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Farming & the land, 1884

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultureal Association's Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Yass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 September 1884 · page 14

The fourteenth annual show of the Yass Pastroal and Agricultural Association was held yesterday, and considering the past bad seasons, it was fairly successful. There were about 600 persons on the show ground. In…

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Mort and Co.'s (Limited) Monthly Wool and Produce Circular

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 September 1884 · page 39

WOOL.—So far as we can judge from the arrivals of new wool to date, the season of 1884 will not open so early as we were led to expect, only 18,556 bales having been received as against 20,580 bales to the same date last year. It…

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

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 September 1884 · page 22

ALTHOUGH nice showers are reported from Bourke. Gunnedah, Nymagee, Dubbo, Mudgee, and other important pastoral centres, the general tenor of the reports this week is by no means so good as would…

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Profitless Dairying

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 September 1884 · page 21

THE following figures and statement, attributed to a Mr. A. S. Heath and published in the AMERICAN DAIRYMAN, are almost sufficient to stagger or take one's breath away; yet there must be a considerable…

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Australasian Wheat

Evening News · Monday 15 September 1884 · page 5

LONDON, September 13.-Several cargoes of Australian and New Zealand wheat hare arrived in bad condition…

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 15 September 1884 · page 5

LONDON, September 12.-At the wool sales to-day about 8500 bales were offered. The market was firm. LONDON, September 13.-At the wool sales…

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The Beetroot Crop

Evening News · Monday 15 September 1884 · page 5

LONDON, September 13.-The total beetroot crop in Europe for the forthcoming season is estimated at 2,550,000 tons…

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The Beetroot Crop in Europe. London, Sept. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 September 1884 · page 7

The total beetroot crop in Europe for the forthcoming season is estimated at 2,550,000 tons…

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Australian Wheat

Evening News · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 2

LONDON, September 15.—The wheat market continues dull and depressed. The quotation for "off coast" cargoes remains at 33s 9d for 4801b, ex ship…

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Scab among Sheep. CARCOAR

Evening News · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 2

At a meeting pf the Sheep Board to-day, it was decided to recommend that the country between Blayney and Carcoar, on the left side of the road (including such road), and on the left…

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Scab in Sheep. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 4

Sir,—I have road an article signed by Mr. W. A. Brodribb, in your issue of the 11th instant, relative to the report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the recent outbreak of scab. He asserts that the…

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Grape Crop Destroyed by Frost

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 5

In confirmation of the telegram which appeared in our issue of Saturday respecting the damage done to the vineyards aud gardens at Byde by the severe frost of Thursday night, our correspondent,…

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 18 September 1884 · page 2

LONDON, September 17.—The wool sales closed to-day firmly, great steadiness having been shown throughout. Inferior and ordinary kinds closed at the June rates, while the quotations for…

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The Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 September 1884 · page 5

London, September 16.--To-day 6900 bales were offered. The market continues firm. An artesian flow of water has been met with at a spot which is some six miles up the Nepean…

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The Wool and Other Traffic

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 September 1884 · page 5

The traffic this extension will secure is of the utmost importance. If we are reminded of the resources of this part of the Riverina, we will be able to form some idea of the extent of its traffic…

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Sheep, Mutton Clubs, and Sheeps[?]ring in India

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 September 1884 · page 11

Sir Patrick Jennings, president of the New South Wales Commission for the Cal[?] International Exhibition, has placed at our disposal for publication an extract from a letter received from a correspondent, at one time a Queensland…

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ALBURY and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show. (From Our Own Reporter. [?] Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 September 1884 · page 11

Perhaps no agricultural society in New South Wales or Victoria has made of late greater progress in every direction than that whose headquarters are in the Federal City of Australia Three years ago the society was composed of…

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The Jerilderie Railway Opening. the Riverina Wool Traffic. an Extraordinary Departmental Blunder. [By Telegraph.]

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 September 1884 · page 5

JERILDERIE, Wednesday.--Without any demonstration in the form of Ministerial and special trains, public addresses, banquets and balls, influx of metropolitan official and non-official vistors,…

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Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show. [By Telegram.] (From Our Own Reporter.) Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 September 1884 · page 10

Queen's weather prevailed to-day, and as was anticipated the show resulted in a grand success. A special train from Wagga Wagga brought near 200 people, and another special from Wangaratta and [?]chworth brought [?]…

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Pastoral Districts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 September 1884 · page 577

Splendid rain has fallen in Carcoar. In Gupdagai, the weather is fine, and the grass and crops are growing luxuriantly. Last week several slight falls of enow occurred in…

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