Extraordinary Feat in Cattle Travelling
MR. HENRY SHADFORTH, well known throughout the Ovens and Murray districts, and for many years noted not only as a skilled grazier, but also…
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Farming & the land, 1878
354 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 18
Agriculture. Farm Management
The great secret of successful farming is good management. Without it there will be little leaks that will waste all the profit. If we were to make a cistern to contain water,…
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A WRITER to a country exchange attributes the freedom of wheat from rust this year to the fact that the farmers in most instances paid careful attention to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agriculture. to Ascertain the Weight of Live Cattle
IT is often important for those who are not experlenced judges by the eye to have some means besides the scales of ascertaining the weight of cattle While living, and by…
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WE do not produce half so much-pork, hams, and bacon as we consume in this State, and what we do is fed on such abominable stuffs as make it of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegraphic Intelligence. [From Greville's Telegram Company.] Sydney. Recd. Tuesday, 7 7.30 p.m. Sydney Markets. Cattle are down ten shillings; sheep are down shilling. the Victorian Crisis
The Hon, Graham Berry addressed a meeting of his constituents at Geelong yesternight, and was well received. The meeting was orderly, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmyard Manure As a Fertiliser
BY both practical and theorotical men, farmyard manure is considered our standard fertiliser, the best substance known for enriching the land, the one with which all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agriculture. a Woman's Idea of a Kitchen Garden for a Farmer's. Family of Medium Size
I KNOW of no one I pity so much as a farmer's wife who has to cook for a family of men and children, and has no garden; but my sympathy wanes when I find the kitchen…
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I WAS talking to a farmer's daughter the other day and we naturally, it seemed, dropped into complainings, and each revealed the fast that she was discontented. I asked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (By Telegram.) Monday evening, received 8.50
Messrs. J, H. Clough and Co, of Melbourne, under date Monday evening, report:—Our wool sals to-day was well attended, there was good competition, and prices firmer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commercial Intelligence. Colonial Markets Goldsbrough's Melbourne Weekly Wool Report. Wednesday's Sale
Wool.—We held our [?] weekly sale to-day, and catalogued 1573 bales. There was a full attendance of buyers, and last, week's rates were well maintained. In all we sold 928 bales, greasy ranging…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Commercial Intelligence. Sydney Markets. Messrs. Mort and co.'s Wool Report
Wool.—Our catalogue to-day included 1350 bales. There was a full attendance of buyers, and competition was very active for good conditioned lots. The bulk of that offered was disposed of at 7½d to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hastings Cu[?]gham and Co.'s Melbourne Wool and Produce Report
Wool.—The market continues steady, all descriptions being saleable at last quotations; but the quantity coming forward is comparatively small, and includes but few lots of more than average quality…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements and Markets
NARRABRI STOCK REPORT.—February 8th, 1878. All doubts as to the drought having broken up must now cease. With a succession of thunderstorms, as was foretold, the weather has broken, and once…
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CROSSING AND COX'S MUDGEE AND GULGONG STOCK REPORT.—Fat Cattle: During the past week the market moderately supplied, of quality ranging from fair to good. Consignments will for some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Best Cattle to Keep
THE object of this article is not to part any particular breed of cattle, but to try to convince those farmers who keep a few cows of the importance of keeping better animals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goldsbrough's Wool Exhibition in Melbourne
The following intelligence is from the Herald's telegram. On Thursday Reuter's agency sent us a message stating the names of the principal prizetakers:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agriculture. the Farmer's Wife
UP with the birds in the early morning— The dewdrop glows like a precious gem; Beautiful tints in the skies are dawning, But she's never a moment to look at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goldsbrough's Melbourne Weekly Wool Report
Wednesday's Sale—Wool.—We did not hold an auction sale this week, but we have had a good enquiry, and have sold 128 bales greasy at 11½d; also, another lot of 105 bales at 11d.—these [?] rices…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colonial Markets. Hastings Cuningiiam and Co.'s Melbourne Wool and Produce Report
Wool.—At the sales which have been held during the week competition was well sustained, and prices remain firm in proportion to the quality of lots offered, which is rather above than below the…
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