What our Roads might be and What they are. Tramways for the Pastoral Districts. To the Editor
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 16
SIR,—In last week's issue of the Town and Country Journal you published a letter headed "Railways for the interior," and signed " Fair Play." Now, I perfectly coincide with the writer of that letter in regard…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Arts and Sciences for Young People. L— Wool. How It Is Obtained
Sydney Mail · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 12
WHAT is wool! The hair-like covering of sheep. How is it taken from the sheep! It in cut oft with shears. What is the process called! Shearing the sheep. When is it cut off! Sometimes when the sheep is alive, and…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 8
IN the Metropolitan district there has been truly wintry weather, cold and moist, with a few gleams of sunshine at intervals. The Lower Clarence correspondent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →How Farming is Made to Pay in America
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 13
I TAKE up my pen to tell of a visit to the farm of wo men who knew how to till the soil. Allusion is made to S. M. and D. Wells, brothers, whose interests are united, and who pull well together. A chronicle of…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 14
THE farmer that can give practical proof that it is possible to produce cheese, butter, or bacon here for export to England at a profit will confer a great benefit upon the colony…
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Empire · Monday 1 August 1870 · page 3
THE roads throughout the colony are in a fearful state from the rains, and though stock occasionally travel, it is with the greatest difficulty they can be got to market. Along the whole course of the Lachlan and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Wool Sales
Empire · Monday 1 August 1870 · page 4
THE MERCHANT.—The London import merchant is a remnant of by-gone days, being extremely slow, extremly opinionated, and extremly dogged, fond of old ways; and old abuses are virtues in his eyes, for he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mutton or Wool-that Is the Question
Evening News · Tuesday 2 August 1870 · page 4
THESE is hardly a question of such importance to Australians at present, aa how to turn the land to best account. We know that the land can be bad on fair equitable terms, and the great object of every man…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 August 1870 · page 5
The third series of sales opened on the 16th. The arrivals were 273,854 bales, including Victoria, 18,600; New South Wales and Queensland, 59,300; Tasmania, 13,184;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. News to the 12th July. Death of the Earl of Clarendon. Re-arrangement of the Ministry Passage of the Irish Land Bill. Launch of the Largest Iron-clad in the World. Great Gold Discovery in India. Gigantic Shipping Frauds, &c. Favorable Reports of the Wool Market. Critical Position of France and Prussia. Adelaide. Wednesday night
Evening News · Thursday 4 August 1870 · page 2
The R.M.S. Avoca reached the Sound at tenaim. on July 30th, and the branch steamer arrivod at Glenelg with the Adelaide mails at six p.m. this day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. News to the 12th July. Death of the Earl of Clarendon. Re-arrangement of the Ministry Passage of the Irish Land Bill. Launch of the Largest Iron-clad in the World. Great Gold Discovery in India. Gigantic Shipping Frauds, &c. Favorable Reports of the Wool Market. Critical Position of France and Prussia. (From Our Adelaide Correspondent.) Adelaide, Wednesday night
Empire · Thursday 4 August 1870 · page 3
PASSENGERS FOR SYDNEY.—The mail steamer brings the following passengers:— Misses Gattley (2), Messrs. Pirklington and Amherst, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, Assistant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How Farming Is Made to Pay in America
Evening News · Friday 5 August 1870 · page 4
Also in Empire
I TAKE up my pen to tell of a visit to the farm of two men who knew bow to till the soil. Allusion is made to S. M. and D. Wells, brothers, whose interests are united, and who pull well together. A chronicle of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral. Wagga Wagga District
Sydney Mail · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 9
IN its stock report for the preceding week the Wagga. Wagga Express of the 30th ultima states:— The weather since our last report has been moderately fine, but the nights have been bitterly cold, and the frosts the heaviest…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 7
The third series of sales opened on the 16th. The arrivals were 373,854 bales, including Victoria, 18,600; New South Wales and Queensland, 59,300; Tasmania, 13,184;…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Clarence Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Association
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 5
THE ass[?]e[?]ation held its fourth annual meeting at Grafton, yesterday week. Mr. Bawden, M.L.A., the president, in the chair. In the report the committee say:—"They have no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wool Sales. No. 6
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 15
NEW SOUTH WALES AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND ASSOCIATION.—The New South Wales and Van Diemon's Land Association was established 16th May, 1836, when it was decided, that membership should consist…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence.—The Weather.—Stook Movements, &c
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 5
WE have very little news from the country districts, as the renewed rains have almost produced a complete cessation of out-door operations. We learn from the Grafton Examiner that a…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 9
IN the Metropolitan district, the weather still continues unsettled. After fine days on Sunday and Monday, Tuesday set in wet, and some part of the forenoon of Wednesday was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Facts for Farmers
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 14
IN Utica, United States, ground bones are mixed with other food for milch cows, and the result is said to be that the bone-dust gives an increased flow of milk…
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