Facts for Farmers
The prominent features of the progress of Californian agriculture are the extension of the area in grain, the construction of tule dykes and irrigation canals, and the rapid multiplication of sheep…
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881 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 45
Cottage, Farm, and Villa, Architecture
IN our issue for the 5th instant we gave a perspective view, with ground plan for a villa of a very plain character and unadorned appearance. We now proceed to give plans and elevation of a house of a somewhat more…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Telegrams This Day Committal of Kabat. French Transport Ship at Melbourne. the Border Duties Bill. National Agricultural Society. Immigrant Ship for Brisbane. the New Zealand Ministry. Fire at Reefton. Search for the Springbok. South Australian Wheat Exports, &c., &c., &c. [Per Anglo-australian Press Telegram Agency.] Melbourne. Friday, 8.53 p.m
Kabat has been committed for trial, and admitted to bail for the sum of L4000. The French transport L'Orme, with Communist prisoners on board, has put into…
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Class 229. Combing.—For the most valuable 12 fleeces, ewes'. unskirted. 854, ROWLAND J. TRAILL, Collaroy, Merriwa, Growth, 967 days; brand, PP; Collaroy bred Australian merino; 2…
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THE wool awards have been made by the Judges, and appear below. All the exhibits are to be seen at Mort and Co.'s Wool Warehouse; and the prize lots will of course, be shown at the Exhibition Building…
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Class 251, Combing.—For the most valuable 12 fleeces, ewes, unskirted. 875 JAMES GIBSON, Belle Vue, Tasmania, Growth, 365 day; brand, AE; pure merino; 2 and 4 tooth; hot water…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams This Day Scurvy on Board a French Transport Ship. the New Zealand 4 Per Cent Loan. Swearing in of Mr. Vogel. Eight-hours Demonstration in Melbourne. Border Question Beyon Settlement. Immigrants in Quarantine. Opposition Silk Company in Victoria. the Cutter Yacht Lcelia. the Melbourne Herald and the Randwick Cup Race. Pall of £100,000 in Hustler's Stock Latest Mining. Death of Leaper, the Alleged Bigamist. an Abandoned Ship. Shipping for Sydney. Adelaide Wheat Damaged. Latest Commercial. &c., &c., &c. [Per Anglo-australian Press Telegram Agency.] Melbourne. Saturday, 2.50 p.m
Mr. Parkes has telegraphed bis ultimatum to Mr. Francis. It virtually settles the Border question. The Victorian Government will not agree…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press. the London Wheat Market. London, April 19
SALES of Adelaide wheat to arrive have been made from 48s. to 58s. net per quarter, according to quality. Quotations to-day for best Adelaide are 61s. to 61s. 3d…
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It would be natural to suppose that at an exhibition held under the auspices of the Agricultural Association the display of agricultural produce would form a prominent feature. Yet, whatever the reason—whether owing to the…
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WHAT is the use of praising the fine show of cattle now on view at the Exhibition, when Lucas and his Calf are…
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The sheep are better than we have seen them. Not the merinos—again they are without a representative, except Mr. Zions's questionable kindness in showing what they should not be, is seriously taken. There are also a few fat…
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THE shorthorn heifer-calf class was called into the ring a little before the opening of the exhibition took place, on Tuesday, and kept the stewards and judges from that ceremony. Mr. E. H. Woodhouse was represented by…
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RAIN was becoming necessary in nearly all the great squatting districts, and last week the dryness of the herbage and the want of water in some parts of the back country was matter of serious consideration. Since then rain in…
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A not over welcome visitor, in tne shape of a pure-bred "dingo," made his appearance at Kyloe the other morning, and killed five or six sheep, besides biting and hacking about twice as many more. Not satisfied with that…
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IN the metropolitan district as well as along the coast the weather during the last seven or eight days has been showery and drooping, so much so that the earth is thoroughly saturated, though not so wet as to hinder the…
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A pastoral, signed by all the Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops assembled in Dublin on the 21st and 22nd of last January, was read on Sunday, 2nd Feb., in the…
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THERE are still a few of the later made awards which I have not been able to have in time for my corrected up to Tuesday, and I now give what I have of them separately, being still very imperfect…
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The South Australian Register states:—"The exports of wheat and flour from Adelaide for the week ending March 29 reached an aggregate of about 9000 tons, so that, according to shippers'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press. the Wool Market. London, April 24
THE April-May series of Colonial wool sales opened this evening. The total arrivals amount to upwards of 200,000 bales, and more than 6500 were offered. Port Phillip wools preponderated,…
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A Massachusetts cultivator says that he has noticed in his garden "that that portion which is hoed or cultivated with the dew upon the ground produces better crops than that hoed in the heat of the day."…
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