Pastoral Items
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 April 1872 · page 11
FROM all parts of the district, says the Wagga Wagga Express of Saturday last, complaints have been rife of a growing scarcity of feed and water, and rain; especially upon the back country and upon the plains, has…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Agriculture, Pastoral. Weather and Crops
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1872 · page 422
FINE weather has been experienced in the first half of the present week in the districts around Sydney; the days being cheerful, occasionally hot, and the nights cool and dewy. The ground continues in excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 422 →A New Butter Market
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1872 · page 421
LATEST news from Mauritius (says the Australasian) brings good news for our farmers, if they will only have the good sense to lay the lesson it teaches them to heart. Adelaide butter, we are told, was sold at about 37 dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 421 →The London Wool-Brokers
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1872 · page 420
THE Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Melbourne has been dealing with the last report issued by the Merchants' Association, in London. A sub-committee of the Chamber brought up a report…
Continued on Trove, page 420 →To Prevent Smut in Wheat. To the Editor
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 April 1872 · page 7
SIR,—I have used the undermentioned receipt for more than twenty years, and never knew it to fail:—Soak the seed one hour in a cask with as much bluestone water as will cover it; for 11b of bluestone properly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Facts for Farmers
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 April 1872 · page 13
THERE is one medicine for cattle that can never do harm, and is commonly beneficial; this is pulverized charcoal. Nearly all sick animals become so from improper eating in the first place. Nine cases ont of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. End of the Tichborne Trial—The Claimant Committed for Perjury. The Queen about to Visit Germany Threatening Aspect of the Alabama Dispute. A Decline in Wool. (From Our Adelaide Correspondent.) Adelaide, 3.15 p.m
Empire · Monday 8 April 1872 · page 3
THE Alexandra, with the February mails, was sghted off Glenelg at 2 o'clook this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide End of the Tichborae Trial-The Claimant Committed for Perjury. The Queen about to Visit Germany Threatening Aspect of the Alabama Dispute A Decline in Wool. [A portion of the following appeared in our second edition of Saturday.] Adelaide, 3.15 p.m
Evening News · Monday 8 April 1872 · page 2
THE Alexandra, with the February mails, was sighted off Glenelg at 2 o'olook this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Foot-rot in Sheep. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1872 · page 3
SIR,—I think a great deal has been written on the above subject, and any one who wishes particulars of it will find them in "Randall's Sheep Husbandry." There is a mild form of disease of the foot, originating in scald in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society. Sixth Ex[?]bition. (From the Clarence and Richmond Examiner.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1872 · page 2
THE Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Clarence Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society waa held on Tuesday and Wednesday last, on the Society's Ground, Grafton Racecourse. The weather was most propitious, in fact,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Market
Evening News · Wednesday 10 April 1872 · page 3
Also in Empire
Mr. Helmuth Schwartze, under date February 22, reports:-The large demand continues, and the enhanced quotations are well maintained. There have been nuctuations, but they are slight and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trade Circulars. Wool. [Windeler and Bowls.] 23rd February, 1872
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 April 1872 · page 3
THE consumption of woollcontinues on a very large scale; in all the manufacturing centres, both home and Continental, the utmost activity prevails. In the line clothing districts the excitement is certainly less extended, but with this exception, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral Intelligence
Empire · Thursday 11 April 1872 · page 3
THE weather at Wagga Wagga, which appeared to have set in wet at the date of our last report, says the Express, unfortunately cleared off in the course of Friday night, and since that time has continued fine,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trade Circulars. Wool, &c. [MESSRS. W. Mort and Co] London, E.C., February 22, 1872
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 April 1872 · page 3
THE past wool season of 1871 has fairly been characterized as the most sensational on record, but its most pleasant surprises have been outdone by the opening of the first series of 1872. A good deal was anticipated, as was shown by the unwillingness of holders…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Part V.--farm Animals
Sydney Punch · Thursday 11 April 1872 · page 9
THE BULL.--An extremely valuable adjunct to the farm. The best bulls are of Irish breed, and may be known by their horns, which resemble those of the Dhi-lhemma or African Podasokus. An easy way to procure a small bull is to ask a Yankee what he will…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Punch's Prize Handbooks. No. 1.--Guide to the Farm. Part Iv.--on Soils
Sydney Punch · Thursday 11 April 1872 · page 9
ONE of the most important things for the farmer to be thoroughly acquainted with, is the composition of the soil he has decided to work. The best method of procuring the needful information is to get somebody else to tell you all about it; but, in default of this…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pastoral
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 454
THE extremely favourable season now drawing to a close has encouraged stockowners to hope tor its continuance by a fall of rain before winter, so as to give fresh life to the herbage; and should this come in the…
Continued on Trove, page 454 →Pastoral Items
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 11
THE weather at Wagga Wagina, which appeared to have sat in wet at the date of our Last report, says tho Expresa, unfortunately cleared off in the course of Friday night, and since that time has continued fine,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Agriculture, Pastoral. Weather and Crops
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 453
THERE have been some hot days this week in the county of Cumberland, and no rain has fallen since last issue. The ground, however, is kept in good cultivable condition by the night dews, which, though…
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