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Farming & the land, 1883

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Friday 14 September 1883 · page 2

LONDON, September 12.—At the wool sales, to-day, 130,000 bales were offered. There was good demand…

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The Wool Sales. London, September 12

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 September 1883 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day 130,000 bales were offered. There was a good demand…

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A Farmers' Banquet. INVER[?]

Evening News · Friday 14 September 1883 · page 2

A BANQUET was given last night at little Plain to Mr. W. Gilhome in recognition of his services as farmers' delegate in the recent railway deputation to Sydney. The affair was very successful,…

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Pastoral Districts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 499

In the Mudgee district the weather has been stormy and changeable. Lambing is general, and in many instances concluded. The returns are good; the best for years. Mr. J. D. Cox, of Cullenbone, obtained the extraordinary yield…

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American Wheat Crop

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 11

NEW YORK, September 12— The Agricultural Bureau's monthly report estimates the crop of wheat to be 12 per cent, below that of last year…

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Milk and Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 19

IN your issue of the 18th August I find that a Mr. H. Peterson, of the Fresh Food and Ice Company (Limited), delivered a lecture at the Technical College, School of Arts, on " Milk and Butter." With…

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Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 11

LONDON, September 6— At the wool sales today 8000 bales were offered for sale. The market was steady but not active. The withdrawals amount to 20,000 bales…

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Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association. Wagga

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 510

The nineteenth stock exhibition of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association was held here to-day. The show, both with regard to the quality of the stock and the number of exhibits, compares favourably with former years. As…

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Germs of Cattle Disease

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 19

AN important discovery is said to have been made by a French scientist (M. Aime Gerard), by which be proposes not only to destroy the germs of disease in the dead bodies of cattle, but…

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A Home-made Butter-Worker

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 501

A farmer writes to the American Agriculturist:—"I have used the bntter-worker described below for four years, and like it very much. My sink is in a little unfinished room, and has a bench adjoining it. About midway of this…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 510

Moderately cool weather has been experienced throughout the colony daring the past week. Light showers have fallen in several localities, of which Bendemeer, Walcha, Coonabarabran, Newcastle, Euston, Bodalla, Newcastle, and…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] Gunnedah

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 37

Messrs. F. Bacon and Co. report — 12 points of rain fell here yesterday. The downpour was heavier down the Namoi and on the Castlereagh. Stock generally are in low condition. Sheep are not in active demand, through the…

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The Grazier. Wool Prospects

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 20

ERE this is published, nearly, if not quite one-half of the quantity catalogued for the August-September sales in London will have passed, the hammer. As the series proceeds, and it is in the face of an…

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Sale of Stud Sheep in Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 499

The annual sheep sales were concluded on the 7th instant, when some very high-class stud merino rams and ewes, from Tasmania and South Australia, were disposed of. King William, a fine three-year-old ram of the Bellevue stud, was…

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The Wool Sales. London, September 13

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day, 11,700 bales were offered. The market was firm. The withdrawals up to date amount to 27,750 bales…

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Ayrshire Cattle. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 500

Sir,—In your issue of 28th July is an article on "PORT OF FREMANTLE.Ayrshire battle," in which you give the following: quotation, from a letter which was published in the Melbourne Leader, sighed "An Ayrshire Man":—…

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Starving Sheep. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 500

Sir,—Being a subscriber to your paper for this last 15 years, will you kindly grant me a space in yam valuable columns, re starvation, and death therefrom, amongst sheep, so called one of the great outcomes of wealth of our colonies…

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The Liver-Fluke and Prevention of Rot in Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 20

THE liver-rot, fluke, or " bane " has been known among sheep, and its ravages dreaded, from early times, and Australia, unfortunately, has suffered equally with other places. There have been many…

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Weather- Wool-Stock Movements. Notes in Brief

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 21

NOTHING special from the London sales. The best feature is that there are comparatively few withdrawals. Little doing in the colonial sale rooms as yet. Small…

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The Trensnrv, Queensland, 13th July, 1883. Annual Pastoral Rent List for 1883

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 5

The attention of Crown Lesses and others is directed to the Quueensland Government Gazette of 13th July, 1883, containing a List of all Pastoral Rents due and payable at the Treasury on or before the 30th September, 1883…

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