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875 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 44
IT will no doubt interest many of your readers who are interested in pastoral pursuits, to hear the result of certain experiments in sheep washing at Eaglefield. I send you some wool washed entirely with cold water,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In your issue of Friday last, a letter in support of the provisions of the above Act appeared, signed by "A Suburban Alderman." I wish, with your permission, to make a few observations on the same subject. "A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is curious to note the differences in the modes of paying workmen, labourers, and servants, for their services. With the exception of the board-wages system, the general rule of domestic servants in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THIS Exhibition was held on tue 2nd instant at Armdal[?] From the very few exhibits which had been brought in up to Wednesday evening, it was anticipated that the show, to some extent, would be a failure. This feeling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A CORRESPONDENT, who is in a position to obtain accurate information, obliges us (Maitland Mercury) with the following return of the comparative shipment of wool and hay from the Hunter district to Sydney by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—If you will be good enough to insert these few lines I will not trouble you further in regard to a subject which, like a tanpit, becomes less agreeable in proportion to its agitation. I do not desire to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT must be borne in mind that wool in the fleece cannot be much scoured without the coarse and fine being so mixed together that they cannot be afterwards separated, or without these being so fitted that they…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →REAL summer has at last set in upon the pastoral districts, and a few days of hot sun have dried up the bush, and given a brown tint to the grass…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY has had the honour of holding the first Australasian Exhibition of Wool for which that title can legitimately be claimed. The shows held in Melbourne a few years age were too limited in extent to be classed in that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE past week was the closest and hottest of the season at Wagga Wagga, and though several heavy thunder storms have occurred the weather still continues unseasonably sultry, and further rains are evidently…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THIS Exhibition was held on the 2nd instant at Armidale From the very few exhibits which had been brought in up to Wednesday evening, it was anticipated that the show, to some extent, would be a failure. This feeling…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A CORRESPONDENT, who is in a position to obtain accurate information, obliges us (Maitland Mercury) with the following return of the comparative shipment of wool and hay from the Hunter distriot to Sydney by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IF the correspondence wliich the above has given rise to in the metropolitan press, and the discussions of the committee appointed to revise the schedule for the next exhibition tend to anything, they do most certainly…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE weather in. the Metropolitan district has been unsettled during the early part of the week, though no very large amount of rain has fallen. The atmosphere has been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE great difficulty in making good butter in hot weather arises more from the heated and feverish condition of the animal which produced the milk, than directly from the heat of the atmosphere acting on the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →SIR,—For several years my annual balance-sheet under the above heading has appeared in the columns of a very respectable periodical devoted to the advancement of horticulture; but as the Handy Book of Bees,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE past week was the closest and hottest of the season, at Wagge, Wagge, and though several heavy thunder storms have occurred the weather still continues unseasonably sultry, and further rains are evidently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IF the correspondence which the above has given rise to in the metropolitan press, and the discussions of the committee appointed to revise the schedule for the next exhibition tend to anything, they do mos certainly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT must be borne in mind that wool in the fleece cannot be much scoured without the coarse and fine being so mixed together that they cannot be afterwards separated, or without these being so fitted that they…
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