The Grazier. Shropshire Sheep. (From Tue Live Stock Journal.)
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 15
THE Shropshire is a breed of sheep which has been exalted to the very height of importance within the past twenty years, from being better adapted to ensure more mutton and wool of excellent…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 615
WE have received, with a request to publish them, the following letters from Mr. Brodribb and Messrs. Browne and Eagle respectively, the perusal of which will interest those of our readers who are concerned in the sale of our…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 614
The following excellent practical hints have been furnished the Armidalc Express from a correspondent:— "As the shearing season may now be said to have commenced, the writer thinks that he may be of some benefit…
Continued on Trove, page 614 →The Australian Town & Country Journal Sydney, Saturday, Nov. 13, 1875. London Wool Sales
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 12
FOR months past a good deal of comment has been made public in the Sydney and Melbourne newspapers, and in pamphlets, on the way in which the wool sales are…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A Farmer's Neck Broken. Last Monday (says the Illawarra Mercury)
Evening News · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 4
a very melancholy occurrence happened at Spring Creek, Westbrook, Camden. Mr Jenkins, sen, 64 years of age, an old and respectable farmer on the creek, a man highly esteemed for his honesty,…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 613
OF course every fanner knows how to cultivate Indian corn or maize, and this accounts for the very small crops some of them grow and the very fluctuating price it brings; but a few remarks on how maize is grown with profit…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 613
Cultivators of the soil in the county of Cumberland, have still to regret that the weather continues dry; the growth of vegetation is stow and the aspect of the country anything but refreshing. The only rain that fell during the week…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 16
In the new English Shorthorn Herd Book five crosses on regist red bulls are now necessary for entry, whero[?]s four crosses were formerly sufficient. This may tend to enlighten some who do not know what is…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Poultry Farming in San Francisco
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 16
WILLIAM E. MARHSHAM, has in the suburbs of the city, on the San Bruno road, a poultry ranch which is worthy of note. He purchased the ground, Which, consists of two and on[?]alf acres, about a year ago.The…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 November 1875 · page 7
SINCE our last report the public sales of colonial wools have progressed without material alteration and will finally close on the 2nd proximo. The tone has been a trille better of late, but the only Improvement in price has been a slight one in the better New…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 November 1875 · page 6
SALE of 954 bales by Helmuth Schwartze and Co., on Friday, 10th September. Ex John Duthie; Mulgunnia, 15 and [?] 12 and [?] 4 pieces at 15d WMS, 29 at [?] at 20d, I damaged at [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales
Evening News · Tuesday 16 November 1875 · page 2
FOR months past a good deal of comment has been made public in the Sydney and Melbourne newspapers, and in pamphlets, on the way in which the wool sales are…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 November 1875 · page 6
The spring season has been unusually dry in the neighbourhood of Sydney and on the coast district generally, the rainfall having been very light indeed. In the country beyend the ranges the weather has been variable. Some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wheat Crop. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 November 1875 · page 2
SIR,—In the Herald of the 11th instant, you give an extract from the Inverell Times, which states that the wheat in the neighbourhood of Invorell has been damaged to the extent of half the ear…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 645
Advices from the sheep and cattle country have in general a tone of satisfaction. In the north-west, in the districts watered by the large tributaries of the Darling,' the pastures look well And yield plenty of good feed, yet pastoralists…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 15
THE Californian species (Ov[?] montana) is a noble animal, weighing when fully grown some 350 pounds, and is well worthy the attention of wool growers as a point from which to make a new…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 645
The metropolitan district has been to some extent relieved of anxiety with regard to the dryness of the season, and the fear of ill consequences from a continued drought. A little rain fell on Saturday evening, and on Tuesday…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 645
CORN is in many places planted only for fodder. Cattle or horses cat it when green very eagerly, and land in good heart produces heavy crops of it. Colonel Pickering, a well-known American farmer, says of this said corn fodder,…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 17
The Blaney correspondent of the BATHURST FRER PRESS says:—Last Primay and Saturday this district was favored with some beautiful showers of rain, but since then frosts and keen winds have been…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Trade Circulars. Wool. [Hoare and Hudson.] October 1
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 November 1875 · page 5
THE third seies of sales for the year, which commenced on August 17th, terminated this evening. The result throughout has been unsatisfactory, and with a small attendance of Countinental buyers during the whole series, especially from Germany,…
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