Wool, Tallow, and Hides
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 November 1872 · page 9
THE inward mail this month has again exhibited in a marked manner the efficiency of the service under the auspices of the P. and O. Co., for we have once more received our advices in somewhat more than four days in…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 November 1872 · page 9
The first public sale of wool, subsequent to the departure of the Banglore, was held by Messrs. Mort and Co., under the above date. The catalogue was very unimportant, but there was active competition for all the lots offered, and 45 bales were sold out of…
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Empire · Monday 4 November 1872 · page 3
Per Duke of Sutherland, for London: 2377 bls wool, 202 bls cotton, 155 bls leather, 465 csks tallow, 5530 ingts 2419 cks 17 pkgs copper, 35 bgs regulus, 101 csks tin ore, 1726 css meat, 28 bgs lead ore, 6 pkgs beeswax,…
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Empire · Tuesday 5 November 1872 · page 4
EARTHQUAKES, notwithstanding; the lovely spring month of October, has been more lovely, more genial, and enjoyable than any past namesake for many years. The country is everywhere…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams This Day. Melbourne Races. Accident in the Yarra. Defeciencies Bank of N. S. W., at Ballarat. Manufacture Op Liquid Opium. the Services of Mr. Todd. Intercolonial Cricket Match at Melbourne. Protest Against the New Zealand Railway Bill. Escape of the Green Harp Directors. Sailing of the Atrato. Sale of Webb's Steamers. Steam Communication with China. Carter Killed at Newcastle. Charge of Cattle-stealing at Braidwood. the Charters Towers Riots. Western Meat Preserving Company. the New Postal Service. a Girl Burned by Crackers. Prosecutions Against Betting Houses in Victoria. Opening of Theatre Royal, Melbourne. Satisfactory Progress of Krohmann's Crushing. Hill End. Thursday morning
Evening News · Thursday 7 November 1872 · page 2
Krohmann's have retorted 6850 oze gold. The crushing is still going on…
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Empire · Friday 8 November 1872 · page 2
Shearing is progressing favourably in the district of Molong, although weather is not very propitious. Indeed a correspondent of the Western Examiner says it was so cold that fires were required…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1872 · page 582
THE most cheering accounts continue to come from the great squatting districts. In those to the north-west, watered by the chief tributaries of the Darling, the weather has been variable, and the aspect of the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 November 1872 · page 11
Shearing is progressing favourably in the district of Molong, although weather is not very propitious. Indeed a correspondent of the Western Examiner says it was so cold that fires were required…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1872 · page 582
THE temperature at Armidale (says the Express of Saturday) has been very changeable during the week, ranging from first to 76 inside. There have been several thundershowers, and the crops and grass are growing…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 November 1872 · page 16
WE have, in previous numbers of the Town and Country Journal, given woodcuts and descriptions of Shorthorns and Longhorns, representing the rich man's cattle; we have given the Kerry breed, which…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 November 1872 · page 13
According to Schmidt, an excellent remedy against caterpillars consists in a dilute solution (1 part in 500) of sulphide of potassium, the infested tree being sprinkled with this substance by means of a small hand…
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Empire · Wednesday 13 November 1872 · page 4
WE have, in previous issues, given descriptions of Shorthorns and Longhorns, representing the rich man's cattle: we have given the Kerry brood, which may be called the poor man's cattle-a breed which,…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 November 1872 · page 614
PLENTIFUL rain has fallen in the districts to the north-west, as also on the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan. There is no deficiency of grass or water, and stock are in excellent condition. The clip is finished in many…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 November 1872 · page 14
Summer has now fairly set in, says the Hay Standard. Some heavy rain fell on Saturday, but on Monday all t[?]es fit dried up. The Murrumbidgee is lowering gradually. The Lachlan is in flood, giving abundance of…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 November 1872 · page 613
UP to Wednesday the weather for a week has presented several changes remarkable at this season, when spring is about to leap into summer. A thunderstorm on Sunday brought a considerable quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 613 →The Caifornian Wheat Harvest
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 November 1872 · page 4
According to latest telegraphic advices the Wheat harvest in California Promises to be the largest ever Known. On the subject the Daily Alta publishes a great article. It gives the…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 November 1872 · page 612
IN a paper read before the Banffshire Agricultural Society, Mr. Hutcheon says:— At the time when the majority of us began to take an active part in the great battle of human life, the one…
Continued on Trove, page 612 →English and Australian Farming. To the Editor
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 November 1872 · page 11
SIR,—Some eighteen or twenty months ago I had the pleasure of a familiar chat with you on the all-importtant topic of Australian agriculture; since then I have had ample opportunity of seeing and learning the true…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. M. L. Sullivant—the Great Farmer
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 November 1872 · page 9
THE gentleman whose name heads this notice and whose portrait we give herewith, is repute, and we believe truly, to be the most extensive cultivator of the soil the world has…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 November 1872 · page 12
A Massachusetts cultivator says in Secretary Flint's report that he has noticed in his garden "that that portion which is hoed or cultivated with the dew upon the gro[?]nd produces better crops than that…
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