Pastoral and Agricultural Items
Evening News · Friday 14 July 1871 · page 4
THE weather during the month has been, in almost all parts of the pastoral and agricultural districts, altogether favourable to local wants, and from this it might well be presumed that matters throughout the colony…
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Empire · Friday 14 July 1871 · page 4
THE following is an account of an experiment in woolwashing, which was tried at Kirk's bazaar at Melbourne:—On Wednesday, the 21st instant, Mr. W. H. Allen tried on experiment in the presence of a number…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1871 · page 613
In the great districts to the north-west cold, fine, wintry weather has been the rule: feed continues plentiful, and cattle and sheep are thriving. Indeed, throughout the whole of northern Riverina, every…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1871 · page 613
In Sydney and the surrounding country there has been no break in the fine clear weather, which, notwithstanding occasional indications of change, has prevailed for the last fortnight. No state of things…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 July 1871 · page 12
MR. INSPECTOR BROWN, of Dubbo, in his report to the chief inspector of stock, writes as follows:—"I am glad to state that throughout my examinations on the Bogan and Macquarie runs I found the flocks…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1871 · page 613
A CORRESPONDENT to the Queenslander, named C. G. Barthelemy, gives the following advice to woolgrowers visiting the Springsure wool show. Our readers may find something in it worth consideration…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 July 1871 · page 7
THE weather during the month has been, in almost all parts of the pastoral and agricultural districts, altogether favourable to local wants, and from this it might well be presumed that matters throughout the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Grazier. Australian Wool in London. To the Editor
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 July 1871 · page 12
SIR,—As the following lines may convey some information, and prove of interest to many of my woolgrowing friends, I would bog to ask you to give me room for them in your journal at your earliest convenience…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 July 1871 · page 14
A CORRESPONDENT says that the best thing that can be used for sore shoulders, &c., of horses, is dry earth, which he has never known to fail. He was told to use it when a boy in Ireland-between thirty and forty…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 645
THE pastoral lands to the north-west, after enjoying a season of fine clear weather, have been visited by rain, which is likely to prove beneficial to the grass. There have also been some showers in parts of…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 645
The weather during the past week in the metropolitan districts has been dry, and occasionally warm for mid-winter. All the ground-work has proceeded well under the favouring circumstances, and young…
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Empire · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 4
FINE wintry weather still prevails, at Deniliquin and slight rains fell on Wednesday night which were warmly welcomed. We could, says the Times, advantageously take more rain if we did not get an over-supply;…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 651
Patron—His Excellency the Earl of Belmore. President—Mr. Thomas Bawden, M.L.A. Vice-President—Mr. T. G. Hewitt. Treasurer—Mr. Joseph Meillon…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 12
WE this week present our readers with engravings of the different appearances of the teeth of cattle, from the earlier age until two years old; and shall, in our next, continue the series to the age of five years, when…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 6
FINE wintry weather still prevails, at Deniliquin and slight rains fell on Wednesday night which were warmly welcomed. We could, says the Times, advantageously take more rain if we did not get an over-supply;…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 6
One passage of singular force and beauty in Dr. Nulty's reply attracts our special notice. He had stated in his evidence th[?] umbers of Mr. Boyd's evicted tenantry…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 647
SUCCEEDING years of such disastrous failure in grain crops in California should set farmers' wits to work to see how far their operations are conducted on right principles. Summer-fallowing is supposed to insure a crop the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 21
The red buds are tinting the soft maple trees; The wood-peepers chirp where withered vines cling; Full-laden, to-day, is the breath of the breeze, With the blackbird's ballad of welcome to Spring;…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 14
WHERE land that is encumbered with rocks—especially if they are large, loose boulders—has to be cleared of timber at the same time, the two operations of burning off and splitting the rocks may bo made to assist each…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 13
OUR engravings represent an improved form of gate of the class known as sliding gates,…
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