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Farming & the land, 1885

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Reminders in Sheep Washing

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 23

Being a constant reader of your valuable journal I observe that your columns are always open to whatever you may consider to benefit the public, and as the season is now approaching, I beg you may kindly…

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Wheat-blown Horses

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 23

A Queensland miller gave a valuable horse a food of wheat unprepared in any way, and unmixed with chaff. The animal, though attempting to do his work afterwards, was ovidently very ill, and died the…

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The Pastoral on the Month of Mary

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 3

The heads of the Papal Church are exceedingly fond of working up little bits of sentimentality and word play, to tickle the more fanciful of their votaries, most…

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The June Wool Sales

Evening News · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 4

LONDON, May 15.—The limit of the quantity of wool to be offered at the June sales has been reached…

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The Grazier. A Look-in at Some Pastoral Homesteads

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 22

A few items just now upon some of the stations and farms in portions of the Murray and Murrumbidgee districts may not be uninteresting to the readers of your widely circulated JOURNAL. A few…

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TELEGRAMS. Drought in S. Australia. the Wheat Crop. Water Conservation and the Consequences. Adelaide

Evening News · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 4

Grave alarm is caused among all classes by the continued drought at this period, when rain is urgently required to give a good start to the growing seed, and to replace the dead grass on the arid pastoral…

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Dubbo Sheep Movements. (By Telegraph. From Our Correspondent.) Dubbo

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 13

The following mobs of sheep passed here to-day:—1400 odd fat sheep, the property of Mr. John Lehaine, of Narrabri, Cornelius Lehaine in charge, Messrs. Hill, Clark, and Company,…

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

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 23

Carcoar, Dubbo, Cobar, Louth, and Moruya report rain during the week; but the general weather of the colony has been bleak, wintry, and dry. Very good reports of the lambing are coming in…

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Machinery for the Dairy

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 1015

A SIMPLE BUTTER-MAKING MACHINE. COMPACT HORSE-POWER…

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Lucerne—One of our Grandest Crops

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 21

Lucerne is fully deserving of the foregoing title. It is a grand crop, and its value is well understood in many parts of the country. Wherever the climate is not too cold for it, there the cultivation of lucerne…

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Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 May 1885 · page 5

Loudon, May 17.--Australian wheat on the passage is quoted at 35 6d to 36s 6d…

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The Wheat Market

Evening News · Monday 18 May 1885 · page 4

LONDON, May 16.—The wheat market is dull The quotations are ex warehouse 37s 6d per 4961b, on the passage from 35s to 37s 3d per 4801b; latest May cargos 37s…

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Northern Territory of South Australia. Sale of Pastoral Leases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 May 1885 · page 2

The leases for 25 years of about 79,000 square miles of pastoral lands in the Northern Territory will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Offive, Adelaide, on WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1885…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 May 1885 · page 8

Messrs. Geelan and Wilson started to-day for Goulburn with 300 head store and fat cattle. BREWARRINA, SATURDAY. The weather is still warm, but clearer. The local stock…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 May 1885 · page 8

The local stock movements are—15,000 mixed sheep have crossed the border from Cubbie to Batterbone, Macquarie River—Mr. Hurtle Fisher, owner: 8000 store sheep started from Angledool to Bourke—Mr. Newcomen, owner; 170…

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The Hop Crop

Evening News · Tuesday 19 May 1885 · page 4

LONDON, May 18.—The frosts are causing considerable injury to the hop crop…

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The Hop Crop. London, May 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 May 1885 · page 7

The frosts are causing considerable injury to the hop crop…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Wiseman's Ferry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 May 1885 · page 10

The local stock crossings to-day, were 140 fat cattle from the Hunter River district far Homebush, Messrs. Onus and Keys, owners. GUNDAGAI, TUESDAY…

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The Advance on Handub. Capturing Arabs and Sheep. Patriotic Natives. the Australian Stores. Some One Loots Their Tea. Drinks Their Rum and Whisky

Evening News · Wednesday 20 May 1885 · page 3

SUAKIM, Easter Monday. April 6.—At 6 o'clock this morning the New S. Wales force and the Cold-stream Guards, with a small detachment of the mounted infantry as an escort, left the headquarters…

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