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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1887

2,132 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 107

Distressed Queensland Farmers. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 April 1887 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The condition of the distressed farmers who suffered from the floods in the Logan and Albert rivers has been aggravated by the continued rainy season, and…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 April 1887 · page 7

Mr. David A. Crichton delivered the seventh lecture of a series upon agricultural and horticultural subjects last night at the School of Arts, Pitt-street, under the auspices of the…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1887 · page 8

Sale of 1590 bales, from Sydney, Newcastle, and Q[?] by Edenborough and Co. E[?] Gulf of St. Vincent, from Newcastle: G[?]LY, 1 [?] black at [?], 47 combings at 11½d, 5 at 10[?]d, 4 damaged [?]…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] Wagga Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1887 · page 7

The following are approaching:—2000 ewes, J. and W. Armstrong's, Germanton to Calubri, via Wagga, Joseph In[?]ram in charge…

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Cable News. the Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 April 1887 · page 5

London, Thursday.--At the wool sales 11,100 bales were offered. There was good competition…

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Protection to Our Farmers. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 April 1887 · page 3

Sir,--Is you will just glance at your commercial report of this day you will find under the head of hams the following prices quoted :-- 'Colonial, 6d. to 8d.; New Zealand, 9d. to 10d."…

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Weather, Pastoral, and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 853

Fine cool weather has prevailed during this week, which should prove beneficial to the farm lands. Reports from the pastoral districts are in every respect satisfactory. Lambing has commenced in the west and south, and a large…

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Sheep Diseases

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 864

To make sheep-farming in the New England district a sure and profitable investment, it must be conducted on much more intelligent principles than the universal systems now carried out on many of our stations, where nearly all…

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Bourke Pastoral Association. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 5

BOURKE, Friday.--A meeting of the Central Australian Pastoral Association was held in the Royal Hotel yesterday evening, Mr. Mark Tully in the chair. There was a fair…

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Trucking Cattle at Carcoar

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 10

A deputation from Carcoar was introduced to the Minister for Works yesterday by Messrs. Garland and Jeanmeret. and their object was to try and obtain trucking and yard…

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Carcoar Cattle-trucking Yards

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 10

A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Fitzpatrick, J. L. Dodd, G. Gennys, and J. Fagan, appointed by a public meeting held at Carcoar, waited on the Minister for Works yesterday. The deputation was accompanied by Messrs…

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Sheep Shearing by Machinery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 10

About 300 gentlemen connected with the pastoral interests of this colony assembled yesterday evening on the upper flat of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's wool store to witness a practical trial of…

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Sheep - Shearing by Machinery

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 5

A very interesting exhibition of Mr. F. Y. Wolseley's new sheep-shearing machinery was given yesterday afternoon at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co.'s wool stores,…

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Sheep Stealing Near Young

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 5

YOUNG, Friday.--Three farmers, named John French, Arthur Widdows and Michael M'Namara, were to-day charged at the police court with having had the carcase of a sheep each in…

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The Wheat Trade

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 43

During this week (wrote a London correspondent on March 11) there has been a decidedly firmer feeling in the wheat trade. On Friday last, at Marklane, there was an entire absence of animation; and…

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Wool and Sheepskins

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 42

HARRISON, JONES, AND DEVLIN, LIMITED.—Wool: On the resumption of the sales in London after the Easter recess, prices were firmly maintained for all sorts, excepting crossbreds, which were a ripe easier. Scoureds, on the other…

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Australian Wool in Japan

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 18

It seems highly probable that Japan will be eventually secured as a market for Australian wool. Several of the keenest and most energetic of the wool merchants of Sydney and Melbourne…

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Weather, Wool, and Stock Movements

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 41

The weather has at last become more seasonable bright cool days, with light frosts at night, forming the rule. On Thursday, the 14th, heavy rains were reported in Bega, Euston, Kiama, Nowra, Windsor,…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 15

The following stock movemonts are reported:—One shorthorn bull, from Victoria for Round Hill, J. Balfour, owner; 150 horses, from Corangorambla for Tarramia, H. T. Whitty; 960 store bullocks, from Queensland for…

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EXCHANGE The Wool Trade. APRIL 21

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 848

Since our report of last week the wool sales in London have been progressing steadily, apparently without fluctuations, all the cable advices concurring that the market continues firm, and that spirited…

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