Antwerp Wool Sales
The antwerp wool sales were opened to-day. There was a good attendance of buyers, and biddings were fairly animated. Hald the quantity offered was withdrawn…
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Farming & the land, 1897
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Letter to the Editor. a Hint to Farmers
SIR,—It is pitiful to read the accounts of the congestion of produce at the terminal station, and still more painful to see the low prices obtained for such produce as is marketed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Hunter River Farmers' Co-operative Company. First Half-yearly Meeting
The first half-yearly meeting of the Hunter River Farmers' Co-operative Company, Limited, was held yesterday afternoon at the registered office of the Company at Morpeth. Mr. T…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Antwerp Wool Sales
The Antwerp wool sales have closed. 720 bales of Australian wool were offered, but barely half were sold, prices being about on a par with last London rates…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Among the Pastoralists and Producers. Butter Factories Near Quirindi
The endeavour to make the environs of Quirindi as much as possible like what is seen around towns on the South Coast—the home of butter, cheese, and other products—is one…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Reducing the Price of Butter [By Telegraph.] Sydney
THE butter sollers of Sussex-street, this morning decided to reduce the wholesale price of best creamery from 8d to 7d, and other grades…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest News by Cable. London, Friday. Bradford Wool Market
American inquiry has stimulated the Bradford wool market. The market is improving without any change in prices…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm & garden. the Horse's Teeth
The horse has 40 teeth, and the mare, as a rule, only 36, the four canine teeth being wanting. Occasionally mares have the tushes or canine teeth developed, this taking place at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Melbourne Chilled Butter
The health officer at Merthyr Tydvil, in Wales, has instituted proceedings against a local firm for selling Melbourne chilled butter that had been treated with preservitas as a means of maintaining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sheep Rate. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A PROCLAMATION in the Gazette today declares the annual contribution to be leased on sheep as a contribution to the Diseases in Sheep Act shall be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letter to the Editor. Farmers and Their Counsellors
SIR,—It is surprising what a number of would-be advisers the farmers have in their present difficulties through glutted markets. The latest panacea recommended by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Butter Arraigned
The Agents-Generals of New South Wales, Vic-toria, and New Zealand, have, on behalf of heir respective Governments, instructed [?] to appear for the defence in proceedings instituted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter River Farmers' Produce
SIR,—Your correspondent, C.R. Garaham, I am glad to see goes to the root of the business and talks the talk of the typical pessimist producer. he reckons that because there have been floods in the Hunter,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Notes. Lard
In a recent communication to the Department, Messrs. Elliott Bros., manufacturing chemists, mentioned that difficulty is experienced in procuring in this colony lard of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lion Farming
The greater part of the lions exhibited to the public have been born and reared in travelling menageries or caravans. As soon as a lioness has a litter of cubs they are taken away from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Salting Butter
W. C. Rockwood, writing in the Cable on salting butter, says :—Perhaps everyone who has ever made butter has been troubled with this at some time…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Proposed Model Farm at Gunnedah
Mr. Campbell, of the Agricultural Department, was in Gunnedah on Friday, his object being to inspect eligible localities for the establishment of a model farm. He visited Mr. Wills-Allen's irrigation works…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Farm & Garden. Anglo-arabian Horses
Says "Bruni" in Australasian:—A correspondent has asked me a number of questions with respect to the purchase of an Arab stallion. Hitherto, all, or nearly all, our Arab…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Modern Farming in Ireland
The value of clovers and of other legumes for soil enriching has been very little understood until very lately, but our agricultural writers in every land are now doing their best to inform the tillers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer & Company
Farmer and Company, of Sydney, bog to announce that their representative, Mr E. Q. Fletecher, will be in Singleton next Tuesday and Wednesday, and will show at…
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