London Wool Report
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 terminated on the…
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Pure Bred Leicester Sheep. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—In answer to the letter which appears in to-day's issue, signed "Rusticus," I will endeavour to give him the information which he requires in reference to the pure bred Leicester sheep. The pure breeds are to be had in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Pastoral Interest
THE great bulk of the shearing is non over, and it may be some satisfaction to learn that the crop of wool is, above the average. The greatest part, however, has been shorn in the grease, in some places because of the absolute want of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c
Sir John Lawrence, for London: 2714 bales wool, 11,017 hides, 3s carks fallow, 8 bales skins, 6 bales [?]tion, 108 hage cotton need, 1718 bage copper ore, 2574 ingots copper, [?]4 plates, 44 plag[?]copper, 9910 treanalls, 5 bales rage, 1 hogsheld…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Weather and the Crops
DURING the latter part of last month the weather continued to be hot and dry, with strong parching winds that burnt up everything before them, destroying, gradually but surely vegetation of every dese[?]iption. Bush fires also…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Rinderpest or Cattle Plague. (From the London Daily Telegraph, August 9.)
CURIOUSLY enough the plague is never enzootic; its home is upon the steppes of Asia, and nowhere else, and thence it passes as an epizootic from pasturage to pasturage, till it overruns Europe and reaches the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cattle Plague
The cattle plague is incressing in the neighbourhood of London, and breaking out in places where it had not appeared before. The following letter from Lerd Granville to the editor of the Times wid be read with interest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales
Sale by THOMAS SOUTHEY and SON, September 19. Ex Cinderella: WJ, 1 bale at 16½d. Ex Vimeira: JM, 12 at 196, 12 at 18½d, 12 at 18d. 1 at 16d. 1 at 7d, 1 at 10½d…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Drought—the Great Teacher. (From the Pastoral Times, November 11th.)
THERE can be no doubt of the fact, we should think, that the great problem of the day, as far as New South Wales is concerned, is—what is to be done with the hundred millions of acres now known as Riverina…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Luxuries are cheap in the remote village of Salhouse, Norfolk. Thanks to the clemency of Norwich Magistrates, a "muscular Christian" of the Rev. Samuel Haworth's brutal type may, for the sum of £10, descend…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cattle Plague. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—We have unfortunate proof of what the careless introduction of pleuro-pneumonia has cost the colonies. With this sad experience would it not be wise to follow the example of the European States, and to take immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Disease in Sheep
THE following letter has been addressed by Professor Simonds to the Clerk of the Council:— Veterinary Department, 23, New-street, Spring-gardens, September 26th,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cattle Disease. (From the Scotsman, August 21.) YORK
THE adjourned meeting of agriculturists whi0h had been convened to take steps to prevent the introduction of the cattle disease into the district of York, was held on Saturday afternoon at the White Swan…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Chemistry of Wool, and Its Management. (From the Mark Lane Express, August 28.)
AFTER the dinner of the committee and judges, at the Highland and Agricultural Society, at Inverness, Professor Anderson delivered a lecture on this subject before a numerous auditory…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An Eccentric Sheep
UNDER the above title we see an account in Monday's Herald of a sheep that has been taught to smoke, and chew tobacco--to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Breaking Up of Stud-Farms
What shall we say of "signs of the times" like the breaking up first of the Bournefield stud, to be followed up by the dispersion of the Woodlands and the [?] vale collections of "horsey" gems? Let us hope that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Stealing. (From the Yass Courier of Saturday.)
AT the Yass Court of Petty Sessions, on Friday, the 8th instant, before Mr. J. G. Davidson, Thomas Lynch and James Thompson, alias Ryan, were charged with cattle stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cross Between Goats and Sheep. To the Editor of the Herald
MY attention having been directed to a paragraph in your publication of the 6th instant with the above heading, perhaps you will allow a small space in your paper for a few remarks on the subject, having had some experience in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Report. October 2
Since the close of last sales there has been a fair inquiry for all descriptions, especially Port Phillip combings, ranging from 2s. 2d. to 2s. 5d. This description is very scarce owing…
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