Sheep Washing
“A Darling Downs Squatter,” writing to the Brisbane Courier, says:—“So many letters have appeared in the Australian journals upon washpools and sheep washing, that…
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The Farmer and His Wheat
THE above heading is so little suggestive of the felicitations and compliments in which newspapers generally indulge at this season of the year, that we are almost inclined to…
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The weather here for the last few days has been delightfully cool, but to-day the heat has again returned, and every hope of rain seems banished. We hear that at C[?] the rain fell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep-bashing with Hot Water. (From the Brisbane Courier.)
The value bf sheep depends upon the quantity and quality of both mutton and wool, but more particularly the latter. Excellence in these respects can alone be obtained from two sources…
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“A Bogan Squatter” thus writes to Belts Life in Sydney on the above important subject :— The publication, some few months ago, of…
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OUR remarks on this subject last week seem to have been either internationally or carelessly [?] by our local contemporary, who assets that our article professed to “dictate…
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The following extinct from a letter of Mr. N.P. [?] which appeared in the Agricultural Society’s Journal, will have considerable interest for many of our readers : —…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, January 8
WE are still unable to report any improvement in the state of the weather here, but we learn that rain has fallen at Newcastle, Singleton, Muswellbrook, and Murrurundi. At Kockhampton…
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A correspondent of the Geelong Advertiser writes as follows in suggesting a scheme for enlarging the export trade of Geelong :— “ Wheat in London is 60s. per quarter or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times
SIR,—I beg, through the [?] of your journal, to call the attention of the local authorities to the fact of the blacks’ encam[?] near the church, which is a great [?] to passers by. in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, January 15
FLOCKMASTERS in Riverina are setting about the work of meeting present and future exigencies. On several stations boiling-down has been proceeding vigorously for some time, and many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Scouring Establishment at Canning Downs
We abridge from the Warwick Examiner and Times an account of the first woolseouring establishment on the Downs:—The sheep are shorn in at the old woolshed, and the wool is then…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock Report Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, January 22
THE news from the inland districts is still varied in its character. In some parts copious rains have fallen, while in others there is still drought in its severest form. Rain now is of no service…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fall in Wool. (From the Australasian.)
THE opinion that the late depreciation in the value of wool was caused solely by a glut in the principal markets of Europe, has unfortunately been confirmed by the advices…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Grasses.—part Ii. a Prize Essay by G. S. Yeo, Inspector of Sheep, N.S.W. (From the Brisbane Courier.) Prairie Grass (Bromus Unioloides.)
This is a true permanent pasture grass. It very productive during the winter months, from April to October, after which it runs to seed. It has a great tendency to seed during…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Green Crops for Manure. (From the Australasian.)
WHEN recommending the system of ploughing in green crops for manure, a few weeks since, it was stated that three such crops grown in succession and ploughed in as soon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Proposed Pastoral Club at Sydney
The following letter, and the addenda, referring to the above subject have been sent to us with the view of the matter being ventilated throughout the pastoral districts. There…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To the Editor of the Pastoral Times
SIR,—I think “your own” at Hay, before sending you such untrue reports to publish, should try and find out the truth. I have no doubt he is a brave man, and would unarmed have taken the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, January 29
WE have had some very hot weather since our last; on Wednesday and Thursday evenings heavy storms passed over Deniliquin, and we received enough of rain to make an impression…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. Municipal Election. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times
Sir.—Allow me to express the pleasure I feel in the manner the municipal movement has been received by ray fellow townsmen. There is now no danger, through lassitude or any…
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