The Farm, the City, and the Sea. Chapter Xv
Sydney Mail · Saturday 9 April 1870 · page 11
ANN issued from her bedroom half an hour later than usual, and her swollen eyes told the tale of her night of sorrow. All Mrs. Simpson's gentle arguments and entreaties could not induce her to try a chop, or even…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Northern Farmer
Sydney Mail · Saturday 9 April 1870 · page 11
"Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaäy? Proputty, proputty, proputty—that's what I 'ears 'em sräy. Proputty, proputty, proputty—Sam, thous' an ass for thy…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Wine Crop
Sydney Mail · Saturday 9 April 1870 · page 9
DR. LINDEMAN makes the following statement, which has been delayed by bad weather:— The Paterson having been in flood for nearly three weeks prevented my replying to your queries before, and is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ploughing Under Green Crops or Weeds
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 April 1870 · page 13
THE ploughing under of green crops or even of weeds as manure, is a thing almost unknown in Australia, although it is a method largely adopted in countries that have made much progress in agriculture. The…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Facts for Farmers
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 April 1870 · page 12
If sap is at all sour the sugar will not crystallize well. Watery potatoes can be greatly improved by boiling right. Tho following rule is the best. Let the water…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fancy Farmers
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 April 1870 · page 12
MODERN agriculture owes much if not most of its comparative perfection to the experiments of a class of men who are peculiar to the present century, and who are sometimes sneeringly termed " fancy farmers."…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wool Report
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 April 1870 · page 6
The sales commenced on February 17th, the arrivals from Sydney were 9553 bales; from Port Phillip, 29,709 bales; from Tasmania, 356 bales; from Adelaide, 8832 bales; from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Agricultural and Pastoral Matters Movements of Stock, &c
Evening News · Tuesday 12 April 1870 · page 4
THE continued rains have impeded farming operations considerably, but it is stated that a good deal of ploughing and sowing has been done in the neighbour-hood of Wagga Wagga, and the young crops are already…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sugar Cane—its Proper Age, and the Seasons at Which It Ought to Be Cropped. To the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Tuesday 12 April 1870 · page 3
SIR,—It is well authenticated fact, that within the [?] where the mean temperature is eighty [?] do not attain to maturity in loss than [?] In this colony there is not only a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. News to the 15th March. Rise in the Price of Wool. Return of Prince Arthur. France at the Cecumenical Council Opening of British Parliament. Reported Present to Barry Sullivan. the Telegraph Laid to Galle. Arrival of Captain Osborne. the Mordaunt Scandal Case and the Prince of Wales. Adelaide, Monday night
Empire · Tuesday 12 April 1870 · page 3
The branch steamer from King George's Sound, with the English letters and papers by the Avoca, from Southampton to February 19th, and via Marseilles to the 25th, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Outside Exhibitition at the Smithfifld Cattle Show
Evening News · Thursday 14 April 1870 · page 3
THE next show was that of a "learned and musical fish." The master of the fish was particularly attentive to me, and himself undertook to make the fish go through his performances. The "learned fish"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Central Cattle Yards. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 April 1870 · page 6
SIR,—I regret very much that I by no means sympathise with a considerable number of my metropolitan friends in the matter of the erection of central cattle yards. Apart from the knocking about cattle get from the interior in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Exportation
Sydney Mail · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 8
IN older to test the advantages or otherwise of exporting butter direct from this district to other potts than Sydney (says the Illawarra Mercury), a practical experiment has recently been made by Mr. E. R…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool Repobt
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 6
The sales commenced on February 17th. The arrivals from Sydney were 9553 bales; from Port Phillip, 29,709 bales; from Tasmania, 356 bales; from Adelaide, 8832 bales; from New Zealand, 1553…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lecture on Foot-rot in Sheep
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 10
BY J. PoTTIE, VETEKINAHY SUKGEON, SYDNEY. PASSING from, diseases of the skin, we shall next glance at the evils produced hy alteration in the growth and destruction of the horny hoof. We…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Agricultural and Pastoral Matters —Movements of Stock, &c., &c
Empire · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 2
ATTENTION has been forcibly directed by the Murrumbidgee and Murray papers to the fact a new industry is required for the great bulk of wheatgrowers in those districts. For some weeks past…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural and Pastoral Matters —Movements of Stock, &c. &c
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 7
ATTENTION has been forcibly directed by the Murrumbidgee and Murray papers to the fact that a new industry is required for the great bulk of wheatgrowers in those districts. For some weeks past…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Farm, the City, and the Sea. Chapter Xvi
Sydney Mail · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 11
HAD Mr. Doyle—John Bell's late master—met him on the way to his new situation, on the morning after his wearisome night, he would scarcely have recognised him; so much had anxiety altered his…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Some Plain Facts to Plain Farmers. No. III
Sydney Mail · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 8
I WILL now proceed to point out, where sub-drainage has not been attempted, the method I found best adapted to the cultivation of wheat in this colony, and by which I succeeded in obtaining very excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Weather and Crops
Sydney Mail · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 8
THERE has been deliriously fine weather in the metropolitan districts during the past week, but it has been more than usually warm, the heat being heavy and oppressive in the extreme,…
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