Wool Sales
The wool business in now assuming larger dimensions from day to day. At the auction sites on Wednesday over 1800 bales were catalogued. So far the…
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Farming & the land, 1891
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Sydney Wool Market. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. report:— For our second sale for season we offered 3600 bales wool to an unusually large and representative attendance of buyers. Competition was extremely…
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Messrs Grainger and Son report the following for the week ending Friday, October 16th. Produce of all description continues to come in large quanities, The butter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm and Garden. Horses and Their Treatment
Go into any well kept stable at un hour of the day and you will find the stalls nicely cleaned up and the horses standing on the bare flour. Yet every horse owner knows that standing in this way…
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Herodotus mentions that in Cilicia the sheep had little carts under their tails to help them along. The fat-tailed sheep are now reported to be replacing the finer bread…
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Many kinde of vegetables growing on light soils will require watering to keep them growing freely. It is best to do this thoroughly when necessary—not a surface…
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The banana Produces par sure 44 tune more food than the potato, and 131 times more than wheat. Dr. Ball, of Dublin, says that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →How to Run a Small Farm
If the farm is at all tillable I should divide the sixteen acres into four sections of four acres each; but it is not necessary to fence it, except the four acres where the house and barn stand. This plot…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Farm and Garden. Watering Plants in Pots
"How often should I water my plants?" This question is very frequently asked, and it is a rather perplexing one to answer definitely; a general answer would be; Never apply water to a plant…
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Grainger and Son report the following for the week ending Friday, October 23rd 1891: Produce of all description continues to come to hand very freely. The butter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poetry. The Farmers Wife
Farmer Hayseed talked to a friend the ways of country life And.he said nine-tenths of success Depends on a farmers's wire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London Colonial Wool Sales
Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. report:—61 Moorgate-street, Sept. 16.—The fourth series of sales of colonial wool for this year began here on the 8th inst., and will probably last about four weeks…
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Since the opening of the sales on September 8 the market has gradually lost ground, and prices aiow stand for both Australian and Cape wools on an average 5 to 10 per cent, lower than at the close…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral News and Stock Movements
BREWARRINA STOCK PASSINGS.—The following are the cattle that crossed the Barwon Bridge for the week:—1250 mixed cattle from Loraine, Leichhardt River, Queensland, to Wodonga; 1100…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne Wool Market. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
The Australian M. and A. Co. report:—We held a wool sale this afternoon, before a very full attendance of buyers, and offered 2000 bales. We sold 1920; competition very keen, and descriptions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opening of the Landon Colonial Wool Sales
The fourth series of public sales of colonial wool for this year opened on September 8 with heavy catalogues; as usual at this season of the year, there being a preponderating…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →H. R. Farmers and Consumers Co-Operative Agency Co
Yesterday Mr. W. C. Markwell conducted the usual weekly sales in the above Company's sheds, South Maitland. The following catalogue was disposed of:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Fertilisation
MUCH has been written in praise of the sheep's improvement of the soil, and yet there are thousands who have no conception of the completeness with…
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THE season's wool sales were resumed on Monday after a week's interruption, when 3561 bales were offered. The market was scarcely so good as at the opening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Manuring for Wheat
The old plan of manuring for wheat was to h[?]l out and apply on the stubble and then plough under. After this came the plan of top dressing, preparing the ground and…
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