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Farming & the land, 1884

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Australasian Wheat

Evening News · Monday 27 October 1884 · page 4

LONDON, Ootobor 25.-The quotations for Australasian wheat are unchanged…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 October 1884 · page 11

Sale of a portion of 2944 bales, form Sydney and Queensland, by Charles Blame and Co., on Monday, August 18, 1884:- Ex Caledonien, from Sydney: GRG in diamond New England, 3 scoured combing at 24d, 3 at 23½, 1 at 21d, 3 clothing mixed at…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. COONAMBLE

Evening News · Tuesday 28 October 1884 · page 2

Some excitement was caused on Saturday night, when it became known that a butcher named Thomas Angel in the employment of Mr. Evans had been arrested on a charge of having stolen and killed two…

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Fraud by Rabbiters. (From the Pastoral Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 October 1884 · page 9

At the Denfliquin Circuit Court on October 20, before his Honor Sir William Manning, Robert Jackson, Richard Weston, and Charles Jackson were charged with conspiracy to defraud. They pleaded not guilty…

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Wool Sales.—tuesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 October 1884 · page 10

By the N. Z. L. and M. A. Company.—WNK over T, 25 at 7[?]d, 7 lambs at [?]d: TB over DUN, 26 at 10d, 9 broken at [?]d; D&M, 103 at 9[?]d; [?] over —. 5 at 7¾d; Calga, 203 9d, 12 crossbred at 8¼d, 23 rams at 8¾d, 19 pi[?]s at 6[?]d; Callubri, 74 at [?]d; M&Co…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. COONAMBLE

Evening News · Wednesday 29 October 1884 · page 4

The hearing of the case against Thomas Angel, alias Hobson, who was charged with having stolen and killed two head of cattle, terminated last evening, when the prisoner was committed for trial. Bail…

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Schools of Agriculture and Model Farms

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 October 1884 · page 4

In answering questions submitted in the Assembly yesterday by Mr William Clarke, member for Orange, the Colonial Treasurer stated that it is the intention of the Government to take…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 30 October 1884 · page 6

The annual wool & ales for this season were opened by Messrs. Mort and Co on the lst instant; but buyers and sellers motions of values being some­what out of harmony, .business for a few weeks…

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Wool Sales.—wednesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 October 1884 · page 10

By Mort and Co., Limited.—CWD in square over Collingwood, 16 scoured [?]sts at 19[?]d, 10 scoured [?]sts combing at 18[?]d; MC, 8 grease at 9d; JS over [?] over MDC, 6 grease at 9[?]d; L and S in circle over Pike's Creek, 21 grease at 10[?]d, 5 grease at 10[?]d, 5…

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London Wool and Produce Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 October 1884 · page 9

WOOL.—Messrs. Helmuth Schwar[?]ze and Co. write, under date London, September 17:—"The third series of London sales of colonial wool, which commenced on the 12th August, closed today, the following quantities having been catalogued; Sydney…

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Sale of Stud Sheep at Ercildoune. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 October 1884 · page 8

The seventh annual sale of Sir Samuel Wilson's stud sheep was held at Ercildoune to-day by Meesrs. [?]isken and Gibson. The sale was fairly successful, taking into account the depressing effect of the drought in the northern colonies…

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Pastoral Districts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 889

The country about Kisma is now. looking charming after the recent tabu. Pasture is plentiful, and the crops are flourishing. Business is brisk. Our Gandagai correspondent writes on October 27:—…

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Farmers' Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 22

UNDER this little Messrs. Goldsborough and Co. have issued, in pamphlets form, a series of articles which formerly appeared in a Melbourne contemporary, containing many useful hints to farmers…

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Willowie Pastoral Co

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 12

LONDON, October 24.—The formation of the Willowie Pastoral Company will be announced on Saturday, The capital of the company is fixed at £500,000…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 41

THE annual wool sales for this season, were opened by Messrs. More and Co. on the 1st October; but buyers' and sellers' notions of values being somewhat out of harmony, business for two or three weeks…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 909

Light showers, with occasional durst storms and distinct glimpses of summer, have formed the weather of the week now closing. Many districts have been well favoured in the matter of moisture, but the majority are still…

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Latest Pastoral News. [By Telegraph.] Gunnedah

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 41

Messrs. F. Bacon and Co. report:—Weather hot and dry; herbage going off fust; water supply fair; stock in good condition. Station buyers frig[?]tened at the season. Freeholds in the central division in request. Sheep Demand…

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Wool Auctions in London

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 915

There is no more curious right in the city of London than one of the wool auctions which are now being held every afternoon in the Wool Exchange, Coleman-street. Imaging a large and lofty room, capable of holding about 500 people…

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Sheep’s Horn for Hor[?]-shoes

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 8

A new horse-shoe has lately been experimented with at Lyons, France. The shoe is made entirely of sheep’s horn, and is found particularly adapted to horses employed in…

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Wheat as Pood for Horses

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 890

Regarding the use of wheat as a substitute for maize or oate Mr. A. W. Edlick, a veterinary surgeon, writes to the Weekly limes:—"I wish to state a few facts in regard to wheat as substitute for oats as horse-feed, which I consider…

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