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Farming & the land, 1883

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Sydney Wool Trade

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 21
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We present our readers with a sketch of Mr. Bridge's new wool stores at Darling Harbour railway station, now in course of erection and to be ready for the coming season, Messrs. Blackett Bros. being the…

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London Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 11

LONDON, June 15.—At the wool sales to-day 12,100 bales were offered. Prices were steady, but the market was inactive. LONDON, June 18.—At the wool sales to-day…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 1192

That which may be described as dry, seasonable weather has been experienced during the past week. A few districts have received showers. Kiandra, in the region of snow, registered as much as 1.52 inch; Carcoar 32, and Orange…

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The Great North-Wester a Pastoral Country

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 21

THAT banks, syndicates, and large speculative companies (many of them with their basis outside the colonies) are monopolising the bulk of the pastoral areas of Australia is well known. That they would…

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A Wool Scouring Case

Evening News · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 5

At the Supreme Court yesterday, before his Honor the Chief Justice and a jury of four, the case of Topham v. Alison and others, was determined. The plaintiff is a woolscourer, and sued the defendants…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence [By Electric Telegraph.] Gunnedah

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 38

Messrs. F. Bacon and Co. report: The weather is [?] Frosts are general. The miss is not growing. Stock are looking well. For sheep the demand and very brisk, particularly for weathers and breeding ewes. Suitable lots are…

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The Seed Wheat for Coast Districts

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 20

IN last issue it was stated that our agricultural editor had reported that in his opinion the wheat from Queensland was of some what similar character to the Indian wheat, which had been previously…

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The Wool Sales. London. June 21

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day, 8500 bales were offered. The market is steady, but not active. The auctions close to-morrow. The total quantity sold has been 310,000 bales ; the…

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The Naturalist. Insect Dairy Farms

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 27

THE "Live Stock Journal" says truly that one of the hardest facts in natural history for the incredulous to swallow is, that those types of industry—the ants—have their dairy cattle, which they do not…

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Greek Crop Manuring

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 20

On light and sandy soils whose porous nature renders their retention of the most valuable fortilizers rather uncertain from the action of heavy rain, it is found more serviceable to call…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 20

We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, and stock as their experience has p[?]ved to be useful. By writing for this journal…

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Fire at Farmer and Co.'s Drapery Establishment

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 1192

Messrs. Farmer and Co.'s magnificent "Victoria House" premises, in Pitt-street, had a very narrow escape on Tuesday night from destruction by fire. It appears that shortly after 6 o'clock, through some defect in the gasfitting arrangements,…

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milk-dairying in the Camden District. III

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 1170

Camden Park, in the occupation of Mrs. Onslow, consists of a large extent of rich agricultural and pastoral country, the bulk of which is leased in the tenantry interest, the remaining portion being worked in connection with the homestead and…

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Farmers and Produce Agents

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 1171

Our Grafton correspondent writes on the 16th instant:— The maize bag question is the all-engrossing topic of the day here, and meetings are being held everywhere in the farming districts to protest against the rule of selling the…

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Bathurst Farmers' Union. JUNE 19

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 1171

At a special meeting of the Fanners' Union, held on Thursday last, several subjects of interest were brought under consideration. It was stated in my last communication that the A. H. and P. Association had, after mature…

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[?]arm and Garden. the Chemist in the Dairy

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 2

A LECTURE has been delivered at the Munster Agricultural and Dairy School on the “Chemistry. of milk and butter,” by Mr. Farrington, F. C. S., lecturer on chemistry to the…

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Fire at Farmer and Co.'s

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 39

WHAT might have proved one of the most disastrous fires that have occurred in Sydney for years took place last Monday at Victoria House, the extensive drapery establishment of Messrs. Farmer and Co.,…

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The Farmers and the Produce Agents

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 20

THERE seems to be chr[?] dissatisfaction between the produce agents or salesmen and th[?] clients, the producers. Not very long[?]s there Was…

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 25 June 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Jane 23.—The London colonial, wool sales closed yesterday, the tone of the market being firm. The total quantity catalogued during the series was 340,000 bales, half of which…

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