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Farming & the land, 1895

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The Live Cattle Trade. The Deaths on the Gulf of Bothnia. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Thursday 7 February 1895 · page 6

Mr. Rivers, M.R.C.V.S., who made a post mortem on the cattle shipped by the steamer Gulf of Bothnia, says they died from want of proper treatment. They were,…

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Crops Destroyed. Destruction in the North. Meeting at Coraki. CORAKI

The Australian Star · Thursday 7 February 1895 · page 3

The flood to-day attained a height of 18ft. here, but is now down to the top of the public wharf. The country for a stretch, of 20 miles towards the Clarence is still one…

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Pastoral Products

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 7

The following quantities of wool were manifested yesterday--By rail, 313 bales; coastwise. 471; received at Newcastle on Wednesday. 187…

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Australian Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday, Noon.--Off coast cargoes of Victorian wheat are quoted at 23s 6d per quarter…

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Peculiar Disease in Sheep

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 5

MUDGEE, Thursday.--A peculiar malady has made its appearance among sheep in various parts of the district. The animals are seized by a paralysis, dying in a few…

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The Wheat Market

Evening News · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 4

LONDON, February 6.-The visible supply of American wheat, according to BRASTREET'S, Is 106,900,000 bushels, against 108,849,000 bushels…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 7
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The Sydney Wool-selling Brokers' Association report that wool sales were held to-day, Thursday, at the Wool Exchange, Macquarie-place, when the quantity [?]gued totalled 5001 bales, and the sales amounted to 5[?]03 bales as…

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The Export of Live Cattle

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 4

The large shipment, of cattle by the Gulf of Bothnia, from Sydney to England, has aroused great interest in Melbourne, because of the fine opening it offers, for…

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Pitt Town Butter Factory. Windsor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 5

The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Pitt Town Butter Factory Company was hold on Monday night, when it was shown that a profit of £3 7s 9d had been made. The milk…

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Disease in Sheep. a Mudgee Trouble

Evening News · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 6

MUDGEE, February 8.-The farmers in the Mudgee district are greatly alarmed at the appearance of a peculiar malady among sheep. The animals become seized…

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Australian Produce. I Bacon and Butter. 1

Evening News · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 4

LONDON, Pebruary 6.-Salesmen regard the Victorian bacon, by the Oroya as worth 38s per cwt. The produce market is now abnormally…

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The Price of Wheat and Land Valve Taxation. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 3

Sir,—You roport in your issue of the 4th instant that "the English wheat market ia tending downwards; the Continental markets are declining and weak; the American market is changing a little for…

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Farming in England. (To the Editor of the "Australian Star.")

The Australian Star · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 2

Sir,--I enclose an extract from a letter I have just received from an old colonist now in England, once manager of the Commercial Bank, Sydney. It may interest some of your…

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Flood Waters. On the Richmond River. Action of the Reid Ministry. Farmers Flooded Out--Treatment by the Government

The Australian Star · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 5

When the Reid Government came into office Ministers were loud in their protestations that they would settle the people on the land. An instance of how that…

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Farm Dairy Butter

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 February 1895 · page 8

Addressing an assembly of farmers of New York State, Professor Wing stated:--Let us look at some of the ways in which the quality of farm dairy butter may be…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1895 · page 269

From the 14th of January to 3rd of February this colony passed through 20 days which were remarkable for their rains. Our table of rainfall in this number shows some remarkable records of rain…

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The Dairy Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 February 1895 · page 21

The dairy cow of the South Coast has teen frequently illustrated and described in the "Town and Country Journal," and her performances, noted. By some…

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Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 February 1895 · page 43

On January 28 the South Australian factory butter ex R.M.S. Australia realised up to 101s per ewt. in London, the average price being 98s. On the 29th the…

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Pastoral Products

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 February 1895 · page 7

The following quantities of wool were manifested yesterday:--By rail, 303 bales; coastwise 427; received at Newcastle on Thursday 74. The quantities manifested for week ending…

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