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Farming & the land, 1888

2,366 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 119

Chinamen Pelted by Farmers. MELBOURNE, This Day

The Australian Star · Thursday 17 May 1888 · page 5

A H[?]RAIN cablegram states that the Chinese Immigration Amendment Act was unanimously read a second time in the New Zealand House of Representatives…

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Charge of Cattle Duffing

The Australian Star · Friday 18 May 1888 · page 5

JAMES POWELL was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with stealing 10 head of cattle, the property of John Slavin, farmer, realding at Sutton Grange,…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 May 1888 · page 8

Stook movements:—3000 sheep from O'Berne station, on route for Crookwell, A. Cumming owner. The weather is fine, the days being warra and the nights frosty. MOAMA, WEDNESDAY…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 7

Seven hundred and thirty-four acres were applied for at the Goulburn Lands-office on Thursday…

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Items of Interest. Latest Pastoral News. (Continued from page 1011.) Weather, Wool, Stock Movements

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 23

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.—The price of frozen meat has not declined, but business continues slack (wrote a London correspondent on April 6). The cargo of Sydney meat ex the Lusitania has been…

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Pastoral Tenants of the Western District

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 1048

A public meeting was held on Tuesday night in the Council-chambers, Wentworth, to discuss the attitude taken by the Government towards the Western district on the Land Bill. Mr. Edwards, the…

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Dry Process of Butter-making

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 21

Mr. W. B. Jones, an expert dairyman of Victoria, has been demonstrating by chemical analysis that rancidity in butter ia very frequently due to the water with which the buttermilk is washed out of…

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The Cumberland Disease Amongst Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 1047

The Minister for Mines lias, on the recommendation of Mr. Bruce, the chief inspector of stock, decided to send a cablegram to M. Pasteur, to ascertain the terms upon which he will allow his representatives here…

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Importation of Valuable American Sheep

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 19

MR. M'Caughey, of Coonong Station, Riverina district, three months ago imported from America a very valuable collection of stud sheep. They consisted of 160 wrinkly-skinned merinoes, which…

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ANTHRAX, i.e., Cumberland Disease, in Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 9

Mr.Arthur Davlin writes to combat the view that there is some doubt as to whether anthrax is prevenred by vaccination. He says:—It was said that the vaccination did not prevent the disease from being contracted naturally…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 14

The following castle are approaching:—950 bullocks, fats and stores, Currawilla to Victoria. Mobs of fats started from Morney Plains, Currawilla, Monkera, Coorangra, and other places, for Adelaide; 200 fat cattle, Kibie to Nyngan;…

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The Namoi Pastoral Association's Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Narrabri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 14

The Namoi Pastoral Association's show next week is expected to be a success. The whole district is alive in expectation of the event. Over 200 entries have been received in horses. The entries are numerous in every class…

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Lecture on Dairy Farming

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 1047

Our Mudgee correspondent writes on May 12:—Mr. Angus Mackay, of the Technical College, delivered another of his very interesting lectures to the farmers at the Mechanics' Institute on last Thursday, Mr. D. Casein…

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Fine Types of Prize Cattle. (See illustrations on this page and page 1010.) the Jersey Bull Diavolo

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 22

represented herewith, received the firat prize in the yearling class at the New York State|Fair in 1880,…

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Farm and Garden. Winter Care of Cows

Nepean Times · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 2

The arrangement of the barn and yard should be such as to reduce the labor as much is possible. Excessive warmth is not conducive to robustness, health, or profit. If a…

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Notes for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 22

A PARADISE OF FLOWERS. — According to Mr. Freshfield, who has been a vice-president of the Alpine Club, the higher peaks of the Cauoasus range are a very paradise of flowers. A horse laden with…

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

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 May 1888 · page 7

WILCANNIA, Saturday. -- The rivers are low from Mogil down to Louth, and at Tilpa there is only 1ft. 11in. of water, being a fall of one inch since last report. At Wilcannia it is 4ft,…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 May 1888 · page 7

The stock passing through by train to-day were:— 21 trucks of fat cattle for the Melbourne market, from Wallerawang, owners Fisher and Hill; 1 truck of horses, Albury to Nyngan, owner Augustus M'Farlane; 2 trucks…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 May 1888 · page 5

The following are the stock movements:—7000 store wethers from Ournie to Kyneton (Victoria), F. Hill owner; 5400 weathers from Sandy Creek to Bowna, W. J. Lyne owner…

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The American Wheat Yield. Decrease in the Production of Winter Wheat. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, May 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 May 1888 · page 7

The yield of the American winter wheat harvest is estimated at 27 per cent. below the average…

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