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Farming & the land, 1883

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Pickling Seed Wheat

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 259

For many years I followed the usual practice of steeping my seed in a strong solution of brine or urine, and afterwards mixing it with quicklime. On some soils this a preventative of smut; on others, with the same treatment, no such result…

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A Rope From Sheep's Entrails

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 5

A STRONG and durable article of belting is is made at Oakland, California, put of the entrails of sheep. The entrails, which, will aver [?]e about…

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Weight of Wheat Bags

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 19

Circulars from Port Pirie, South Australia, record a debite which took place in the town council there last week on the subject of a reduction in the weight of bags of wheat. A motion was made that the…

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Lenten Pastoral of the Bishop of Maitland

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 18

WE have received a copy of the Lenten Pastoral of the Eight Rev. Dr. Murray, Bishop or Maitland. After an eloquent and earnest exhortation to the clergy and laity to perform works of…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather. Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 271

Since the 1st instant the weather has been remarkably boisterous and wet. Heavy gales have brought heavy showers, and nearly all districts have registered inches of that which very often in Australia is a scarce fluid. The…

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In the Dubbo Pastoral District. January 18

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 21

THE whole country hereabouts may be said to be "suffering a recovery." The effects of the perishing which it underwent during two previous seasons are now rapidly disappearing, and herbage of a very…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Gunnedah

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 37

Messrs. F. Bacon and Co. report:—Good rains have fallen throughout the week, and there is a slight fresh in the Namoi. There is a good demand for all classes of sheep, especially wethers, and also for bullooks for fattening…

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Catholic. Lenten Pastoral by His Grace the Archbishop of Sydney

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 18

ON Sunday last the lenten Pastoral bearing the title " Test Points of a Loyal Spirit," by Roger Bede, Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan, was read in the churches of the archdiocese…

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[?]Ommercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 13

WOOL.—The wooratalongues are becoming smaller. The quality of fleece of[?]ed this week amounted to about 3750 bales, of which 2670 were sold publicly. The attendance of buyers continues [?]ge: and still includes reprentatives…

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Pastoral Letter of the Right Rev. Dr. Quinn, Bishop of Bathurst

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 18

ADDRESSING the clergy and laity of the Diocese of Bathurst, his Lorship Dr. Quinn, after dilating upon the necessity for prayer and fasting and almsgiving, says :-…

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The Grazier. 1883 Wool Sales in London

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 20

Two alterations of some consequence have been made in the first of the 1883 series of sales. In the first plaee there is an alteration of date, the JanuaryFebruary sales commencing this year on the 20th…

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Ecclesiastic. Test [?]ints of a Loyal Spirit. a Enten Pastoral for 1883

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 247

[Read in a churches of the archdiocese on Sunday lest.] Revertend all dear brethren, and dear children in Jesus Christ,…

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Pastoral Occupation in Central Australia. [By Telegraph.] [From Our Own Correspondent.] Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 11

The Barrow's Creek Pastoral Company, who hold a lease for 25 years of 20,000 square miles at Barrow's Creek, are sending 5000 cattle thithor, 2000 of which are coming from Queensland. They intend, when…

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A Goat Dairy

Evening News · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 7

An experiment is now being tried on the Surrey hills which ought not (the "Warehouseman and Draper's Journal" says) to have remained open to experiment, since it should long ago have become an…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 19

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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Failure of Large Poultry Farms

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 259

Being anxious to investigate, as far aB practicable, the conditions which have led to the failure of those poultry farms that have hitherto been established, writes B. B. Tegetmeir in the Field, I embraced the opportunity of…

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High Class Farming in Australia. 1.—A Grain Faem

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 19

WE have pleasure in reproducing from the "Australasian" the following descriptions of farms for which prizes have been awarded in Victoria. Five prizes, value £15, £12, £10, £7 and £4…

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Last Year's London Wool Sales. [Charles Balme and Co.'s Wool Circular.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1883 · page 9

A retrospect the past 12 months reveals a more or less stationary condition of the colonial wool trade and the close correspondence in this respect of the circumstances of the supply and consumption of raw material explains in a great measure the…

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Bathurst Agricultural and Pastoral Association. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1883 · page 8

The annual meeting of the Bathurst Agriculture and Pastoral Association was held to-day, at the Royal Hotel. The Hon. W.H. Suttor presided. There was a good attendance, all interests being well represented. The report…

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Farm Produce

Evening News · Tuesday 13 February 1883 · page 2

At the Darling Harbour railway terminus this morning there is a moderate supply forage; business generally dull Hunter River lucerne hay is selling at from £3 to £4 per ton, of various qualities; maize,…

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