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Farming & the land, 1891

3,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 163

High Price for Scoured Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 42
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

The highest price realised in the Sydney market for a long time past, was obtained by Messrs. Wihchcombe, Carson, and Co. at their last sale—viz., 18d per lb. This figure was paid for the extra super; combing quality of the…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 10

Stock passing through by train: 3 trucks cattle, Cowra to Penrith, [?]rmsby to J. Ewens; 6 trucks sheep, Cowra to Hombush, S. G. Alford to Leeds and Co.; 36 trucks sheep Dubbo to Albury, to Powers and…

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Bust in Wheat. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1081

Sir,—To those who take sufficient interest in this question to induce them to make a simple experiment, and premising that rust is a fungus whose natural food is the sap of cereal plants, I offer the following test—it is a miniature of what…

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Rules for Dairymen

Nepean Times · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 6

Every now and then someone sits down and evolves a code of rules for the guidance of dairymen. Usually they are pretty practical. Here are the last that we have…

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SITES for Experimental Farms and Agricultural Schools. Ministerial Minute

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 10

Mr. Sydney Smith, the Secretary for Mines a[?] Agriculture, under date the 15th instant, has issued a minute regarding the sit[?]s for experimental farms and agricultural schools to be established within the…

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Electricity on the Farm

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1080

According to the Implement and Machinery Review, complete success has attended the application, of electricity as a motive power for an extensive fanning plant in the Western Pyrences. M. Cornille Gonzy,…

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Dairy Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1079

Our Lismore correspondent writes on May 11:—The rise in the price of batter has given a stimulus to the dairying industry, and, coming as it does at the beginning of winter, it is hoped the rise will be…

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Parasitic Diseases of Farm Animals

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1079

Affections of the skin of a somewhat serious character have been traced to the invasion of nematode worms into the tissues of the skin itself, or the connective tissue beneath it. Veterinary surgeons in this country…

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The Travelling Dairy

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1078

The travelling dairy formed in this colony by the Department of Agriculture for instructive purposes is now ready for work, and probably will be used at Bathurst next week. The plant cost…

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Experimental Farms and Agricultural Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 6

The Minister for Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Sydney Smith, has written a minute with reference to sites for experimental farms and agricultural schools, and which…

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The Home, the Farm, and The Orchard. National Prizes for 1891

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 6

THE following regulations have been issued by the Department of Agriculture :— 1. Persons intending to compete must…

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Our Dairying Industry. Xiv.—various Methods of Cleaning Dairy Utensils

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 22

This subject is one of the greatest importance to every one engaged in this industry. It being so important will be sufficient excuse for devoting an article to the proper explanation of the subject. The…

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Travelling Dairy

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 12

The machinery and appliances for the travelling dairy have been rapidly got into position by the manager, Mr. Neil Harper, and for a preliminary trial were set up in the dairy pavilion oh the…

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Murrumbid[?]ee Pastoral Association

The Australian Star · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 6

WAGGA WAGGA, Saturday.--At the monthly meeting of the committee of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association, the secretary, Mr C. H…

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Colonial Wheat

Evening News · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 6

LONDON, May 15.—The consignment of wheat ex Atalanta, from Port Augusta March. 16, sold at 43s per quarter (8 bushels)…

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The Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 7

Dry cool weather is now ruling. Early in the month sharp frosts set in in nearly all districts. A severe winter is likely to ensue. Fortunately the pastures are so well clad that, even if suddenly…

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Interfering with Mobs of Sheep

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 5

BRISBANE, Saturday.--It is reported from Angathella that 40 unionists worried the drovers on the Angathella road. One lot went after a mob of sheep belonging to…

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American Wheat for Export

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday Night.--The quantity wheat available for export at the port of New York is reported to amount to 39,000,000 bushels…

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American Wheat. London, May 16

The Australian Star · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 5

The amount of wheat at the New York markets available for export is 39,000,000 bushels…

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