Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 333
Since our last issue the weather through almost the entire colony has been fine. The floodwaters in the Graf ton and Richmond River districts have disappeared. On Tuesday Port Macquorie reported showery weather. From all other…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 42
STOCK MOVEMENTSâWednesday, February 9.âBourke: 97 fat bullocks, Owenyoen to Bourke; 250 fat bullocks, Tilberoo to Sydney; 350 fat bullocks; Inneskillen to Sydney; crossings at Darling Bridge, North Bourke, 224 cattle…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 27
The Pasteur system of inoculation for disease is being applied with some success to cattle suffering from pleuro-pneumonia in Cumberland…
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Nepean Times · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 2
Acknowledgement is also due to two other correspondents who have taken notice of the remarks made about these. It was an oversight on my part, or I should…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 15
Mr. Walter George Soott, secretary of the Tubbul Sheep Shearers' Union, has written to us to the following effect: On February 6, 1886, the Shearers' Union of New South Wales (i.e., The Tubbul Lodge)…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 43
In Beerbohm's CORN TRADE LIST of December 25 were the following remarks on the present position and prospects of the wheat trade: It is satisfactory to think that the improvement which has taken…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 5
London, Thursday.--At the wool sales to-day 11,600 bales wore offered. The market is quieter. The total quantity sold amounts to 177,800 bales. All…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 42
Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co., limited, Syidney, offered of February 4668 bales of wool, and sold at auction and privately 609. There was a full attendance of buyers and brisk competition, especially for anything above medium…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 23
The weather during the past week has again been very unsettled. On Friday, February 4, it was fine in Sydney, but rain fell in the evening. Rains are reported from all parts of the country, causing in the…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 331
The wool production of the world continues to expand. According to the British Australasian, the statistics exhibit an anomaly on the market of 1886. Whilst the drought has killed off many millions of…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 12
Stock Passings: 430 mixed bullocks, Robb and Co., for Talawanta; 420 fat cattle, Tyson owner, from Tinenboro to Sydney; 400 ditto, from Tilboroo for Sydney, Whittingham Brothers owners, Cobb in charge…
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Nepean Times · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 2
The Jersey dairy test excited a great deal of interest, the contest being to some extent a new departure in showyard judging. As several of our readers have asked…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 331
The last three years have brought about many important changes in the system of dairying oil the South Coast. It was in June, 1884, that we recorded the first departure from the old well-beaten track, which was brought about…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 12
Sir,—I see by the latest advices that in protectionist America the Southern farmers are begging for a reduction in the tariff out of justice to them. The system there has had time by this to work out it…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 9
A large audience attended at the Technical Hall in Pitt-street last night, to hear Mr. Walter Hope's fifth lecture on "Poultry Farming." The special subject of the lecture was the diseases of poultry and their remedies…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 19
The Colonial College and Training Farms, limited, a company which was brought before the public more than twelve months ago, has lately completed the purchase of the estate at Hollesley Bay, Suffolk,…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 22
Although it is possible to occasionally come across a real fancier who is satisfied to either breed birds for his own satisfaction alone, or to sell them and see them win repeatedly without ever finding his own…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 22
SMUT IN OATS.—According to the Palmerston (N.Z.) TIMES, smut is very general among the oat crop. COPMANHURST CROPS.—Mr. Campbell, of the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 43
At the Darling Harbor hay sales there was a heavy supply of forage. Prime hay was scarce, and in request. Inferior qualities of hay and [?]aff were plentiful, and sold at very low rates. On the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1887 · page 5
London, Friday.--At the wool sales to-day, 18,300 bales were offered. The market was irregular. Saturday.--The number of bales…
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