Wool, Sheepskins, Hides, &c. MELBOURNE, January 20
The AUSTRALIAN MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED, report: — Wool. — We held a very successful sale of wool to-day, and disposed of 1084 bales out of a catalogue…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming & the land, 1887
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Opening of the Lond0n Wool Sales. Rise in Prices. London, January 25
The January-February series of colonial wool auctions opened to-day with a large attendance of home and foreign buyers. There [?] an active competition, and the tone of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmer. Barefooted Horses
Mr. P. H. Fahin, a furniture and piano mover at Melden, gives his experience in the Boston Transcript with barefooted horses, He has driven three horses (two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Shying Horses
This trick or vice is generally the effect nervous timidity, resulting from an excitable temperament. It is aggravated by improper handling. To punish a horse for shying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Humor. Muggs and the Farmer. a Talk About Hens Leads to a Coolness Between Them
A Rochester man named Muggs has been out in the town of Wheatland visiting some friends who live on a farm. Mr. Muggs is not only a man of more than average…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
SIR,—Will you kindly allow [?] space in your valuable paper for the insertion of the following : — The question of appointing local handicappers in preference to professionals is one which I have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. [?] Friday Evening, January 28, 1887
The [?] has been seasonably warm during the week. Sunday was very [?] and thermometer reached [?] in the shade, but [?] then not more than a hundred in the shade has ruled. It was thought that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. Benefit of Good Stock
Breeders of improved varieties of live stock can justly lay claim to the title of public benefactors. The estates and farms on which high-class studs of horses, herds…
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The following was the Land business this week:—William Murphy, Maude, 116 acres, C.P., county of Waradgery, parish of Yang Yang, Toogimbie run; C. L., 104 acres, same localities…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
MODERATELY cool weather, with a tendency to rain, has been the feature of the week. On Saturday four points of rain, were registered at Corowa and more seems…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales. London, January 26
At the wool sales to-day 12,200 bales were offered. The tone of the market is firm. The shipments of the Delcoym, the Duke of Devonshire, the Northern and the [?]burg…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Wool Sales. London, February 1
At the wool sales to-day 13,500 bales were offered, making a total of 77,400 bales during the series. The market continues firm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmer
Useful work is being done the Saipapet (Madras) Experimental Farm in showing how the cattle India might be improved. The live weight of the cows kept by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Making Dairying Profitable
Every Australian farmer has an interest in the improvement of dairy stock. The cow is simply a machine by which food is turned into milk, from which butter and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, February 4, 1887
During the week the weather has been mild and agreeable. A light shower fell, but only six points were re[?] from it, and to-day it seems to have cleared up as the [?] is bright and clear and a cool wind blowing…
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Wilkinson and Lavender advertise a pump and piping.—See advt. The rainfall at Wanganella in January was 1.25. The average in that month for 19 years was 1.23…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Working Butter by hand
Mr. George Barham, in the course of an address at the Tring Show, said he was very much surprised to see that in the Vale of Tylesbury, noted as it was, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmer
Commenting upon a competitive exhibition of preserved eggs the Field says that one set was placed in an hermetically sealed tin vessel, closely soldered down,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming in Holland
The Dutch farmer is continually fertilising his farm of thirty or forty acres, and this process repeated for some centuries, with no crop to drain the substance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral
The fallowing was the business done at the Lands Office this week:—Thomas Ogilve, C.P. 640 acres, country of Warradgery, parish of Lorraine; Alfred Earnest Parker, country of Waradgery, parish of…
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