Papers relating to sheep husbandry, 1828-1832

B 449 ; B 450 ; B 451

fonds

1828-1832

441565

Microfilm : CY 3521 (B 449 - B 451)

3 volumes - 0.05 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)

VOLUME 1 (B 449)
First Volume on Sheep Husbandry [on title page]
The principles of sheep husbandry as practised in the best flocks of Germany with particular reference to the growth of fine wool in New South Wales [on reverse of title page]
Introduction
Chapter 1 History
Chapter 2 [Varieties of sheep]
Chapter 3 Science of breeding, principle of breeding as applied to the selection of parents
Chapter 4 Generation Birth & Rearing
Chapter 5 Pastures
Chapter 6 Of mixed or cross-bred sheep
Chapter 7 Registers
Chapter 8 Diseases of sheep
Register of valuation and of births
VOLUME 2 (B 450)
Second Volume on Wool and its Characteristic properties [title page]
Chapter 1 On the essential qualities of wool
Chapter 2 Wool considered in the staple and in the fleece, classification and valuation of the fleece
Chapter 3 The wash, clip and putting up of the fleece
Chapter 4 The wool trade
VOLUME 3 (B 451)
Includes descriptions of quantity of seed, culture of saffron in Austria & France, soil preparation, treatment of saffron, harvesting; cultivation of lucerne and tobacco (near Magdeburg), planting, hoeing, harvesting, drying and tying.
Tables on the progressive increase in Saxons and Colonial Ewes as well as notes on the results
Memorandum in reference to details on the Saxon and Colonial Sheep
Return of sheep 1st June 1828 to 1st June 1832
Account of expenditure and income upon sheep stock in Australia appended to Returns, 1829 to 1832

Each volume has been written in the same hand.
The pages within the volume have been folded in half with the majority of the text written on the half of the page closest to the centre or spine.
Printed label at back of volumes 1 and 3, "Griffiths, / Bookseller & Stationer / 71 Seymour Street / Euston Square / Books neatly and elegantly bound."
"D.S. Mitchell" on front endpaper of each volume.