Scab in Sheep
A RETURN has been furnished, pursuant to an order of the Legislative Assembly, on motion of Mr. Gordon, showing the number of sheep infected with scab in the various districts of the colony, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1866
74 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 4
The Prevailing Cattle Plague
A GREAT cattle plague has come amongst us, threatening seriously to increase the present high price of meat and dairy produce, to ruin our dairymen, and perhaps even to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hallett's Pedigree Wheat
Early in 1863 the editor of the Farm and Garden supplied to all applicants packets of Hallott's celebrated pedigree wheat. Mr. George Ireland, who obtained a packet,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm.—notes on the Month
IT was recorded in the notes of the preceding year that the seasons seemed hero to follow the peculiarities of the weather in the northern hemisphere. According to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seed Farms
THERE is an old saw which tells us that "one fact is worth a bushel of theories." Following out the ascertained portion of the matter in hand, a few notes may be strung…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Farm.—notes on the Month
THE rain which fell about the middle of last month would help on the root and green crops; but, except where heavy falls of rain have occurred, the grasses will not be benefited by it. It is to be hoped the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool
The prices at the London Wool Sales were fully maintained, especially full bodied and good combing wool. London, 14th January…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Report
The prices at the late sales were well maintained for all descriptions, but especially for full-bodied and good combing wool, at an advance of 2d. per lb. on September prices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cattle Plague
Week by week the ravages of the murrain go on increasing with alarming rapidity. There is scarcely any part of the country which is not now desolated by the scourge. All hope of the extinction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pigs and Pig Farms
THERE is no need to say much about the profit of keeping pigs. Every one knows that, as a matter of course, the pig is not only, as with the Irishman, the "cratur that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LOCAL & General Intelligence Yass Quarter Sessions. Before Judge Purefoy. Thursday, March 1. Sheep Stealing at Back Creek
Stephen Woodcock, on bail, pleaded not guilty to an information in which he was charged with having, on the 15th January, at Buck Creek, stolen seventeen sheep, the property of James Haldiman. A second…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm.—notes on the Month
PLOUGHING is now being carried forward in earnest. So little rain has fallen since the previous season that the land turns over quite freely, as it has never become…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Farm.--notes on the Month
PLOUGHING is now being carried forward in earnest. So little rain has fallen since the previous season that the land turns over quite freely, as it has never become "baked," or hardened, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Comstock's Spader on the Farm of Mr. Sullivant
FRMY correspondents delighted in saying that the head-quarters of a certain well-known general were in the saddle. The headquarters of Comstock's rotary spaders are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Odds and Ends of Farming Facts
THE fact seems frequently to be overlooked that weeds do more than merely occupy the space of land which might otherwise be profitably cultivated: they exhaust the soil…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool
The wool market, on the whole, is firm; first-class clips are higher; there is a heavy supply of greasy, in consequence of which, quantities have been bought in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cattle Plague in England
AFTER many years of fear and trembling on the part of these who dreaded any further increase in the price of meat, the rinderpest, or steppe murrain, has actually reached…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Farm Crops
THE attention of acclimatisers should be directed to the introducing of species or varieties of grain, root-crops, fibre plants, oil-bearing plants; species of trees of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegram News. [From Greville’s Telegram Company.] Arrival of the English Mail. Spread of Fenianism. Terrific Hurricanes in England .The Cattle Plague
The Bombay Mail Steamship arrived at King George’s Sound at 7 a.m. on the morning of the 12th instant. The Fenian organization is more powerful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm.—notes on the Month
THE fields (we like the word field, it is so suggestive of country life) are beginning to assume their usual garb of green—thanks to the late rains and the lower state of the…
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