Sydney Wool Market
WE have much pleasure in drawing the attention of our readers to the advertisement of the Sydney Wool Selling Brokers Association, which…
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Farming & the land, 1897
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The Farm & Garden. Interesting Agricultural Experiments
Last year Mr. A. A. Dannicliff, Inspector of Agriculture, who visited this district in connection with the distribution of seed to farmers after the floods, sent to Mr. P. A…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Drought Reports. Sheep living on Burrs. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
REPORTS from the country give deplorable accounts of the drought at Walgett, Deniliquin, and Braidwood. The country is in a very bad state…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Moree Pastoral and Agricul-tural Show. a Successful Exhibition. Moree
The first day of the annual show was yesterday, and the attendance was slightly better than last year. An additional area has been added to the ground, and the new pavilion, the covered horse…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Funniosities. a Pastoral Visit
A certain Dumfries minister was paying a pastoral visit to a farm-house where his creature-comforts were well attended to. The good wife proposed that he should…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The English Wheat Market
The Greco-Turkish war has had the effect of hardening the English wheat market during the past week, prices being from 1s to 1s 6d per quarter higher…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Moree Pastoral and Agricul-tural Show. the Second Day.—meeting of Pastoralists
The Gunnedah horse Rattler won the high jump, a prize of [?] at 5ft 8in- Gordon's Sham-rock was placed first in the Hunters Contest. Pro-test were entered against the award in the buggy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Moree Pastoral and Agricultural Show. Moree
The first day of the annual show was yesterday, and the attendance was slightly better than last year. An additional area has been added to the ground, and the new pavilion, the covered horse…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm & garden. Improving the Dairy Herd
It is a matter of common report that no more than half of the cows in Australia yield milk enough to pay for their maintenance. Probably most other classes of…
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Activity is not objectionable in the horse for general farm work. But it should be activity without nervousness. Such a horse requires to have a good middle, ribs well…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Antwerp Wool Sales
The next Autwerp wool sales will be held on the 29th and 30th instant. The catalogue will com-prise 5210 bales, of which 250 bales are Australian wool…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Recent Crisis in the Butter Market
The Secretary of the South Coast and West Camden Company writes:—On Monday, the 5th of this month a meet-ing of butter salesmen was held. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers' Institutes
The New South Wales Minister of Agri-culture Mr. Smith has been watching the pro-ceedings of the Agricultural Societies for some time and has concluded that they do not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Losses on Cattle Driving
The serious nature of the effects of the drought this colony has been experiencing has probably not yet come home to many people, though the grazing community…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wild Cattle of Cadzow Forest
Cadzow Forest, near Hamilton, in Lanark-shire, is notable, as all West of Scotland people are aware, for its wild cattle and old oaks. Some of the trees are of enormous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Real Alderney Cattle
The island of Alderney is at last to have a typical breed of cattle. The neat, deer-like cattle in these colonies frequently called Alderneys are Jerseys pare and simple. As is well known, the first…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Factory for Singleton
One of the great wants of this district is an up-to-date butter factory, and recognising this Messrs James Moore and Co. Ltd., announce that they have made all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strange Mortality in Sheep
Mr. H. N. Turnbull, of Gobarralong, writes to the Albury paper:—"Sir,—A grazier in this district has lately been losing a number of sheep in a somewhat peculiar manner. They are, to all…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A Butter Factory for Singleton
A MEETING was held at the Farmers' Central Markets on Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of taking steps to establish a butter factory in Singleton. Mr D…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. B. Jones on Australian Dairying
Another tribute to the dairying industry in Australia! The Manchester delegates who visited the colonies last year chiefly to investigate the butter production have reported to the co-operative…
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