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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1891

3,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 163

Sheep-breeding

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 854

Suit your sheep to the soil and climate and keep a watchful eye on the markets of the world. These rules are being closely observed at Bathurst. No other district is doing more in the way of…

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

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 42

The "weather for the past week has been seasonable in every respect. On the coast line some exceedingly sultry days were experienced, followed by a general rain, which was very welcome in most…

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Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 42

There is but little wool news to report this week. No publie sales have taken place and but few private ones, although several parcels previously offered at auction havo been tried privately…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Albury

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 891

Stock movements:—262 merino ewes, from Victoria for Moorwatha, W. C. Reid owner; 2906 mixed sheep, from Kickaria; 26,760 sheep and 365 fat and store cattle, from other districts for Albury markets, various…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Country Shows

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 10

GRAFTON, Thursday.--Entries for the Clarence Agricultural Exhibition, to open next week, closed with nearly 1300. The hotel aud booth privileges were sold for £62. Large…

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The Irish Butter Trade

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 7

A meeting of merehants and coopers interested in this branch of Irish industry was held at Dungarvan in March. The object aimed at was to devise a means to improve the trade before the…

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Smut in Wheat

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 21

Professor Kellerman and Mr. Swingle, of the Botanical Department of the Kansas Station, U.S., have issued a preliminary report on " wheat smut," which is spoken of in the highest terms in the…

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Grains of Wheat

The Bird O' Freedom · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 5

Beloved, it, was beer not brains that won the late East Sydney election. My sons, keep my words, it's all you'll ever get from me worth keeping…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 6

Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. have received the following telegram, dated London, April 16: "Sales continue without any material alteration in prices."…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 11

In the local market a somewhat quiet tone has prevailed during the past week, owing to the scarcity of the article. No aucliou sales of wool have taken place since last writing, and the business passing has been…

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Occasional Papers Some Oddities: Pastoral and Otherwise

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 859

First place to those who wear the gown. The Churches of all denominations have, indeed, discharged such a cargo of oddities into the bush of Australia as fully entitles them to precedence in…

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Wool. Sydney. Newcastle. Melbourne

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 3

APPENDED we publish the Exports of Wool for the six months ending 31st December, [?] and hope they will be found of interest to our many friends in the shipping and mercantile community. The…

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The Home, the Farm, and The Orchard. Green Crop Manuring

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 6

THERE is no doubt that this plan of fertilising the ground is not sufficiently practised in this colony. It will always pay well to set apart a piece of ground…

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Shearers' Strike. Wool-sheds Burned. Unionists Blamed. War to the Knife. Riot Act and Arrests. Complaints of Ingratitude. CHARLEVILLE

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 5

John Brown, for inciting to riot, and John M'Namara and Frank Latreille, for arson, were committed for trial to the Supreme Court, Roma, on August 11. A. J. Brown,…

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Baby Farming. Strange Circumstances. Shameful Neglect

Nepean Times · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 3

The police received information from a young woman named Ada Greenhalgh, a domestic, in the employ of Mr. T. R. Smith, of the Riverside Hotel, that a person had left a child with her. ostensibly…

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The Travelling Dairy

Evening News · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 6

We are informed by the Director of Agriculture (Mr. H. C. L. Anderson) that Mr. Nail Harper, of Atterton, Parramatta, has been appointed by the Minister for Agriculture manager of the…

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Dairy Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 855

Light rain fell at intervals during Monday at Crookwell 50 points being registered. This will enable the farmers to commence ploughing, but much more rain is yet required. The operations at the Crookwell…

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The Dairy Slaves

The Australian Workman · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 1

"THESE men (writes an ex-dairymen) rise at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning and do half a day's work before other people are out of bed. The dairy slaves have to milk, clean themselves, and deliver milk,…

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Bules for Dairying

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 21

The New York Dairymen's Association adopted the following rules at a recent session: To make dairying a success certain things and conditions are necessary, and the better these things and…

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Sewage Farm, Parramatta River

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 8

The members have waited upon the Minister fos Public Works on the subject of the resumption of land in Granville for the purposes of a sewege farm for Parramatta, The Minister…

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