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Farming & the land, 1892

4,205 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 211

Exports and Imports of Produce and Cattle

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Thursday. -- The value of staple produce exported during January was £361,993, compared with £545,557 for January, 1891. The value of breadstuffs…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 9

Stock passings by rail: Five trucks sheep, Cowra to Homebush, Meller to Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co.; one truck sheep, Carcoar to Homebush, T. Fitzpatrick to Hill, Clark, and Co.; three trucks cattle,…

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The Wool Importers' Committee. London, Feb. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 9

Mr. E. M. Young has been elected chairman of the Wool Importers' Committee…

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Gundagai Pastoral and Agricultural Society. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Gundagal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 9

In connection with the Gundagai Pastoral and Agricultural Society's annual show on the 9th and 10th March next, the entries show a falling off as compared with last year, Still there are 870 entries,…

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The Agricultural Outlook and Pastoral Prospects. Reports From Various Districts. Ii. Berry

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 15

Our correspondent writes under date February 20: During the year 1891 much has been done in matters social and agricultural in the way of advancement of the district, and at present we are on the eve of…

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The Proposed Sheep Tax. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 7

Sir,—The statements made by the deputation of pastoralists during their interview with the Premier yesterday place the questions enveloped in the proposed sheep tax in such an altered light that I again…

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The London Wool Market. Before the First Series of Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 6

LONDON, January 22. -- The total sales of colonial wool on this market since the close of the December series is put down in round figures at some 2000…

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Brunker and Wolfe's Report. Sydney, February 27th, 1892. Wool and Produce

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 9

Wool.-- Though the demand has been well maintained on the part of the numerous foreign buyers attending the sales purchasers limits of value have been fixed at so low a point…

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Queensland News. Colored Labor. Agricultural and Pastoral Items. Commercial Intelligence. News of the Week. In Town and Country. BRISBANE, February 22. the Colored Labor Question

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 12

The Brisbane Chamber of Commerce met on Wednesday, and passed a resolution congratulating the Chief Secretary upon his recent manifesto concerning the employment of kanaka labor on…

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South Australian News. Recent Deaths Of Pioneers. Transcontinental Railway. The Wheat Season. General News. ADELAIDE, February 24. Recent Deaths

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 13

Mr. Richard Musson, well known and a resident of 42 years, died on February 16. The deceased arrived in South Australia in the Omega in 1850, and shortly afterwards settled in North…

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Farms. The Well-known Shealkaven Estate, in the Parishes of

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 22

Coolangatta, Broughton, Bunderra, Illaroo, Buangla, Nowra, Numba Currambene Wollamboola, and Beecroft In the Counties of Camden and St Vincent, including Numerous…

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REVIEWS. The Rural Economy and Agriculture of Australia and New Zealand as seen by Robert Wallace, F.L.S., F.R.S., Edin. Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy to the University of Edinburgh. Author of "India in 1887," " Farm Live Stock of Great Britain," &c. With 10 maps, 90 full-page plates and 24 illustrations in the text. Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, St.Dunstan's House, Fetter-lane, Fleet-street, E.C. 1891

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 5

It was in May, 1889, that Professor Wallace disembarked at Adelaide after a smart run of 30 days from Naples. The object of his visit was to obtain on the spot the most trustworthy…

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Dairy Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 456

Our London correspondent telegraphs on the 18th instaut:— Consignees of Australian butter complain that the article shipped as being of first quality should really be classed as second. There is a great scarcity…

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Farm Notes for March

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 455

We regret to anticipate, writing as we do on the 23rd February, that March will prove a dry month. February rains have been withheld, and the colony as a whole is very dry. The greatest recent…

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The Champion Farms

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 455

THE judge originally appointed to inspect the farms entered for the champion prizes in the national competition was Mr. J. L. Thompson, Principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College…

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Farm Produce

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 9

Hay Lucerne,-- Demand active for good well saved qualities at 45s to 55s per ton; heated and new green sorts in very limited demand sales at from 40s to 50s per ton; Oaten…

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Australian Maritime History. Rise and Progress Op the N. AND H.R.S.S. CO. The Pioneers of the Service. Rivalry between the H.R.N.S.N. Co. and the A.S.N. Co.--Rninons Competition--Proposed Amalgama. tion--The Farmer Shipowners Stick to their Colors. No. 41

The Australian Star · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 7

ALMOST at the outset of its career viz., in the first months of 1855, the H.R.N.S.N. Co. nearly came to a sudden termination; and that even before the company's flag…

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The Farming Industry. Capital from Tasmania. ALBURY

The Australian Star · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 5

Negotiations are almost completed with Mr. Faulkiner for the lease of 15,000 acres of the well-known Cooraboonilly run, in the Murray Hut district, for agricultural…

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The Home, the Farm, and The Orchard. Bees. Queen Bearing

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 6

Suppose the queen is laying two thousand eggs a day, and that the full number of eggs is forty thousand, or even more—though as the bees are…

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Farm and General Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 43

At the Redfern Railway Hay Market there was a smaller supply of forage forward this week, consequently the market holds firm, but no advance noticeable at present. The demand for…

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