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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1872

139 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 7

Cattle-breeding

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1872 · page 6

SHORTHORNS do not appear to suffer from the efforts of long-continued in-and-in breeding. Favourite (252), himself the result of close in breeding, was used successfully upon his…

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CATTLE-BREEDING. (From the Agricultural Gazette.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 9 November 1872 · page 4

SHORTHORNS do not appear to suffer from the effects of long-continued in-and-in breeding. Favourite (252), himself the result of close in-breeding,…

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Pastoral Notes

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 13 November 1872 · page 3

Thanks to the energy of Messrs Wm. M'Culloch and Co, says the Pastoral Times, at Echuca, thousands of sheep have been crossed over the Murray there dy steamer at the rate of £10 per 1000…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 16 November 1872 · page 2

MR. A. N. GILBERT of Wariollah, says the Pastorat Times, promises to have one of the best bred herds of cattle in the Riverine district. In order to show how the Riverine…

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The Pastoral Show Dinner

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 20 November 1872 · page 2

THE usual dinner in cnnnection with the Pastoral Association took place at the Australian Hotel in the evening of the Show day. The spread was an excellent one, and did…

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Pastoral Notes

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 27 November 1872 · page 3

Three truck loads of pure-bred bulls-twenty-nine in number, and valued at £700-the property of Mr. A. N. Gilbert arrived by the train at Echuca on Thursday last on route for Warwillah station…

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Telegraphic News. Direct Telegrams from Europs. [By Submarine Telegraph.] Commencement of Wool Sales. Important Advance in Prices. LONDON, Nov. 20

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 27 November 1872 · page 2

A SERIOUS crisis has arisen at Versailles. M. Thiers is unwell, and has threatened to resign the Presidency of the Republic, unless a large vote of confidence is given on the…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 30 November 1872 · page 3

ABOUT 300 well-bred cows, with calves, crossed the bridge on Thursday, en route to Naradhun, the station of Dr. Stitt; these are a good lot of cows, in good condition, in…

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Pastoral Notes

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 30 November 1872 · page 3

We (Examiner) had the pleasure of inspecting a few days ago, at Mr .Settatree's hotel, Tamworth, two imported bulls, intended for the stud of Mr Hoskinson, of Barraba. They arrived in the colony…

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Pastoral Notes

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 4 December 1872 · page 3

THE Thelangerin station, on the Lachlan, with 18,000 young sheep, has been sold to Messrs M'Farland Brothers at a satisfactory price, for cash…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 4 December 1872 · page 3

OUR Dandaloo correspondent furnishes the following under date November 20:— 102 head of fat cattle (Balfe) Buggabadah to Bathurst or Sydney, in charge of…

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Pastoral Notes

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1872 · page 5

A flock of 100 Angora goats, the property of Mr. Black, passed through Dubbo (says the Dispatch) on Friday last, bound for the Lachlan. They came from the Muswellbrook, and were in charge of…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 7 December 1872 · page 3

THE Fourth Annual Show in connection with the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association is appointed to be held on Thursday, February 13, 1873. The list…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 11 December 1872 · page 3

MESSRS. ETTERSHANK, EAGLESTONE. AND Co. announce the intended sale by auction, in January, of the following stations in the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan districts: —…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 14 December 1872 · page 3

WE hear that the Congbool Station on the Glenelg, in the western, district of Victoria, has been sold by Messrs. Burnett and Bucklands of Geelong on account, of…

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Long-woolled Sheep

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 14 December 1872 · page 3

MR. BROWNE who is raising a new breed of sheap known as the "Nunah Lincoln," having written to Mr.Oddy, the chairman of the wool-supply committee of the Bradford…

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The Blunders of Australian Farmers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 14 December 1872 · page 4

FOLLOWING the example of the Americans, the Australian colonists have hitherto gone on cultivating wheat in the same fields, but owing to the difference of climate not with…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 18 December 1872 · page 2

A MOB of 250 bullocks from the M'Intyre, New England, belonging to Mr. Morgan, were yesterday sold to local buyers. 100 to Mr. Chisholm, of Bulls' Run; 100 to…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 21 December 1872 · page 2

THE owner of the Moorak station, Mount Gambier, which is celebrated for a long lustre wool, writes as follows, on the report to the Chairman of the Wool…

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