Baby Farming in Victoria
AT the Melbourne Criminal Sossions, on Saturday, a woman named Louisa Burgess was put upon her trial, for the manslaughter of an infant named Thomas Miller. The child (according to the Daily…
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Pastoral
THE season and the state of the flocks and herds in all parts of the country are spoken of in reports from the interior as being very satisfactory. There have been some beneficial temporary rains at Wagga and on the Barwon,…
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Briefly chronicled, says the Monaro Mercyry, the weather is dry: cool frosty morus, warm noons, and chilly nights. Grass does not suffer much from the frosts as yet, as they are rather light, and the prospect of winter…
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FROM the variations experienced in the metropolitan district within the last eight or nine days the season appears to be undergoing that change usually to be expected about the middle of autumn, and steady weather can scarcely be relied…
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TMS ingenious apparatus, according to the Ironmanger, will shear six sheep in the time that it now takes to denude one of his fleece. Anybody can operate it and do betterwork than the most skilful…
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It has been announced, on the authority of the Agricultural Department of the United States, that the American wheat crop is unusually promising, and that the acreage sown with…
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TOGANMAIN STATION, on the north bank of the Murrumbidgee, is about fifty miles east of Hay, and on it are some few selectors. Among these were two men named respectively Santam and…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Goldsbrough's Monthly Circular on the Wool, Tallow, and Hide Market. Melbourne, April 20
WOOL.— We have only a very limited amount of business to report this month. The sales comprised 350 bales, consisting chiefly of fellmongers parcels of scoured, which were taken at rates about equal to those ruling at the date of our last…
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Cure for a coughing horse and for a sprain:— Take two oz. each of liquorice, powdered tar, and honey; make into eight pills; give one pill a day for three days; then omit three days; then three more…
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A QUANTITY of interacting information, says the Melbourne Argua of the 21st April, upon the subject of flukey mutton was brought before the City Couucil at its meeting yesterday. It will be…
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It appears from the reports of the Maitland [?] that the market has been fully supplled with fat cattle, and pri[?]s showed a decline upon the prevlous week's rates. Messrs. B[?]ker and Sparke sold on account J…
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A QUANTITY of interesting information, says the Melbourne Argus of the 21st April, upon the subject of flukey mutton was brought before the City Council at its meeting yesterday. It will be…
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SIR,—Having visited the Show in Sydney, I may venture to make a few remarks on "Judging," as I think there is nothing more instructive to those interested in stock than to witness the contest in the "ring," and to learn on what…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press. Wool Sales. London, April 28
THE April-May series of the London colonial wool sales opened this evening, when upwards of 7500 bales were offered. The bulk of the catalogues were shipments from Melbourne. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams This Day. Cable Message. London Colonial Wool Sales. Slight Decline in Prices. German Ecclesiastical Policy. Australian Shipping. London, April 28
Received in Sydney, April 29, 8.31 p.m. The London Colonial Wool Sales opened this evening. Upwards of 7000 bales were offered. Port Phillip wools preponderated. The…
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ACCOUNTS from all parts of the country occupied by the pastoral tenants agree in pronouncing the season as being one of the most favourable experienced for many years, and expectations that the flocks and herds will fare well in the…
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The Narrabri Heraid hears that about a hundred head of horses were stolen during last week off Thurrabi Plain. Amongst them eight splendid draught horses and mares, belonging to Mr. Carter, of Mull's Creek, seven head…
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THE unsettled weather which prevailed in the metropolitan district at the time of our last notice has continued since, and up to Wednesday there were no indications of a change at present. Farmers now could do very well with a few dry…
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AT the several Assize Court sittings lately terminated various oases of cattle stealing have been tried. Our space only permits us to give a digest of the more remarkable of these cases…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Polled Cattle Herd Book
THE breeders of Norfolk and Suffolk red polled cattle in England, we read, recently met for tbe purpose of establishing a herdbook for that class of stock. A standard…
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