Do Large or Small Farms Pay Best?
There are a great many of our agricultural friends who, to gratify a desire they have to act high life below stairs, aim at becoming large famers before they have been small ones. The…
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Farming & the land, 1860
44 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 3
London Wool Report
The last series of sales for this year commenced on the tenth November and the quantities announced for sale consisted of 9073 bales Australian, 4766 bales Port Phillip, 1909 bales Van Diemen's Land, 332 Adelaide,…
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The colonial wool sales opened on the 10th instant, at a small advance on the pi ices of last sales, and have Farther improved a little. Sidney and Victorian of good kinds, including scoured,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cattle Disease. to the Editor of the Kiama Examiner
SIR,—I beg leave through the columns of your journal, to contradict a report spreading throughout the district, and calculated to injure me in my business, namely, that I introduced the cattle-disease into this neighborhood with cattle I brought down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cattle Disease at Kiama
IN order to do our share towards arresting the dreadful calamity which appears to be threatening the dairy farmers of the Kiama District, we took the liberty of soliciting John Stewart, Esq., J. P., of Kiama Vale, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cumberland Disease in Cattle. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
MY DEAR SIR,—In reply to your note, I hasten to give you all the information I possess, which is very little, regarding the Cumberland disease, said to have appeared among cattle at Kiama and its vicinity…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Facts for Farmers. Large v. Moderate Farms and Squattages
We have been accused of raising an insane cry against the Pastoral interest, but we defy any one to point to such a sentiment emanating from us. We believe the pastoral to be a most important…
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Pursuant to announcement a public meeting was held last Thursday in the Steam Packet Hotel, Kiama. About the time announced, the large room of the hotel was well filled,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. Kiama. Cattle Disease.—public Meeting
On Thursday last, a public meeting was held, pursuant to notice, in the Steam Packet Inn, in reference to the diseases which has lately caused such mortality amongst the cattle in this district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cattle Disease. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Express,")
SIR,—Permit me to caution those persons who are losing their cattle through the Cumberland disease against opening them, or allowing any of the blood or fluids to come into contact with any part of their skin, face, hands,…
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The Medical Times says that in Holland their are three assurance offices for cattle's lives. One company has all its assured cattle vaccinated, as a preservation against contagious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cattle Disease. to the Editor of the Kiama Examiner
SIR,—If the preservation of the health and condition of domestic animals, is an object of first importance in any country, under any circumstances; how much more then must it be an object of anxious solicitude in this colony,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. To the Dairying Farmers of Illawarra. (Per fever of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
FOLLOW DA[?]IN.— As all the ins[?] and [?] reports that have been to widely circulated by them con[?] with the I.S.N.Co. have failed to frighten us from patronizing the Rapid the company have suddenly discovered that they have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cattle Disease at Kiama. (To the Editor of the S. M. Herald.)
SIR,—It is announced in the public papers, that a disease is prevalent about Kiama and vicinity, supposed to be the Cumberland endemic, although very little evidence is brought forward to prove the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poetry. the Farmer
A farmer sat in his easy chair, Drawn out 'neath the maple's shade, Gazing the while on the verdant lawn, While his laughing children played…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Report. February 18th 1860
Considering the active state of trade in the northern markers, a better demand for wools had been anticipated, but political and home affairs have led to caution, and all paries prefer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Catholic Pastoral Address
THE following address has been issued by Archbishop Polding to the Catholics of Maitland and the neighboring districts. The Archbishop accompanied by the Vicar-General, left Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Sales
London Wool Sales commenced March 1st, with a very [?]as attendance of havers, who evinced good spirit in their bidding, and established prices equal, on an average, to those of December series. Foreign buyers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Experimental Farm of Victoria
Just now there is not very much to be seen at the Experimental Farm; but some of the crops yet in the ground, and the works going on, are not without…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Farms and Farmers
IN some of the Australian colonies, circumstances favorable to the development of particular interests, quickly succeeding each other, have attracted a large and increasing population to…
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