Sheep Sale at Skipton
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 997
[?] are now enabled to give full particulars of the results of the sheep sale at Skipton, The figures realised are highly aggestive, indicating amongst the breeders of merinoes a [?] competition than higherto, and a nearer approximation…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 999
BY an inadvertence attributable to the haste with which the late news from Europe was compiled for last publication, we gave the wool-brokers' protest against Sir Daniel Cooper's statements unaccompanied…
Continued on Trove, page 999 →French Experience with Cattle Plague
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 997
WE learn from the journal of the Society of Arts that the Paris Academy of Sciences is occupying itself seriously with the question of the Cattle Disease, which has raged so fearfully in France since the war. M. Bouley, who is…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 6
As shearing progresses at Deniliquin, says the local paper, the lightness, and in many cases the unevenness of the clip, becomes more confirmed; it is believed by those best capable of judging, that the Riverina clip…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 11
THE Home News, of August 11th, published a number of documents bearing on the question pending between the oolonial producers, and the London wool-brokers. Our readers have already…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 997
IT is difficult to define what a sand farm is, so as to unite a majority of farmers upon that definition; some soils have so large a proportion of silica as to be comparatively sterile, or rather so coarse are the par doles that vegetation that will…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 997
A CORRESPONDENT to the Gardeners' Chronicle thus delivers his opinion:— Sir. Mechi, who for more than a quarter of a century has been pounding away at the agricultural head, and trying to…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 15
THE ancient Irish had a way of making butter by burying the cream in the earth for a time; and this practice has lately been revived in America, it is said, with remarkable suoceas. "We cannot, of course, vouch for…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 22
Frances Rogors, aged thirty-five, was charged with manslaughter in having, at various times, accomplished the death of several infants, by not providing them with the means of sustaining life. The case…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 October 1871 · page 5
MESSRS. R. W. Ronald and Sens, of Liverpool, write undEr date of 28th July:— Our fourth series of auctions for this year commenced on the 18th. Last India wools were, as usual, brought forward during…
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Evening News · Monday 9 October 1871 · page 4
THE Home News, of August 11th, publishes a number of documents bearing on the question pending between the colonial producers, and the London wool-brokers. Our readers have already…
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Evening News · Wednesday 11 October 1871 · page 3
WE find from the agricultural papers that in America the system of dairy factories, first entered upon in 1851, has stood the test for nineteen years, and are now declared to be more economical as regards labour,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 October 1871 · page 5
SIR,—In referrnce to Mr. Austin's correspondence with Mr. Stavenhagen, Mr. Kenion inquires, "Would not the majority of the buyers at the London wool sales prefer to purchase wool that had been sorted provious to…
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Empire · Thursday 12 October 1871 · page 3
We find from the agricultural papers that in America the system of dairy factories, first entered upon in 1851, has stood the test for nineteen years, and are now declared to be more economical as regards labour,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Combing and Clothing Wool. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 October 1871 · page 2
SIR,—I am glad that my former letter has called forth some remarks (although written very sarcastically) on the subject of woolsorting, as it is of great importance to this colony; but I am sorry that I should have been so…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1871 · page 1030
IN the districts of the far West the weather has been fine up to last dates received, though the nights have been cold and even frosty. In the southern districts it has been unsettled with occasional rain, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 1030 →Agriculture, Pastoral. Weather and Crops
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1871 · page 1030
AFTER two or three days of fine drooping weather, the rain set in heavily in the metropolitan district on Saturday last, continuing until nearly noon on Monday, when the atmosphere cleared up, and…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1871 · page 1029
THE following paper is by X. A. Willard, A.M., Lecturer at the Maine Stale Agricultural College. The advantages of butter making on the associated dairy system over that in private families are very great…
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Empire · Saturday 14 October 1871 · page 4
DURING the past week, the weather at Dubbo has been fine. The days, says the local paper of the 7th, have been warm and genial, but the nights—especially on Monday sind Tuesday—were cold and inclined to be frosty. On…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1871 · page 1029
THE following letter and enclosure appeared in the Herald of 6th instant:— Sir,—In the month of April last, a few questions were forwarded by me, at the request of Mr. Kummerer, to our…
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