Scab in Sheep—how to Detect
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 October 1863 · page 2
A flock of sheep that have been contaminated with scab are first noticed in the morning yawning, stretching their bodies, sniffling, and nibbling, with their heads stretched out. A catch with the mouth is made suddenly and sharply at some particular part…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exports of Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c. From 1St July
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 October 1863 · page 9
Per Strathdon: 1879 bales wool, 11,806 hides, 8706 horns. Per Centurion: 841 bales wool, 6740 hides, 414 casks cocoanut oil, 1[?]9 packages 1208 bags gum. Per Transatiantio: 1417 bales wool, 86 casks tallow, 6631 hides,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →FARMERS. (From the Cornhill.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 October 1863 · page 3
THE gentleman farmer number one is almost always a capital kind of man to know. With the tastes and personal habits of the most refined classes he often unites a kind of jolly simplicity that one does not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law. Supreme Court.—monday. Banc[?] Court. Before His Honor the Chief Justice. BUTTER V. Ford and Others
Empire · Tuesday 3 November 1863 · page 2
This was an sotion brought by the plaintiff for a breach of contract in the non delivery of 3000 head of caltle, in 1860. Counsel for the plaintiff. Mr. Powell; for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scab in Sheep.—experiments at the Model Farm. (From the Melbourne Herald, October 17.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 November 1863 · page 8
THERE are, perhaps, few subjects with an uninviting name which should attract greater general attention than the curative treatment of scab in sheep. It is not alone the interest of the squatters and farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Incendiary Bushranger and the Sheep Shearers. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 November 1863 · page 3
SIR,—Your journal of to-day contains the statement that a single [?]uffian, by his mero word of command, compelled eighteen able-bodied sheep-shearers to assist him in an act of arson and scandalous crime…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Wool Report
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 November 1863 · page 5
SEPTEMBER 24TH.—The markets firm. The general impression is that wool will be dearer to the extent of 1d. on average rates at the recent sales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wool Report
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 November 1863 · page 2
SEPTEMBER 24TH.—The markets firm. The general impression is that wool will be dearer to the extent of 1d. on average rates at the recent-sales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trade Circulars. Wool. [J. T. Simes and Co]
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 November 1863 · page 8
THE July series of public colonial wool sales commenced on the 1[?]th of that month, and concluded this evening. The catalogues comprising:— Bales…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rust in Wheat. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 November 1863 · page 2
SIR,—I observe in your issue of the 10th instant you have brought under public notice the circumstance that the wheat crop, in many parts of the colony, is suffering destruction from rust. I happen to be residing at present in the midst of a district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rust in Wheat. an Intallible Specific Remedy to Prevent Rust in Wheat. To the Editor of the Hearld
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 November 1863 · page 5
SIR,—I am a native of Milan, in Italy, where wheat is grown to a great extent. I remember twenty-five or thirty years ago, when rust got into the wheat, and people were very much alarmed at its ravages. After a little time,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool, Tallow. Hides, &c
Empire · Saturday 21 November 1863 · page 3
William Duthic, for London; 1820 bales wool, 5 bules shins, 8 hales 7 bags, 41 packages cotton, 6603 hides, 67 casks tailow, 418 casks cocoanut oil, 2004 bags 238 packages gum, 240 bags silver are, 142 cacks animal charcoal, 638 pleces spelter 57 packages…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Half-yearly Meeting of the Riverine Association. (From the Pastoral Times, 14th November.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 November 1863 · page 2
THE special meeting of the Council of the above Association, convened by circular, was held at the office, Donillquin, on Monday and Tuesday last. Business began a little before three p m., and the following members of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extraordinary Failure of a Tobacco Crop
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 November 1863 · page 3
The Victorian Farmers' Journal of 20th inst. calls the attention of tobacco growers to a very singular case of failure in raising tobacco plants. The locality, it says it is Upper Yarra; the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Destruction of Birds—does It Benefit the Farmer? (From the Mark Lane Express, September 7.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 December 1863 · page 3
SOME two or three years since, we were present at an amusing meeting of the Society of Arts, where the object of the lecturer was to impress the advantage of a[?]elimating all kinds of foreign beasts, birds, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rust and Blight in the Wheat and Oats. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 December 1863 · page 8
SIR,—Allow me through the medium of your columns to bring under the notice of our new Ministry, also the members of the Legislative Assembly, the dire calamity that is at present ravaging the colony—the rust and blight in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Parliamentary Paper. Cattle and Sheep Inspectors
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 December 1863 · page 4
THE following is a list of cattle and sheep inspectors, 8th December, 1863:— Alexander Bruce—salary as cattle inspector, £200 per annum; salary as sheep inspector, £200 per annum; stationed at Tea Mile…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Revenue From Pastoral Lands. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 December 1863 · page 3
SIR,—I perceive by the telegrams from Sydney in yesterday's Melbourne papers, that the Treasurer shows a deficit of over half a million in the public finances, and that he proposes to borrow half a million to provide for this frightful…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Revenue From Pastoral Lands. to the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Monday 14 December 1863 · page 5
SIR,—I perceive by the telegrams from Sydney, in yesterday's Melbourne papers, that the Treasurer shows a deficit of over half a million in the public finances, and that he proposes to borrow half a million to provide for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rust in Wheat: Its Nature and Supposed Cause. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 December 1863 · page 3
SIR,—As a large portion of the wheat crops on the east coast of this colony, embracing a tract of country from Shoalhaven on the south, and extending as far as the Clarence or Grafton district in the north, have recently fallen a sacrifice to a blight commonly…
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