The Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 889
The dry weather still continues, and grave fears are expressed regarding the lambing, which is now in progress. The pastures are very dry and in many places bare of feed. The tanks and dams have but small supplies. Ploughing…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 889
A return was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday evening by the Minister for Lands, giving particulars of appeals in connection with rents of pastoral leases not yet dealt with by the Minister. The…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 7
Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co., Limited, offered at their Darling Harbor warehouses yesterday a small catalogue of wool, consisting of 170 bales. The quality throughout was…
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The Australian Star · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 4
At R. Goldsborough and Co.'s sales yesterday at their Darling Harbour [?]…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 42
The weather, although unsettled at times, is still dry; and apprehensions of a winter drought, which would prove a serious calamity, are becoming general. On April 18 it was fine and clear generally. But on the following day it…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Wagga Wagga
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 14
The following stock movements are reported:—300 sheep, property of Mr. J. Wilson, from Glynde, Rosewood, to Wagga, owner charge; 2000 wethers, Thomas Phelan, jun., owner, travelling from Mount Airy to Lansdowne…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 13
The London wool sales will close on the 7th May…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 921
In February last we published the chief statistics contained in a progress report by the Chief Inspector of Stock, showing the number of each description in the colony for the past year. The report-in-chief is now to…
Continued on Trove, page 921 →Murrurundi Pastoral and Agricultural Association. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Murrurundi
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 14
A meeting of the Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held last night to make arrangements for the forthcoming show on the 1st and 2nd of August. Mr. W. E. Abbott was in the chair. The secretary stated that the…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 887
Within a quarter of an hour's drive from the post-office, Grafton, there is open for inspection a farm which might well be accepted as a model for the model farms which, the Government are about to…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 887
It is intended to have a model working dairy at the Melbourne International Exhibition. The annual yield of milk in Switzerland is estimated at 282,250,000 gallons, valued at £7,300,000, and this…
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The Australian Star · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 3
THE Protection Union at Gluinders, Queanbeyan district--a body of sons fids features, fully 70 strong--has decided to call a conference of all Farmers…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 9
This a useful little manual on the subject indicated by the title, being prepared from analyses and notes made under the direction of the Board of Technical Education by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Proposed Model Dairy in Victoria
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 6
The Victorian Minister for - Lands and Agriculture views with great favour the proposal that the Government should assist the National Agricultural Society to procure a complete…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 6
American farmers have the reputation of being progressive and fully abreast of the Limes in most matters pertaining to their occupation, yet they are deficient in some things of…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 6
MA. E. WHITAKER, Secretary to the Fruitgrowers’ Union of New South Wales, has received a pamphlet from the Government relating to the history of the Hessian Fly…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 23
A NEW FIBRE— A new vegetable fibre, called "gamootie," is being imported from Celebes into Holland. It is, however, chiefly need for stuffing furniture and saddlery at present; attempts to…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 43
At the Darling Harbor hay sales during the week, there was a moderate supply of forage forward. Buyers were in large attendance, purchasing freely of primest hay and lucerne. Medium qualities…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 April 1888 · page 6
The annual meeting of the Goulburn A., P and H. Society was held on Thursday. The report showed the society to in a flourishing condition with over £400 to its credit. Mr…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 April 1888 · page 4
South Australia (says the Register), with its 93 bushels to the acre, produced an aggregate last season tar in excess of that of any other colony -- as great indeed as all the other…
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