The Exporting of Wheat Destructive to any Country
In the Melbourne Australasian of May 31 we find another short comment to the above effect. As already mentioned, our impression is that the Australasian holds too…
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Farming & the land, 1879
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Agriculture. Polled or Hornless Cattle. the Different Breeds Described
THE higher position that polled cattle are taking in Europe have led to several calls for a more particular description of the various familles or breeds of the class. The…
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Our readers will have gathered, from different notes in the Mercury, that we are not such wholesale admirers of what is called "high farming" as many people seem to be…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
DUBBO STOCK REPORT.—June 5.—The weather recently has been wet. Any amount of rain has fallen in these parts, and it is now pretty generally expressed that we have had quite enough. The…
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We copy from the Melbourne Australasian of June 7 an article, in which it repeats once more its gloomy view of the practice of growing wheat for export; and brings forward…
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NARRABRI STOCK REPORT.—June 6, 1879.— Although the weather has been broken during the post week the rainfall has been light, 48. 100th being the total quantity recorded here, viz, on Fridsy 36,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]rn Embankment. Meeting of Farmers
On Tuesday evening last a meeting of persons interested in the welfare of Bolwarra and the surrounding district was held, at the residence of Mr. Charles Bowden, Bolwarra. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Losses entailed by Unskilful Dairying. (Australasian, June 7.)
A letter appeared under this heading in The Australasian of the 17th of May, directing attention to an evil with which the writer has special opportunities of becoming…
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"No," the honest farmer remarked, in tones of deepest dejection, "the big crops don't do us a bit of good. What's the use ? Corn only thirty conts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral News Stock Movements, and Markets
GUNNEDAH STOCK REPORTS.—June 12, 1879.—We have to report a week of fine, dry weather, which has been accompanied with sharp frosts. The change from so much rain has been gladly welcomed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Capture of Alleged Cattle Stealers. (From a Correspondent of the Tamworth News.)
The highly-respected lessee of the Manilla Station, Theodore Harden, Esq., J.P., has lately been subjected to great loss and annoyance by a band of desperadoes who, for…
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NARRABRI SEOCK REPORT.—June 13, 1879.—The past week has been one of uninterrupted fine weather with cold nights and bright cheerful days. The roads are rapidly drying up, and the traffic that has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Muswellbrook. Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association
The adjourned monthly meeting of the committee of the above Association was held at the Secretary's office, on the Show Ground, on Wednesday, the 11th instant. Present:…
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GUNNEDAH STOCK REPORT.—June 19, 1879.— We have nothing of consequence to remark relative to the weather this week, which has been fine right through, with the exception of one slight fall,…
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NARRABRI STOCK REPORT.—June 20, 1879.—The weather still continues fine and dry, with frosty nights and in the day sharp cold in the shade. A few teams have passed through bound Walgett way,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Weather and Crop Prospects in Victoria. (Melbourne Australasian, June 21.)
The reports upon the condition of the crops are weekly becoming more favourable. Although water in some parts of the Wimmera has not been stored in the dams and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Wool Sales
At the wool sales yesterday the lots offered were unimportant. Competition was good, fall prices being obtained…
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GUNNEDAH STOCK REPORT.—June 26,1879.—We have had a week of changeable weather. In the early part of the week it was warm and fine, from which it turned to rough, boisterous, and windy,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Mechi on Farming
We see that Mr. Mechi, at seventy-seven years of age, is still as sanguine and hopeful, as ever, as to the money profit of "scientific farming." Here is a copy of his latest published letter:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →London Wool Sales. June 28
There is fair enquiry for wool at closing rates of last series. The next sales are fixed, for the 12th August, when it is expected 300,000 bales will…
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