The South Australian Wheat Yield
The Register’s estimate of the late wheat harvest in South Australia has just been published, and a gloomy record it is. The average yield from the area sown is put…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farming & the land, 1886
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The Wool Sales. London, March 16
The wool market is quiet. The total arrivals to date amount to 230,000 bales. LONDON, March 22. Since the last wool sales, 296,000 bales have…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Opening of the Wool Sales. London, March 23
The March April series of the colonial wool auctions were opened to-day. There was a good attendance of home and foreign buyers. 10,300 bales were offered, and the marked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of an Australian Wheat Ship. London, March 22
The chip Astronomer, from South Australia, has gone ashore near Milford, on the Welsh coast, and will probably become a total wreck. There was a thick fog at the time of the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Grass Fed Sheep
So much has been said recently respecting the action of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society in striking the Grand Champion prize from its programme that a little…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin. Friday Evening, March 26, 1886
The weather during the week has been continuously dry, [?] to be the slightest possibility of a [?] time to come. The days are fairly warm, [?] nights cool, the mornings inclined to be chilly. All…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales. (From the Australian Mortgage Land and Company, Melbourne)
Messrs Helmuth Schwartz and Co. telegra[?] under date, London, 25th March :—“ Wool S[?] more pronounced. Price for [?] lower ; and scoured 1[?] to 1½[?] lower [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Milk Registers
At the dairy conference a paper, on "Milk Registers," was read by Professor Fream, College of Agriculture, Downton, as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
The weather during the week has been warm without change, and although rain has threatened, none has fallen at Corown. On Wednesday a brief shower was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Industry
“ A user of colonial wool can buy for immediate requirements at a market price as much wool in one night as it would take the English user or woolstapler three weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wool Sales. London, March 25
At the Colonial wool auctions to-day, 12,000 bales were catalogued, making a total of 34,300 bales since the opening of the sales, 4000 bales have been withdrawn…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Farmer. Preserving Eggs
EGGS packed and created as follows can be kept threat months, and [?] and look like fresh effs: Take a common box, such as is used for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grass Fed Sheep
So much has been said recently respecting the action of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society in striking the Grand Champion prize from its programme that a little analysis of the subject…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday, April 2. 1886
The weather has been [?] warm during the week. and except for an occasional th[?] there seems no [?] of any near change. The [?] are not [?] as they were a [?] ago, as it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
THE weather during the past week has been marked by a "spice of the devil." Friday and Saturday were appressively hot days, and on Sunday a dust storin, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society
THE annual meeting of this society was held on Thursday, April 8, when the following satisfactory report was read and adopted:--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Sales. London, March 31
At the colonial wool auctions to-day 9300 hales were catalogued. The market is weak. Greasy wools are ½d. to 1d., and fleece 1d. to 1½d. lower than last sales…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Hints to Dairymen
VERMIN IN CATTLE.—A correspondent informs us that the scrapings from old butter-tubs prove effectual for destroying the vermin with which dairy cows are…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farm Work for April
The season, so far, has been very unfavourable to farmers and stockowners, and the outlook at the present time is by no means so satisfactory as could be desired…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Yass Farmers’ Union
A large number of members attended the annual meeting of the Yass Farmers’ Union on Saturday. The annual report was lengthy, and approved most highly of Mr. Heydon’s…
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