Bathurst Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bathurst, Thursday. Second Day
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 April 1885 · page 8
The attendance at the show was very large to-day the weather being cold and cloudy, but otherwise fine. The visitors displayed much interest in various sections, especially in the live stock exhibits, which attracted crowds all…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 812
There has been a perfect exodus of store stock from the New England district lately, writes our travelling reporter. The complete break of the drought in the middle of summer was almost unprecedented, and now when herbage is…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 2
The official reports which we published on Thursday give a large a mount of valuable information concerning the present condition of the stock and pastures throughout the colony…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 811
On the issue of the first annual report of the society (says Bell's Weekly Messenger of February), it is thought desirable to place on record the circumstances under which the society came into existence. The Devon Herd Book had…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 42
MESSRS. MORT AND Co. LIMITED:—Wool: The market continues depressed, in consequence of the probability of an outbreak of war; and what little wool is offering is difficult to place satisfactorily. We are holding no sale…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 11
LONDON, April ll.—The wool market is weakety especially low greasies. About 178,000 bales have been catalogued, and 25,000 bales have been withdrawn…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 21
An article in your valuable columns of March 21 seems to hold up to ridicule the enunciator of advice contained in a South Australian journal, to procure and sow rod rusty wheat, as being free from further…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Latest Pastoral News. [By Telegraph.] Gunnedah
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 42
Messrs. F. Bacon and Co. report:—Weather showery, half an inch of rain fell to-day. More is wanted. There are numerous inquiries for breeding ewes of good quality, fattening wethers, and bullocks. Other lines are also in…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 810
This week we give illustrations of two very handsome Ayrshire cows, the property of an English breeder, Mr. E. A. Roberts, Woodlands House, Greenhithe, Kent. Lady Macdonald won the first prize at the London Dairy Show…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 812
The twenty-second annual show in connection with the Bathurst Agricultural, Horticultural, and Pastoral Association was opened to-day. The weather was fine in the morning, and a large number of visitors were present; but…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 809
Woolgrowers in Australia are in the habit of attaching very little importance to the supplies which reach the European markets from other parts of the world. The prevailing opinion is that as a wool producing country…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 812
The total production of colonial wool for the year 1884 was, in round numbers, 1,303,000 bales, of which 190,000 bales were grown in the Cape Colony, and the balance, something over a million bales, in Australia and New…
Continued on Trove, page 812 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Walgett
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 9
During the last eight days 69 points of rain have fallen, making a total for the present year of 8 inches 51 points. The weather is now fine, with clear warm days. There is good feed on the stock routes and the stations in this district…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 9
WOOL.—At the only auction sale of the week 342 bales were catalogued, comprising odd lots of greasy and follmongored parcels. There was better cmpetition than has beon noticed at late sales, and the prices bore favourable…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cattle Stealing. (By Telegraph, Prom Our Correspondent.) Tamworth
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 12
The business of the Circuit Court closed on Thursday night, when the jury in the case against John Fletcher, sen., and John Fletcher, jun. (who were charged with haring stolen two…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 22
Notwithstanding the severe depression which still exists in the United States, we notice that American buyers were endeavoring to buy'a little wool at the January sales in London. The wool required was…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 9
There was a good attendance at the show to-day, and the interest of the public in the different sections seemed undiminished. The exhibition building was opened last night and to-night, and attracted large numbers of visitors. Up…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Weather, Wool, Movements of Stock. the Week's News by Telegraph and Mail
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 22
Reports from the wost and south show that cold weather is coming upon us. Frost is roported from several quarters, and unless heavy rains fall soon in the drier parts of tho colony—amongst them this…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 8
There are [?] situations in which the farmer finds himself where it would be greatly to his benefit if he could [?] at once and wisely as the owner of stock, especially, to…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 8
B. W. JONES writes to the “American Agriculturist”:— The best fertile I have used for fruit trees is made of chip-dirt from the wood-pile, and old ashes. I mix in the proportion of an…
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