South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary
- Alpacas and Llamas
- Beekeeping
- Brewing
- Building Stone
- Cotton
- Dairying
- Farming
- Farming - Boiling-Down
- Farm Implements
- Fertilisers
- Grain Diseases
- Mallee and Dry Farming
- Mills
- Ploughing Matches
- Sheep and Shearing
- Farming - Miscellany
- Fishing
- Miscellany
- Oysters and Crayfish
- Trawling
-
Whaling
- Flax
- Forestry
- Fruit and Vegetables
- Horses
- Irrigation
- Meat
- Miscellany
- Olives
- Ostrich Farming
- Paper Making
- Poultry
- Silk
- Tobacco
- Viticulture
-
Viticulture - Nomenclature of Wine
- Wattle Bark
Farming
Sheep and Shearing
"Sheep in the Early Days" is in the Register,28 January 1920, page 6f.
"Wool in SA - A Brief History" is in the Observer,
30 September 1922, page 4a.
"Wealth From the Fleece" is in the Advertiser,
1 September 1936 (special edition), page 20.
"Founding the Wool Industry" is in the Advertiser,
19 November 1929, page 13e,
reminiscences upon it are in The Mail,
4 October 1913, page 8d,
"Beginnings of the Wool Industry" in the Chronicle,
8 August 1935, page 48.
"Sheep Shearing in South Australia" is discussed in the South Australian Magazine,
1841-1842, page 129 and
Register,
8 October 1842, page 2e.
A shearing match at Bungaree is discussed in the Observer,
2 December 1848, page 4c.
"The Wool Trade" is in the Register,
9 September 1861, page 2g.
"Sheep Shearing by Machinery" is in the Observer,
16 April 1870, page 9a,
Register,
12 March 1907, page 6d.
"Accommodation for Shearers" in the Advertiser on
30 December 1890, page 8f,
"Shearing - Character of the Clips" on
29 July 1909, page 9f.
"Shearers Old and New" is in The Mail,
10 May 1924, page 1a,
"Veteran Hand Shearer - William Young" in The News,
19 February 1927, page 4e.
Sheep farming is discussed in the Southern Australian,
23 June 1843, page 3b and analysed in the
South Australian,
19 August 1845, page 2e.
"Scab in Sheep in SA" is in the Observer,
25 November 1843, page 3,
"New Cure for Scab in Sheep" on
26 March 1853, page 8b; also see
17 June 1854, page 7b,
19 May 1855, page 2h,
29 March 1856, page 3h,
Observer,
5 and 12 September 1863, pages 6c and 6b,
26 November 1864, page 6a,
Chronicle,
25 March 1865, page 4c,
Observer,
27 May 1865, page 5e,
22 July 1865, page 1a (supp.),
Advertiser,
6 December 1866, page 2b,
28 August 1867, page 2c,
Chronicle,
17 and 31 August 1867, pages 5a and 5a,
21 September 1867, page 4d (supp.),
26 October 1867, page 2c,
20 March 1869, page 6e.
A presentation to Mr H.T. Morris, Inspector of Sheep, "in recognition of his success in eradicating the scab from sheep in the colony" is reported in the Chronicle, 12 September 1863, page 3a.
"Colonial Scab Acts" is in the Observer,
28 May 1870, page 9b.
Coast disease in sheep is discussed in the SA Gazette & Mining Journal,
9 January 1847, page 3d,
Observer,
13 and 27 February 1869, pages 3a and 9c.
"Coast Disease and Its Remedy" is in the Register,
24 February 1869, page 3f,
22 and 23 July 1869, pages 3f and 3g.
