Wool Awards
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 737
The following are the reports of the judges on the wool of New South Wales exhibited at Philadelphia:— 284. F. R. White, Blandford. Commended for combing merino wool of superior growth and quality; also, for…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 19
The bast uses of wheat straw hare been investi-gated scientifically by Mr. Lawes. The whole matter turns of course on the proportionate value of straw for bedding stock, and for sale, and on…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 9
Also in Evening News
LONDON, May 6.—The wool sales opened this evening. The attendance of both home and foreign buyers was large. The arrivals were upwards of 300,000 bales, and Port Phillip wools…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 19
THE following are the reports of the judges on the wool of New South Wales exhibited at Philadelphia:— 284. F. R. White, Blandford. Commended for…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 737
The North Western Pastoral Agricultural Association's Exhibition was held to-day. The weather was fine and the attendance good. There were a large number of exhibits in blood horses, and the principal…
Continued on Trove, page 737 →Victorian Regulations Affecting the Importation of Cattle
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 19
WE take the following from a reoens number of the LIVE STOCK JOURNAL:— By the way, the regulations governing the importation of cattle into the colony of Viotona are…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wagga Wagga
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 37
The fat stock market is quiet, and nothing much is doing beyond what is required for local consumption. Store cattle are very dull of sale, with no inquiries. Store sheep are in good demand, especially for young wethers, although few…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 19
The following seasonable and sensible hints appeared in the "Agricultural Notes" of the Wagga Wagga Advertiser :- Farmers must hail the late rains with delight,…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 19
[We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, or stock as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 737
The weather of the past fortnight has admonished us that winter is drawing nigh. That of the past week has been nnusually inclement along the coast. The wind, veering from north-west by the west round to south, and from…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 2
A PAPER was recently read by the Rev. George Henslow, before the Linn[?]an Society, on the subject of the “ Absorption of water by leaves and the green…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 4
On Friday, evening last a preliminary meeting of the fanners took place at Marsden’s Railway Hotel. Present: Messrs. N. G. Bull, J.P., C. A. Serivener,…
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Evening News · Monday 12 May 1879 · page 2
LONDON, Hay 10.—A considerable business is being done in the wool market at late rates. Up to the present 9891 bales have been disposed of…
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Evening News · Monday 12 May 1879 · page 2
LONDON, May 10.—The news about the hop crop is unfavourable. In most parts the crop is backward…
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Evening News · Monday 12 May 1879 · page 2
A preliminary meeting, convened by the mayor of St. Peters Mr. W. G. Judd), at which the mayors and alderman of the boroughs of Newtown, Marrickville, M'Donaldtown, Alexandria, and West Botany…
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Evening News · Tuesday 13 May 1879 · page 2
LONDON, May 10.—The sales closed firm this evening. Manufacturers buying liberally…
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Evening News · Thursday 15 May 1879 · page 2
The City of Sydney, which arrived from San Francisco on Monday, was boarded on her arrival by Mr. sheep Inspector Yen, and found to have a number of sheep (21) badly infected with scab on board. They…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 May 1879 · page 19
PROFESSOR Ward, the eminent veterinary surgeon of London writes to the LIVE STOCK JOURNAL as follows on the diseases of cattle and sheep:— The importance of this subject ia daily becoming…
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Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 17 May 1879 · page 15
A SMALL tapeworm is often found in the fourth stomach, and with the ordinary round intestinal worm in the small intestines of cattle. Other worms, with long names, which I suppress in these notes, are met with in…
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