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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1890

3,419 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 171

COMMERCIAL. The Wool Trade. DECEMBER 31

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 16

Most of the foreign buyers are away for the holidays, so, with the exception of the submission of one or two catalogues of star lots and bags of wool, there has been practically nothing doing in…

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Dairy Produce in Britain. Hints to Australian Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 43

Thus a London correspondent on November 22: It may interest some of your farmers to learn that there ia an excellent market for antipodean dairy produce in London between October and March. New Zealand…

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Farmer. Lime, and How to Use It

Nepean Times · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 9

Lime of itself is not a manure. Its office as a fertiliser is to neutralise acids in vegetable matter, thereby hastening decomposition. Potash is nature's neutralises but being very…

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New Publications. Farming in Australia

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 17

To the selector, or whatever he may be who makes farming his occupation, nothing could he more useful than a book which has reached us from the Edinburgh publishing firm, Messrs…

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The Minor Industries of the Farm

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 6

In these days of keen competition even millionaires cannot afford to ignore profits that may seem infinitesimally small, how much more, therefore, is it necessary that the humble tiller…

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Use and Abuse of the Farm Workshop

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 9

Absurd things are written about the farm workshop. The farmer cannot be proficient in half-a-dozen trades, nor can his son do even fairly good carpenter or blacksmith work without practice. Some people seem to…

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How Leguminous Crops obtain their Nitrogen

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 8

Of all the experimental results which have been established concerning the fixation of free nitrogen by plants, those of the German investigators, Hellriegel and Wilfarth, have commended themselves to Sir John…

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Dairy Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 7

The Gerringong Butter Factory, recently inspected by the chief officer of the Board of Health, has obtained from the secretary of the board, Mr. Sager, the following satisfactory communication:—Gerringong (notes…

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The Home, the Farm, and The Orchard. the Apple in Australia

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 6

A GENTLEMAN in this colony who kept an exact account for a period of sixteen years of the proceeds of an acre planted with apples, states, that it paid him a…

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Australian Butter

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.--The Australian butter shipped at Sydney and Melbourne, and Which has arrived in the Orient mail steamer Ormuz, is in excellent condition…

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Australian Butter. London, January 4

The Australian Star · Monday 6 January 1890 · page 5

The Australian butter shipped at Sydney and Melbourne, and which has arrived in the Orient mail steamer Ormuz, is in excellent condition…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1890 · page 6

Stock passings; 1500 store cows, from Queensland to Wodonga, Tyson owner; 1200 ewes, from Woomargama to Forest Vale, Mangoplah, James Snodgrass owner…

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Dairy and Farm Notes

The Dawn · Monday 6 January 1890 · page 20

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Wool-growing in Queensland. The Lambing Season. BRISBANE

The Australian Star · Monday 6 January 1890 · page 4

Reports from the country show that country show that lambing this season will be phenomenal. A better season has never been known. On one run alone where 135,000 sheep are…

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Rust in Victorian Wheat. Loss of £500,000. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1890 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--It is estimated that the extraordinary prevalence of rust in this season's wheat will result in a loss to farmers of not less than £500,000 sterling. The cause…

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Ravages of Rust in Victori[?]n Wheat. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1890 · page 5

Notwithstanding the extensive growth of variet[?] of wheat supposed to afford great resistance to ru[?] this season's crops have been attacked to an exte[?] which means a loss of half a million of money…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. At the Dubbo Lands Office on Thurday last 11,028[?]a were selected. Weather and Stock. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1890 · page 7

WINDSOR, Saturday.--Last night's storm brought but little rain and to-day has bean as warm and dry as ever. At noon the thermometer was 97deg. in the shade…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Evening News · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 3

Tamworth, Monday.—The Silver Shearing Company has now fitted Beeclive Station shed, fifteen miles from Tamworth; with sufficient machines to shear the 20,000 lambs now in readiness. A large…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Corn Crops in the Hunter. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 7

WEST MAITLAND, Monday.--After a week of most trying weather, with scorching hot days aud close muggy nights, a delightful change came up this morning, steady rain…

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Alleged Wholesale Sheep Stealing. "Mistaking" 1250 Sheep. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 5

ALBURY, Monday.--An extraordinary case or alleged sheep stealing on a wholesale scale has been investigated by the Tamberumba bench of magistrates. Twelve months ago E. W…

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