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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
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A return has been furnished, pursuant to an order of the Legislative As[?]embly, on the motion of Mr. Gordon, showing the number of sheep infected with scab in the various districts of the colony, on 1st November last;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is feast or famine in this part of the country in regard to water. We have either very wet winters with overflowing rivers, back and blind creeks brimfull, dry lagoons filled up, and the flat surface of the country…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whereas the Scab in Sheep Act of 1863 will expire on the thirty-first December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five and whereas it is expedient that the said Act should be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The arrivals in time for the sales, which commenced on the 16th November, are—Sydney, 12,993 bales; Port Phillip, 3071 bales; New Zealand, 3333bales; Adelaide, 1175 bales; Van Diemen's Land, 414 bales; Cape,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The fourth and last series of sales for the current year commenced on the 16th instant, with a good attendance of home and foreign buyers, and keen competition for all descriptions of stapled wools, which were quoted at an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday last the annual exhibition of the above society was held in the Armidale court-house, and the yard pertaining thereto. In some respects it was better than the show of last year, but in others it was inferior,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the meeting of the N S.W. Acclimatisation Society, held on Monday, the Secretary read a letter from Mr. Woollard, from which we make the following extracts:— "I am satisfied that the rust is of vegetable origin, a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The closing prices of 1864 having ruled moderate, and for faulty and inferior descriptions comparatively low, induced a rather better trade than had hitherto existed; this, coupled with a gradually decrcasing rate for money, caused more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the S. M. Herald:— Sir—At the urgent request cf several gentlemen and friends I forward to you the following facts concerning the Egyptian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an appeal against an interlocutory order by his Honor Sir Alfred Stephen, as Primary Judge in Equity. Sir William Manning, Q C., and Mr. Stephen,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Among the experiments we should wish our farming friends to undertake is the cultivation of large areas of cabbages for cattle, sheep, and pigs. We can scarcely call the growing of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The news with regard to the wool market is satisfactory, the advance on the November rates being, acoording to the wool circulars, from 1d to 2d per 1b. The following report of the wool market is from the Home News…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have for some considerable time been expecting to receive, with the Parliamentary papers, a copy of the evidence taken by the committee on the Pastoral Reserves, but it has not yet reached us. In the absence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the close of last sales there was not much animation in the market; there were several parcels on offer, the buyers' prices did not come up to importers' views. Stocks light; next sales commence about 10th May, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the course of his examination before the select committee, Mr. Fitzpatrick implied that the rush of applications for water reserves at the close of the year was due to the dilatoriness of the squatters, who, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The evidence given by-Mr. Robertson before the select committee on the pastoral reserves was, as might have been expected from the nature of the case, and the nature of the man, mainly a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At Mount Gambier, in South Australia, there is a farmer's Club, the operations of which are of a strikingly practical character. The object aimed at has been to lessen the expenses of the carriage and sale of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is an extract from an address before the Jefferson (U.S.) Country Agricultural Society, by the Hon. John Stanton Gould:— "There are two methods of preparing milk for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We add the following from the telegram received on Tuesday evening by the Maitland Ensign:— Wool prices declined one-third of a penny, three half-pence, and twopence. They have since improved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The second series for this year commenced on the 10th [?] May under circumstances which, had our market been less strong, might have been productive of a very heavy fall; the rapid rise in the bank rate, coupled with large failures among…
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