Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Farming & the land, all years

Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1882

1,140 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 57

Dairy Farming. "STRIPPINGS."

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1882 · page 1147

The reason given by the Rational Live Stock Journal (Chicago) for the last of a cow's milk being richer than the first is as follows:—There is a natural way of accounting for on accumulation of cream in the last part of the milking…

Continued on Trove, page 1147 →

Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 December 1882 · page 18

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 the journal…

Continued on Trove, page 18 →

Mr. Beecher's Farming

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 December 1882 · page 7

Mark Twain has written of Mr. Beecher's farm on the Hudson River as follows:-- Mr. Beecher's farm a consists of thirty-six acres, and is carried on on scientific principles. He never puts in a plant…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Messrs. Farmer and Company's New Buildings. Pitt and Market Streets, Sydney

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 23 December 1882 · page 14

THE city of Sydney already possesses many thorough fares full of interest from a commercial and industrial point of view, and bids fair to rival, at no distant date, with the first cities of Europe. Some idea of her…

Continued on Trove, page 14 →

Architectural Progress of Sydney.—additions to Messrs. Farmer and Companys Premises

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 23 December 1882 · page 16

Trove gives no preview of this one. Open it to read the story on the page.

Continued on Trove, page 16 →

True Farming

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 December 1882 · page 2

When settlement in this colony received a great impetus by the passing of a Land Act which threw open. The lands to the people, though in a most imperfect manner, those who took up…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Weather—agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 December 1882 · page 3

Christmas of this year was [?]ered in by that which may be [?] scorching weather, but the eve of the happy day brought about an agreeable [?], and the holidays consequently proved throughly enjoyable. With the hoat…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Commercial. London Wool and Produce Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 December 1882 · page 6

WOOL.—From Messrs. Helmuth, Schwartze, and Co 's circular of the 14th November we take the following:—The following are the quantities held over from last sales and the new arrivals up to date: Sydney—held over, 10,000 bales, arrivals, 17,694 bales;…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

The Barge Darling on Fire. £18,000 Worth of Wool Destroyed. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 December 1882 · page 3

The cargo Darling, stationed a few miles from Kennedy's Reefs, on the Murray, caught fire on Tuesday at midday. The greater part of her wool cargo, valued at £18,000, was destroyed, as…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Pure Ayrshire Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 20

A short while ago we mentioned that Mr. T. Cadell, Oran Park, Narellan, had imported from Victoria some very superior pure Ayrshire cows of splendid pedigrees. At the same time a valuable bull was shipped from…

Continued on Trove, page 20 →

New Wheat

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 20

WE have been favoured by Messrs. Nipper and See with a sample of the first shipment of this season's wheat of South Australian growth, It seems of good quality, being clean, and clear in colour, regular size…

Continued on Trove, page 20 →

Judging Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 20

IN an article dealing with the characteristics of wool from a manufacturer's point of view, an article in "Wool" says: We have said that the six qualities of wool for which are mainly provided classification and…

Continued on Trove, page 20 →

The Wheat Harvest

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 18

PARTICULARS are to hand from all our own wheat districts. And, taking thom as a whole, the reports are satisfactory, and indicate that the yield of 1882 gives every promise of being the best we have had…

Continued on Trove, page 18 →

Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 1198

Christmas of this year was ushered in by that which may be termed scorching weather, but the eve of the happy day brought about an agreeable change, and tho holidays consequently proved thoroughly enjoyable. With the heat…

Continued on Trove, page 1198 →

A Novel Plan for Cold Storage of Butter

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 1180

One of the essentials in butter manufacture (writes the Hon. X. A. Willard, in the American Agriculturist) is a good storage room, where a proper and uniform temperature may be maintained. The air should be free from…

Continued on Trove, page 1180 →

Another Way of Using Salt for Sheep Fluke

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 20

Thousands of sheep, the English papers report, died in Dovonshire and Somerset two seasons since from fluke, the result being that the flocks have not recovered. At the commencement of last winter the…

Continued on Trove, page 20 →

The Grazier. The Prospects for Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 20

WE are now in possession of full particulars regarding the late series of sales in London; and they are very hopeful for Australian producers who have wool in for the next series. There cannot be a doubt now…

Continued on Trove, page 20 →

A Tour through the Wheat-growing Districts. Ii.-goulburn to Cootamundra

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 1178

The Goulburn district is the first of the southern wheat-growing centres met with in travelling by the Great Southern railway, and from this point to the border towns, a moderately cultivated area is passed through. A number of…

Continued on Trove, page 1178 →

The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 18

Trove gives no preview of this one. Open it to read the story on the page.

Continued on Trove, page 18 →

Ostrich Farming in the South

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 1178

Messrs. Officer Brothers, of the Murray Downs station, near Swan Hill, are still persevering with the work of ostrich farming, which they pluckily commenced about 10 years ago, and they hare now over…

Continued on Trove, page 1178 →