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812 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 41
THE trade of that fine strip of country along our southern border commonly known as Riverina we have always regarded as being of great importance to our neighbours in Victoria, but high as we estimated its value we had no…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE absence or limited fall of rain during the last month when it might reasonably be expected to give vegetation an impulse before the hot season comes in, is giving rise to doleful prognostications of the coming season. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 357 →The Hargraves correspondent of the Western Pott reports— " pring is setting in; the grass is looking green, but that ia all just yet. Cattle have had a very hard of time of it about here; if it had not been…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →AT the usual monthly meeting of the committee of the Upper Hunter Agricultural Society held on the 6th instant the date of the next annual meeting was fixed for Tuesday, the 7th of November. The following gentlemen were…
Continued on Trove, page 356 →The Pastoral Show, held on Wednesday, was an unqualified success. The character of the stock, was higher than at former shows, and the improvement in sheep was very masked. The exhibits were…
Continued on Trove, page 369 →There are breeds which are particularly adapted for butter-making, and in all breeds there are doubtless good cows which are exceedlingly poor and a positive injury, and should be promptly disposed of before attempting to make…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →MR. Monckton Sy[?]not thus writes to our morning contemporary:— Sir,—In your issue of August 3lst ultimo there appears a letter signed "W. Hy," asking—Is New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 358 →SINCE the time you published woodcuts of these breeds of long-wool sheep, some three and a half years ago, both have been extensively imported into this colony from Victoria and Tasmania; and very many of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The following paper was lead recently by Mr. Hirst, in the Microscopic Branch of the Royal Society of New South Wales:— When we consider the multitude of processes undergone…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR— Already for the last two years I have had the pleasure of bringing under your notice the subject, interesting to the woolgrowers of this colony, of Antwerp as a market for Australian wool; and I now beg te submit to you a few remark…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE accompanying engraving shows some of the extensive improvements being effected in storage accommodation in the vicinity of the Circular Quay at the present time. The trees and railings shown on the right…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →She may not in the mary dance, With jewel'd maidens vie; She may not smile on courtly swain With soft bewitching eye…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A mistake is sometimes made by people who are raising fowls for use of marketing only, as a rule, and do not care about "your fancy breeds." In their thoughtlessness or grasping disposition…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →First of all the demand for port, bacoo, and hams is increasing. These are imported from Great Britain Germany, and the sister-colonies. Why should this be so? Is it not plain that our…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →A FALLING temperature towards the close of last week was the precursor of a violent change in the weather in the metropolitan and coast districts. On Saturday the air in co[?]ess was almost equal to that of winter; in the evening…
Continued on Trove, page 357 →MR. Wood's farm did not exceed thirty acres in extent, one-third of which was under crop, and the remainder was kept as grazing paddocks for about eight cows and a horse. It was all cleared, that is to say all the trees were felled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE the introduction of steam power in the cultivation of land a new system of ploughing has come into use. The idea that when the term ploughing is used the inverting of the soil as by the ordinary plow is meant, is no longer correct…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →"AN Occasional Correspondent" of the Prairie Farmer (Chicago, June 10), in describing the wool exhibits at the great Exhibition at Philadelphia, says in reference to the samples from Australia:-…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE market grows firmer from day to day, and the improvement which we lately signalled as having taken place in the prices of gressy wools has now become general. Compared with the lowest point of this series, there is an…
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