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Farming & the land, 1896

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The Wool Season in the Glen Innes District. Inverell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1896 · page 5

Shearing is just completed in this district, having been delayed on several stations by showery weather. The result is considerably below the average, after allowing for losses by…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 61

The week has been characterised by heat, increasing to the highest record for quarter of a century. The whole of Australia has been distressed by this wave of high temperature. Bush fires have been…

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Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 44

The shipment of butter by the R.M.S. Rome reached the London market on January 1 In good condition. The butter market in England on January 3 was steady, and prices were unchanged…

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Live Cattle Export

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 5

The 290 sheep landed by the steamer Yarrawonga are in excellent condition, and it is expected that they, will realise about 38s per head. The vessel…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Glen Innes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 69

Stock passings:—332 store bullocks, by road, from Pikedale, Queensland, to Rockwood, near Uralla, C. F. White owner; 122 fat bullocks, by train, from Mount Cornish, Queensland, to…

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Ventilation on Cattle Ships

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 60

"My experience," says Mr. Henry Bidlake, M.R.C.V.S., in the Veterinary Record, "has thought me that the mortality amongst horses during a voyage is chiefly caused through ignorance on the part of the…

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London Wool Sales

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 4

Messrs. Winehcombe, Carson and Co. are to-day in receipt of the following cable from London:--"Good demand for hides in consequence of army requirements…

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Wool Steamers Home

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 5

Cable advices were received yesterday of the arrival of several wool steamers at London from the colonies. The fleet included the Johannesburg, Mogul, Specialist,…

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Cattle, Meat, and Produce Export

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 58

Messrs. Bergl and Brabbin, having leased the Bowen Meat Export Company's works, and chartered Messrs. Houlder Brothers' Grange line of steamers, will have a steamer leaving Bowen every…

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Pastoral Intelligence. (From Our Correspondents.) Moree

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 9

Latest stock passigns: 10,000 wethers, Bogamildi to Carragundi, J. Fergusson owner…

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Cotton-wool Sprain Bandages

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 61

Further testimony to the use in sprains or "breakdowns" of cotton-wool tightly compressed by bandaging the affected parts is supplied by Mr. Blanchard, M.R.C.V.S., Leominster, in the Veterinarian…

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Wheat-drilling with Artificial Manures

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 60

The South Australian Minister of Education (Hon. Dr. Cockburn) has received the following report from Principal Lowrie on wheat-drilling with artificial manures:—"On the 23rd instant, at the…

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The Live Cattle Trade. London, Jan. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 9

The steamer Yarrawonga, which left Sydney on 9th November, has arrived. She landed 290 head of cattle. JAN. 10…

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Liver Fluke. Prevention Of" Rot' in Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 22

There has been much talk lately about liver fluke In sheep. We therefore 'reprint an article on this subject which appeared in the "Town and Country Journal" "some years ago…

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The Wool Trade. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 6

The resumption of business after the holiday recess found the market on Monday in a some what irregular condition as to prices. The attendance of buyers was, however, as large as at any previous…

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Wheat-growing on Bathurst Plains 50 Years Ago

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 59

Mr. John Dobbie, of Hilton Park, Rydal, writing on the above subject, says:—In the Mail of the 2nd instant yon publish a letter from James Cock re the above. I knew Mr. Cock when he came to…

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A Polluted River. Arrest of a Wool Sconrer

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 11

A wool scourer named Jules Ernest Joubert, who was arrested by the Sheriff for infringing air Equity Court injunction, appeared before Mr. Justice Cohen to-day…

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Exports of Wool From New South Wales Destination

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 7

The following is the destination of the wool exported from New South Wales since July 1st (as far as manifests are completed) to the 24th Decinstant…

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Catholic. the Plenary Council Pastoral Letter. the Position of the Church in Australia. the Education Question and Mixed Marriages

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 15

WE received this week, but too late for more than passing notice, "the Pastoral Letter of the Archbishops and Bishops of Australia in the Second Plenary Council Assembled."…

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The Wool Fleet. Review of the Half-Year. Fleet of 158 Vessels of 540,391 Tons. £5,170,000 Worth of Wool Shipped--Local and London Auctions--Operations of Sydney Shipping Firms

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 3

In one respect only has the half-year just closed been of an altogether successful nature, and that, fortunately, has been in the matter of prices, which for the London…

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