Facts for Farmers
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 March 1871 · page 14
Since the application of "blue-stone preparation" to seed wheat in California about fifteen or sixteen years ago, no crop from properly blue-stoned seed has been damaged with smut. This is the universal experience…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence, Stock Movements, &c
Evening News · Monday 27 March 1871 · page 4
The Wagga Wagga Express states that there are large movements southward of cattle and sheep from northern Queensland. The weather has been wet, but stock are doing well and stationholders contented. On the…
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Empire · Monday 27 March 1871 · page 3
The Wagga Wagga Express states that there are large movements southward of cattle and sheep from northern Queensland. The weather has been wet, but stook are doing well and stationholders contented. On the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Commercial, and Money Market. (From the Times, Home News, and European Mail.) the Wool Market
Empire · Friday 31 March 1871 · page 4
The first series of wool sales In London for the year commenced on the 2nd February. Mr. Hel[?] Schwarize reports In connection with these that the arrivals comprise up to date—Port Phillip, 9008 bales; Sydney, $720 bales: New…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 133
THE English news just received, conveying as it does intelligence of increased firmness in the wool market, has been received everywhere throughout the interior with the most lively satisfaction, and…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 133
By the Hawkesbury we have two shorthorn bulls from London — Hector and Beacon; the former for Mr. P. R. C. Robertson, of Wellington Yale, Deepwater, and the latter goes to the herd…
Continued on Trove, page 133 →Butter Making, Winter and Summer
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 13
MR. J. P CORBIN "an old butter-maker," writes as follows, in answer to questions relative to his experience:— 1. How deep should milk be set? If in the common…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Merino Sheep in America
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 11
A FROMIDABLE competitor of the Australian merino is rising in America. In order to meet the wants of the woollen goods manufacturers, in their competition with goods imported from Europe, the flock-owners of…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 7
THE weather at Dubbo, says the Dispatch, during the oast week has been changeable. On Friday thick banks of cumulose clouds rose from the west and soon covered the sky, and in the evening a few drops of rain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Proposed Wool Schedule for 1872
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 133
WE have been requested to afford publicity to the proposed wool schedule of 1872, which has been drawn up in conformity with the recommendations of the committee appointed to deal…
Continued on Trove, page 133 →History of Wool-growing in England
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 11
ENGLAND, from a very early period, has produced sheep of two distinctly marked classes—a short, comparatively fine wool, adapted solely for making fulled cloths, and which supplied the cloth manufactory…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Grazier. On the Rearing of Calves, and Hints on the Measuring of Cattle. (From the Journal of thc Agricultural Society.)
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 11
Sir,—Those who establish theoretical precedents should be prepared with more than mental weapons to defend them; but in placing a record of facts, independent of controversy, before your readers, such as…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 133
During the close of the last and the commencement of the present week, we have had as fine weather in the metropolitan district as could possibly desired. The days have been warm,…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 14
To coal tar fence posts, place about a dozen of them on two legs, letting the foot of them project over two and a half feet, then build a fire under the foot of them and let them burn until well charred. Have close at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →New Appliances for Farming and Domestic Purposes
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 13
AMONGST the most recent inventions from the teeming brains of our American cousins in the way of labouraving machinery, wo notice that the slavery of churning has been softened by a weight power that with…
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Empire · Monday 3 April 1871 · page 3
Also in Evening News
THE weather at Dubbo, says the Dispatch, during the past week has been changeable. On Friday thick banks of cumulose clouds rose from the west and soon covered the sky, and in the evening a few drops of rain…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1871 · page 5
WE regret to learn that many of the flocks of the Southwestern and Western interior have suffered serious injury from the prevalence of what is palled the intestinal and lung worm discose. The natural habitat of the sheep is in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Worms in Sheep. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 April 1871 · page 3
SIR,—Although not much acquainted with the diseases of sheep, yet it struck me on reading your article in to-day's issue, respecting the novel affection of worms that they at present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Public Markets for Farm Produce
Evening News · Tuesday 4 April 1871 · page 3
THE difficulties which present themselves to the agriculturists in this colony in raising their crops are only equalled by the inconvenience of disposing of their produce when it is fit for the market. Instead of there…
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