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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1883

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To-day's Cables. The Hop Crop

Evening News · Tuesday 3 July 1883 · page 2

LONDON, July 8.—The accounts of the hop crop from the various districts continue favourable. The recent fine weather has effected a great improvement in the crop…

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The English Wheat Harvest. London, July 2

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 July 1883 · page 3

The English wheat harvest prospects are favourable, owing to the fineness of the weather during the past month…

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The Hop Crop. London. Julv 2

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 July 1883 · page 3

The hop crop accounts from the growing districts continue favourable. The recent fine weather has effected great improvement…

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Farmers' Meeting at Grafton. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 July 1883 · page 8

The meeting of farmers, convened for the purpose of receiving and consfderine the report of the delegates, was largely attended to-day. There were about 300 farmers present, and representatives were in attendence from all…

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The Hop Crop. London, July 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 July 1883 · page 7

The hop crop accounts from the growing districts continue favourable. The recent fine weather has effected great improvement…

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Sheep and Cattle in Queensland

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 18

The report for the past year of the Chief Inspector of Stock and Brands of Queensland, which was summarised in oar telegraphic column, last issue, contains many interesting details. It shows a large increase in…

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Pastoral Districts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 19

The Walgett Hail of the 29th ultimo says:—Fairly warm days and cold nights still continue in the district; no signs of a change are visible though rain has threatened several times during the week none has fallen. Stock of…

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The Pastoral Outlook

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 20

We are now in receipt of advices from very nearly all the pastoral districts where the lambing is completed, and the results, as a whole, are very fair indeed. The cold, raw weather, of the past two…

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Wheat

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 19

Mr. R. W. Emerson MacIvor, F.I.C., delivered a lecture on Wheat at the Public Hall, Shepparton (Victoria), on Thursday evening, 21et ultimo. Taree was a very large attendance of formers, and the lecturer was most attentively…

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Alderney Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 21

We are glad to notice that a draft of Alderneys is ta be sold in Sydney on or about July 20. Messrs. Hill, Clark and Co. have the matter in hand. The cattle are from a reputable Victorian herd, and they…

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Forthcoming Sheep Sales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 18

At Brunker and "Wolfe's annual sale of stud sheep this month there will be offered a draft of 28 young rams from the Colly Creek, Mr. A. Loder's, stud flock. Several of these rams are prize-takers, and it is…

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The Grazier, Stud Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 20

Our columns, during last and the present week, bear ample evidence of the extraordinary deyelopment of stud sheep sales in the colonies. At first sight, it might seem that the…

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A Big Sheep Country

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 21

As a reason why large areas of Australian territory should not be delivered over to the mercies of huge syndicates, it is reported that Central Queensland is composed of a vast plateau comprising…

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Moore Park Sheep Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 31

We regret to state that the committee of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales have passed a resolution regarding the regulations affecting the sheep section of the forthcoming show at Moore Park which…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 31

Light rains have fallen during the past week in several localities along the coast and in the West and South. There rains, however, have been quickly succeeded by sever frosts, and the spring of grass materially…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraphaph."] GUNNEDAH,Thursday

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 39

Messers.F.Bacon and Co. report:—The weather is cold and frosty. A few light showers fell this week. Pasturage in that portion of the phins past Narrabri.and towards "Walgeet is very bare. Laming reports are very…

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" Australian Climate and Wool." To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 21

SIR,—The article in last "Town and Country Journal," I read with pleasure, alloyed just a little bit by seeing the evident spirit of captiousness which runs through the letter of Mr. Michael Bell from…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 July 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 proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…

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Warwick Farm

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 25

Perhaps few of your readers are aware that we have within a couple of miles of Liverpool one of the most perfect training establishments in the world. At the invitation of Mr. William Forrester, a friend and myself left Sydney…

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Milk-dairying in the Southern Districts. No. I.

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 19

In the farming neighbourhoods extending from Menangle to Moss Vale the production of milk is largely followed, and as the business has been now established in many districts for a great number of years, it is evident that milk-dairying…

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