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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1887

2,132 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 107

Commercial. the Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1887 · page 13

Reuter's cable message from Antwerp, lated 18th instant, reads as follows:—"The wool auctions were opened yesterday. Prices are almost unchanged as compared with the closing rates at last Antwerp sales." The one received by…

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Weather, Wool, Movements of Stock

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

The weather during the past week has been intensely hot; the thermometer in many places frequently reaching over 100deg in the shade. On Saturday and Sunday there were rains in places; and since…

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The Wheat Yields in the SouthWestern Districts

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 January 1887 · page 21

Space will not permit me to more than glance at the salient features of the great fund of information gleaned in a ten days' tour through the wheatgrowing districts of the south-west. The smallest…

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The Farmer

Nepean Times · Saturday 22 January 1887 · page 2

Commenting upon a competitive exhib[?]on of preserved eggs the Field says that one set was placed in an hermetically sealed tin vessel, closely soldered down,…

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Farming in Holland

Nepean Times · Saturday 22 January 1887 · page 2

The Dutch farmer is continually fertilising his farm of thirty or forty acres, and this process repeated for some centuries, with no crop to drain the substance of the…

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The Maize Crop on the Clarence

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1887 · page 175

Our Grafton correspondent writes on the 15th instant:—Just recently we have been experiencing the hottest weather this summer, but, taken altogether, the season has been a very mild one, and so far we…

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Farmers and Railways

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1887 · page 175

When the present turmoil which is disturbing political affairs has ceased, our friends in the country should make an earnest effort to have the tariff of railway rates revised, so that fair play may be…

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Poultry Farming in Australia. Xi.—pure-bred Poultry

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 January 1887 · page 21

Having but limited space at my disposal, and being anxious to say a few words in these articles on each of the established varieties, and to submit a portrait of each kind, it becomes necessary for me to…

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Notes for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 January 1887 · page 22

THE CODLIN MOTH.—A telegram received from South Australia said: Five fresh cases of codlin moth have been discovered in the orchards. Thirtythree properties are now affected…

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Farm and General Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 January 1887 · page 43

At the Darling Har or hay sales this week the supplies were extremely heavy; buyers were in good attendance, operating principally upon the best qualities of hay, at fair rates, but the bulk of supply,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Weather and Stock. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1887 · page 7

BRAIDWOOD, Saturday.--Rain set in on Thursday night, and it poured up to yesterday. It is still raining heavily, with every appearance of a continuance. The creeks are rising…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Weather and Stock Reports. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 January 1887 · page 7

COONANBLE, Monday.--Three hundred and nine points of rain fell last week. Three hundred fat cows, from Coomburra to Sydney, Skuthorpe owner, M'Guinness in charge; 600…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 January 1887 · page 8

Stook movements.—700 mixed sheep, Meglom, Tuena to Goulburn, R. Reynolds owner 2000 merino wethers coming forward, Homebush, to North Errowanbaug, H. G. Lomax owner…

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Farm and Dairy Produce

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 January 1887 · page 7

A small supply of forage was forward at Darling Harbor yesterday, consisting of some 20 trucks, the bulk chiefly of chaff, only three trucks of hay being to hand. Business was on…

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South Australia. Pastoral Leases Expiring in 1888. Surveyor-General's Office, Adelaide, January 12th, 1887

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 January 1887 · page 2

NOTICE is hereby given that Pastoral Leases expiring by effuxion of time at end of 1888, situated in the South-east,North-east, North, and North-west and Western portions of South Australia, and occupied under lease since 1851, will be submitted to…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Weather and Stock Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 January 1887 · page 7

TEMORA, Tuesday.--One hundred and eightyfour points of rain have fallen since 6 a.m. yesterday, filling all the dams and giving the ground a good soaking and making it ready…

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Farm and Dairy Produce

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 January 1887 · page 7

There was a small attendance of buyers at Darling Harbor yesterday, and although the supply of forage comprised only some 13 trucks (chiefly of inferior and medium qualities) it…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Weather and Stock Reports. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1887 · page 7

WEST MAITLAND, Wednesday.--The steady rain continued at intervals nearly all last night in Maitland, and it is still falling this morning…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 January 1887 · page 7

Twelve hundred bullocks, from Lolworth, travelling to New South Wales for sale, J. W. Clark owner; 1100 bullooks. from V[?]ando Vale, Mytton and Cooper owners, travelling south for sale; 800 store cattle, from Roscila…

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London Wool Sales. Active Competition and Higher Prices

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1887 · page 5

London, Tuesday.-- The January--February series of colonial wool auctions opened to-day. There was a large attendance of home and foreign buyers and…

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