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Farming & the land, 1885

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Sale of Ayrshire Cattle

Evening News · Thursday 1 January 1885 · page 3

About as fine a lot at young Ayrshire cattle as ever landed in the colony are now on view in the bazaar of Messrs. Brown Bros, and Co., Castlereagh-street, where they will be sold on Friday. The lot comprises…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Walgett

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 January 1885 · page 5

The weather is very dry. The stock routes are bare in consequence of large number of travelling stock. The following are the latest stock movements:—4400 fat wethers from Christian's Brindingabba Station on the Paroo, to…

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The Weather and Crops at Young

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 January 1885 · page 4

YOUNG, Thursday,--New wheat is coming in freely, The local price is from 2s 10d to 3s in the latter price is given for most samples. The grain is full and well-grown, especially toe earlier sown…

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Pastoral Districts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1885 · page 19

The weather in the Albury district continues dry and the temperature extraordinarily low for the time of the year. The pastures are beginning to look a little dry away from the water frontages, bat there is…

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Disease in Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 January 1885 · page 23

Some time ago a disease broke out amongst a large flock of lambs, commencing around the mouth and nostrils, also on the gums, like small-pox increasing into one mass of scab, going right up the nostrils and…

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Sale of Ayrshire Cattle

Evening News · Saturday 3 January 1885 · page 5

On Friday Messrs. Brown, Bros., and Co. held a highly satisfactory sale of imported Ayrshire cattle in their horse and cattle bazaar, Castieveagh-street. The mob comprised 35 head of pure-bred Ayrshire cows…

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Warts on Horses and Cattle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1885 · page 19

Warts differ very much in position, and also in their form and modes of attachment. Sometimes they are situated places which are most exposed to pressure from some parts of the harness: at other times they are out of the way of…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1885 · page 35

The early publication of this week's issue consequent upon the coming holiday limits our observations anent the weather to the 30th ultimo. Up to that date no change from the long-maintained dryness took place, so it…

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The Wool Production of Australasia

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1885 · page 19

The final of the four series of colonial wool sales far the year commenced in London on the 11th of November last. These concluding series are always much the shortest in duration, for the reason that the clip of the previous…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Cabcoar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1885 · page 12

The stook movements in this district are as under:—9750 rams and ewes, Mr.Samuel M'Coy, of Deniliquin, owner, are passing near Canowindra, en route to Bathurst, Edward Cane in ohsrge; 7067 worriers, Mr. J. Rutherford, of…

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The Grazier. A Sheep Disease Described. Practical Appliance of Microscopical Science

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 January 1885 · page 22

Dr. Von Lendenfeld, who has been studying the lower marine animals, the sponges, and jellyfish of the Australian waters for the last three years, and who has been publishing the results of his…

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Weather, Wool, Movements of Stock. the Week's News by Telegraph and Mail

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 January 1885 · page 23

Summer in earnest is now upon us. There has been little rain, showers only being reported during the week. Westerly and north-westerly gales have prevailed, adding much to the distress of the districts…

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The Dairy

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1885 · page 18

In connection with oar last week's article descriptive of the Pioneer Batter Factory, Kiama, it is noteworthy that at the recent trials held in London, at the Dairy Show, the Laval separator beat the Danish, but not by many marks…

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The Crops in the Junee and Harefield District

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1885 · page 35

Few travellers between Junee Junction—that great temporary stopping-place for the Sydney, Melbourne, and Hay train—and Wagga Wagga would scarcely imagine that a grand track of richly cultivated country almost bounded the…

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Field, Farm, and Garden Reminders for January. (We invite seasonable notes for this Department from all parts of the country.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 January 1885 · page 21

WEATHER ETC.—The usually dry, unsatisfactory weather of December has been intensified this year by the parching winds of the early part of the month. Such weather is likely to last, unless relieved by…

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Australasian Wheat

Evening News · Monday 5 January 1885 · page 2

LONDON, January 4.—The wheat market is steadily rising. New Australian wheat (January to February bills of lading) is gelling at 35s 6d, and February to March at 36s per 4801b c.f.i…

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The Wheat Market

Evening News · Monday 5 January 1885 · page 2

LONDON, January 3.—Wheat is is dearer in all positions…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Nyngan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1885 · page 8

Four thousand mixed sheep, the property of Messrs. O'Keden and Brown, M'Kay in charge, going to Narromine for grass, are wailing for trucks, which will not be here before Monday or Tuesday, and then cattle waggons will…

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A Mad Love. Chapter Ii.—"what! Marry a Farmer?"

Evening News · Monday 5 January 1885 · page 4

One can imagine the sensation that a bright, beautiful eagle would produce in a dove's nest; the presence of that beautiful imperious child at the farm was very much…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1885 · page 8

Sale of 700 bales, from Sydney, by Charles Balme and Co.:- Ex Centurion, from Sydney: H&B over O. 14 scoured at 20d; IVO, 25 combings at 14d; MM?&Co, 6 grease comning at 9½d, 4 at 9d; DM over W, 15 combing hoggests at 9d, 10 combings at 8½d;…

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