Sheep and Cattle Gates
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 19
DOUBLE gates are, to my idea, by far the best, where roads traverse your paddocks, and I should advise them to be made after this simple plan, and will presume you require gates for a sheep paddock, to be…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 19
Great preparations are being made for shearing throughout the colony, and next month the sh[?] will be in full swing in every direction. A good clip is anticipated in all the districts…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 214
As the season for packing butter will soon arrive, some timely hints in regard to the matter may not be amiss. The most of our butter makers not understanding how, or perhaps not having the conveniences for packing butter, sell at…
Continued on Trove, page 214 →The Butter of the Future
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 213
An American farmer writes:—"The advances in the processes of butter-making are so rapid that it requires no great stretch of the imagination to picture, in the not distant future, methods and results which to our grand-parents…
Continued on Trove, page 213 →Experimental Culture of Wheat
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 212
We learn from the Warwick Examiner that a some wha extensive experiment in wheat-sowing is now being tried by Mr. Jacob Horwitz, M.L. A., on his estate at Upper Swan Creek, which, if successful,…
Continued on Trove, page 212 →Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 221
Midwinter has been reached, and still the absence of rain forms a topic of some interest to agriculturists and graziers. Dwellers in the suburbs of the metropolis, too, anxiously regard the changes of the barometer,…
Continued on Trove, page 221 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Teleghaph.] Deniliquin
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 37
Fat stock for Victorian market—Saturday: 1500 sheep from Steam Plains, Mathew Brothers purchasers, consigned to Powers, Rutherford, and Co. Sunday: 1800 (Brundell's) to Peck, Hudson, and Co.; 1640 (Landale's)…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →America's Wool Trade in 1879
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 212
American journals received by the last mail from California state that the bill relative to the international exhibition of sheep, wool, and wool products, to be held in the Centennial-buildings at Philadelphia in…
Continued on Trove, page 212 →Destructive Fire at Waterloo. Wool Sheds Destroyed
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 8
EXTENSIVE fires are becoming so alarmingly frequent in Sydney, that no sooner do we furnish the public with the particulars of one, than another has to be described. The last, like the other two, occurred at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Farmer and Grazier
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 19
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…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Mr. Stuart's Address to the Dairymen of Illawarra
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 212
At a meeting held recently in Dapto Mr. Stuart, M.L.A. addressed several of his constituents, and with the view of furthering the interests of dairying made several suggestions anent exporting dairy produce. We abridge the…
Continued on Trove, page 212 →Freehold Farms for Sale
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 227
The difficulty experienced by intending farmers in obtaining river frontages on the Northern Coast in districts where sugar might be grown has ere now considerably retarded settlement. Knowing this we notice…
Continued on Trove, page 227 →Farm and Garden Memoranda for August, 1880
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 20
SOME districts have been favoured with showers of rain; but, on the whole, July, like the preceding month, has been dry and frosty. If rain holds off during the present month the wheat, oats, and barley…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Coffee Crop Prospects
Evening News · Monday 2 August 1880 · page 3
London, June 18.—The prospects of the Ceylon coffee crop are again unfavourable, and the Government yield of Java will probably be 30,000 tons below that of 1879…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Weather—agricuiltural and Pastoral
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 August 1880 · page 7
Midwinter is past, and despite the dryness adverted to in the last summary, the pastures and water supplies have proved ample. In the metropolis the winter so far has not been surpassed in point of dryness for several years. Although…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Commercial. London Wool Sales
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 August 1880 · page 6
Sale of 104 bales, from Queensland, by Windeler and Co., of Tuesday, May 25,1880:— Ex Scottish Lassie, from Brisbane: Roma, Terrick, 27 at 181/2d, 36 at 171/2d, 1 damaged at 17d, 1 at 16d; TK, 14at181/2d, 33 pi[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep Rot
Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Thursday 5 August 1880 · page 15
THE British flockmasters are in a state of consternation at the unprecedented mortality prevailing among the sheep of the United Kingdom, and the matter is now beginning to engage the serious attention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Tendency in Sheep acquire Fat
Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Thursday 5 August 1880 · page 21
A DISPOSITION to early obesity, as well as a tendency to that form which indicates a propensity to fatten, is materially promoted by a good supply of rich food while thc animal is in a growing state. The Spanish shepherds…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Farm & STATION Agriculture in England. (From Our Special Correspondent.)
Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Thursday 5 August 1880 · page 18
ANOTHER month has passed without rain, except an occasional thunder-shower, and these have been very partial. The outlook now is once more becoming serious for farmers. The hay crop must be short, for…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Forbes Pastoral and Agricultural Society
Evening News · Friday 6 August 1880 · page 2
FORBES, Friday.—The Forbes Pastoral and Agricultural Show took place yesterday and was a decided success. The weather was beautiful, and over 800 people were present to-day. The…
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