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Farming & the land, 1891

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Victorian Butter in London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night.--A consignment of Victorian butter has been sold by London, realising an average of £5 12s per cwt…

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Victorian Butter. London, January 7

The Australian Star · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 5

A consignment of Victorian butter has just been sold in London. It fetched on an average 112s. per cwt…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 5

The following are the stock movements:—500 merino wethers, from Albury to Jingello, P. Fricka owner; 652 mixed merino sheep, from Albury for Wagga Wagga, W. Clough owner…

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Weather, Stock and Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 7

BALLINA, Thursday.--The weather continues very warm. Some heavy rain fell yesterday. NYMAGEE, Thursday.--Stock crossing: 8000 sheep from Moolbong station to Tindary via…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 64

Since the holidays the weather has been hot and oppressive. The last day of the year the maximum shade temperature was 83[?], New Year's Day 83[?], and on Friday the high temperature of 94-8 was reached…

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Colonial Butter

Evening News · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 4

LONDON, January 8. The consignment of butter of Coptic, from Wellingten, N. Z. November 14, lias been sold at from 84s to 9Gs per cwt for dairy, and from 100sto…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Weather, Stock and Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 7

CARCOAR, Friday. -- During the past year 45in. of rain were registered at the local station. It is now raining. CROOKWELL, Friday. -- The weather is very…

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

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 41

The weather for the week has been most intensely hot and disagreeable over the whole length and breadth of the colony. On the coast and in many places in the mountains and interior the…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Wilcannia

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 98

The following stock passings are reported from Yantara :— 309 fat cows, from Nockatunga for Adelaide, H. B. Hughes owner, A. Johnson in charge; 338 mixed fats, from Thargomindah for Broken Hill,…

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Pastoral Tenants in the West

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 64

Great dissatisfaction exists among the pastoral tenants in the Western division, both squatters and homestead lessees, at the enormous increase of rental placed upon the holdings at the recent sittings of…

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Grains of Wheat

The Dead Bird · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 3

The slow hound in the pack always yelps loudest at the leaders. Appearances are not everything; a good shilling is bettor than a baa cheque…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 42

We beg to advise our friends that, to suit the comverience of buyers, our wool sale days daring the ensuing season will be Tuesday and Thursday in each week, instead of Wednesday and Friday as…

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Weekly Wool Report

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 42

HARRISON, JONES, AND DEVLIN, LIMITED, submitted at auction on Monday, 5th instant, a catalogue of 6543 bales, comprising average to good wools in the grease, with a small proportion of scoured and washed parcels. Every…

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Making Butter in Hot Weather

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 63

It is easy to make good butter (says the National Salesman) if all the conditions are right. If the weather is good, the cream properly tempered and ripened, the churn tempered to suit the cream, the…

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Some Effects of Soil on Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 64

The influences of "environment" in modifying our breeds of sheep and the wool which they grow is becoming better understood every day, and those who attend to each matters have a decided pull over their…

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The Silver Country. Bkoken Hill, January [?]. Pastoral Exports

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 17

The pastoral exports for the week ended December 31 amounted in value to £3845. The Heat. It is acknowledged by old residents on the Hill…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 9

The following me the crossings over the Common for the week: January 1st, 18,000 wethers from Moohlechy to Goulburn, Macov, owner; 15,000 wethers from Dunlop to Gundagai, M'Avoy, owner; 12,000 owes and…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 11

The Anstralian Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, report:—We have held to-day our first wool sale of the new year. We offered 4800 bales and sold 4530 bales. Competition was brisk, and prices advanced ¼d per lb. for greasy,…

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Experiments in Rust in Wheat. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 9

The sub-committee of the Albury Pastoral and Agricultural Society, appointed to supervise and report upon certain experiments in regard to rust in wheat, have not yet formally reported the result of their investigations;…

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Our Queensland Letter. Political and Social News. Pastoral and Agricultural. Trades and Labor. the Year's Insolvencies. the Christmas Show. Great Fire at Gympie. the Week's Doings. Brisbane, January 3. POLITICS

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 12

The Premier and his party, after visiting several plantations in the Burdekin district, proceeded to Charters Towers, where they were accorded a grand welcome. Many deputations from different…

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