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Farming & the land, 1883

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Pastoral Settlement in Queensland. London, Oct. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 October 1883 · page 7

A company has been projected to purchase and stock a large area of country in the Carandotta district, Queensland. The capital of the company is £250,000…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 October 1883 · page 8

Sale of 1928 bales, from Sydney and Queensland, by Henry P. Hughes and Sons, on Saturday, August 25, 1[?]33:— Ex Traf[?]lgar, from Sydney: G W, 14 at 17[?]d; P[?]pstapa, 12 grease cross[?]ed at 7½d…

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Wool Shipments

Evening News · Friday 2 November 1883 · page 2

The season's wool still continues to come down rapidly, and is being daily despatched for the London market. Of clearances since October 18 the R.M.S. Mirzapore took 605 bales, the Woolhorn 3128…

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Conveyance of Cattle and Sheep by Rail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 834

With reference to the recent complaints made respecting the losses sustained by stockowners, through the present system of trucking by railway to Homebush, we learn from the Railway Department that any…

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Pastoral Districts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 835

The Hay Grazier of October 25 says : — The most cheering news is to hand from all parts, and the rainfall has proved a welcome godsend. It has saved the Northern parts and made the routes practicable. More, however, is…

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Improved Cattle Car

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 20

In view of the suffering which is inflicted upon live stock travelling over our railway lines— suffering which the constant increase in that mode of transit but intensifies— anything which tends to…

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Wool Shipments

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 16

THE season's wool still continues to come down rapidly, and is heine daily despatched for the London market. Of clearances since Ootober 18 the R.M.S. Mirzapore took 605 bales, the Woolhorn 3128…

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An Improved Cattle Car

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 23

The following is from an American journal, the "Railway Age:"—"The American Humane Association has awarded a gold medal to the Burton Stock car company for its improved cattle car. A fund of…

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New Wool Stores

Evening News · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 4

Fifteen months ago B. Goldsbrough and Company (limited), who possess a capital of three millions of money, gave a contract for the erection of a branch establishment in Sydney, the company having hitherto…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 38

Messrs. King and Co. report.-Cattle: 1630 yarded, in cluding one Queensland lot. Prices firmer. Prime pens, £ 10 15s to £ 12 15a; good, £ 9 10s to £ 10 5s. Our sales were 100 head from Gippsland Haddocks. Sheep: 16,000 penned…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather — Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 851

The pastoral districts are in that which may be described as fair condition. The late rains are having effect, and stock are being moved from the droughty to the well-favoured districts. The coast and central districts are pleasingly…

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An Annual Wool Contest

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 836

It will be in the recollection of our readers (save the Queenslander) that in 1881 a friendly contest was arranged between the owners of the Jimbour, Headington Hill, and Yandilla flocks, the conditions being that all sheep should…

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Big Sheep Tallies To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 20

SIR— In your paper of to-day I noticed a letter regarding sheep shearing and tallies done by shearers of the present day. Some of the sheep mentioned in these big tallies would, I believe, pay very well…

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Mems From the Wheat Colony

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 20

A New notes that may be interesting to wheat-growers in this colony are to hand from South Australia. First the rainfall has not been anything like what is looked upon as necessary to…

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Weather-Wool-Movements of Stock

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 21

TAKING the reports of the week all round, from all parts of the colony, it is the best of a most favourable season. She were have fallen again in the metropolitan and coast districts. The northern coast districts,…

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Messrs. Goldsbrough and Co[?]s New Wool Warehouse

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 12

For some time past extensive building operations in connection with the election of a very large wool warehouse for Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Company, Limited, have been carried on at Harris-street, Ultimo, and yesterday…

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Messrs. Goldsbrough and Co.'s ?Limited) Wool Report. Friday, November 2

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 4

We held our opening wool sale of the season this day, when our new premises at Darling Harbour were used for the first time, for the purposes of a sale. We submitted a catalogue of 2770 bales to a full…

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Russia Wants Irish Farmers and Friendship

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 7

The Russian St. Petersburg Gazette thus develops its idea of a Russia-Irish combination against England:— Like all the European States, Russia has been the enemy of…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 November 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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Farm and Garden. Operations Foe November

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 3

KITCHEN GARDEN.—SOW SB last month. Earth up celery. Watch the cauliflowers, cabbages, etc., planted previously, to keep off the aphis. Continue the earthing up of potatoes; any that…

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