The Sheep Show
This important exhibition which is to come off this Saturday promises to be a very successful affair. The [?]tries for the mer[?] embrace 321 pens of merinos as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1899
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Judging Butter at Shows
IN view of the necessity for relying upon our export trade to provide a remunerative market for our rapidly increasing surplus of butter. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wool Sales
The third series of colonial wool sales for the current year, which opened on the 2nd instant, was brought to a close on the 19th. The nett available quantities of Australasian and Cape wool…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Butter in England. LONDON
In their annual review Webbell and Co. state that unless an organised body is selected to uphold Australian values of butter, there is a danger of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Bag Question. Handling Wheat in Bulk
The travelling representative of the Victorian Farmer and Grazier in his report of the meeting of the Tatura Agricultural Society says: —…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Occupation of Farming
Without any doubt there is no occupation in the world for which such close observation and attention, indomitable perseverance, general intelligence and knowledge are required as in agriculture. With…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farm & Garden. Stock Returns in Queensland
The following statement shows the number of stock in Queensland on the 1st January of this year. A few returns yet remain to be recorded, but the totals will not be very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Schools and the Teaching of Dairying
Mr. W. H. Potts, the dairy chemist of the Agricultural department, Victoria, has furnished the acting Minister with a report showing the results of the series of lessons or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sheep Sales
The annual sheep states commenced to-day, when there was a large attendance of pastoralists and others representing all the colonies, as well as the Continents of Europe and America. The biggest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Stud Sheep Sales
At these sales, Sydney, yesterday, twenty rama penned by the A.A. Company, Wa[?]rah, averaged £15 6s 7d, the highest being 55 guineas paid for a ram by Mr. R.G. Higgins. The eleven rams…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Co-operative Dairy. a Company Formed at Singleton. Singleton
A well attended meeting of farmers was held this afternoon in the E[?]te Hall in connection with a movement to establish a butter factory on the Co-perative principle in Singleton. Mr. Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Economy
ONE of the points in dairying at which economy is of prims importance isin feeding cows. This does not mean the carrying on of a continual test to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Store Cattle
On Friday next Messrs. Garvin and Cousens will offer at auction 500 head of well-bred mixed store cuttle at the local sale yards, at 2 p.m.—Mr. Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stud Sheep Sales
The specially selected stud rams sold for the Collarey Company, Limited, attracted much attention yesterday, and in three instances 100 guiness were realised. The average results were good. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool and Produce Reports
The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report for week ending 1st July, 1899, as follows:—Wool.—The last auction sales of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Leases. Deputation to the Minister. Mr. Young's Reply. Sydney
Pastoral lesees in the Central division of the colony laid their case before the Minister of Lands to-day, and asked for some consideration respecting the leases of their holdings, which to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral Grievances
A deputation, reprerenating the [?] gates to the stock Boards Convention now sitting in Sydney, waited upon the Minister for Mines and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sales of Prize Sheep. [By Telegraph] Sydney
At the sheep sales to-day, J. Taylor's ram Pioneer was sold for [?] guineas, M Master Bros., purchasers ; the ram Young Royal Hero was sold for 700…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest News by Wire. Sydney. the Sheep Sales
The stud sheep sales were resumed to-day. There was a large attendance buyers. Business was confined to Tasmanian flock rams, the sale of which provided nothing sensational in the way of prices…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Co-operative Dairy Company Provisional Directory Appointed
THE second meeting in connection with the proposal to establish a Cooperative Butter Factory at Singleton, was held in the Elite hall on Tuesday…
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