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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
63 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
The third prize South Australian essay on the disease of wheat has now been published, and is certainly short, but very much to the point. The writer, Mr. W. Ey, says that, after…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The corpse of a man was found a few nights since on the road at Bray-sur-S[?]ine (Yonne), with five severe wounds on the head, some of which have penetrated the skull. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—The farmers are acustomed to minor freshes and floods, which so repeatedly impoverish, but this visitation will completely ruin the generality of them. I apprehend this statement will be approved of by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The second series of sales for the year commenced on the 16th. There was a moderate attendance of home and foreign buyers, among whom Yorkshire was strongly represented. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The second and largest series of colonial wool sales of the year commenced on 16th May, with a moderate attendance of home and foreign buyers, Yorkshire, however, being represented in rather more than the usual strength. They will end on 6th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the opening of this year's second series of colonial wool sales, this day, there was average attendance of home and foreign buyers, and the competition was moderately spirited. Prices as regards Australian wool, show an average decline…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is the half-yearly report of the state of the sheep in the colony of New South Wales, submitted by the Chief Inspector of Sheep for the information of tne Minister for Lands:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonial, bales catalogued to 21st June, 141,945. Sales are active; only 48,000 bales unsold. All descriptions faulty 1d. lower, and not in inquiry; best wools, prices firm and in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Advices from the Hague state that some cases of cattle disease having appeared on a farm at Schoonewoerd, the authorities proceeded, in accordance with the law, to slaughter the animals…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messrs. Willams, Overbury and Co., writing on 26th June respecting the May wool sales, state:— The second series of colonial wool sales for the current year commence on the 16th ultimo, and will terminate on the 29th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Up to June 21 the quantity of colonial wools catalogued amounted to 141,945 bales, comprising 19,908 bales Sydney, 49,973 Port Phillip, 6282 Van Diemen's Land, 17,793 Adelaide, 1974 Swan River, 19,497 New Zealand,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Jules Jo[?]bert has forwarded to the N. S. W. Acolimatisation Society a suggestion for the formation of an experimental farm, and an agricultural school or college, near Sydney, for the development of new articles of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We find in Tuesday's Herald a letter from Mr. N. P. Bayly, of Mudgee, on the comparative advantages of feeding sheep in large flocks on unenclosed ground, and keeping them in paddocks and housing them at night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since the close of last sales several small transactions have taken place at late prices. Business in England and on the continent, spite of the improvement observable in the closing rates of the late series, remains slack, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the case of Jeremiah Meehan, charged with stealing a cow, the property of Messrs. Dangar Brothers, as detailed in our last, the jury, having retired for about three hours, returned a verdict Of not guilty, and the prisoner was discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The season up here has been a splendid one hitherto, and, as a consequence, pastoral matters generally are looking prosperous. The settlers are, as a rule, laying in a good stock of rations, &c., while the Darling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following is Mr. Helmuth Schwartz's report of the wool sales, dated Saturday, August 24:— "Business does not look nearly so good as at the close of the preceding series, when prices were effectually…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The third series of London public sales of colonial wool opened on August 15, since when the following quantities have been catalogued:—3134 bales Sydney, 5172 Port Phillip, 727 Van Diemen's Land, 1225…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The South Australian Register publishes an elaborate article, in examination of the late mail news from Great Britain, the Continent of Europe, and the United States, as testing the probabilities of the export of wheat from South Australia to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A flock of a thousand pure-bred Merino ewes, which Mr. J. D. Macansh has sent from the Murrumbidgee for his establishment at Gurley, in the Gwydir district, was shorn shortly before leaving, and the average weight of the fleeces was 4lbs. 6¼ozs…
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