Agriculture, Postoral. The Weather and Crops
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 582
Drawn the week ended Wednesday last there was no lain, and the heat in the metropolitan district hut for. several days been intense. Notwithstanding the rapid rate at which evaporation must be going on,…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 15
THE advantage of change of crops, or a kind of rotation, is very little recognized. It is not by any means uncommon to find people completely wedded to the opinion that the same crop should occupy the same…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 16
Respecting the prevention of fire in hay stacks, Messrs. Lassetter and Co. writes:—" We have thought that the patent ventilating apparatus, for preventing the over-heating of stacks, will be of interest to your…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Cattle and Sheep an the N. A' Society's Show, Melbourne. the Cattle
Empire · Thursday 12 November 1874 · page 4
OF the 220 entries in the cattle classes there were probably not more than the odd 29 away. The show of shorthorns has never been equalled in the southern hemisphere; even the class that is usually so weak—the aged bulls—mustered to the tune of a…
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Empire · Thursday 12 November 1874 · page 4
SIR,—I notice by the papers that a conference of stockinspectors from the various Australian colonies, is about being held in Sydney. I hope these gentlemen will take into their consideration, the prohibition of stock from Europe, and…
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Empire · Thursday 12 November 1874 · page 4
SIR,—I desire to tale this opportunity of catering in your columns some observations of mine relative to certain forms of disease in cattle, which, if my views are right, are not properly understood as to their origin and course; and as the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Up and Wool Down. Part I. Wool Is Up
Sydney Punch · Friday 13 November 1874 · page 1
ALL the earth is full of gladness, All creation teams with joy ; Banished be each thought of sadness, Life for me has no alloy,…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 614
IN nearly all parts ef the chief pastoral districts the shearing is over or drawing very dose to a finish. It appears to have shown results that satisfy the best expectations. There has been no change in the weather during the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 14
OF the 229 entries in the cattle classes there were probably not more than the odd 29 away. The show of shortherns has never been equalled in the southern hemisphere; even the class that is usually so weak—the aged bulls—mustered to the tune of a…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 15
The stock passing here since Wednesday last (says the Deniliquin Chronicle) have been limited, being 750 store cattle and 9700 fat sheep. They passed on the following detes: Saturday, 750 store cattle, owner's name unveported…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 614
THERE has been no rain in the metropolitan district for ten or twelve days. On Wednesday the morning was lowering, aid gave promise of a fall, bat the clouds cleared away and gave place io clear weather. The temperature has been…
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Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 11
MANY persons imagine that the manure from straw-fed cattie enriches the soil to a far greater extent than it really does, while, as a fact, it is impossible to get from the straw of white crops enough nourishment to maintain cattle in…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 11
THE following letter of his Grace the Coadjutor-Archbishop to the faithful of the archdiocese of Sydney regarding the collection for the "Mission Fund," was read in the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Grazier. The Breeding of Cattle for Dairy Purposes. No. 1
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 14
THE breeding of cattle for dairy purposes has occupied less public attention in this colony than objects of a similar kind, and much less than, comparatively considered, it deserves. A cheap and plentiful…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 15
SIR,—I notice by the papers that a conference of stockinspectors from the various Australian colonies, is about being held in Sydney. I hope these gentlemen will take into their consideration, the prohibition of stock from Europe, and…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 15
SIR,—I desire to take this opportunity of entering in your columns some observations of mine relative to cortain forms of disease in cattle, which, if my views are right, are not properly understood as to their origin and course; and as the…
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Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 18
THE annexed engraving of a new machine for washing sheep, which is being made by Messrs. Hayward, Tyler, ahd Co., of Wliitecross-street, London, consists of a powerful double acting force pump, on the patent Californian…
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Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 5
Trove gives no preview of this one. Open it to read the story on the page.
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Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 10
THIS sketch might have been taken anywhere between the River Darling and the metropolis, so common is the scene to travellers who journey much from Sydney to the south or west. There is little variation in the life of herdsmen:…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Shoddy—The Iniquitous Rival of Wool
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 18
THE shoddy interest has grown to a proportion which overshadows if it does not overwhelm honest wool. It is asserted on authority that 40,000 tons or 80,000,000 pounds of shoddy are manufactured each year in the…
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