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Farming & the land, 1887

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The Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 March 1887 · page 5

London, Monday.—At the wool sales to-day llijfiOO hales were offered. The market is firm…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 March 1887 · page 10

[?]wo thousand four hundred fat sheep arrived to-day; half will be trucked to-morrow for Homobush. The others left here for Wellington to-day, A. Tobin, Winiradee, owner, O'Halloran in charge; 200 fat cattle. Miller,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Taralga A. and P. Show (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 March 1887 · page 7

TARALGA, Tuesday.--The Taralga annual show opened to-day, when about 1200 persons were present. The weather was fine and the number of entries large and their quality good…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 March 1887 · page 7

A lecture, the sixth of a series was delivered at the Technical College-hall, School of Arts, last night, by Mr. David A. Crichton, for the Board of Technical Education. The subject…

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The Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 March 1887 · page 5

London, Tuesday.--At the wool sales to-day 11,200 bales were offered. There was a good competition. The British -India Company's steamer…

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Sale of Stud Sheep. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 March 1887 · page 7

BATHURST, Wednesday.--Messrs. Clements and M'Carthy have sold to Mr. G. M'Pheilamy, of Warro, near Forbes, on account of the Hon F. B. Suttor: 30 rams, being the whole of the…

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Large Wheat Shipment. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 March 1887 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The ship Deveron sailed from Port Augusta for London to-day. She took 65,105 bushels wheat, valued £12,207…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 March 1887 · page 10

Stock movements:—800 store bullocks are coming forward for sale at the Corporation Yards on Tuesday next by Hill, Clark, and Co., Robert Anning, Cargoon, Queensland, owner; 4000 mixed hoggots, Barton and Taylor,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 April 1887 · page 7

In connection with the Board of Technical Education, on Tuesday evening a lecture on the Vine and Wine-making was delivered in the Technical College-hall by Mr. A. E…

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The Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 April 1887 · page 5

London, Wednesday.--At the woolsales to-day 10,300 bales were offered. The market remains firm…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1887 · page 8

The following are the crossings at the Darling Bridge, North B[?], for the wook ending 26th March:—277 cattle, Congis to Sydney, Norman Wilson owner, R. W. Bateman in chargo; 256 cattle, Tilboroo to Sydney,…

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Farm and Dairy Produce

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 April 1887 · page 7

A moderate supply of forage was forward at Darling Harbor yesterday, the consignment consisting of some Pi trucks. The market was poorly attended and business lacked animation…

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Weather, Pastoral, and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 696

During the past week the weather has been changeable all over the colony, and most parts have been favoured with rain. In some of the North-eastern districtst the downfalls were very heavy. The reports from the country districts…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 7

At the Bathurst Lands Office the following conditional leases have been taken up:--J. R. Glasson, Guyong, 640 acres, county of Bathurst parishes of Byng and Colville; J…

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Bourke Pastoral and Protection Association

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 696

An influential meeting of the Bourke Pastoral and Protection Association was held at Bourke on Monday last. Mr. J. Little, Curraweena, was chairman. The various speakers were fully convinced of the urgency for…

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Testing Milk for Butter

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 695

A valuable instrument, the lactocrite, invented by Dr. de Laval, of Stockholm, has been recently introduced into England by the Dairy Supply Company. By centrifugal action, after chemical treatment of the…

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Raising Sheep Without Care

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 24

A correspondent of the New York COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, writing from the islands opposite Santa Barbara, said:—No human being now lives on either San Nicholas or Anacapa; but Santa Cruz…

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A Sheep Shearing Machine

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 23

The trials of Mr. F. Y. Wolseley's sheep shearing machine in Messrs. Goldsbrough and Co.'s woolstores, Melbourne, have excited no little interest among pastoralists and others. Full descriptions of…

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The Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 5

London, Thursday.--At the wool sales to-day 9100 bales were offered. The market was firm. Seven thousand hales have been withdrawn during the…

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London Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 11

LONDON, March 26.—At the wool sales, 47,000 bales have been catalogued since the opening of the present series; 2500 bales have been with drawn from sale. The market is firmer. Merinos…

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