Something Like a Crop
WE (Adelaide Journal) read that the crop of whea[?] upon the famous farm of the Messrs. Dalrymple, at Dakotah, will this year amount to more than half a…
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Farming & the land, 1881
44 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 3
Wool Sales in Melbourne
A TELEGRAM to E. News states that as evidencing how strongly established Melbourne has become as the great central depot for sale of wool in Australasia, it…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The show of wool in the Melbourne exhibition is stated to be the finest ever seen in the colonies. New South Wales has 20 exhibits from the…
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WE direct the attention of readers of our Melbourne Exhibition letter in another column, by "Cosmopolitan," The remarks on our wool exhibits are really…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Exhibition Letters. The great Wool display—White wool and Yellow Gold—What might have been bought with £8000—Lost opportunities — Brinsmead's pianos—Their numerious improvements—Extraordinary honours — Singing Pianos
THE exhibition on Carlton heights, has this week broken out in a sudden eruption of wool. Wool, wool, everywhere In the main avenue, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sudden Death of a Dairyman
A MAN named Matthew Walsh, a dairyman, carrying on business at Paul-street, Randwick, near Sydney, was driving in his milk-cart along the Randwick road, in…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin telegraph:—We catalogued one thousand bales to-day, and have sold seven hundred and fifty. Prices…
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A "HIRED MAN," who has been employed on a farm in this country for several months, entered suit against his employer the other day for balance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Annual Meetings of Sheep Owners and Owners of Large Stock
SHEEP OWNERS competent to vote for the election of directors for the several sheep districts proclaimed in the Gazette of 24th September 1868, are requested, in terms…
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LONDON, February 14.—The February and March sales of colonial wool opened today, when there was a good attendance of home and foreign buyers. The business…
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LONDON, February 21.—The wool sales continue animated, but prices are unchanged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Farmer Murdered at his Work
AT 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning, a dreadful murder was committed at Agnes Banks, near Richmond, by a man named Robert Williams, on a farmer named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[From the Sydney Papers.] Destruction of Sheep by Lightning—800 Sheep Killed
COOLAH, Tuesday.—On Thursday night a flock of 9000 sheep were in camp near Coolah, when a terrific thunderstorm set in, with vivid and dangerous lightning…
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LONDON, February 28.—The wool market is uneasy, and prices are not well sustained, buyers exhibiting a disinclination to purchase beyond immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CABLEGRAMS The Wool Sales
LONDON, March 8.—The next series of colonial wool sales has been definitely fixed to commence on the 10th of May, when the total probable quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Exhibition Letters. The Grain Show—The wheat trophy—New South Wales and S. Australia—Hops from Bairnsdale—"Hopping" in Kent—The "bitters" we all like—Antiquity of hops—An Anglo-Saxon word—An Australian Kent—More home manufacturers—Messrs. Porteous and Gibaud—Their exhibit—Brushes and bristles—The wild boar—Variety of excellence—Saturday at the Exhibition
The Grain Show has been the special feature of the week at the Exhibition. Ceres had a trophy erected in her honour under the great dome,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Destructive Fire.—2000 Bushels of Wheat Burnt
QUEANBEYAN, Tuesday.—Dodsworth's steam flour mill, rented by Mr. Samuel Brown from Mr. William Wire, and recently refitted, took fire about 7 o'clock…
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IN answer to a question the agricultural editor of the N.Y. Times says that the usual number of ears of wheat grown upon an acre of ground is about…
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LONDON, May 10.—The wool sales for May and June commenced to-day. The prices for merinoes were not quite up to what they realised at the close of the last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Good News for Farmers and Farmers' Wives
THE Orange paper contains an advertisement by the Orange Slaughtering Company, to the effect that it is prepared to purchase 100,000 turkeys, 100,000 geese,…
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