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273 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 14
UNTIL within the last week or two we believe the general impression of these capable of forming an opinion was that the harvest, though a late one, would show an average yield, or something approaching the average. We are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TO THE EDITOR OF THE EMPIRE. Sir,—Can you inform me what has become of this long-contemplated and much-vaunted Agricultural College Association? One of their primary objects was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I am pleased to see by your Parliamentary report that the honorable member for the Hawkesbury has presented a petition from certain farrners to have a standard weight for a bushel of maize fixed by an Act of Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Deniliquin Chronicle of 28th ultimo remarks:— Although the appraisements of the new rentals for some two or three hundred runs have yet to be reported, the announcements already made—affecting as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN the early days of this colony, numerous were the trials, and by no means trivial the difficulties, with which the pastoral pioneers had to contend. The frequent raids of the savage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →UNTIL within the last week or two we believe the general impression of those capable of forming an opinion was that the harvest, though a late one, would show an average yield, or something approaching the average, We are…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →WE have on several occasions colled attention to the immense progress which the Australian colonies are making in the production of wool. In 1864, the deliveries of Australian sheep and lambs wool to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There can be no doubt that a "very grievous murrain," such as this generation of Englishmen has not seen, is spreading with alarming rapidity among the cat[?]e in the United…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I WAS amused by W. W. G.'s humorous notice of Mr. Punch's lines on "The Season for Sparrow Clubs." * * * Nevertheless, we must be on our guard lest we encourage a dangerous increase of these…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"We have had offical statlatics and Parliamentary returns uion the subject, but these only give intelliglble information to those who know a great deal more than the documents reveal. Nething is so deceptive as statis[?]ice, if the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It is impossible to shut our eyes to the fact that the colony itself does not attract this agriculturists of the mother country of small, means. Our immigration schsme has been a success so far as importing a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Berlin official Annalen der Landteirthschaft publish the following "extract from a report" drawn up by two physicians who had been dispatched to Russia by the Prussian Government in September, 1864, to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] my last letter I noticed the principal [?]jections ra[?]sed against depasturing sheep at [?]rge and endeavoured to show that they were [?]thout foundation. I now purpose devoting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE have on several occasions called attention to the immense progress which the Australian colonies are making in the production of wool. In 1864, the deliveries of Australian sheep and lambs' wool to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—The first sentence of the extract which headed my former letter states, with reference to official statistics and Parliamentary returns, that they "only give intelligible information to those who know a great deal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON this all-important topic, we quote from the country papers as follows:— The Maitland Mercury of Saturday says:—On Wednesday, in the absence of any definite information as to the fall of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir.—The heading to my first letter being an extra from the Sydney Morning Her[?]ld, which I adopted as a motto, which treated of statistics generally, the last sentence being; "Nothing is so deceptive as statistics…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN my first letter I gave a list of five objections which are urged against the system of paddocking sheep, and I trust I shewed sufficiently the little weight these objections carried…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Prices of wool continued uniform to close of sale, resulting in an advance of ld. to l½d. for good combing; and of a ½d. to a ld. for medium to good. Stocks of really…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 300,000 bales sold since early in May, showing the healthy state of the trade. The total quantity of last series sales, which commenced with August, and…
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