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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1886

2,201 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 111

The Pastoral and Agricultural Industries

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 May 1886 · page 4

"We publish this morning the pastoral and agricultural returns for the year ending March 31 inst. Statistics of this kind, it is to be feared. Seldom…

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Friday 14 May 1886 · page 5

LONDON, May 13.—The market is steady and quiet. About 860,000 bales have arrived for the next sales…

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Farm and Dairy Produce

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 May 1886 · page 7

Supplies were again short at the Darling Harbor sales yesterday. There was a small attendance of the trade and business was without animation. On the wharves a coderately…

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Was It a Good Start? to the Editor of the Dairy Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 May 1886 · page 7

Sir,--In your issue of to-day I notice you still adhere to your former assertion, viz., that the start of the heat in the Distance Handicap, for which Beach started, was a good one, and…

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Dairymen's Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 May 1886 · page 9

A special meeting of the Sydney and Suburban Dairymen's Protection Association was held at Smith's Burrangong Hotel, Haymarket, last evening, to protest against the proposal of brewers to raise the price of grains…

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Pastoral

Evening News · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 10

LAND SALES IN S.A.—The sate of working men a blocks was held in Adelaide on Thursday morning. Out of 2300 acres offered only 202 were taken up on lease…

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Pastoral Intelligence

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 1003

Our Deniliquin correspondent writes, on the 8th instant:—The long spell of dry weather is beginning to arouse a feeling of anxiety to stockowners in this district. Less than half an inch to rain has fallen here during the last…

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Anaemia Disease in Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 22

The following is the report of Mr. Stanley, Government. V.S., mentioned in the letter to Mr. Bruce in the JOURNAL of May 8th…

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The Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 5

London, Thursday. -- The market is steady and quiet; 350,000 bales have arrived For the next sales…

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Wool and Sheepskins

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 41

Messrs,MORT and Co. report:—Wool: There is nothing to add to our last report under this head. No auction sales are being held this week, and owing to the very small stocks on hand bussiness is almost nil, Quotations remain…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 16

Sale of 801 bales from Sydney and Queensland, by Charles Ba[?]me and Co.:- Ex Roma and Bulimba, from Sydney: Lerida, 1 scoured fleece mixed at 12[?]d, 3 fleece combings at 11d, 8 pieces mixed at 9½, 5…

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Commercial. the Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 16

For the week ended May 12 the arrivals coastwise and by rail amount to 230 bales, as compared with 457 bales for last week, and 1166 bales for corresponding period of last year…

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Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show. Grafton

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 1030

The Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society's twentieth Exhibition was opened to-day. The weather was magnificent, but the thoroughfares leading to the grounds were exceedingly dusty. The society's checks…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 15

The following stock movements are, reported:—From Thargomindah, 350 fats, Gooyca to Adelaide, Elder, Peglar, and Co.; 425 fat bullocks, Currawilla to Melbourne, started on the 19th; 430 fats, Morney to Sydney, Woods,…

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The Wool Sales. London, May 13

Globe · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 3

The market is staedy and quiet. 35,000 bales have arrived for the next sales…

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

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 23

Wintry weather reported from all quarters. Light showers have fallen in the coastal districts and in the south. Sections of the western country suffering severely from drought, which has not been broken…

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The Fall in Price of Wool. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 8

Sir,—The various letters relating to the above subject have been carefully read by most of those interested in the wool trade of Australia, and with the expectation that some remedies might be suggested to bring about a better state of…

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The Excursionist. The Farmer in Town. His First Appearance

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 1012

In the last chapter, I described the arrival of the farmer and his wife at my house, and left them seated at the breakfast table. If the "pair of curios" looked old-fashioned in the street, they…

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Justice for the Farmers. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 22

Sir,—The time appears to have arrived when the agriculture as a class will have to adopt a united policy and make their claims for their just demands with no uncertain sound. The present Government…

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Colonial and Farm Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 41

PARK AND GENERAL PRODUCE.—At the Darling Harbor [?]y sales the supply was small, and the demand for prime oaten hay, also chaff, continues brisk at full values. On the wharves there is a good…

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