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Farming & the land, 1890

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Russian Agriculture. Crops in the South. Ten Shillings a Day

The Australian Star · Friday 10 January 1890 · page 3

THE British Consul-General, in a report on the agriculture of Southern Russia, recently issued, states that, taken all round, the new crop may be [?]as a third of…

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Dairymen's Protective Society. the Dairies Supervision Act

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1890 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Dairymen's Protective Society was held on Wednesday evening at the Elswick Hotel, Leichkardt, under the presidency of Mr. P. Freeman. The secretary…

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The Hunter River Farmers Association. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1890 · page 7

WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.--The annual meeting of the Hunter River Farmers' Association, as usual preceded by a dinner, was held at Lung's on Tuesday evening, Mr. J. Mitchell in…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 65

Sunday was regarded in several districts as the hottest day of the reason. The weather was extraordinarily oppressive, and culminated in violent thunderstorms with hail and rain. Some damage was done, but against…

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Latest Pastoral News. (Continued From Page 23.) Weather, Stock Movements, Wool. WEATHER

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 40

The weather during the past week has teen excessively hot. Out West the thermometer ranged as high as 115deg. About the beginning of the week a change come; and since then numerous severe thunderstorms, accompanied with…

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Australasian Science Congress. Butter Making v. Piano Playing. Sheep Shearing v. History. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 6

Among the various subjects discussed at the Sicence Congress to-day were Antarctic- exploration; fodder, plants and grasses of Australia, by Mr. Turner, from Sydney…

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Pastoral Work near Monte Video

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 64

The following are extracts from a letter per R.M.S. Victoria, 57 days from date of posting from the neighbourhood of Monte. Video. The writer was formerlyan officer in the Royal Mail Company from 1852…

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Late Pastoral Intelligence. Albury

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 69

The following are the stock movements:—100 store bullocks, from Wodongs for Ournie, H. T. Lucas; 100 merino ewes, from Mullingandera for Tattmahoo, G. M.Leod; 24 horses, from Albury for Queensland, J…

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Butter Factory at Wagga

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 63

The establishment by Mr. James Stewart of a factory for the manufacture of butter at Orange Tree Point, two miles from Wagga (writes our Wagga correspondent), must be hailed with a good deal of…

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The Wheat Market

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 43

Winter has come upon as suddenly (wrote a London correspondent on November 29); and sharp frosts, followed by light falls of soow, have put an end to outdoor work for a time. Except on very late farms,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 42

JOHN BRIDGU AND CO. report:—Wool: The usual weekly sales have been postponed, owing to many of the buyers being absent, but next week the ordinary business will be resumed. We will submit about 3500 bales, and judging from…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 41

BRUNEER AND WOIFE report having submitted a catalogue of 500 bales of wool for sale to-day. There was a large attendance of buyers present. Values of sound free combing wool remains firm with good competition at…

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Influenza from Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 18

The recent influenza epidemic in Europe has been peculiar. What we know in Australia, the land of wool, as an ordinary feverish cold, inconvenient certainly but by no means dangerous, has,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 41

GOLDEBROUGH, MORT, AND CO., LIMITED, report:—Wools Wo offered, to-day, at our first sale in the new year, 8104 bales of wool, being the largest catalogue yet submitted in this market. The attractive character of the offerings, in…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 13

Eight thousand five hundred wethers, from Coonamble to Gowang Station, near Coonabarabran, D. Watt owner, Goldfinch in charge; 900 fat sheep, from Budgeon and Combarla Stations to Sydney, via Dubbo,…

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America and the Australian Wool Trade

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 64

Mr. J. J. Creighton, Resident Agent for the New Zealand Government in San Francisco, writes to the Boston Herald on September 6 as follows:—The National Association of Woollen Manufacturers is to…

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COMMERCIAL. The Wool Trade. JANUARY 8

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 71

The auctions were resumed on Monday. During the previous week there had been a private inquiry to some extent, which fact augured well for better prices when the sales were resumed. All the…

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Profitable Farming

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 62

What is profitable farming? There are Australians who assert that there is no such thing known; that farming does not and will not yield fair remuneration to its followers. When those…

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Dairy Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 63

At the Iowa Experimental Station a new method of determining the amount of fat in milk has been devised. The principle upon which it is based is that the solids, other than the fat, are dissolved, and thus the fat is…

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The Home, the Farm, and The Orchard. BUDDING

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 6

BUDDED TREES are more hardy and better able to resist the sudden changes of weather to which this climate is so susceptible, than those which have been…

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