Wheat
Mr. H. E. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports Under date 15th March, as follows :—Wheat is firm at 2s 9d for prime and we…
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Farming & the land, 1899
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Price of Butter
The protracted drought, and the extreme prices of artificial feed, are advancing the price of butter. On Thursday the Berrima Company, the Fresh Food Company, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Devon Cattle in Queensland
The Devon cattle, or crosses from them, promise to become the cattle of the future in North Queensland, says the Queenslander of to-day. Wherever they have been tried, crossed on the Shortborn…
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THE information published in a recent issue of the ARGUS to the effect that four horses had died at one of the railway camps on the northern line…
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A CORRESPONDENT in a contemporary has the following:—"I have noticed recently, several pars in country papers—particularly these within the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Farm & Garden. a Lucerne Pest
For the last ten or twelve years, farmers in the Hunter River District have been troubled by a small caterpillar that appears early in September, and right through the spring and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheats Recommended for Main Crop in Various Districts
At the meeting of officers of the Department of Agriculture, held at the Wagga Wagga Experimental Farm on the 11th February, 1899, comprising Messrs. Thompson,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Co-operative Stockbreeding. Important Suggestion to Dairymen
THE co-operative principle might be profitably applied to the improvement of live Block. There are numerous localities in which the live stock is far…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Varieties of Wheat. Some Interesting Particulars for Wheatgrowers
EVERY intelligent wheatgrower is naturally anxious to get a better variety of wheat to grow than he has bad in post years, if he possibly can ;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fruit Export Trade. The Citrus Crops. Novelties for Export
THE rains which fell on Saturday and during-the previous week have caused things to wear quite a different aspect in most of the lending orchards of this…
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Wool in firm, and there is good competition…
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THE Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report for week ending [?]8th March, 1899, as follows:—Auctions were held in Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Eighteenth Annual Show. Muswellbrook
Notwithstanding the droughty conditions which have prevailed in the north and north-west, and which have played such sad havoc with pastoral and farm industries, the annual show of the Upper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Tamworth Tragedy. Determined Suicide of a Farmer. Kisses His Children and then Shoots Himself
WORD reached Tamworth last Sunday of a most determined case of suicide It seems that Mr Walter Mayne, of Wallabadah, near Tamworth, had some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Devon Cattle in Queensland
The Devon cattle, or crosses from them, promise to become the cattle of the future in North Queensland, says the Queenslander of to-day. Wherever they have been tried, crossed on the Shorthorn,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →London Wool Sales
The quantity of wool catalogued during the series was 178,000 bales, of which 81,000 wore sold for homu consumption, 84.000 for the Continent, and 1000 for America, and 12,000 bales were held…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Section Ii Cattle. All Comers. Durhams—males
Bull, 3 years old and over, £1—No entry Bull, 2 years old and under 3 years, £1—No entry Yearling Bull, £1—E Bowman,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Eighteenth Annual Show
THE eighteenth annual Show of the above-named Association was held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last, and it is with no small degree of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Section Iii. Sheep. All Comers. Rams— Merin[?]es
First prize £1, except where otherwise specified. Ram, over 2½ years—F. R. White, Blandford…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South African Trade. Its Prospects and Possibilities. Meat, Mutton, and Butter Trade
THE subject of Australian trade with South Africa forms the chief topic of an interesting press interview with Mr J. A. MacArther, Australian pro-…
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