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351 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 18
THE squatters are now either up to their ears in the bustle of shearing or else making preparation for that important event. The clip of wool will be very large this year, and will be very clean and good, as the growers are learning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The anticipations of our last summary as to a favourable season have been fully verified by the advices from the interior. The first clip of the season has commenced to arrive, and though the brokers complain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →REFRESHING rains, which have fallen in all parts of the colony, and genial spring weather, have combined in favour of agriculture, and the prospects of the farmers for this season are bright. The season of floods has passed away,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE subjoined remarks are taken from the Weekly Stock Report of the Dubbo Dispatch of Friday last:— The weather during the week bas undergone no change…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →SQUATTERS are already beginning to travel their sheep for grass and water, and that means heavy losses—in some cases 20 per cent of the travelling flocks. The frontages are very bare, and the wells will be called extensively into use. The lambing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Morpeth correspondent of the Newcastle Chronicle, in his weekly letter to that paper, writers:—"The weather is delightful, and the farms all over the district exhibit the most…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THIS being about the time of year for scientific inquires to commence their investigations into the causes of rust and other blights peculiar to wheat, I will, with your permission, throw out a few hints and suggestions which might…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Dubbo Dispatch, in its weekly stock report, contains the following remarks:—On Sunday night, at Dubbo, the weather broke, and a fine genial ruin sot in, which continued without…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →WE are glad to find that amongst the large sheep farmers of South Australia are some who intend not to be outdone in enterprise by the squatters of the neighbouring colonies. The advantages derived from the use of complete apparatus…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →I sincerely hope that we are now arriving at a better state of things in our district, which has suffered so many and various calamities, and that our farmers will now be able to leap some benefit from their labours. Everything at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE termination of the wool season 1867-8 affords me this opportunity of reviewing the prospects of the trade, the progress of the market during the year, and to off[?] few suggestions to sheep owners relative to sending their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the weekly stock report of the Dubbo Dispatch of Friday last, we find the following remarks:— Since our last report tho weather has been fine. The…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →DEAR COUNTRY COUSIN,--You will be grieved, I am sure, to hear that you have given me, your pastor in the fields of literature, considerable pain. You have written an article on "Local Disunion," for which the only excuse I can find is your own disjointed ideas;…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THIS being about the time of year for scientific inquirers to commence their investigations into the causes of rust and other blights peculiar to wheat, I will, with your per[?]ission, throw out a few hints and suggestions which might…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE termination of the wool season 1867-8 affords me this opportunity of reviewing the prospects of the trade, the progress of the market during the year, and to offer a few suggestions to sheep owners relative to sending their…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →DURING the early part of the week we have had in the metropolitan districts a succession of heavy thunder showers. The days have been generally fine, the storms setting in only late…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →SEPTEMBER 18.—Drought is still alarming us, though we are not in any immediate danger. In the north, however, serious consequences are threatening. In the Dawson district lambs are being knocked on the head as they drop, and should the drought…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There was a moderate attendance at the wool sales, and the biddings were slow, Good sorts were quitted at a decline of a half-penny; faulty and ill-conditioned, one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE special reporter of the Pastoral Times, in a series of notices on the "Improved Stations of Riverina," gives the following interesting account of the method of sheepwashing adopted on the Coree Station, situated forty-eight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Having observed several times in your previous issues that wool growers in Queensland are somewhat at a loss for want of some proper ingredient for wool washing, and having all toy interests in Queensland,…
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