The Wheat Harvest
The morning dailies were not much more accurate in their estimates of the wheat harvest now being reaped than they are in their prefections about the…
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Farming & the land, 1898
969 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 48 of 49
Ticks on Sheep. a Startling Announcement
A COMMUNICATION of very considerable importance has been received by the Minister for Minos and Agriculture. He has been informed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bad News for Wheat Growers. FLOUR £7 2s 6D Per Ton. Will the Price of Bread Fall? Sydney
A certain degree of panic is likely to ensue in wheat growing districts when it becomes generally known that New South Wales country flour of pretty fair quality is offering in Sydney at absurdly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Farmers Produce Sales. J. N. Brunker and Son's Sales
The supply of farm and dairy produce forward at our sales yesterday was unusually heavy, and buyers in very large attendance. Competition throughout was active, and prices realized were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early Maize Crop. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The first consignment of new-season's maize was sent from the Clarence River to-day. It is unusally early, crops there seldom maturing before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales
The second series of wool sales has been limited to 300,000 bales, opening on March 7, and the third series to 250,000 bales, opening on May 2…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Troubles of a Dairyman
The life of a dairyman is not devoid of exciting incidents, such as being chased by an infuriated bull or treed by a pugnacious cow. But it is not…
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THE principal kind of meat consumed by the people of Arabia, both native and foreign, is the mutton of the Somali or blaek headed sheep, and no…
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The Queensland authorities have informed the Minister of Mines that it has been discovered that sheep carry the tick as well as cattle. The skins of some sheep have been found full of the pest, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steinwediel Wheat
Mr J. L. Thompson, Agricultural In structor, referring to Stoinweidel wheat dining a visic to the north, said he thinks it is the coming variety for this colony, as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Market News. Wheat
Mr. H. R. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports under date 21st December, as follows:— The Sydney market has continued to ease…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales
The Sydney Wool Selling Broker's Association reports as follows under date 17th December:—31.739 bales were catalogued this week and the sales at auction and privately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Victorian Wheat Harvest
It is now evident, from results already obtained, that a fairly satisfactory general wheat average will be harvested in Victoria, which, in conjunction with the large area under crop, means that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bad News for Wheat Growers
A certain degree of panic is likely to ensue in wheat growing districts when it becomes generally known that New South Wales country flour of pretty fair quality is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drop in Price of Feour. Consternation Among Wheat-Growers
A CERTAIN degree of panic is likely to ensue in the wheat-growing districts when it becomes generally known that Now South Wales country flour of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Farm Garden. the Export of Fruit
The conference of fruit growers and exporters, called by the Minister for Agriculture to discuss the causes of the failure of the last export citrus fruit season was very much…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Tuberculin Test. An Interesting Demonstration at Lismore. Discovering a Diseased Cow in a Dairy Herd
Mr Veterinary Surgeon Stewart explained at Lismere "that tuberculin in a culture. It is the best, and I think, the only reliable test for bevine…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Markets. the Sydney Wool Brokers' Association Report
Wool.—The first portion of the selling season came to a close this week, and the Christmas recess will last till January 9th, when sales will be resumed. The market remained brisk and active to the close…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Experiments With Wheat
SOME few weeks ago we (Quirindi Gazette) had a paragraph referring to some experiments in wheat-growing made by Mr. John Perry, and now we…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Notes. The Private Separator
This system of dairying is fast gaining ground here also, especially in districts where separating stations are not very numerous, and in new districts where…
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