Gardens on the Farm
As a general rule farmers are prone to neglect their gardens; in fact, some of them have no gardens. A good garden, well supplied with choice varieties of vegetables…
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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society
THE annual meeting of the members of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal Hotel yesterday. The President (Mr Thomas Brown) occupied the chair and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sales From [?]
We held our opening [?] of a crowded attendance [?] catalogue of 2000 bales [?] Victoria [?] and New South [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales From Mort and Co., [?]
We offered 1200 bales of wool [?] There was a full attendance and [?] Competition was very brisk. [?] to [?] this price being for [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Judging Sheep by Points. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
SIR,—I am glad to see from a paragraph in year issue of the 20th August last that the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society is thinking of adopting the point system in judging…
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The first full day's work with five of Welseley's shearing machines took place on the 20th at Toganmain. Hours from six in the morning till six at night less the usual two hours for meals and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sale. Melbourne, October 21
The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited report:—We had an active sale to day and obtained prices beyond our valuations. Greasy sold to 8 1/2d no superior qualities offered scoured sold to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Odds and End. The Farmer
Once on a time he used to plough And rise at dawn to milk the cough, And drive with merry song and laugh To pasture Brindle and her caugh…
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Land business this week : Joseph Kelly, Gunbar, 400 acres, county Nicholson, pariah Bowerabine, Gunbar run; C.L., same localities, 1,200 acres. The C.L. rents will be declared prior to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
WARM weather prevailed since last report, until yesterday, when a heavy thunderstorm occured. The weather at present looks like more rain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notes on Sheep
There are 52 known breeds of sheep. Merino wool should never be less than 1½ inches in length to be profitably used in the combing press…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wool Sales. London, October 20
The next series of colonial wool sales will open on November 22. The total arrivals to date amount to 30,000 bales. It his probable that the quantity available, including that…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, October 28, 1887
DURING the last week the weather has been Warm and close On [?] rain fell to the amount of 19 points. and a [?] a heavy thunderstorm passed over the [?] points were registered. Down at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sale. From Must and Co., [?]
We held our third wool sale for [?] offering 2200 bales. There was a [?] foreign buyers, operating largely [?] realised 8½[?], greasy pieces up to [?]d,[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Important Notice to Pastoral Lessees
The following notice appears in the Gazette, dated 17th October :— It has been brought to the knowledge of the Department that the holders of certain pastoral leases…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PASTORAL. Balranald. Riverina Recorder Office, Tuesday Evening
Warm weather still continues, to-day reaching 102deg in the simile. Shearing is almost finished. Burra wong shed cutting out to morrow, and…
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There was no land business this week. The Crown Lands Agent, Mr Gale, held an auction sale on Wednesday when the number of 53 lots were offered, and 22 sold. The total amount of the sale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
THE weather since last report has been very close and muggy. On Wednesday there was every sign of a thunderstorm, but no rain fell. Yesterday the sky was again…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rapid Butter-making
Professor G. H. Whitcher, superintendent of the New Hampshire State Agricultural College at Hanover, U.S., has supplied the Boston Globe with the subjoined…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Pastoral Leases in the Eastern Division
In the Legislative Assembly on the 25th ult Mr. Day rose to move— “That, In the opinion of this House, the Government ought to give the necessary notice under the Land Act…
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