The Farm & Garden. Lice on Cattle
A bulletin of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station gives some valuable facts and suggestions about lice on cattle. Among the remedies tried with good results, are the…
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Farming & the land, 1894
430 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 22
The Port Pirie Cattle
The business of shipping live cattle to England should receive an impetus from the Port Pirie experiment. The steamer left Sydney on August 21 with eighteen head of cattle and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle-slaughtering Regulations
Among the matters considered afc a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday were the regulations drawn up by the Board of Health under the Cattle-slaughtering Act. It was decided that the first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers and the Noxious Trades and Cattle Slaughtering Act, 1894
SIR,—The much discussed question as to the position of farmers under the Noxious Trades and Cattle Slaughtering Act would appear to be definitely settled by the following letter which I have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Why Wheat is so Cheap
The remarkable position of the Argentine Republic, in South America, in connection with the present cheapness of wheat has had some light…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Shipment of Cattle to England
A London correspondent of Melbourne Age writing of the arrival of the Maori King in London with 14 fat bullocks and 5 store bullocks, after a passage of 56 days from Sydney, says one of the best of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Revocation of the Cattle Slaughtering Regulations
Among the matters considered at a meeting of the Cabinet this week were the regulations drawn up by the Board of Health under the Cattle-slaughtering Act. It was decided that the first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Sydney Wool-selling Brokers' Report
Wool sales held four days this week. Large catalogues submitted, all except late shearing districts being well represented. Full attendances of buyers. Market unfortunately continues to weaken…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Farm & Garden. the Best General Purposes Fowl
Let me claim the quality for Plymouth Rocks of being the best and most reliable general purposes fowl we have. When Plymouth Rocks first made an appearance,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →To-day's Sales of Farmers' Produce. J. N. Brunker's Sales
Butter 6d to 10d per lb., eggs 5d to 7 1/4d per dozen, bacon 4 1/2d to 5 1/2d per lb., cheese 4 1/2d to 6d, hams 4 1/2d to 5 1/2d, lard 4d to 5d, live pigs 5s to 7s each, honey 3d per lb., small tins 3s to 3s 3d, brooms 5s 6d to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warwick Farm Races
Following are the results of the races which took place at Warwick Farm on Saturday last:— FLYING HANDICAP. 6 furlougs.-Venice,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Markets. Sydney, Friday morning
The woolselling brokers report:—Wool sales this week: Tone, market somewhat more animated, biddings dispersed over larger section of buyers. No improvement, in prices of even smallest degree…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Quarantine
The National Sheepbreeders' Association is urging the Australian Governments to reduce the period of quarantine for sheep sent from England. Sir Saul Samuel. Agent-General for New South Wales, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shipment of Fat Cattle
the instance of Sir. Sydney Smith, Secretary of. Agriculture, Mr. A. Bruce has issued a circular to Chairmen and members of Pastures and Stock Protection Boards, and others, asking them to urge the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Week's cables. Price of Butter
Owing to the present mild weather there are plentiful supplies of butter of all kinds. The importers' committee has decided not to alter the present price…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Carrying Cattle on the Victorian Railways
That the railway boa-constrictor can strangle industry is beyond a doubt. A case in point has been brought tinder notice. A farmer in the Numurkah district, Victoria, recently sent a truck…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shipment of Live Cattle to England
Mr. Thomas Rome, of Cheltenham, England, writes as follows to the Queenslander on Sept. 19. "The first trial shipment of twenty head arrived in the Thames about a week ago, after a voyage in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Sales of Colonial Wool
The fifth series of colonial wool sales for the present year commenced on September 18, with two catalogues composed as follows :— New South .Wales, 2595 bales ; Queensland,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Farm & garden. TRANSPLANTING
There are two points in transplanting, neglect of which has proved fatal to millions of plants, and these are through firming of the soil around the roots and protecting the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Butter Trade. LONDON, November 9
THE Copenhagen Butter Committee has fixed the price of best Danish butter at 130s per cwt. This rise in price has entirely stopped the trade in…
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