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720 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 36
SIR,—In your last number is a plan of sheep yards, and a letter from " Zeta," which I hardly think wort noticing, as I feel every confidence in leaving mine of the week before to stand on its merits. There are,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →TO preface this brief report of the annual Mudgee sheep fair, with an account of the difficulties which beset a traveller by rail and road from the metropolis to Mudgee, would in your correspondent's opinion be simply an…
Continued on Trove, page 134 →THE fifteenth annual exhibition in connection with the above association took place at the society's ground on Wednesday and Thursday, the 21st and 22nd instant. The show eclipsed the similar exhibitions of former…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →MESSRS. JACOMB, SON, AND CO., report:—The second series of public sales of colonial wool has progressed with firmness, and there is nothing now to indicate any probability of present prices not being supported…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →IN the county of Cumberland, as in the country generally there has been little change from the fine weather of the past month. On Monday and Tuesday of this week a little rain fell, not sufficient in quantity to do wore than maintain…
Continued on Trove, page 135 →THE draining of land by pipes is by far the best plan, and, I may add, where pipes are to be bad, the cheapest; but in New South Wales as in America there are many places where, except at considerable cost, this is next to impossible…
Continued on Trove, page 134 →IN bidding adieu to July of 1875, it may be remarked that the month has been distinguished by moderate, enjoyable—in fact, Sydney July weather in its most perfect form. Farm, garden, and pasture grounds are…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Frequent stirring of the soil is all important for hoed crops. Begin if possible before the crop is up, as may always be done with corn or potatoes if the soil is not stony. Breaking the hard crust which forms on…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Rats detest chloride of lime and coal tar. Iron filings in a weak solution of sal ammoniae, mixed with Portland cement, are said to be double the strength of the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →At Merriwa the pasturage is looking all that one can expect in the winter; in fact the green appearance of the paddocks makes one think that spring has already [?] Sheep are looking well, and [?] are jubilant in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MESSRS. JACOMB, SON, AND CO., report:—The second series of public sales of colonial weol has progressed with firmness, and there is nothing now to indicate any probability of present prices not being supported…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The enclosed list of the average and highest prices realised in London by some of the best known New South Wales clips will be perused with interest, I dare say, by many of your readers. It will be seen that Mr. E. K. Cox heads…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE attention of Stockowners and others is drawn to the notices in the Government Gazette of to-day's date, having reference to the undermentioned Forfeited Runs, situated in the Unsettled Districts, the unexpired Terms of the Leases of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE our report of 25th Ultimo, the second series of public sales of colonial wool has progressed with firmness, and there is nothing now to indicate any probability of present prices not being supported for some time to come. It is arranged that these sales…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GENTLEMEN,—I have this day read an account, through the Herald, of Mr. T. S. Mort's proposal to supply Sydney and its suburbs with milk, providing the farmers supply him with same at from 1d. to 1½d. per quart…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—Permit me, through the columns of your paper, to complain of the way in which I have lost two or three hundred pounds by the mismanagement of our railways. On Monday, the 5th instant, I advised my agents, G. M…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As usual, after the close of the public sales, transactions during the first half of May have been unimportant. Since then business has resumed its former activity, and the prices paid for greasy [?]e show little alteration from the average rates realized at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the advices this week from the pastoral districts there is little to disturb the prosperous current of affairs, the season hitherto having been of a highly favourable character as regards the well-being of stock. In the northern part of…
Continued on Trove, page 167 →I hear (says the Tumberumba correspondent of the TUMUT AMD ADELONG TIMES) that the Tooma station has changed hands: Messrs. Kinleside and McCartney having purchased the home station, and Mr. M'Donald the sheep run…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →As the sheep-shearing season is now at hand, a novel arrangement of a support for the hand while holding the shears, which we illustrate herewith, will doubtless prove of timely interest. The object of the device…
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