Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
No changes to report. The weather has been uninterruptedly hot all week and rain seems as far off as ever. At Berrigan slight showers have fallen, but the record…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1887
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The Wool Sales. London, February 8
At the wool sales to-day 14,000 bales were offered, making a total of 163,000 bales during the series. The tone of the market is quieter…
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At to-day’s sales 11,500 bales were catalogued, making a total since the commencement of the series of 88,900 bales. Prices generally…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Farmer. Poultry on a Farm
We have quite as often advocated the extended use of poultry on the farm as we have suggested the perfect impracticability of poultry farms. On a given…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wire Worm in Potato Crops
Some consternation (says the Canterbury Times) has been caused by the discovery among some potatoes growing at Opawa of a species of wire worm, whose ravages are…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Ostrich-farming in New Zealand
The Cape Colony is likely to lose the monopoly of one of its most important special local industries—ostrich-farming. The Colonies and India remarks that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rural Notes. Co-operative Farming.(from the Mark-lane Express.)
Another interesting experiment in cooperative farming similar to that started some time ago by Mr. Bolton King is to be tried on the estate of the Duke of Portland…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society
The usual monthly meeting of the Deniliquin Pas[?] [?] and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal [?] yesterday afternoon. Mr Thomas [?] [?] the chair; and Messrs [?] From…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Murray Farmers and Protection
Will a protective duty on [?] pay the farmers along our bank of the [?] Will they [?] higher prices? In the first [?] if a day of say 6d a [?] were [?] the 1.000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer. Sheep poisoned by an Arsenical Power Dip
The mails from South Africa bring tidings of another of these wholesale, poisonings of sheep that have happened from time to time, filling the minds of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Great Cattle Range
According to the New York journals, the great plateau between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra, comprising the territory of Utah and the state of Nevada,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Comparative Prices of Wool
The following statement is taken from the Economist:—During the current series of colonial wool sales recently held in London, prices have sustained a further…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
GLOOMY weather succeeded the long spell of heat at the beginning of the week and on Tuesday light showers of rain fell registering 48 points. The fall continued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Selling Cattle by Weight
English cattle-raisers are agitating the question of selling live-stock by the weight, instead of by the lump system now in vogue in that country. A correspondent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wheat Bran for Horses
The value of wheat bran is, we think, sadly under-estimated, and that it may be fed with profit to our work and driving hones there can be no doubt. Whatever…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rural Notes. Smut in Wheat
There are two kinds of smut in wheat. The one causes the destruction of grain alone, the head meanwhile retaining all the appearance of perfect health; the other…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Serious Cattle Disease in the Portland District
The farmers and graziers in the neighborhood of Portland recently requested the Victorian Minister of Agriculture to send a competent person to investigate and report…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Wool Sales. London, February 10
At the wool sales to-day 11,600 bales were offered, making a total of 177,800 bales during the series. The tone of the market is quieter. All qualities of wool are about ½d. higher than…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →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 was driven horses (two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. Challenge Prizes. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
SIR,—In justice to myself I must take exception to the article in your last issue in which you draw a comparison between the weight of the [?] (both in the gre[?]s and scoured) of my ram shorn at Deniliquin,…
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