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Farming & the land, 1888

2,366 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 119

The Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 120

The weather has settled down to the ordinary summer and on the whole is favourable to both pastoralists and agriculturalists. The last of the late maize is being planted. Shearing is nearly finished. There is plenty of…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 7

A special meeting of the council of the Central Cumberland Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held last night in the School of Arts, Parramatta, to award the prize…

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The Pastoral Industry

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 12

"Now, there was a certain man in the wilderness of Muon: and his possessions were in carmel; and the man Was very great; and he had three thousand sheep; and a thousand goats, and it happened that he was shearing his…

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Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 7

Messrs. Goldsbrough and Co., Limited, Sydney, offered yesterday 1537 bales wool, and sold at auction 1022, making, with 296 bales sold privately, 1318 bales disposed of since last…

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Commercial. the Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 15

The sales have been attended by a still larger number of buyers during the ourrent week, several having come over from Melbourne since our last, in consequence of the season there having almost come to a termination. Their…

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The Week's Wool Talk

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 7

The wool trade of the colonics, weakened somewhat by the reception of the early catalogues, giving results of the beginning of the November-December series, has recovered its…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 14

The stock movements on Wednesday last were 800 store bullocks from Rockhampton, R. M'Micking, owner. INVERELL, FRIDAY. One hundred head of horses passed through to-day from…

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The Position of the Victorian Wheat-growers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 4

Assuming that the deputation of Victorian wheat-growers who waited upon Mr. Deakin on Wednesday to urge the request (refused the day before…

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Farm and Dairy Produce

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 7

At Darling Harbor yesterday morning a good supply of forage was offering, the bulk of the consignment comprising hay, while a comparatively small supply both of straw and chaff…

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Farm Cove and Government House

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 136

Government House is a very imposing building Elizabethan order of the of architecture. The beauty of its position on theshore of the harbour will be seen from the illustration the front…

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Preparation of Food for Dairy Cows

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 120

Cutting the fodder has the effect of reducing the muscular work of the cow. Every movement of the cow's muscles, every motion of the lungs as the animal breathes, consumes some of the muscular tissue, and requires some…

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The Clarence River Maize Crop

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 120

So far as this district is concerned (says the Clarence and Richmond River Examiner, the crop of maize that will soon be fit to commence pulling promises to be the best our fanners have had the pleasure of raising for a number of…

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Hunter Farmers' Association

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 152

The thirteenth half-yearly meeting of the above association was held at the School of Arta, Morpeth, on Tuesday, 3rd instant. The attendance was small. Mr. I. J. Kearney, vice-president (in the absence of the president, Mr. J…

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The Orchard Industry. the Utilisation of Surplus Crops and the Exportation of Fruit in a Fresh Condition

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 9

On entering upon the business of sending fruit to Europe in a fresh state, the very first matter to study will be the particular varieties likely to suit the public taste, for no greater…

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The Pastoral Industry. Past, Present and Future

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 2

I have often thought that a most interesting essay by some philosophic and sympathetic hand might be written upon what man's civilisation and progress, both…

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

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Saturday. -- The weather this week has been the hottest experienced during this summer, the thermometer registering as high as 101deg. in the shade…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 10

The following stock were trucked this morning:—19 young Devon bulls, from Goulburn to Ardock Station, Queensland; 1200 very prime wethers, Peacock owner; 400 fat wethers, Lees Dandaloo owner; 60 prime bullocks,…

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CABLES. (The "Australian Star" is the only daily newspaper in Sydney which receives Router's Cables.) Wheat and Flour Afloat. London

The Australian Star · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 6

The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,130,000 quarters, and for the Continent 190,000 quarters, showing a decrease of 10,000…

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Pastoral and Agricultural. Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 4

New South Wales has been known for many years as "the great pastoral colony." The complete magnitude of her resources was not, however, properly recognised by the outer world until the extension of…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 7

Stock movements to-day.—110 horses, en route for Albury. This mob was purchased from various owners in the Gundagai district, intended for the Indian market, A. W. Beazley owner…

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