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Illawarra · Farming & the land
20 stories in Illawarra's papers
SIR—The people of Wollongong have great reason to complain of the practice of driving cattle for slaughter through the streets of the town in the middle of the day; a practice which, if not speedily arrested, will assuredly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since our last report a few parcels of short wool have changed hands, at very full prices; but in long wools next to nothing has been passing on former terms. The supply on offer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Southey and Co.'s sales on 15th Nov., the sale of colonial wool commenced at an advance of 1½d to 2d average on Australian, and 1½d on Cape. Both descriptions of wool have since further improve, with every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since the close of last sales and prior to the commencement of the present, a considerable quantity of wool changed hands at an average profit of 1½d to 2½d, at which advance the dealers both in London and the North…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is quite a common thing to hear persons attribute the growth and progress of this colony solely to the gold discoveries. In their eyes, uninstructed by actual experience of the state…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—It gives me pain to say one word that might be thought disreputable to Illawarra, or one of its inhabitants, Notwithstanding, when crime, and especially such as that of which I am about to speak, makes its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr Thomas Dawson reports:—Fat Cattle are plentiful and the supply quite equal to demand; prime quality worth 15s to 16s per 100 1bs; the inferior cattle are all readily bought up for store purposes at from 40s to 604…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To prevent wheat being attacked with smut only one system has been applied with success— that is, steeping the seed ; but different substances have been used to prepare these steeping liquids…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the old country at home, where land has been chopped and impoverished for centuries, the old empirical Rule of Thumb processes have been found to result in certain failure; and have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Whit effects does the general denuding of a country of trees have upon the production of food? Can any farmer answer this question? We mean to his own satisfaction, after having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →C. D. Jacomb's Wool Circular states, that, the wool sales originally fixed on 28th April, were put off till 5th May, on account of the elections, and that this caused an accession of 17,000 bales,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following essay on the best method of cultivating 100 acres of land, was read at a committe meeting of Villiers and Hevtesbury Agricultural Association, held on the 7th June,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Connell was brought up under a warrant charging, him with stealing twenty five head of cattle from the paddock of John Constable, of Moruya, on the night of the 4th of April last. The prisoner was defended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The public sales of wool which commenced on the 5th of May, closed on the 3rd June. The number of bales catalogued was as follows:— 8187 bales Australian, 27958 bales Part Phillip,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The public Wool Sales are to commence on the 21st of July. About 80,000 bales are catalogued; but, notwithstending this large quantity, a rise on last rates is confidently expected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Upon the Court re-assembling. Thomas Council was arraigned on a charge of having stolen, at Curry Flat, one bullock, the property of Daniel O'Hare, of Maneroo, on or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is a condensed report of these cases, as tried at Braidwood, on Monday last by by Judge Cary and a jury :— CATTLE STEALING AT MORUYA…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →October 17.—Since close of the sales there have been but few inquiries in our market. Holders are firm, and will not sell at a less profit than let to 1½1. Several small contracts have been made at the latter advance to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Whereas it is expedient to extend the limits of the districts designated by the order of her Majesty in Council made on the ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven as the Settled Districts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is feared that this disease has appeared in this neighborhood. A few days ago Mr. Thomas East had two choice dairy cows die very suddenly, and he is of opinion that they died of this…
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