Sheep Breeding. (From a Letter in the Mark Lane Express.)
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 8 September 1866 · page 4
Selection of Ewes for breeding.—There is not sufficient attention paid by those gentlemen who breed your flock ewes. I hold that the production of a better class of flock sheep depends very much upon the farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle. Colonial-bred Durhams. (Judges: R. G. Yeomans, Join Larnach, Samuel Craik, and George Wyndkam.)
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 8 September 1866 · page 4
Cows—W. Durham, the Queen—prize. Heifer under 3 years—W. Durham, White Lily, 2½ years—prize. IMPORTED AND COLONIAL DURHAMS…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep. Fine Woolled—colonial-bred. (Judgeds: George H. Cox, Chalres C. Cox, and A. Loder.)
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 8 September 1866 · page 4
Fine woolled ram, any age—G. P. Bowman, 10 months since last shorn—prize. Fine woolled ram, two teeth—J. H. Cox, one year hogget—prize…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AGRICULTURAL & PASTORAL The Singleton Agricultural Exhibition. Wednesday and Thursday, August 29Th and 30Th, 1866. List of Prizes Awarded
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 8 September 1866 · page 4
About 4 p.m. the Exhibition closed, when the prize were announced by G. T. Loder. The first prize under each head wree as follows:- HORSES…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Metropolitan Court of General Quarter Sessions. Thursday. Before his Honor District Judge DOWLING; Mr. Butter Prosecuting
Sydney Mail · Saturday 8 September 1866 · page 9
Welter Richard Young husband, who wu found guilty, on Monday last, for sending a threatening letter to Jacob Charles Cohen, for the purpose of extorting money from the said Jacob Charles Cohen, was brought up for sentence…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm Produce. Colonial. (Judges: Thomas Lindsay, W. Kingstan, and T. Sawkins.)
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 8 September 1866 · page 4
Wheat—Alfred Cobcroft, grown at Charlton—prize. Splendid sample. (Judges: W. Filmore, S. Anderson, and G. Barclay.) Maize, large variety—Alfred Caberoft—first prize…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairy
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 8 September 1866 · page 4
The Scotch have a very true saying, that "what you want from a cow must go in at the mouth." The London dairymen use an immensity of brewers' grains, as being good milk-producing food; and those parties in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool
Empire · Monday 10 September 1866 · page 5
Since the last wool sales closed there has been moderate inquiry, at several sales there was a slight advance on closing rates. A large business is doing in the north, manufactories…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Extension. (From the Pastoral Times, September 1.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 September 1866 · page 2
IT is now no longer a master of uncertainty respecting the extension (long lalked of) of the railway Rchuca to Deniliqnin, as public opinion seems to have confirmed the absolune necessity for the work, we very well remember…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Report. July 26
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 September 1866 · page 5
A slight advance has been made on the closing rates of last sales, and a large business is doing in North Lancashire. Large orders have been received for the spring trade, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Useful Farmers' Club. (From the S. A. Register, September 1.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 September 1866 · page 2
SOME few months age we gave a full account of the Moun Gambier Farmers' Club, which seemed to us to be a made if what such a club should be Its business is practica work rather than desultory talk. Still it has its times for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Chase After Cattle Stealers
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 September 1866 · page 5
THF following account of the capture of the notorious Sweeny, the bushranger, and Davis alias Roughey Jack alias Ginger, will be read with interest, as showing the difficulty in running down these pests of the interior, where…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wool Report, July 25
Empire · Friday 14 September 1866 · page 4
Since the close of the sales there has been a moderate inquiry for all descriptions of wool, and several sales made at a slight advance on the closing rates of last sales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Cease After Cattle Stealers
Sydney Mail · Saturday 15 September 1866 · page 5
THE following account of the capture of the notorious Sweeny, the bushranger, and Davis alias Roughey Jack alias Ginger, will be read with interest, as showing the difficulty in running dawn these pests of the interior, where…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wool Report. July 26
Sydney Mail · Saturday 15 September 1866 · page 6
A slight advance has been made on the closing rates of last sales, and a large business is doing in North Lancashire. Large orders have been received for the spring trade, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Agriculture in New South Wales. Wheat (Continued)
Sydney Mail · Saturday 15 September 1866 · page 3
UNFORTUNATELY for the country, two crops only, which we may designate standard cereal crops, hare been for many years grown here — wheat and maize. Experience has proved throughout the world, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Pastoral Interest
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 September 1866 · page 8
THE squatters have reason to be thankful for the blessings that have fallen upon them latterly. Throughout the length and breadth of the country, the face of nature is smiling and verdant, and the suplly of pasture and water…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c
Empire · Saturday 22 September 1866 · page 4
Sir William Wallace, for London: 1[?]7 bales wool, 57 bales cotton. 50 bales bark, 552 pigs 17[?] plates 745 ingots copper, 72 casks treacle, 4[?]1 cases gum, 240 casks tallow. 100 casks hide cuttings, 140 bags bones, 15,000 horns, 7431 hides, 21…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Weather and the Crops
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 September 1866 · page 8
THE winter season was this year prolonged to an unusually late period, and in some portions of the country, we, believe that frosts and bitter winds are still common. In the New England district, and among the grain producers to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Season and the Crops
Empire · Saturday 22 September 1866 · page 5
From all parts of the country the most encouraging accounts continue to reach Sydney respecting the weather and the crops. Both agricultural and pastoral prospects are most promising. The lambing season has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →