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Farming & the land, 1890

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Late Pastoral Intelligence. Albury

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 153

The following are the stock movements:—2200 mixed weaners, 800 wethers, Round Hill to Piney Grange, T. D. Dicker owner: 28 fat bullocks, from Bnngowonah to Melbourne, Carry Brothers owners; 28,000 mixed…

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Preserving Butter in Brine

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 23

The method of preserving butter by immersion in brine, for home consumption, and for export, has been in operation in some parts of America, and also in these colonies for several years. The method is…

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Tho Wheat Trade

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 42

Thus a London correspondent on December 6: Business in the new crop of Australian wheat has commenced; and sales of two cargos JanuaryFebruary shipment are reported; 35s 3d is paid for…

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Dairies' Supervision Act. Meeting of Dairymen. Liability of Cattle to Contagion

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 28

A largely attended meeting of members of the City and Suburban Dairymen's Protective Society was held at the Elswick Hall, Parramattaroad, Petersham, last evening…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 41

JOHN BRIDGE AND CO. report:—Wool: Our eleventh sale Friday attracted the full buying power of the market. The catalogue comprised 4432 bales from all parts of the colony, but Alonara and New England districts chiefly. The…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 41

GOLDSBROUGH, MORT, AND CO., LIMITED, report:—We brought forward to-day a catalogue comprising 4481 bales, all varieties of quality and condition being included in each section. There was a very full attendance of buyers…

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Arsenic Drench for Worms in Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 119

The Chief Inspector of Stock, Mr. Alexander Bruce, writes:—" I think you would be doing a service to some of our sheepowners by publishing the following directions for treating sheep with worms :—Arsenic, 11b…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 12

The following are the Barringun stock passings:— 280 fat bullocks, from Vanda station for Bourke, Cameron and Tolson owners, J. H. Harding in charge; 4000 fat sheep, Comongin for Bourke, Willi[?] and Co. and…

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Selection and Improvement of Seed Wheat. PROFESSOR J. W. Sanborn, Missouri

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 120

It is true that wheat taken from a good to a poor soil will yield less than it did on the good farm, yet it will yield more than the seed grown on the poor soil will yield. It is true that seed taken from a poor to a good…

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Difficulty in the Wool Trade. a Peculiar System. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 11

The labourers employed on the wool floors of the docks have made arrangements to hold a meeting on Wednesday next, at which they will consider…

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Dairy Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 119

The steamer Orient, which sailed from this port last Saturday, took 1400 packages of butter, 1150 of which were shipped by the South Coast and West Camden Company, and the balance by Mr. John Ritchie. The…

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The Victorian Farmers

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 4

AGRICULTURE, according to all recognised Foreign-trade authorities, is an industry which grows naturally, and grows most rapidly when it is free…

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The Home, the Farm, and The orchard. the Fruit Maggot—fruit Fly (Tephritts.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 6

THIS is the larva of a small two-winged insect, which develops from an egg deposited within the tissue of the fruit of the peach and within that of several…

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Notes for Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 22

REMEDY FOR CHICKEN CHOLERA.—A correspondent of the COUNTRY GENTLEMAN said: Different remedies have been suggested for the cure of cholera. But prevention is most emphatically better than cure…

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Farming for Olive Oil

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 22

Olive culture has attained enormous proportions in Italy. It is computed that the amount of oil produced annually in the entire kingdom is thirty-three million gallons. France's production, although…

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Site for a Sewerage Farm for Parramatta

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 3

At the Granville Council on Wednesday evening, a communication was received from the Works Department enclosing the following report upon the proposed site for a sewerage…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 7

The Moree annual show has been fixed for May 7 and 8. The committee are spending £1400 on improvements…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Evening News · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 2

COONAMBLE, Thursday.—Stock movements: 200 mixed fat sheep from Budgeon, and 700 from Combara for Sydney, A. D. M'Langhlan owner in charge; 1784 mixed fat sheep from a selection at Coonamble…

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Marking Colonial Wool

Evening News · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 5

LONDON, January 17.—A deputation of members of the Australian Section of the London Chamber of Commerce and colonial merchants, which waited on Mr. W. L…

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Wheat Rust.—what It Has Done— Preventive Means. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 8

Sir,—I wish I could join in the Resumption that in New South Wales we are harvesting, or have harvested, a satisfactory wheat crop: but having been through very large areas of the wheat country since harvest…

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