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Farming & the land, 1892

4,205 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 211

New Zealand Farmers' Co-op Association Report

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 1 April 1892 · page 7

The Australian representative for the "Farmers' Co-op. Association in New Zealand," is in receipt of the following market report, from the Christ-church Association:—…

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Floods in the States. Damage to Crops. London, March 31

The Australian Star · Friday 1 April 1892 · page 5

Advices to hand from New York report that a vast amount of damage has been done to the standing crops in the United States by excessive rains and consequent floods…

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Dairying Hints

The Weekly Advance · Friday 1 April 1892 · page 6

How curious it is that so many dairy and agricultural writers set forth the value and praise of [?]kim milk as a food for calves, pigs and colts, and do it in…

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The Home, the Farm, and The Orchard. National Prizes. Mixed Fruit Orchards

The Weekly Advance · Friday 1 April 1892 · page 6

The report of Mr. J. Golding, the judge appointed to inspect the mixed fruit orchards entered for the National Prise Competition, of 18[?]1, having…

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The Berry Estate. Sale of the Numba Farm Lands. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Nowra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1892 · page 5

The Numba farm lands of 6000 acres, portion of the late David Berry's Shoalhaven estate, were offered to-day by Messrs. Hardie and Gorman, in conjunction with Messrs. Stewart and Morton, in the…

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Farm Notes

The Dawn · Friday 1 April 1892 · page 17

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 745

With the opening of autumn a very perceptible fall in the temperature has taken place. The coo change would have been just the thing but for rain and the gales that have accompanied it. Tuesday…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Weather, Stock and Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 6

WINDSOR, Thursday. -- Farmers are losing no time in maize-putting, but the unsettled weather interferes greatly with operations. The intermittent rains make them anxious to get the maize off as…

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Farm and Stock Notes. Diseased Cattle

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 22

"ANXIOUS" (Rockhampton, Q.) sends us the following, which we submitted to our old contributor, :" Eleve":— "A disease has broken out among my cattle, which is general in the coastal districts of…

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Judging Butter Blindfold

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 22

AN incident in the late Agricultural Show at Jamberoo is worthy of record, as it exhibits in a remarkable manner the Bound judgment of a gentleman who has long been regarded as one of the…

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Late Pastoral Intelligence. Albury

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 757

Stock movements: 2000 merino wethers, from Round Hill to Talmalmo, R. Smithwick owner: 800 fat merino wethers, from Hawksview to Melbourne, Baron A. King; 60 horses, from Albury to Grenfell,…

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Pastoral Leases of the Central Division

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 743

A deputation of residents of Nyngan waited upon the Minister for Lands last week to bring under Ministerial notice a resolution parsed at a largely-attended public meeting held at Nyngan,…

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The Wool Sates

Evening News · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 4

LONDON, March 31.-The wool sales continue with a steady market and unchanged rates…

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The London Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday Night. -- At the London wool sales to-day the average prices obtained showed no improvement. The American demand is small…

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Queensland News. Pastoral and Agricultural Items. News from the Backblocks. Opening of Parliament. Doings in Town. BRISBANE, March 28. Agricultural and Pastoral

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 13

Tho Queensland Department of Agriculture having failed to obtain suckers or plants of the sisal hemp from the Bahamas have decided to turn their attention to Yucatan, Central America,…

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Outbreak of Anthrax Cattle Dying. Men Blood-Poisoned. PARRAMATTA

The Australian Star · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 5

The disease known as anthrax, or Cumberland disease, has made it appearance among cattle on Mr. Salter's estate at Went worth ville, about three miles from…

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Wool Classification. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 10

Sir,—The students at present undergoing instruction at the department for instruct on in sheep and wool at the Technical College, Ultimo, wish to call the attention of all interested in the wool trade to…

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Prize Dairy Farms. V

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 742

The great problem which observant travellers should at all times keep before them when journeying through a new country is what keeps its people. New South Wales is still a new country…

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London Wool Sales. a London cable, March 30, runs:—

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 16

The March series of London auction sales of colonial wool was commenced to day. The catalogue included 12,300 bales. There was a good attendance of buying brokers and the trade,…

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London Wool Market. (From Our Correspondent.) London, Feb. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 11

The first series of wool sales here, which began on the 26th January, were brought to a close on the 20th February, exhausting 23 sittings at an average of 13,612 bales per day as against 13,683…

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