Farm Mechanics, &c. No. VI
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 645
BEFORE I proceed to describe my other kind of ploughed their name is legion—it may not be amiss to furnish the purchaser of those already described, and which can hardly be surpassed in all the qualities that constitute a good…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 16
To correct a sour swamp, lime is the best thing in use. Either rock or shell lime will do. Hilling potatoes will give more bushels per acre thany flat culture, however nice…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Trade Circulars. Wool. [B. Holt and Co.] London, October 1
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 November 1874 · page 6
[THE third series of colonial wool sales for this year have progressed very steadily, and will conclude this evening. The following are the quantities catalogued during the sales, and the arrivals up to date for the fourth series, which are fixed to…
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Empire · Wednesday 25 November 1874 · page 3
The Dubbe Dispatch recently reported that the Murrumbidgerie clip of wool had been held in the gr[?] for 11½ per lb. The name journal has since heard that the purchasers, without taking delivery, have disposed of it at…
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Empire · Wednesday 25 November 1874 · page 4
AT the meeting of the Echuca Agricultural Association, held on the 5th instant, the following paper was read by Mr. J. Brisbane, the vice-president:—"The Farmers Cow" is the subject I purpose bringing before the…
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Empire · Thursday 26 November 1874 · page 4
THE first general meeting of members, for the election of officers and committee, in connection with the above association, was held in the School of Arts, Muswellbrook, on Wednesday, the 18th instant. There was a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Dumping. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 November 1874 · page 6
SIR,—Some attention having been recently called to the indifferent condition in which both wool and the packages containing it, shipped from Sydney, have—especially during the last year or two—reached their destination, we…
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Empire · Thursday 26 November 1874 · page 4
AN Australian in London is pretty sure to find his way sooner or later " down to the Docks." His voyaging experience gives him a sympathy for all that relates to ships and salt water. A Sydney man…
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Empire · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser
It is our pleasing duty to record a season of great prosperity for graziers. Shearing and combing are over; there is plenty of good grass for stock, and the average clip has been very good…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 15
The Eat stock passing through here for Victoria [?]uring the week (says the Deniliquin Chronicle) have been 573 [?]ttle, and 19,500 sheep, These passed at the following dates: —Friday, 400 fat cattle, Moleswroth's. Saturday, 4000 sheep,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Weather and Crops.—pastoral
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 6
DURING the past month the season has on the whole been very pleasant, a few exceptionally hot days in the early par[?] of the month having been succeeded by agreeably cool wealther. Some rain has fallen and greatly refreshed…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 679
THE variations in the weather during the last eight or nine days have been very strong; there has been intense heat and almost wintry cold. On Saturday and Sunday stifling hot winds produced a very perceptible droop in both vegetable…
Continued on Trove, page 679 →The Central Australian Pastoral Show
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 678
WE avail ourselves of the report of the Central Australian and Bourke Telegraph for an account of this shew:—The first show of this association was held at Bourke on 9th and 10th November. The weather was magnificent,…
Continued on Trove, page 678 →The Grazier. The Melbourne Pastoral and Agricultural Show
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 14
FINDING myself in Melbourne at the time of the show, of course I made it a matter of business to visit the ground, and look through the exhibits, with a view to supply the readers of the T. and C…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Australian Wool Report. [Fanning, Griffiths, and Co.]
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 32
The general and not unreasonable anxiety that, with the very large supplies for London May sales, tue existing values must recede, has caused a quiet tone, and buyers show no Inclination to operate on former rates. What the state of the…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →London Colonial Wool Sales. London, November 19
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 694
At the London Colonial wool sales the opening competition is well maintained. We have received the following telegram from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 677
IT is now nearly thirty-five years since the attention of the English farmers was drawn to the value of subsoiling by Smith, of Deanston. He pointed out the advantages of stirring and sometimes bringing up to the surface the soil…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 677
The Leader's travelling reporter gives the following description of the Hill River Estate, the property of Mr. C. B. Fisher, which is situated in the county of Stanley, two miles eastward of Clare, the furthest agricultural…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 17
Churning may be made easy by bolting a lever six feet to an upright post about 30 inches from the churn to the bolt, and 42 inches from the bolt, to the end. Here is a gain of power without a loss of speed,…
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