The Farmer. Surface Stirring for Fruit Trees
MR. P. PARRY, a leading American nurseryman, gives the following opinion on this subject: "According to my observation, whereever the soil was kept finely pulverised and…
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The Farmer. Cart-horses
FROM the paper by Mr. James Howard, M.P., entitled "Notes on Cart-horses," in the newly-issued number of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rural Notes. Cattle Versus Sheep
A question that is at tho present time engrossing the attention of runholders in New South Wales (says tho Queenslander) is one likely to exercise considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
The last spell of warm weather was broken on Tuesday by a few heavy showers. Towards ten o'clock the sky became clouded, and rain fell heavily at intervals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep, Mutton Clubs, and Sheep-shearing in India
Sir Patrick Jennings, president of the New South Wales Commission for the Calcutta International Exhibition, has (says a contemporary) placed at our…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool, Sheepskins, Hides. &c. MELBOURNE
Messrs. Mon[?] D. SYNNOT BROS. report:— Wool.—We held our fifth wool sale to-day, when we submitted a catalogue of 1180 bales to a full attendance of buyers. Competition was very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmer. Cart- horses
FROM the paper by Mr. James Howard. M.P., entitled "Notes on Cart-horses," in the newly issued number of the journal of the Royal agricultural Society of England, we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Timer Office. Evening. September 26, 1884
The weather [?]ring the week has [?]lue drys and the gorging pre[?]peetd are of ea[?]et in a [?]re wretched state the they were last weeks. The grae[?]hoprets are in my[?]inds alt evey the dis[?] and the sen[?]ineed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer
EVERY farm should be an experiment station, and every farmer an experimenter. We don’t mean by this that the whole farm and the whole time of the farmer should be devoted to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
For the first time this year we have been greeted with a downpour of some magnitude. The total fall registered was not perhaps much heavier than the average of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rural Notes. Cheese and Butter Making
At a meeting of tho Dairy Farming Conference held at Gloucester recently, Professor Sheldon read a paper on cheese and butter making, from which we extract the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool, Sheepskins, Hides. &c. MELBOURNE
THE AUSTRALASIAN MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY (LIMITED) report:—Wool.—We held a large and successful sale to-day, exhibiting 4900 bales, including some clips from Riverina,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Wool Sales. London, November 12
At the wool sales to-day, 11,500 bales were offered, making a total of 18,400 bales during the series. There was a good competition all round…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The farmer
EVERY farm should be an experiment station, and every farmer an experimenter. We don't mean by this that the whole farm and the whole time of the farmer should be devoted to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)
SIR,—In the report of the proceedings at the last meeting of the Deniliquin Council, the Finance Committee are said to have reported that I had failed to make good any of my assertions respecting the Water Rate charged against [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin. Friday Evening. November 21, 1884
THE weather underwent a considerable change during the week, and altogether 131 points of rain fell in Deniliquin, made up of 10 points on Saturday, 110 up to Monday, and 11 To-day. The rain on Saturday evening when the greatest [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sales. (From the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company). Thursday, November 20
The usual weekly wool sale was held at our warehouses this afternoon. A good catalogue of about 4300 bales was submitted. There is little change to report in the market, but competition is decidedly brisker…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. Rational Agriculture
ALL soils not naturally barren when in a virgin state are capable of sustaining what may be termed their normal amount of vegetation, and they will continue to do so so long as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales
The New Zealand Loan and Mercalitile Company Melbourne, report:— The season is now fully advanced, and catalogues that are daily increasing in also and importance have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Upon Farms
After many years of cropping with wheat, wool, or milk, tho land will become exhausted in the sense that a man’s strength may be said to be exhausted after severe…
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