The Weather and the Farmers
Empire · Saturday 20 August 1864 · page 2
I We have again experienced heavy rains, which, although not amounting to what is usually called a flood, have had the effect of preventing the draining off from the inundated lands of much of the surplus waters; and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADELAIDE. Wednesday. Wheat, 8s[?]-flour, £18 to £20
Empire · Thursday 25 August 1864 · page 4
The bill to constitute the North Australian port a free port has been read a second time in the Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Scab in Sheep Act. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 August 1864 · page 2
SIR,—Will you allow me through the medium of your valuable paper to call the attention of sheepowners and others, to the working of the Scab in Sheep Act, as lately exemplified in this district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Murder in the New Cattle Market. (From the Daily News, June 10.)
Empire · Thursday 25 August 1864 · page 8
ON Wednesday night, at a few minutes to 12, a shocking murder was committed at the Lion Tavern. New [?] market, the victim beting a woman named Jeary, a house-maid in the service of Mr. Keeble, the landlord. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wheat and Flour Market. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 August 1864 · page 5
SIR,—Phianthropists, and every well-wisher of the prosperity of the colony and ameliorating the condition of the poor, must rejoice that we have at length passed the [?] of the high price of the chief article of food, which, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmercopoeia Agrestis; or, every Countryman his own Doctor
Sydney Punch · Saturday 27 August 1864 · page 6
A RAGE for self-doctoring having possessed the residents of the remote interior, as proved by the immense consumption of Holloway's pills and other quack medicines, which form part of the "rations" supplied to stockmen and others, Mr. PUNCH purposes to publish a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rust-wheat for Seed. (From Hood's Monthly Monual)
Empire · Tuesday 30 August 1864 · page 5
THE shrivelled grain of rusted wheat is admitted, by both practical and scientific men, to answer well for sed; so that the farmer who has suffered from this plagus need not leave his ground untilled next year from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Government Farms and Freedmaen in Virginia. (From the New York Tribune.) Washington, D.C., May 7, 1864
Empire · Tuesday 30 August 1864 · page 8
THE Government farms on the south side of the Potomacy in connection with Freedman[?]s Village, under the rengeral direction of Colonel Elias M. Greene, embrances five separte confiscated Virginie farms (within seven…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmercopoeia Agrestis; or, every Countryman his own Doctor
Sydney Punch · Saturday 3 September 1864 · page 2
MR. PUNCH continues his list of efficacious remedies, adapted for patients in the, interior, where doctors, like policemen in Sydney, are not always to be found when wanted. Constipation--Extract of Pipps's Diarya…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADELAIDE. Saturday. Wheat, 8s. 8d. per bushel. Flur, £18 to £20 per ton
Empire · Monday 5 September 1864 · page 5
The Pastoral Association have issued circulars denouncing the revaluation of rune by the Survey or-General…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Prarie Grass in Europe. (From the Farmer's Journal Victoria.)
Empire · Monday 5 September 1864 · page 2
WE have not the slightest difficulty in recognising our old acquaintance, the prarie grass, under the re-christening it has sustained at the hands of European botanists. In the Mark Lane Express…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Cattle Stealing. (From the Tamworth Examiner, August 13.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 September 1864 · page 2
[We have been requested to publish the following article and police report, and we do so without of of course, certifying to the correctness of the report.] The case of George Cross and William Lockhart,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cardinal Wiseman's Pastoral
Empire · Thursday 8 September 1864 · page 3
THERE is one aspect of Cardinal Wiseman's compositions that we like. He is a master of style. That is to say, he writes such English as was never written befor,and probably will never be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Wool Report
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 September 1864 · page 5
The third and most important sale of the year commenced on July 21st. The total number of bales catalogued was 142,020. There was a good attendance of home and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Cattle Stealing
Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 September 1864 · page 6
[WE have been requested to publish the following article and police report, and we do so without of of course, certifying to the correctness of the report.] The case of George Cross end William Lockhart,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Report
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 September 1864 · page 6
The third and most important sale of the year commenced on July 21st. The total number of bales catalogued was 142,020. There was a good attendance of home and foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wheat and Flour Markets. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 September 1864 · page 7
SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Richard Bennett, writes from Balmain, in your issue of 26th August, a letter containing statements some of which are very good, but others so opposed to actual facts that I cannot allow them to pass…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London Wool Report—july 25,1864
Empire · Monday 12 September 1864 · page 4
The third and most important sale of the year commoued on the 21st July, the arrivals to date comprloing the snormoueand unprteedented quantity of—Australium, 29,812 bales: Port Phillp, 50,489 bales: Van Dieman's Land, 13,179 bales;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trade Circulars. Wool. [Buxton and Metcalfe.] London, July 21
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 September 1864 · page 8
THE third series of colonial wool sales for this year opened this day wilh a full attendance of home buyers, but only a moderate number of foreigners. The catalogue consisted of—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Agriculture.—crops and Prosects. (From the Economist)
Empire · Wednesday 14 September 1864 · page 5
THE present is the [?] of the sesson on which much of the value of the growing wheat crop depends. For the most part, wheats are in good plant throughout the country, and where the land is in fair condition and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →