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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1886

2,201 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 111

Agricultural and Pastoral. the Improvement of Agricultural Plants

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 April 1886 · page 3

Most of the plants cultivated by formers have had their characters materially modified by cultivation and the art of man, and in the majority of cases the changes…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1886 · page 7

The stock crossings yesterday from Muswellbrook for Riverstone were 800 fat wethers, Mr. B. Richards owner…

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Pastoral

Evening News · Wednesday 28 April 1886 · page 6

FORBES.—There are no movements of stock to chronicle, and business is in its normal condition dull. The weather has completely cleared. All signs of rain Lave disappeared. The days are very…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 April 1886 · page 12

Sale of 1946 bales, from Sydney and Queensland, by Jacomb, Son, and Co., on Wednesday, 3rd February 1886:- Ex Derwent, from Sydney: W in circle, 1 scoured black at 19½d, 24 scoured at 13½ 13 at 12d, 6 at 10[?]d, 5 at 10d, 9 at 9½d,…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 April 1886 · page 10

Right hundred head of cattle, on route to Illawarra [?] from Richmond River, [?] Camden this [?]…

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Farm and Dairy Produce

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 April 1886 · page 7

At the railway terminus yesterday moderate supplies were forward, the consignments consisting of some 85 trucks. There was a fair attendance of buyers, and the market all…

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The Price of Wool. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 April 1886 · page 7

Sir.—The facts given about the above chief colonial product by Mr. W. S. Findlay, in your issue of the 12th instant, are of a very serious character. Do our legislators realise the present state of the pastoral in[?]rest? Do the…

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The Dilemma of the Farmers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 April 1886 · page 4

The farmers of the colony are at the present time called to exercise their judgment upon a political question of great concern to their permanent interest,…

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Tax on Farm Produce. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 April 1886 · page 3

Sir,--You will, perhaps pardon me if I commence my letter with a simile, "a satyr out one winter's morning discovered a man blowing upon his fingers, and requested to know the…

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Pastoral. Weather, Wool, Stock Movements, &c

Evening News · Thursday 29 April 1886 · page 5

WAGGA WAGGA.—Stock movements: 9000 ewes (Parson, and Dills) from Kiandra to Toganmain, H. Moore in charge. 5000 (A. A. Devlin's) from Snubba to Oara, W. Shelley in charge. 3673 mothers…

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Pastoral

Evening News · Thursday 29 April 1886 · page 6

BATHURST.—Land ia still fetching good prices, especially allotments toward Milltown and the railway station. The stock marietta unaltered. Cattle remain at about the same. Sheep are…

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The Weather.—pastoral and Agricultural

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 April 1886 · page 6

The last fortnight has materially brightened the prospects of graziers and agriculturists. Mild weather having followed rain, there are pleasing prospects of grass for winter. The coast districts have been well…

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London Wool and Produce Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 April 1886 · page 13

WOOL.—From the European Mail of the 19th April we extract the following:—"A more cheerful tone prevails in this market, and prices of colonial kinds are well uphold. A Bradford correspondent states that there is a steady demand…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 April 1886 · page 12

The country still remains in a terribly dry condition, the late rainfall being altogether too light to be of any permanent service. The following are the principal stock movements:—490 mixed sheep, from Bonegilla for Albury…

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An Indian Prince's Breeding-farm

Globe · Thursday 29 April 1886 · page 2

A Delhi correspondent of the London Telegraph gives the following information concerning the habits and surroundings of the Maharajah of the Rajput State of…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Farm Work for May

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 April 1886 · page 3

Owing to the rain holding off so long, the work of getting in the cereal crops has been greatly hindered, and in the principal wheat districts sowing will be somewhat later than…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 April 1886 · page 8

The following stock movements are reported:—5000 ewes, Donnelly Brothers, Borambola to Tumberumba; 3000 ewes. J. and E. Holloway's Wagga to Deniliquin…

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The Australasian Wool Clip for 1885 and 1886. Report by Consul Griffin, of Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 April 1886 · page 10

The following report on the Australasian wool clip for 1885 and 1886 has been made to the Government at Washington by Mr. Griffin, consul for the united States:-…

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Pastoral. Weather, Wool, Stock Movements, &c

Evening News · Saturday 1 May 1886 · page 5

STOCK ROUTES.—The following particulars as to stock routes have been supplied by stock inspectors:—-Yass and Queanbeyan: Feed and water very scarce on all main roads. Tamworth: Routes in…

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Pastoral Intelligence

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1886 · page 897

"One of the largest, if not the largest, drafts of sheep which has ever been locally reported, has just passed through the district and is now between Wangonilla and Hay. The draft numbers 40,000, and is travelling in four…

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