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989 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 50
It is not surprising, when we hear from the highest agricultural authority in Britain the statement that at the present moment on much of the so-called cultivated land in England weeds are so rampant that ten…
Continued on Trove, page 774 →The New Zealand Government has been making attempts to introduce into the colony the common English humble bee, for the express purpose of aiding the agriculturist in cultivating his fields of clover. Last year several nests of…
Continued on Trove, page 775 →SALE OF THOROUGHBRED STOCK.—On the 8th instant, at the sale of thoroughbred stock, held in Melbourne, but few were sold. In horses, Amethyst was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ENTHUSIASTIC GARDENING.—What with the poultry nuisance and other discouragements to gardening, thousands of people are deprived of the pleasure and profit derivable from that delightful recreation…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Rust and takeall are destroying crops in the Wangaratta district. The hot winds of Thursday did the crops much injury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin: [?]M, 1 bag lambs at 8½d; over G, 1 bellies at 5½d; [?]TH conjoined, 1 mixed at 6d; GM, 1 locks at 8d; RM, 2 greasy at 7d; Addressed, 2 mixed at 6½d; RAN, 2 pieces at 4d; B over…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →INVE[?]LL, Wednesday.—It has been decided to hold a grand competition of self-binding harvesters on Tuesday next, the 26th instant, at Fern hill, the residence of R. L. Murray, Esq. Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co. report having sold 3700 bales of wool during the past week.Greasy wool realised from 7d to 15d per lb: washed wool averaged 18d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By Messrs. Mort and Co.—E in diamond. 1 grease at 7¼d; Wybong over GB over P in diamond, 2 skirts and and pieces at 4¾d; H, 2 grease at 3¼d; CHG, 2 grease at 9¼d, 1 mixed at 4d: JJ&WM'N, 13 grease at 11¼d,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The London Colonial wool sales opened this afternoon. The total number of bales available for the series is 179,000. The first day's catalogue, which was fairly representative of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Within the last fortnight the Railway department has been kept pretty busy over the wool season. There is a daily increase in the returns of the number of bales received at Sydney. Last week it averaged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The reports from the pastoral districts still furnish cheering accounts of the pasture, the water supply, and the condition of stock. The last-mentioned seem to be specially favoured, for diseases are almost unknown, a few…
Continued on Trove, page 817 →A Well attended meeting of stockowners and those [?]nterested in pastoral and agricultural pursuits was held in the Chamber of Commerce yesterday morning, for the purpose of considering the desirableness or otherwise of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—Messrs. Hastings, Cunningham and Co. (limited) offered to-day 3600 bales wool, aDd sold 2260. Prices generally were maintained quite up to expectation. Greasy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In its anxiety to find fault with somebody, or anybody, or nobody in particular, your daily morning contemporary is never much troubled with qualms of conscience on the score of the truth or justice of what it gives the public to…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:—Fat Cattle: 1281 yarded for week, of which 732 came forward on Monday, the quality of same, with one exception, being good; the attendance of town and country buyers was fair. The…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →SIR,—I am many miles from you, yet your list shows I am a prepaid subscriber and reader of your paper. As your weekly issue reaches me regularly I have the pleasure of reading your interesting articles, which are evidently…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →A certain ex-priest who had put on the bide Of a, sheep to conceal his own wolfish inside. By craft or deceit, Or some other con[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Although in the art of tillage the farmers of the present day are not many strides in advance of the ancients, it must be conceded that in the mode of harvesting crops the last half-century has…
Continued on Trove, page 814 →Although the calendars say that spring does not close until the 21st proximo, this colony has during the past eight days experienced intense summer heat. In several districts the thermometers have registered over 100 in the…
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