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Farming & the land, 1886

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Deniliquin, July 23

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 228

The annual dinner in connection with the above association was held last evening at Sparrow's Australian Club Hotel and proved successful in every respect; about 80 gentlemen were present. The president of the association,…

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Australasian Wool and the American Tariff

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 229

In a work published in New York for the New York Free Trade Club, and entitled "The Industrial Situation and the Question of Wages," there are some interesting references to Australasian wool and the protective tariff…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 12

The following sheep have passed:—10,000 weanors (Fisher and Hill's), Forest Hill to Bullamon, Queensland. COONAMMBLE, FRIDAY. Two hundred mixed cattle, from Mount Harris, going to…

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Weather, Wool, Movements of Stock. the Week's News in Brief

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 23

The event of the week is the grand fall of rain which commenced early on Saturday in the northern districts, and went on spreading until Tuesday. The heaviest fall has been in the Clarence and Rchmond…

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Clarence River Farmers' Association. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 6

GRAFTON, Friday.--The sixth [?]-yearly meeting of the Clarence River and North Coast Farmers' Association was held at the theatre to-day. The chairman of the board,…

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Farm and Garden Reminders for August

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 21

This is the last month of winter, which, this season, is the most favorable for cultivation experienced during several years. The soil is now damp and in fit state for working over immense areas of the farming country,…

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Farther Cases Cropping Up

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 11

Thursday morning Mr. Abigail, M.L.A., waited upon the Commissioner for Railways, and laid before him a perfect bundle of waybills from runholders and others, on which they alleged they had been charged…

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Bush Life in New South Wales. Among Farm Hands on the Tweed

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 28

Amongst the several portions of the colony to which a large number of the single men immigrants first find their way are the rich fertile districts of the Clarence, Richmond, and the Tweed;…

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To the Secretaries of Farmers' Associations, N. S. WALES. (Per favor of Farmers' Column, T. AND C. JOURNAL.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 17

Gentlemen,—Will you bring under the notice of your unions that it has been suggested that all the agricultural unions of the colony should join the central and branch associations of the Land and…

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Goolma, Spicer's Creek, and Cudgebegong Farmers' Union

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 17

A large, influential, and representative meeting of farmers and others was held at the Goolma Hotel recently for the purpose of forming a farmers' union. All present were of the opinion that the time had…

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Farmers' Associations. Northern Producers' Union

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 17

The first annual meeting of this association was held in the Theatre Royal, Grafton, on the 11th inst. The president, Mr. Thomas Wilcox, took the chair. After touching on the past labors of the union, and…

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Pastoral

Evening News · Monday 2 August 1886 · page 6

GRAFTON.—There was a good attendance of shareholders at the sixth half-yearly meeting of the Clarence and North Coast Farmers' Association, held on Friday. The business for the half-year shows…

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New Pastoral Company

Evening News · Monday 2 August 1886 · page 5

LONDON, July 31.—The Southern Queensland Pastoral Company has been registered with a nominal capital of £400,000…

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Wheat Market

Evening News · Monday 2 August 1886 · page 5

LONDON, July 31.—Wheat is still inactive prices remaining unchanged. Harvest prospects are considered satisfactory, although it is believed that in England it will be below the average…

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Southern Queensland Pastoral Company. London, July 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 August 1886 · page 7

The Southern Queensland Pastoral Company has been registered, with a capital of £400,000…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 August 1886 · page 7

The followed stock have been trucked to Sydney:—300 fat cattle from Noc[?]ga, and 250 from Canobie; 250 are to bo trucked on Monday. The cattle yards are in a fearful state of mud…

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Butter and Butterine. (From the St. Jame's Gazette, June 3.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 August 1886 · page 8

Lord Vernon's Butter Substitutes Reguliition Bill appears to be a combination of the best portions, of Mr. Conway's Butter Substitutes Bill and the Butter Frans Pr[?]tion Bill prepared for the British Dairy Farmers' Association by…

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The English Hop Crop. London. July 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 August 1886 · page 7

The English hop crop this year is expected to be a heavy one. The first pocket of hops obtained yielded 101b…

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Pastoral

Evening News · Tuesday 3 August 1886 · page 6

PARKES.—56 points of rain fell on Sunday night. It was still raining on Monday. JUNEE.—A very severe rain and wind storm wept over Junee on Sunday night. The wind was…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Care in Breeding Farm Stock

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 August 1886 · page 3

Though tho best types of every kind of live stock bred on the farm are widely dispersed throughout the colony, and fine specimens are to he seen at the numerous…

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