A Strange Disease in Cattle
AN exhaustive report (says the Melbourne Age) has been furnished to the Minister of Agriculture by W. T. Kendall, veterinary surgeon, upon a disease…
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Farming & the land, 1887
686 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 35
The Wool Trade of 1886
The year just passed has been noticeable for the extraordinary use and fall in wool. In the United Kingdom for many years past there has been no year in which wool has risen so rapidly and prices…
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The wool production of the world continues to expand. According to the British Australasian, the statistics exhibit an anomaly on the market of 1886. Whilst the drought has killed off many millions of…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A Second Crop of Hair Guaranteed
Theodwinkle Brown has faith that he will yet acquire a second crop of hair by the constant use of a patent hair fertilizer. He writes thus to the discoverer of the preparation:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →H. R. Farmers Association Sales at Newcastle
The usual bi-weekly sales held in connection with the above association were conducted by Mr. J. H. Brunker, with the following results:— Tuesday.—2001bs. butter from 9d to 1s 2d per…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →H.r. Farmers Association
The usual wèkly sales in coñection with the above A?ociation were held on Wednesday in the sheds and yards adjoining the Church-strèt Railway Station Mr j. H…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loss in the Grape Crop
IF the reports we (Western Star) hear to true, some hundreds of tons of very fine, ripe grapes will this season and in this district rot on the vines. The…
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Commenting upon a competitive exhibition of preserved eggs the Wield says that one set was placed in an hermetically sealed tin vessel, closely soldered down,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming in Holland
The Dutch farmer is continually fertilising his farm of thirty or forty acres, and this process repeated for some centuries, with no crop to drain thy substance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
DUBBO WEATHER REPORT.—The weather has been changeable since our last. On Tuesday evening it commenced to rain lightly and continued to come down at intervals through the night and next day. The country looks well. There is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wheat Market. (Australasian, Feb. 19.)
The advices by the last mail make it difficult to understand the cause of the recent decline in the English market, though from one or two private cable messages received it seems that special…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The South Australian Wheat Harvest. (Herald's Telegrams.) Adelaide
The Register's returns of the wheat harvest show a net increase of 20,000 acres in the area under cultivation. The total area is 1,970,000 acres, yielding 10,835,000 bushels, or 5 bushels 311b. per acre…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Preparation of Wool for Market
AS we have noticed the farmers' lots of wool do not, as a rule, realise full market value, owing to want of uniformity in the "got up of the wool,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Poor Crops and Poverty
POOR crops make poor farmers, poor wives and poor babies, and somehow increase the number of the latter. We cannot give a clear reason for this, bat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
FORBES WEATHER REPORT.—Friday evening: On Wednesday we had another downpour of rain the total fall being about one and-a-half inches. This month is generally the hottest in the year, but so…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stones on the Farm. (Queenslander.)
Stony land is very often a good soil for the farmer and orchard owner. It is certainly a waste of labour and an injury to the land to clear it of the stones; the soil of a story field was originally…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Making. (Farmer and Stockman.)
The essence of good butter-making is that the period of time between the milking of the cow and the making of the butter should be minimized." This is the testimony of Mr Hudson, a great…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Farmer. Sheep Poisoned by an Arsenical Powder Dip
The mail from South Africa bring lidings of another, of these wholesale poisoning of sheep that have happened from time to time, filling the minds of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Great cattle Range
According to the New York journals, the great plateau between the Rocky Mountain. and the Sierra, comprising the territory of Utah and the state of Nevada,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Comparative Prices of Wool
The following statement is taken from the Economist:— During the current series of colonial wool sales recently held in London, prices have sustained a further…
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