Agricultural and Pastoral. Poultry Farming in Australia
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 February 1887 · page 7
Mr. Walter Hope's fifth lecture at the Technical College, the special subject of which was "Diseases of Poultry and their remedies," was delivered on Friday evening to a very large…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 February 1887 · page 7
Messrs. Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Limited, report having submitted a catalogue of 784 bales, and privately and by auction they sold 365 bales. Cablegrams from London reporting…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1887 · page 5
An exhaustive report (says the Melbourne Age) has been furnished to the Minister of Agriculture by W. T. Kendall, veterinary surgeon, upon a disease which has made its appearance among cattle in the Western district, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. Pastoral Leases Expiring in 1888. Surveyor-General's Office, Adelaide, January 12th, 1887
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1887 · page 2
NOTICE is hereby given that Pastoral Leases expiring by effluxion of time at end of 1888, situated in the South-east, Northeast, North, and North-west and Western portions of South Australia, and occupied under lease since 1851, will be submitted to…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 February 1887 · page 5
London, Monday.--At the wool sales to-day 10,100 hales were offered. Prices are firmer…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 February 1887 · page 7
NYNGAN, Tuesday.--One hundred points of rain fell on Saturday night and Sunday. The country is looking grand. Nine thousand ewes passed yesterday, travelling down the Bogan…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 February 1887 · page 7
The market at Darling Harbor was poorly attended by the trade yesterday. A good supply of forage was offering. Trade showed no signs of improvement, the quality of the forage being…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 February 1887 · page 5
London, Tuesday.--At the wool sales to-day 11,500 bales were offered. The market is decidedly firmer…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 February 1887 · page 7
BREWARRINA, Wednesday.--Showery weather prevails. The rivers and creeks are all rising, and a heavy flood is anticipated. Forbes, Wednesday.--It commenced to rain…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 February 1887 · page 5
London, Wednesday.--At the wool sales to-day 7600 bales were offered. The market is firm…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 February 1887 · page 9
In their annual wool report for 1886 Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Co. write:— "London, January 1. "General Remarks.—The history of the past year will probably…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Coonamble
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 February 1887 · page 8
Seven thousand ewes, from Buddigower to Warrms station, T. M. Keegh owner, Gibbs drover, passed on the 11th February; 1000 bullocks, from Lauark station to Dubbo, M'Kay and Ralfe owners, Douglas drover, passed…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 February 1887 · page 8
The Register's returns of the wheat harvest show a net increase of 20,000 acres in the area under cultivation. The total area is 1,970,000 acres, yielding 10,885,000 bushels, or 5 bushels…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 February 1887 · page 385
During the past week rain has been reported from nearly every part of the colony. So heavy was the rain in the early part of the week that floods occurred in tho Macleay and Manning districts, and the Clarence was threatened…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 February 1887 · page 24
The statement has frequently been made that no animal has contributed more generously to the wealth of Scotland's farmers than the Cheviot sheep, especially as ooncern the dwellers in the upland…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 February 1887 · page 24
Residents in the Portland district, Victoria, have lately been alarmed by the ravages of a kind of blood disease among their horses and cattle; the mortality having assumed such formidable…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 February 1887 · page 42
MORT AND CO. report:—Wool: Fortnightly sales having now been resumed, our next auction will be held on the 23rd instant. News from London shows the market to be fiuctuating and irregular, and this state of things is fairly…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 February 1887 · page 11
LONDON, February 10.—At the wool sales today, ll,6OO bales were offered. The market is quieter. The total quantity sold amounts to 177,800 bales. All qualities of wool are about a…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 February 1887 · page 384
All exhaustive report (says the Melbourne Age) has been furnished to the Minister of Agriculture by W. T. Kendall, veterinary surgeon, upon a disease which has made its appearance among cattle in the Western district, and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1887 · page 13
The series of sales which terminated in London on Thursday have not substantiated the anticipations formed a week before they opened. During the interval which elapsed between the closing of the December saleas and…
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