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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1887

2,132 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 107

Sheep-stealing in the Young District. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Young

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 14

The crime of sheep-stealing is carried on in this district to a great extent. To-day two men, named respectively John French and Frank Widdows, were brought up on a charge of having mutton in their possession reasonably…

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Dairying in Victoria

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 851

Mr. Thompson, the manager of the Dookie Experimental Farm, Victoria, is astonishing the farmers of the Dookie and other districts by the success which he achieves in dairying. The dairy is constructed on…

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Farming in New Zealand

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 851

Farming in New Zealand is conducted on principles which are much more economical than those followed in this colony. The contract system of work prevails there to a great extent, and in some districts it is the…

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Dairy Produce

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 844

The outery among the coastal farmers against any diminution of the protection they at present enjoy has in no way abated; but except amongst those who adopt protection as a principle, and who, therefore…

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Bonnyrigg Poultry Farm

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 22

Bonnyrigg poultry farm, the residence and proporty of Mr. Walter Hope, hasm through that gentleman's popular lectures in the Technical College Hall, Pitt-street, and the articles from his pen in the…

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Notes for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 22

VEGETATION IN KENT.—The acreage of orchards in Kent is 18,296 this year, as against 17,926 in 1885; market land, 9430, as against 8817; and nursery grounds, 580. as against 670…

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Farm and General Produce

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

At the Darling Harbor railway hay sales during the week supplies were moderate and of much improved quality. The trade purchased freely of prime hay at good prices. On the wharves, the market for Hunter…

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The Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 April 1887 · page 5

London, Friday.--The wool auctions close to-morrow. The total number of bales sold is 220,000, and 25,000 bales are held over…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 April 1887 · page 7

Forty head of store pigs, Skuthorpe, Gulurgambone, near Coonamble, owner, sold on Saturday be E. N. Blacket, averaged 14s. 6d; 151 fat cattle. Whittingham Bros. Tilberoo, Queensland, owners, arrived this evening, and…

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News by Telegraph. Charge of Cattle Stealing

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 April 1887 · page 5

BRAIDWOOD. Tuesday.--At the police court to-day, before Mr. James Aldcorn, P.M., Francis Flanagan and Samuel Hopkins, on remand from Goulburn for stealing II head of cattle from a…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 April 1887 · page 7

"There has been an extraordinary crop of potatoes in this district. A Mr. Prinival, of this town, planted a quarter of a hundred of potatoes in three rood, of ground, and when…

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The Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 April 1887 · page 5

London, Tuesday.-- The wool market is firm, the total arrivals to date amount to 220,000 bales…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 April 1887 · page 11

The following are the crossings at Darling Bridge for the week ending April 23rd:—246 cattle, Tinenboro to Sydney, Tyson owner, Smith in charge; 11 from No[?]th Bourke Common to Bourke, W. M'Millan owner, for the local…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 April 1887 · page 7

Mr. David A. Crichton delivered another of his [?] upon agricultural and horticultural subjects last night at the School of Arts Pittstreet, [?] of the Board of…

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Weather, Pastoral, and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 April 1887 · page 905

More rain has fallen on the coast, and some of the inland districts have also received showers. The season is one of the moistest on record, and the growth of herbage the most extraordinary that has been known in the colony. As…

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Pastoral Lands

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 April 1887 · page 896

During a rambling discussion on a motion for adjournment on Tuesday, the question of appraisement of runs was introduced by Mr. Stokes, who complained that the Minister for Lands had overridden…

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Shearing Sheep by Machinery

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 April 1887 · page 8

AN exhibition of the working of the sheep-shearing machine, the invention of Mr. Frederick W. Wolseley, was given on Friday in the presence of a large assemblege of gentlemen interested in…

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Sheep Shearing by Machinery

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 April 1887 · page 906

About 300 gentlemen connected with the pastoral interests of this colony assembled last week 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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Wolseley's Sheep-shearing Machine

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 April 1887 · page 903

The trial of Mr. Wolseley's sheep-shearing machine, last week, led to results sufficiently satisfactory to afford hope among practical pastoralists that the day was not far distant when steam and…

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London Wool Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 April 1887 · page 8

The European Mail or the 18th March says:—"The wool market remains in a very healthy condition, and although badness is within narrow limits, prices are fully maintained. A Bradford correspondent remarks that the market there has a…

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