Effect of Protection on Farming
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 October 1879 · page 698
By the publication of a report presented to the Governor of Iowa, U. S., by the Hon. W. R. Smith, commissioner from that State to the Paris Exposition of 1878, in the Victorian Argus, the representations of…
Continued on Trove, page 698 →A Model Dairy—One of the Wants of the Exhibition
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 October 1879 · page 698
In the basement near the southern entrance of the International Exhibition building there is displayed a collection of dairy produce from the southern districts of the colony. There are large pyramids of cheese,…
Continued on Trove, page 698 →The American Cotton Crop. New York, Oct. 16
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 October 1879 · page 709
The agricultural Bureau has published a monthly report stating that the average cotton crop in the States of Carolina, Georgia, Flordia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,…
Continued on Trove, page 709 →The Crops in Austria Vienna, Oct 21
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 October 1879 · page 709
Reports from all parts of the country confirm the news of an extraordinary failure in the crops. The failure is so complete in its effects that famine is already severely felt,…
Continued on Trove, page 709 →Queen Charlotte's Vale Farmers' Club
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 October 1879 · page 699
We learn from the Bathurst Times that the annual ploughing match in connection with the Queen Charlotte's Tale Farmers' Club was held on October 15. There was not a very large attendance, although the weather was all that…
Continued on Trove, page 699 →Farm and Garden. Fruit Growing in California
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 25 October 1879 · page 2
THE sudden development of this coast as a great fruit-producing region is so surprising even to those in its midst, and will probably in the near future so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Stealing
Evening News · Tuesday 28 October 1879 · page 2
PARKES, Monday.-James Sharp, senior, and James Sharp, junior, of Bumberry, were arrested on Saturday by Sergeant M'Nanamy, charged with stealing. The arrest has excited some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WOOL, &c
The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 October 1879 · page 3
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Comspany has received the following telegram, dated London 25th instant:-- Wool: The next sales will commence on 18th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Weather—agricultural and Pastoral
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 October 1879 · page 8
The weather of the past fortnight has been remarkably variable and withal warmer than usually falls to the lot of the first half of spring. The temperature gradually increased from the 15th instant to noon of the 23rd, when it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →West Maitland Cattle Market
Evening News · Tuesday 28 October 1879 · page 2
WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.-Best cattle have improved 10s per head, or 2s per 1001b. At the Campbell Hill sales, held yesterday, Mr. Price, of Buttai Boiling Down Establishment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin's Wool and Produce Stores
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 October 1879 · page 6
The new premises recently erected for Messrs. Harrison Jones, and Devlin, by Messrs. M'Leod and Jennings, were yesterday opened for the first time in the way of a public sale of wool. There was a good attendance of buyers, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral and Agricultural
The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 October 1879 · page 7
The weather still continues all that the agriculturist and grazier could desire for the pursuit of their respective avocations; with this exception, that owing to the rains that have proved so…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Rice Crop Good
Evening News · Wednesday 29 October 1879 · page 2
The rice crop at the Phillipines this year is expected to be very good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales
The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 October 1879 · page 2
Mr. John Bridge reports:-- I held an auction sale of wool to-day, the first of the season. I am sorry to have to report demand not so firm as at this time last year. Prices are fully 1d to 2d per lb under openlng quotations last season,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sales
Evening News · Thursday 30 October 1879 · page 2
MELBOURNE! Thursday.—At Goldsbrough's weekly wool sales, over 8000 bales were offered. Various lots were competed for with great spirit, more especially by American buyers, who secured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Splendid Lot of Cattle
Evening News · Thursday 30 October 1879 · page 2
ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Mr, J. H. Angas's newly imported stud cattle are a magnificent lot, and will be a great acquisition to the colony. They have been passed as clean, but according to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial. Wool Sales—wednesday
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 October 1879 · page 6
By Morland Co.—M.[?] 12 greasy [?] a[?] I [?] 4½d, 1 pieces and black at 5¼d; JP.8 greasy at 8d, 1 mixed at 5½d; ER.7 grease at 7[?]d; SAI Co, 29 grease at 6d; 6YK, 19 grease at 5[?]: JMc.M over Weetalaba[?], 148 grease at 10d, 29 pieces at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral Items
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 19
Stock sales around Wagga have been numerous. At Pooncaira grass is most abundant, and stock are looking splendid. Lambing in New England, which is on the eve of…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Rura[?] Matters. BUTTER
Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 18
THE comparatively high price of butter in Sydney is leading many farmers to consider the best means of forwarding in a perfectly fresh condition from distant stations. A provincial contemporary, alluding to this,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Worms in Sheep
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 19
THE following letter has reached us in reply to one signed "Inquirer,", in the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL, of October 18:— To the Editor…
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