Weather and Crops
IN the metropolitan district the weather during the past week has been rather variable, and more inclined to be moist and drooping than to revert to the heat of the previous week. Plants,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farming & the land, 1870
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The Farm, the City, and the Sea. Chapter Iv
MRS. Simpson was the widow of a highly esteemed and useful minister, who had laboured in the Missionfield for many years, and only retired from the work when incapacitated by disease, induced by a long…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The results of Want of Method and Manure in Farming
It is painful to look on our hills and valleys in the county of Cumberland, the metropolitan district of the colony, and to see the pastures and fields covered with thin, scanty crops, where, twenty or thirty years ago,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Facts for Farmers
RUSSIA is and must be a giant because she is mighty in wheat, leather, and iron. ONE SNORT of a locomotive is worth a thousand tons of guano for making land sell high…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Wool Sales
The last series of sales for the year commenced on Thursday, the 11th of November, and continued uninterruptedly. Considerable animation characterised the sales at first, and Australian wools for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trade Circulars. Wool. [Buxton and Hunter.] London, December 2nd, 1869
SINCE the commencement of the present series, when we advised a general advance on all descriptions of wool, there have been considerable fluctuations in prices, During the first week Cape wools sold with considerable spirit, at an advance of fully 1d per…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Case of the London Wool Brokers
WE have received the two following letters from London wool brekers, in reply to statements made at the meeting in Sydney four months ago To the Edita of the Sydney Morning Herald…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bathurst Agricultural and Pastoral Association
THE Annual General Meeting of this Association was held at the Royal Hotel, Bathurst, on Monday : and from the subjoined report of the proceedings, it appears that, so far as its financial condition is concerned, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bathurst Agriculture and Pastoral Association
The Annual General Meeting of this Association was held at the Royal Hotel, Bathurst, on Monday: and from the subjoined report of the proceedings, it appears that, so far as its financial condition is concerned, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Case of the London Wool Brokers
WE have received another letter from a London wool broker:— To the Editor of the Herald. SIR,—I have read with attention the report of your Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers' Allminax
JOSH BILLINGS has just prepared a burlesque upon the old-fashioned Farmers' Almanac, full of weather prognostications, family receipts, and moral advice to farmers. Carleton, of New York, of course, is the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Weather, Crops, Stock Movements, and Pastoral Matters
The reports from the country have been of a satisfactory character during the present month, and their general nature may be gathered from our weekly synopsis, which runs as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Intercolonial Wool Exhibition
THE second Wool Show of the Australian Agricultural Society was opened on Thursday, the 13th January, by his Excellency the Earl of Belmore. He arrived at Messrs Mort's new wool stores, in Phlip-Street, at 1230,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool, Tallow, and Hides
WE have so frequently been in receipt of the in ward mail in anticipation of the actual due dates that the delivery this month in about contract. time has most unreasonably been regarded, in some…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pastoral
FROM the Wagga Wagga Express of the 22nd instant we take the following remarks, which are contained in its usual weekly stock report:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Weather, Crops, Stock Movements, and Pastoral Matters
c The weather, although some rain has fallen in the Country districts, remains oppressively hot, and a succession of the thunderstorms peculiar to the Australian limate would be regarded as a great and seasonable…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Wool Sales
The last series of sales for the year commenced on Thursday, the 11th of November, and continued uninterruptedly. Considerable animation characterised the sales at first, and Australian wools for a…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Stagnant Water Causing Abortion in Cattle
THE editor of the North British Agriculturist, answering a correspondent, says:— "We are glad to have been able to afford you a clue to the causes which have produced such losses amongst…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Australian Town & Country Journal. Sydney, Saturday, January 29, 1870. Pastoral Combination
A NUMBER of squatters have, with evident determination, entered on a work which has been frequently recommended to them—a combination having in view the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Grazier. Compound for Destroying Burrs in Wool
THIS is a compound patented by William H. Jubb, of Connecticut, United States. It is composed of the following ingredients:—Sulphuric acid, one hundred parts, by weight; refined saltpetre, two parts by,…
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