Dubbo Pastoral Show. (From Our Special Correspondent.)
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 May 1874 · page 11
PRESIDENT: J. C. Ryrie, Esq. Vice-presidents: J. Samuels, jun., J. Penzen, and T. L. Richardson. Hon. Treasurer: James Holmes. Hon. Secretary: R. G. Goodisson. Committee: Messrs. Thomas…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 May 1874 · page 16
SIR,â"Would you please be kind enough to answer the following questions through your valuable journal:â 1. "What is the proper way to apply bluestono to wheat to prevent smut, and what quantity is sufficient…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1874 · page 685
At a meeting of the Ballarat Farmers' Society, hold on Saturday, the president (Mr. Bacchus), we learn from the Star, read the following short paper on fluke: —"I have a few words to say on the subject of fluke in sheep, which…
Continued on Trove, page 685 →The Cultivator. Garden and Farm Memoranda for June
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 May 1874 · page 15
FROM all parts of the country we have reports of the most favourable kind. Everywhere stock of all kinds are in admirable condition; and our maternal pasturage is abundant. The prospects of the graziers,…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 May 1874 · page 16
THE impression prevails among those who use freely fruits which are put up in tin cans, that they are injured thereby, and this impression is in many cases correct. We have long contended that all preserved…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →London Wool Sales. [Messers. Wr[?] Darvall, and Co.'s Circular.] London, March 19th, 1874
Empire · Monday 1 June 1874 · page 3
The first serles of sales in this year commenced on the 17th [?] and will [?] to-morrrow evening ti recommence, however, on the 28th April, barely six weeks hence. The quantitied [?] were:[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne Live Stock Reports. [Richard Gleson and Co.] Eat Cattle.—1122 were entered for the week, but only 1050 head
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 June 1874 · page 5
FAT CATTLE.—1122 were entered for the week, but only 1050 head came forward, nearly all of which were from Gipps Land, and of superior quality, consequently a decline in values of about 10s per head took place. The attendance of buyers included the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 June 1874 · page 6
AT the annual meeting of the Illinois Woolgrowers' Association, held at Peoria, in September last, the President laid before the members a series of samples of premium wools from the Colonial Exposition of New South Wales. These…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Deniliquin and Moama Railway. (From the Pastoral Times.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 June 1874 · page 6
THE first general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at the Royal Assembly Rooms, Deniliquin, on Friday, 29th May. Threre were about fifty-two shareholders present, and throughout the meeting was unanimous…
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Empire · Friday 5 June 1874 · page 3
Nothing has occurred during the month to milltate against our pastoral prospects, or to prevent the anitcipation of a favourable agricultural season. Cattle and sheep are in splendid condition, and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 June 1874 · page 7
THE winter season has fairly set in and frosts are common at night time in the country districts. A large quantity of rain has fallen throughout the colony during the past month. Generally speaking, the season is favourable for…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1874 · page 719
THE reports from the interior all speak of the winter now having thoroughly set in for, though there is an occasional warm day, at night the air is cold and biting Little rain has fallen anywhere far inland,. At Dubbo on the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 June 1874 · page 14
The Western Examiner is infomied. that the prize bullock exhibited by W. Sale, Esq., J.P, at,the,late Agricultural Show, was bought by Mr. Geo. Slater, of the Ophir, and on being singhtered was found to weigh no less…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1874 · page 719
IN Sydney and the surrounding country the weather at the end of laetweek was wet almost continuously for four or five days, and it was not till Tuesday that that a change took place. Clear cold days and nights have prevailed since…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 June 1874 · page 14
THE post was closing on Tuesday at 3.30 p.m., when I transmitted you some basty notes of progress of the show, and awards made by the judges up to that hour. Having now more time at disposal, I send you the complete awards and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Cattle-Duffing, to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1874 · page 718
SIR,—Will yon be pleased to allow me space to make a few observations on an article which appeared, in the Herald a few days ago, detailing the mal-practices of the selectors and others in the bush, and the remedy proposed for its…
Continued on Trove, page 718 →The Farmers' Union—the Exodus of Farm Labourers
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 June 1874 · page 5
The farmers in the eastern counties who are trying to stamp out trades unionism might have been able to estimate at its true value one of the great forces working against them had they paid a visit to the East India Docks…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 June 1874 · page 16
A Mr. G. W. Campbell describes a method by which he claims to be able to ascertain in advance the quahtios of seeding grapes. He says that "in the taste or flavour of the green tendrile of the vine may be found…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Cultivator An Agriculturist's Tour to the West. [By an "Old Country" Farmer.] No. III
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 June 1874 · page 15
MY last letter was from Wellwood; 2½ miles on the Sydney side of Orange; Larras Lake, the propetty of E. E. and J. Lee, Esq.'s, is 8 miles on the west side of Molong…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Dubbo Pastoral Show. (From Our Special Correspondent.)
Empire · Monday 8 June 1874 · page 4
THE post was closing on Tuesday at 3 30 p.m., when I transmitted [?] hasty notes of progress of the show, and awards made by the judges up to that hour. Having now more time at dispe[?] I sond you the complete awards and…
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