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Farming & the land, 1884

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Latest Pastoral News. (By Telegraph,) Tamworth

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 40

Messrs. Nathan Cohen and Co. report:—We sold by auction to-day at our yards 2000 aged ewes at 7s, 5000 store wethers at 7s 10d, 20 bullocks at £9 9s, and 100 medium fats at £12. There is a very heavy inquiry for every…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 235

The midwinter of this year is mainly remarkable for the extraordinary variations of weather which it has brought about. Summer-like days are followed by frosty nights, which in turn are succeeded by excessive moisture in the…

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Sheep on Our Railways—cruelwork. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 23

Sir,—Having upon various occasions; travelled N.S.W. railways lines with fat stock for the Sydney markets, I find that sheep while en route undergo great sufferings, indead a great deal more than most…

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Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 9

WOOL.—No public business was done this week. Only fellmongered parcels of wool are now in the market, and for these there is a good demand at well-maintained rates. The usual fortnightly sales will be held next week…

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The Grazier. Improvements in Australian Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 22

AT a recent meeting of the Linnean Society of N.S. Wales, held in Sydney, Mr. P. N. Trebeek gave a highly valuable address on the improvements effected by the Australian climate, soil, and culture,…

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Orange Sheep Sale. (Bt Telegraphy From Our Correspondent.) Orange

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 14

MESSRS. Burke, Coulson, and Naylor, held their annual sale of stud and flock sheep yesterday. There was a very large attendance of buyers from every part of the district. Indeed, never previously' has there been such, a gathering…

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Weather, Wool, Movements of Stock. the Week's News in Brief

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 23

THE coast districts have again had heavy rain. Sydney again seem the centre from which it radiated north and south, and here it was very heavy during Saturday and Sunday. Showers fell inland as far as…

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Lecture on Dairying

Evening News · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 3

On Thursday night Mr. R. W, Emerson MacIvor, F.R.C.S., delivered a lecture in the hall of the Technical College at the School of Arts on "The dairy and its products." He stated that he had to deal with the…

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Farm and Garden Reminders for August

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 18

FIELD.—Sorghum, maize, tobacco, and turnips, may be sown. Cotton seed should also be sown, and tobacco seed in beds which have been richly manured. The passage of the roller over wheat…

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The Hunter River Farmers' Association. JULY 26

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 219

The sixth half-yearly meeting of the above was held in the School of Arts, Morpeth, last Tuesday, 22nd instant. Prior to the meeting the committee and friends had a social luncheon together at a local hotel, at which there were…

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Farm and Garden. Cultivation of the Rose

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 3

At a meeting of the Gardeners’ Society of South Australia held on July 17. Mr. E. Smith, a gentleman of large experience in rose cultivation, read a…

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Farmers on the Land Bill. (By Telegraph. From Our Correspondent.) Albury

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 13

A PUBLIC meeting was held last night in the Farmers' Home Hotel, Burrumbuttock, to consider the Land Bill. Mr. Zweik, chairman of the Hume Farmers' Union, presided. The meaning of…

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Farm and Garden Memoranda for August, 1884. FIELD

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 21

WHEAT.—After all is said and done, wheat, in the absence of rust, or of some other disease of equal or nearly equal virulence, is the most profitable crop that our ordinary class of settlers can manage. Of…

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Butter from Mud

Evening News · Monday 4 August 1884 · page 7

At a meeting (reported in the TIMES) recently held in London, in aid of a charitable institution, and presided over by the Duke of Westminster[?] Mr. Quintin Hogg, speaking of bad food as one of the…

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Australasian Wheat

Evening News · Monday 4 August 1884 · page 4

LONDON, August 2.—Several "off coast" cargoes of Australasian wheat have been sold at from 39s to 39s 3d…

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The Wheat Market

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 August 1884 · page 5
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London, August 3.--The price of wheat rose from 6d. to 9d. lat[?]y but has again declined, owing to the favourable weather on the coast. It is now quoted as 3s. 6d…

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Loudon Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 August 1884 · page 5

Sale of 3637 bales, from Sydney and Queenslands by Helmuth, Schwartze and Co., on Wednesday, May 21, 1884:- Ex Glendower, Westmeath, Cimba, Christina Thompson, Aberdeen, Abergeldie, and Orient, from Sydney; MAC in…

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Wool Sales.—

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 August 1884 · page 5

By Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Limited.—CB in diamond over Waterloo Mills, 20 bales scoured super AA at 16¾d, 8 bales scoured AA at 14d. 7 scoured A at 10d, 6 scoured crossbred AA at 11d; [?] over 1 field, 7 scoured at 13d; B[?] Dandoo,…

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Trespasses by Sheep. DUBBO

Evening News · Tuesday 5 August 1884 · page 2

During the past week considerable interest has been manifested in a trespass action brought by Mr. John Tink, of Binalong, against Mr. Francis Smith, J.P., of Cambooglecumbong, Mr. Howard…

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