The Best Cow for Small Farms
It is not supposed that cows kept on a small farm are placed there for the purpose of raising calves for sale, They had placed there for the butter. they…
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Farming & the land, 1878
354 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 18
The Farm and the Household. How to Preserve Eggs
AMONG all the discoveries of the present century there is nothing new in preserving eggs. The sold method of packing them on their small ends in a vessol…
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CROSSING AND COX'S MUDGEE AND GULGONG STOCK REPORT—Fat Cattle: During the past week the market has shown no improvement. Supplies were on the whole of but very medium quality, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Agriculture. How to Make Farming Profitable
I WILL lay down a few rules for successful farming as follows : 1. Have order and system in all you do, having in your mind in advance what crops…
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DUBBO STOCK REPORT.—Thursday, June 6: The weather during the last week has been fine. The nights and mornings are cool and frosty, and there is no doubt that we are in the midst of winter. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Commercial Intelligence Sydney Markets. Most and Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular
Wool.—We learn per cable that the second series of London sates opened on the 14th ultimo. There was a large attendance of both home and foreign buyers, but competition was dull and the earlier sales…
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NARRABRI STOCK AND STATION REPORT.—June 7, 1878.—We have no change to report as regards the weather. Grass and water are failing, slowly but surely, and unless a change should shortly take…
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There are several varieties of homed sheep still extant, but all the most renowned breeds which are eagerly sought after in every part of the world for their mutton and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Markets. Messrs. Mort and Co.'s Wool Report
Late rates were fully maintained for the few lots offered at our sale to-day, greasy ranging from 7¾d to 10d per lb. Of fleece or scoured no decent lots were submitted. Sheepskins were in good supply…
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Dubbo Stock REPORT.—Thursday, June 13.—The weather during the week just over has been unsettled. There was every appearance of rain on Friday and Saturday, but none fell. On Sunday a…
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NARRABBI STOCK AND STATION REPORT.—June 7, 1878.—Our report for the past week must be unsatisfactory, The winter is upon us with unusual severity, and the frosts are cutting up the…
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FORBES STOCK REPORT.—In pur last report we stated there was every appearance of rain, and it is gratifying to record that the appearance was not deceptive. Since Sunday, it has rained, more or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Baby Farming in Sydney. (From the Evening News.)
The City Ceroner, on Thursday hold an inquest at the Benevolent asylum, respecting the death of a child, the offspring of a governess named Annie Boulter Eliza Elrio, matron of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Correspondence. Sheep Farming. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)
SIR.—In your issue of the 11th May, a "Practical Farmer" plans apparently a very profitable system of agriculture to food stock: but I am afraid he has forgotten to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tuesday, June 18Th, 1878. (Before Mr. E. ENDERWOOD, J. P.) Sheep Stealing
John Hickey, a half-caste, was charged with having stolen seventy-two sheep, the property of Mr. Reginald Blaxland, of Kickerabil station Liverpool Plains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool and Produce Market. Hastings Cuningham and Co's. Weekly Report
Wool.—There have not been any local sales during the past week. London telegrams to hand announce a hardening tendency in the sales, and an…
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Jacombe, Son, and Co. report:—The second series of public Sales of colonial wool for this year, which will commence on the 14th instant, will probably Jast till the first week in July; the quantity to be offered…
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CROSSING AND COX'S MUDGEE AND GULGOINGSTOCK REPORT.—Fat Cuttle: During the past week sales have shown a slightly improved tone, and as consignments denote a more limited supply than…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Original Correspondence. the Butter River Amateur Turf Club. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—I have seen something this morning which has so traverend my sense of "the eternal fitness of things," that I am impelled to seek the favour of your insertion of these lines, as solace to my lacerated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drought and Its Results; or a Plea for Machins Woiiked Agricultubal Farms on the Co-opisrative Principale on the Banks of the Hunter, From Scone to Singleton. No. H. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—No. 1 appeared in your issue of 26th March, this and No, 3 I complete this day, the 1st May, between which dotes I have been busy collecting tacts, being of opinion that " it is because I am a man that…
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