Oxford-down Sheep
THE Oxford-Down ram, whose portrait, copied from a photograph, is given on this page, has a history that is interesting to…
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Western Pastoral and Agricultural Society
THE sixteenth annual show of the Western Pastoral and Agricultural Society, which represents the district around the city of Bathurst, or, as it is generally known, the City of the Plains, opened on last Tuesday on the new showground,…
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YOUR correspondent during the past week succeeded in performing the wonderful feat of killing two birds, or two agricultural shows, with the one return ticket. The proceedings of the Orange show on the Wednesday have…
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THE relations between the Legislature and the Municipal Council of Sydney seem never to have been of a cordial and satisfactory character. As yet these two bodies, notwithstanding the number…
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"J. W. C.," witing on this subject to the Queenslander, says:—Whilst giving the board of inquiry into diseases in plants and stock every credit for the great zeal they show in their…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Inverell Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show
THE annual show of our local Pastoral and Agricultural Association took place here on Wednesday and Thursday last, and was a great success. Considering the severe drought from which our district has but lately emerged,…
Continued on Trove, page 513 →The Weather, Agriculture, Pastoral, and Condition of Stock
Some rain fell in Sydney in the early part of the week, but since then the weather has been very pleasant; warm in the middle of the day, but cool during the night and in the mornings. The season could hardly be more…
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Messrs. B. D. Morehead and Co. report: We sold Mr. Barker's Tamrookum Estate, 8750 acres of freehold, with cattle, horses, &c., for £16,000, Messrs. Collins and Sons being the purchasers. Also, for Mr. Kelman, 200 fat bullocks,…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Agriculture. Written Expressly for This Journal. on Pastoral Improvements
IT is a fact well known to every one acquainted with the circumstances of this colony, that its wealth in natural pasturage has been one of the chief sources of its advancement. In the earliers days of settlement there appeared no…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sheep Returns for 1877. (From the Sydney Mail.)
[?] the New South Wales Agricultural Society had [?]ded in the Exhibition schedule for this year a [?] for the most lugubrious sketch of the pastoral [?] of the colony, assuredly the statement of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Darling and Murray River Wool Trade
A PARAGRAPH of much interest to a large class of persons in this, and some other districts of the colony, appeared, in the ECHUCA ADVERTISER of Monday last. It related to the Darling and Murray River…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Hints to Agriculturists and Graziers. the Hereford Breed of Cattle
THE white-faced, brownish-red cattle, known as Herefords, are one of the old established breeds. They have an excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Largest Number of Sheep Shorn in a Day. To the Editor
SIR,—In reference to the question asked in your paper respecting the greatest number of sheep shorn by anyone man in one day, I beg to say that the highest tally in the colonies was 272, and that was…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Farm Notes
[We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, and stock as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
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THE SEASON.—Our various correspondents report that the recent rainfalls have had a very favourable effect upon all kinds of vegetation throughout this…
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OPERATIONS in this department, which had for a time been stagnant, will now have become active. In the coast district, the growth of herbage will suffice for a good while to come; and even in the uplands, it will probably be…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Work of the Farm
Now that the threshing operations have, for the most part, been brought to a close, the most important work of the farm will be the preparation of the soil for future crops. The opportune rains, which have recently fallen, will…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. BRISBANE
Messrs. B. D. Morehead and Co., report [?] sold Mr. Barker's Tomroodum Bastate, £50 notes of freehold with cattle horses, &c, for 216,000. Messrs. Collins and Sons being the purchasers. Also, for Mr. Kalman, 200 fat bullocks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Exhibits
The awards in this interesting section of the Exhibition were given in yesterday, and the cards of merit attached to the parcels in many respects there was a considerable falling off in the character of the wool exhibits, perhaps…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool
The exhibits in this section may be regarded as fairly good, particularly in [?] wools—if the 9 consequences of the late disastrotts drough in to consideration. The Lack masters of New South Wale lost three…
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