"The Flocks of the Colony" is in the Observer,
28 March 1857, page 6d.
The importation of Merino rams is reported in the Observer,
12 December 1857, page 4g,
"The Merino in South Australia on
1 March 1884, page 10a.
"Shearing Time" is in the Register,
6 July 1863, page 3d.
"Shepherds' Wages and Duties" is in the Observer,
16 December 1865, page 4g.
"The Dog Tax" is in the Register,
25 August 1866, page 3e.
"Tax on Sheep Dogs" is in the Observer,
3 August 1867, page 6c,
"Fun at the Sheep Dog Trials" is in the Register,
1 July 1907, page 4h,.
"The Wonderful Sheep Dog - Trials at Onkaparinga" in the Register,
15 April 1918, page 5a.
Sheep dog training is discussed in the Observer,
2 May 1925, page 6e.
"The Wool Trade" is in the Observer,
18 January 1868, page 2f,
"Woolwashing" on
8 February 1868, page 9g,
7 March 1868, page 9b,
11 and 18 July 1868, pages 9a and 9c,
18 September 1869, page 9c.
"The Yallum Station Sheepwash" is in the Observer,
31 October 1868, page 9e.
"The Wool Trade of 1868" is in the Observer,
10 April 1869, page 9b,
"The Wool Trade of 1869" on
16 April 1870, page 13b.
A sketch of a wool sale is in the Australasian Sketcher,
17 May 1873, page 32.
"The Wool Ships" is in the Register,
15 December 1869, page 2f.
"Exporting Sheep Into New South Wales" is in the Observer,
20 May 1871, page 9b,
"Sheep Traffic Across the Border" on
18 November 1871, page 13g.
A meeting of the Shearers' Union is reported in the Observer,
26 July 1873, page 5e.
"South Australia's Woollen Manufactory" is in the Register,
6 September 1870, page 5b,
"Bonus for Woollen Manufacture" is in the Observer,
18 April 1874, page 4e.
Wool manufacture is discussed in the Register,
14 January 1874, page 5a and
7 August 1875, page 4e and
"Our Wool Industry" on
25 January 1887, page 6c,
Register,
20 September 1888, page 5g,
11 February 1889, page 4f,
24 September 1891, page 6a; also see
Advertiser,
26 September 1895, page 4g,
4 October 1895, page 6h.
Adamson Brothers' wool washing machine is discussed in the Register,
1 July 1868, page 2e.
Wool washing is discussed in the Register,
16 July 1868, page 2d,
27 October 1868, page 3d,
Advertiser,
11 December 1868, page 2e and
Observer,
18 September 1869, page 9c,
Mr Chambers' wool-washing machine in the Observer,
28 May 1870, page 13e; also see
Register,
12 May 1888, page 6f,
Express,
12 May 1888, page 2d.
Sketches of wool carting are in the Pictorial Australian in
December 1881, page 189,
February 1890, page 32.
"Slovenly Sheep-Farming" is in the Register,
19 May 1883, page 1d (supp.).
"Our Wool Industry" is in the Register,
28 January 1886, page 6c,
1 February 1888, page 6e,
21 December 1888, page 6a,
26 September 1889, pages 4f-5h,
15 and 16 October 1900, pages 4d-6b and 3g,
"The Advance of Wool" on
25 June 1889, page 4g.
"The Export of Sheepskins" is in the Register,
26 June 1886, page 5b,
6 July 1886, page 7e.
The first inter-colonial wool show is reported in the Observer,
19 November 1887, page 9d.
"Opening of the Wool Season" is in the Express,
26 September 1888, page 5e.
Burnell's woolscouring machine is discussed in the Observer,
30 August 1890, page 9d.
A sketch is in the Pictorial Australian in
September 1890, page 134.
"Live Sheep for England" is in the Observer,
1 and 8 December 1894, pages 31c and 25a,
12 January 1895, page 2c; also see
17 August 1895, page 30a.
"The Lamb Export Trade" is in the Observer,
18 August 1900, page 2b.
"The Centenary of the Wool Trade" is in the Observer,
2 January 1904, page 13a.
"The Lamb Trade - Its Rise and Progress" is in the Observer,
3 December 1904, page 35a.
"Classing the Wool Clip" is in the Register,
8 December 1904, page 6g.
A photograph of "The Present-Day Shearer" is in the Chronicle,
16 September 1905, page 29,
of wool classers on
4 December 1909, page 32.
"SA Wools in London" is in the Observer,
12 May 1906, page 13b.
A photograph of wool carting in the Far North is in the Chronicle,
21 July 1906, page 29,
8 December 1906, page 28,
21 October 1922, page 23.
Photographs of stud sheep sales are in the Observer,
18 September 1909, page 31.
"Scenes in a Shearing Shed" is in the Register,
24 August 1910, page 8g,
"Old-Time Shearing" on
12 July 1912, page 6b.
"The Wool Harvest - A Big Industry" is in the Register,
17 September 1910, page 10b.
Photographs of wool carting are in the Chronicle,
17 December 1910 (supp.),
Observer,
12 December 1925, page 6 (supp.).
"Wool Classing - A Sydney Tribute" is in the Observer,
11 November 1911, page 14b,
23 December 1911, page 38c.
An obituary of E.W. van Senden, wool buyer, is in the Observer,
12 January 1918, page 19d,
of Angus McLean, sheep breeder, on
24 October 1925, page 43c.
"From Sheep's Back to Ship" is in the Register,
2 December 1921, page 7h.
An obituary of George William Hamilton, "a veteran sheep master", is in the Observer,
30 September 1922, page 51c.
"Destructive Blowfly Pest" is in The News,
8 September 1925, page 5a.
"A Life Among Wool - Retirement of Mr George Jeffrey" is in the Register,
10 November 1926, page 11a.
"Tracking Sheep Thieves" is in The News,
6 July 1927, page 13b.
"Wool and Its Future" is in the Advertiser,
28 September 1927, page 17a.
Photographs are in the Chronicle,
17 September 1927, page 42.
"Sheep for French Colonies" is in the Register,
2 July 1928, page 10a.
"A Menace to the Woollen Industry" is in the Advertiser,
18 July 1929, page 12e.
"Wool Industry - Depression in Earlier Years" is in the Advertiser,
9 February 1930, page 24a.
Photographs of sheep droving in the North are in the Chronicle,
4 February 1932, page 32,
of shearing time on
17 November 1932, page 32,
of the modern shearer on
21 December 1933, page 33.
Diverse articles on wool are in The News,
8 May 1930, pages 13-17.
"How SA Has Built up Her Flocks" is in The Mail,
25 February 1933, page 6g.
"SA's Sheep Have Centenary This Year" is in The News,
6 March 1936, page 4h.