the sugar cane on he Clarence this year; yet the arushing is turning ut fairly well. The severe frosts lately experienced in the…

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Farm and Garden Memoranda for October, 1882

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 20

DROUGHT has become almost chronic in New South Wales. No year passes without drought of greater or less severity in some portion, at least, of our territory. A general drought is now a calamity o…

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Ostrich Farming

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 10

LONDON, September 21.—The consignment [?] Ostrich feathers by the Orient steamer Liguria, from the Cape, realised £300. They arrived in excell[?]at condition…

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British and Foreign News. (From Our London Correspondent, and Through Router's Agency.) The Egygitian Cotton Crop

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 10

LONDON, September 19.—The yield of cotton during the present season is estimated to show a decrease of at least 40 per cent, on the average of previous years. This is partly attributable to…

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The French Wheat Harvest

Evening News · Tuesday 3 October 1882 · page 2

LONDON, October 2.-The wheat harvest in France amounts to 116 million hectolitres…

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The French Wheat Harvest. London, Oct. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 October 1882 · page 7

The wheat harvest in France amounts to 116 million hectolitres…

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[?]Enry Austin's Annual Wool Circular. Sydney, September [?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 October 1882 · page 9

The least sensational, probably the most [?] season ever known closes to-day. Judicious withdrawals and careful nursing of a market never very strong have successfully warded off the frequent attempts that have been made to bring…

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The Price of Cattle

Evening News · Wednesday 4 October 1882 · page 3

Although cattle realise fancy prices in the Victorian markets at the present time, the money received is (says the "Pastoral Times") not all profit to the vendor. The cost of fright, droving…

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New Wheat Country

Evening News · Wednesday 4 October 1882 · page 3

The Herberton Q., "Advertiser" is informed by Mr. Groynne, now engaged in surveying near Scrubby Greek, that be has discovered a tract of country in the scrub extending about fifty miles by…

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 4 October 1882 · page 4

LONDON, October 2.-The wool sales close to-morrow. The total quantity sold has been 320,000 bales, and 40,000 bales have been held over to the next sales. Good qualities of wool…

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The Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 October 1882 · page 12

It is now painfully apparent to thoso who are interested in the condition of the cultivated plots and natural pastures of the colony that August and September of this year have been remarkably uupropitious to farmers and…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 5 October 1882 · page 2

LONDON, October 3.-The wool sales closed to-day. The total quantity offered during the series was 345,000 bales, and 41,000 bales were held over to next sales. The quantity sold for…

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London Wool Telegram

Evening News · Thursday 5 October 1882 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan sad Mercantile Agency Co. has received the following telegram, from London, dated October 2.-The wool sales closed firmly at the level of last series on 2nd instant…

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Protection and Wheat-growing. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 October 1882 · page 5

Sir,—Whenever the question of protection and free trade crops up here, we always have the old stock arguments of the protectionists in comparisons drawn between New South Wales and Victoria and unfavourable to us. We are…

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The Dairy. Butter Workers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 October 1882 · page 21

AN article on this subject has been contributed to the "Rural New Yorker" by Mr. H. Steward, who contends that the working of butter after it is taken from the churn is one of the most important of dairy…

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Sheep and Improved Farming

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 October 1882 · page 19

SHEEP have played a most important part in the improvement of the soil in all civilized countries. At an early period sheep were kept mostly for their wool, but as population increased, and greater demand was…

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A Knowing Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 October 1882 · page 23

According to a New York paper, Mr. A. H. Clark has a sheep which during the summer was pastured with some calves in an apple orchard adjoining the house. There were several trees in the orchard well…

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The Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 October 1882 · page 12

LONDON, September 27.—At the wool sales to-day, 11,100 bates were offered; the market is steady, but not active. LONDON, October 2.—The wool sales close…

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The French Wheat Harvest

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 October 1882 · page 11

LONDON, October 2.—The wheat harvest in France amounts to 116 million hectolitres…

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