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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1875

16 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Cooma Police Court. Wednesday, 20Th January. Before Mr. S. Robinson. J.P. CATTLE-STEALING

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1875 · page 2

George Frederick Ward appeared on bail to answer the charge of stealing one cow, one steer, and one calf the property of Maurice Har[?], of Rosebrook…

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Manaro Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1875 · page 2

LAST Tuesday, an exhibition was held in the police paddock, Cooma. The exhibits of sheep were very good. The coarse-woolled rams of Mr. James…

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Braidwood Police Court. Friday, February 12. BEFORE Messrs. Maddrell and Voss. Cattle Stealing

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1875 · page 2

James Clarke and Andrew McCarron, on remand, were charged with having, on Saturday lst, feloniously stolen a cow, the property of Messrs. Hassall…

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How to Judge Wool

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1875 · page 4

THE following appears in a late report of the Association of Wool Manufacturers:— "There is perhaps no effect which will render wool, and otherwise good wool too,…

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Diseases in Sheep Act of 1866

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1875 · page 4

As annual meeting of sheepowners have not been held in terms of the above-named Act, for the election of directions for the ensuing year, in the…

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Important Sale of Pure-bred Cattle at Maharatta

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1875 · page 3

A correspondent kindly forwarded the following, which came to hand too late for last publication :—" While I regret to hear that the pick of magnificent [?] at Maharatta has changed hands, and are about to be…

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London Wool,sales

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1875 · page 3

Mty [?]— The competition at the wool sales in unabated Foreign, capecially French, buyers are [?] and all are [?] to purchases for immed[?]…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 12 June 1875 · page 4

MAIDEN Hill, and Co.—WD over [?] bales greary wool at [?] pieces at [?] a lambs at [?] 6 pieces at [?]…

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Cattle Sale Yards Bill

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 2

THE following is the Act of Parliament, recently passed, providing for the erection and maintenance of cattle sale yards at Goulburn. It should command the…

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Farmer's Sheep

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 4

AN American paper, the Western Rural, has a chapter of well considered advice:— If you have a small and high pried farm under high cultivation, grain growing,…

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Stealing Wool

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1875 · page 3

IN consequence of numerous petty thefts of wool from sheds in this district of late years, it might act as a preventive to let the thieves hear that flockowners are…

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Manaro Pastoral and Agri. Cultural Association

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 3

A VERY [?] attendance responded to the invitations of the hon, Secretary to most at Mr. C. W. Crawahaw's Prince of Wales Hotel, Cooma, on Thursday…

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Manaro Pastoral and Agricultural, Association

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 1

At the general meeting held at Mr. C. W. Crawshaw's Prince of Wales Hotel, Cooma, on Monday, night there was a large number present, amongst whom…

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Pastoral Associations

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 4

ON the 25th ultimo our Cooma friends held a meeting of their pastoral Association, which its members had rather despondingly deemed to be in a moribund…

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Shropshire Sheep

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 4

THE Shropshire is a [?] of sneep watch has been exalted to the very height of importance within the past twenty years, from being better adapted to ensure more…

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Hints for Small Wool Growers

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1875 · page 4

A.CORRESPONDENTS furnishes the Armidale Express:—As the shearing season may now be said to have commenced, the writer thinks that he may be of some…

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