How Sparrows Treat Young Wheat
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 1312
A correspondent has forwarded to a South Australian contemporary a dead sparrow, in the beak of which is tightly held a blade of young wheat, accompanied by the following letter:—"Here is a specimen of acclimatised pests. He…
Continued on Trove, page 1312 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bourke
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 13
Thargomindah reports 300 fat cows, Mount Margaret to Sydney, Moodie, Donaldson, and Co., just passed Thargomindah; 330 fats, Tenham to Sydney, via Hungerford. M. and J. Hammond, owners; 600 store bullocks, and 300…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Grazier. The London Wool Sales
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 22
The most sanguine could scarcely have expected such very satisfactory news from the opening sales of the June series in London as was announced in last issue of the JOURNAL. There have boen…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Messrs. Mort and Co's Wool and Produce Circular
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 1341
Wool.—The most satisfactory intelligence we have had to note for a long period is that conveyed by cablegram from London respecting the opening of the London wool sales now current. At the second series, which terminated on the 20th April, prices…
Continued on Trove, page 1341 →Scrub as Food for Sheep. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 1314
Sir,—In your issue of 29th ultimo a correspondent writes under the heading of "Yarran as a Substitute for Grass, explaining his experience in feeding a mob of poor sheep upon yarran…
Continued on Trove, page 1314 →The Pastoral Interest in the Western Division. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Wilcannia
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 9
A general meeting of pastoral, homestead, and conditional lessees was held here on Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of considering the advisability of forming a Pastoral Protection Association for this district. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Country Milk Farm
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 1311
Some weeks ago, when citizens were alarmed by the report of the Health Department upon suburban dairies which told of polluted wells and dirty fever-breeding premises, persons interested in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1311 →Sketches at Messrs. Farmer and Company's
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 1322
1. FRENCH B[?]T; very fine Straw, Trimmed and Lined with Velvet with Aigrette. 2. COSTUME, made from Cashmere, Serge, or Cloth; Trimmed with Striped Silk, Velvet, or Broche. 3. MANTLE, of Silk Ottoman Cord, Trimmed with Silk, Ruche, and Rosary Bead…
Continued on Trove, page 1322 →Farmers' Associations. Secretary Northern Rivers Producers' Union, E.F.Rudder, south Gralton. Secretary Orange Union, F. H. Byrne. Northern Rivers Producers' Union, Clarence River
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 17
This union is instituted for the purpose of combining the producing classes, for their mutual benefit and protection in all matters affecting their political and social welfare, and for the purpose of collecting…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Colonial and Farm Produce
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 43
FARM AND GENERAL PRODUCE—At the Darling Harbor hay sals this week,there was a good supply offorage forward;prime, oaten hay in great request at high, yaluos, inferior at leas money; clean…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Pastoral
Evening News · Monday 28 June 1886 · page 6
SATURDAY'S WEATHER REPORT.—Fine throughout the colony, but cold: Severe frost on Friday night in the south and along the range. The barometer maintains a high reading. The wind blew…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral
Evening News · Monday 28 June 1886 · page 4
STRAY SHEEP.—Two valuable flocks of sheep are reported to have been lost recently in Queensland. One flock numbering about 15,000 is missing in the Burnett district, and a flock of about 10,500 is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Sales
Evening News · Monday 28 June 1886 · page 5
LONDON, June 26.—Since the opening of the present series of wool sales, about 132,000 bales have been catalogued, only 3000 bales being withdrawn. The excitement is subsiding, and prices…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Sales
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 June 1886 · page 5
London, Saturday. -- At the wool sales to-day 12,700 bales were offered, and prices were firmly maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wilcannia
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 June 1886 · page 7
Two hundred and two fat mixed cattle from Woodburn station passed Cobham on the 23rd, for Adelaide, consigned to G. Bennett aud Co., J. and W. Caldwell owners…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Darling River Wool Trade. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 June 1886 · page 8
Sir,—I do not think there is much cause for uneasiness about the above. As a rule, the Darling rises (when it rises at all) in the early part of the year, and a high river at shearing time is the exception. This is quite different to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral
Evening News · Tuesday 29 June 1886 · page 8
WOOL.—The Melbourne ARGUS reported that no transection of importance took place last week in Melbourne, for m although a strong private demand existed, the paucity of arrivals [?] business…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral
Evening News · Tuesday 29 June 1886 · page 6
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.âThe weather in South Australia contim[?]es dry and bitterly cold. At 8 o'clock on Saturday morning the Inman River was frozen from bank to bank near the little town of Encounter Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Foreign Wheat
Globe · Tuesday 29 June 1886 · page 4
Two news items of a most unpleasant significance have been received through the week—the one telling us that wheat can now be landed in Sydney from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural and Pastoral. Irrigation Schemes
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 June 1886 · page 3
Turing the last few years a great deal has been said and written upon the subject of irrigation in this and the neighboring colonies, and the outcome is that it is now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →