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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
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In regard to this wheat, Mr. Dickson requests u[?] to in sert the following remarks:— In addition to the small quantity sown by him being the produce of the handful he had direct from England,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the Government usually take no steps to collect the agricultural statistics of the colony until the end of Marah or the beginning of April, we shall have to wait some months before any official information is obtainable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have the following note from Mr. Kbsworth:—Circular Quay, Sydney, 19th January, 1865.—The wool sales were held to-day, but the non-delivery of the correspondence prevented buyers from operating, and owners would not meet the market,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—Numerous opinions have been published as to the cause of rust in wheat, many of which are most absurd. The opinion of a gentleman, Mr. G.B. Bossley, said to have been expressed at a meeting of the Acclimatisation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The sales which commenced on November 17 closed on December 15. The number of bales catalogued consisted of 20,507 bales, Sydney; 13,347 bales, Port Phillip; 1891 bales, Yan Diemen's Land; 5340 bales,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a meeting of the Council of the Victorian Board of Agriculture, held on the 15th February, Dr.Mueller brought up the report of the committee appointed to enquire into the causes of rust and blight in cereals, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The return of infected sheep in the colony, at 31st August and 30th November, 1864, ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed, 31st January, 1865, contains the following memo,, giving in few words the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Monday the plonghing matches of this society were held. Three horse teams and two bullock teams were entered for competition. The ground was very hard, and two of the competitors withdrew before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The market on the whole closed well; nearly the whole of the old wool has been cleared off; the new clip will find a ready market. The rates current last year are improbable as a large increase of over 50,000 bales in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The opening of the year was not marked by any special feature, there were a few contracts made, but to a very moderate extent. Prices kept firm to March, at which sale lhere was plenty of animation, and stapled wools from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Mort has addressed the following latter to the editor of the Herald:— Sir—In your issue of yesterday there is a letter signed "Colonist," calling attention to an article in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Mort has addressed the following letter to the editor of the Herald:— Sir—It your issue of yesterday there is a letter signed "Colonist," calling attention to an article in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—A paragraph in your journal of the 13th instant from a Singleton correspondent, speaks very loud in favor of inoculation of cattle as a preventive of pleurepneumonia. Hundreds of oattle owners, I have no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →With regard to the wool market, it appears there was an advance in prices on November rates of medium of Sydney wools of 1d. to 1½d. per lb. But according to our telegram, dated London, March 20th, this advance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—When lately reading an article by Baron Liebig on a new extract of meat which appears to be attracting much attention on the Continent of Europe, I was much struck by the apathy shown by our squatters and owners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Times of March 27th says:—The first series of colonial wool sales of 1865 commenced on the 2nd inst. They comprised 84,352 bales, of which 23,654 bales were Cape wools, the balance Australian. According to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Over a large extent of country our farmers have been busy ploughing and sowing, in the hope that their labour will not again be neutralised by rust. There was less of it last harvest than the harvest before, and the hope,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For many years past about one hundred acres of the Albion Farm Estate have been wholly valueless through the want of proper drainage, they formed a large swamp, which was maintained in a marshy state by the drainage from the range of hills…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This important series of sales oommencod on the 11th of May, the arrivals to that date consisting of 22,092 bales, Sydney; 78,879 bales, Port Phillip, 4458 bales Van Diemen's Land; 26,341 bales, Adelaide, 13,619…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In January last an exhibition of merino wool, open to all the colonies, took place at Melbourne. The results are reported at considerable length by the Argus of the 26th July. The arrangement, as described by Messrs…
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