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DOUBTLESS our readers are aware that the passage of Victorian sheep across our southern boundary is restricted by quarantine regulations. A month back we published the proceedings of a deputation that had waited on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →For months past the system of cattle stealing says the Burrows correspondent of the YASS COURIER) has ben increasing to such extent that few persons could trust a fat beast into a paddock at all remote…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The report ot Mr. T. D. P. Croaker, inspector of Stock, read at a meeting of the Bathurst Board of Sheep Directors, held on Thursday last, says:—"1. The protracted drought, which has done so much harm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE season in the pastoral districts is spoken of as anything but favourable, even in those parts which have had rains, for they came too late. On some of the vast areas carrying large flocks and herds the feed continues so scant…
Continued on Trove, page 134 →We are informed that on one station alone, about 50 miles from Albury, 60,000 sheep have died since summer, and another that used to carry 80,000 sheep comfortably, can now scarcely find grass and water…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →THE Council of the New South Wales Agricultural Society, at their meeting next Wednesday, will have some very important business to transact, and a full attendance will go far towards assisting the future welfare of the…
Continued on Trove, page 133 →THE second heading in Dr. Vaughan's first Pastoral, is this--"Who are the Pope's Enemies. and what they are doing?!' Dr. vaughan himshelf tells…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE was a very good muster of [?]a t[?]e on Thursday at the Homebush saleyards. There was a great range of quality as well as of price; some of the bullocks sold at lower figures, being very inferior. Of prime stall-fed bullocks there was a large show;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EAST MORTON.—1000 cattle are being started from Unhullah to a place near the coast, where there is plenty of grass. Mr. Garbutt, of Cryna, on the Logan, has been taking time by the forelock, and has…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →THE following letters have been handed to us, with a request that they might be published, as evidencing the efforts being made to open up a market in China for Australian wool. We have pleasure in doing so, as the subject…
Continued on Trove, page 135 →As usual, at this time of the year, the quantity of wool offered during the month has been very limited, but prices have had a hardening tendency. New England scoured wool offered here was sold at Is 10d for a quantity, whilst a superior…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →SIR,—As this important matter is now under discussion, I would like to say a few words on the subject. The advocates of total prohibition seem to think that the movement to repeal the present restriction emanates from a…
Continued on Trove, page 135 →THE land for root crops should now be nearly ready for seed. Where manure can be procured mangolds should be tried, and we have no reason to suppose that our friends will regret the experiment. With this crop, as many…
Continued on Trove, page 133 →Mr. Coleman, the author of a paper on agriculture in America, read recently before the Farmers' Club in London, would emphatically say "Don't" to English. Agricultural labourers…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A young man who lives on a farm near Bockara, lately went to sleep on a sofa, after a hard day's work, and had been lying there some time, when tie got up and went inside. His companions observed that he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following letters have been handed to us, with a request that they might be published, as evidencing the efforts being mude to open up a market in China for Australia wool. We have pleasure in doing so, as the subject…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the sittings of the District Court, Goulburn, on Tuesday last, before his Honor Judge M'Farland, an action, Henderson, Brothers, v. A. G. Finlay, was brought, in which the plaintiffs sought to recover the sum of £130…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool,—We submitted a catalogue of 295 bales to public competition, and sold all the greasy parcels at about late quotations. The washed wools were mostly in ordinary condition and faulty, and several lots had to be withdrawn. There is a good demand…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following extracts from a letter received by a gentleman at Dapto, from an Hlawarra dairyman, who recently proceeded to Calitornia to settle with some of his friends there amidst "fresh fields and pasture…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather here is very cold and frosty. The draught unfortunately continues, and the losses are widespread. The whole country is quite bare, and stock are dying from starvation in all…
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