Pastoral
A preliminary meeting of pastoralists and others interested in the rabbit and land questions, was held Balranald on Tuesday last (says the Recorder of Saturday) Mr. P. macpherson was voted to the choir…
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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
THE district, since last report, has undergone another spell of exceptional weather which has prevailed during the season. Friday to Sunday the weather was…
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The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy, resumed their wool sales, when a catalogue of 2900 bales was offered, the bulk of which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wheat and Flour Markets. London, December 31
Wheat is firmly held, and English and foreign has advanced 6d. The price of Californian wheat afloat is 35s. per 480lb. Indian wheat is scarce. The local quotations for…
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Value of Eggs as Food:--As a general thing, farmers' families do not make use of as many eggs as non-producers of the cities and villages, who are obliged to purchase…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Baby-farming Case Near Melbourne. a Verdict of Manslaughter Returned
Mr. Candler, the deputy coroner, held a public inqury at the St. Kilda Court-house on Tuesday into the circumstances connected with the death of an infant, one month old, named…
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Land Business this week: Robert Watson, Burrbogie, Hay, 728 3/4, acres, C. P., county of Waradgery parish of Bedarbegal, Burrabogie run; Ellen H. Ayre, Benduck. Hay, 640 acres, C. P. county of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales. From Mort and Co., LIMITED, Wedneaday, January 4
We have sold 3500 bales wool since last report at up to 8½d for greasy and 12[?]d for washed fleece. The market is now slightly easier. Marahe’s Salisbury greasy, 8½d ; Henry Edwards’ Bombalo 9d ; Leh’s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sales. From the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. Thursday, January 5
To-day we resumed our wool sales, when a catalogue of 2900 bales was offered the bulk of which was cleared at satisfactory prices. Competition was spirited, and the market showed no change, lambs wool still being…
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It looks as if M. Pasteur had settled the rabbit question. The hon cholera, though fatal to poultry and rabbits affects no other animal. If man could infected with hen cholera his race would be very short…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PASTORAL. Balranald. Riverina Recorder Office. Tuesday Evening
Summer weather is now well upon us, as a reference to our maximum and minimum temperature will show. Yesterday and to-day have been the two hottest days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Report. MELBOURNE, January 10
Dalgety and Co. report as follows:—Our Wool Sale to-day passed off with great spirit, buyers being in full attendance and competition very keen. We offered 1130…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Attend to Your Horses
Some course fodder in desirable, if it can he procured, and a supply should be grown either of millet, corn fodder, or pea vines, and cut when in blossom and cured for…
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That portion of the rabbit proof fence between South Australia and Victoria, which the latter colony had to construct, his been completed. The length of the fence is over 35 miles. The fence is three feet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Diseased Cattle in Gippsland
It will be remembered that a mob of cattle, consigned to Mr. W. Pearson, M.L.C., [?] Kilmany-park, Gippsland, were affected by disease near Berwick in September last, and…
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The first of the three trials granted by the Railway Department to test the relative merits of the Wilkinson and Evans combination cattle-trucks was concluded on Thursday under the supervision of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Commercial, Pastoral, and Agricultural Association
We take the following from a Sydney journal:—“The remarkable body which under the somewhat unwieldy but by no means unmeaning—on the contrary very astute—title…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Melbourne Wool Sales
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Limited, report having offered a catalogue of 1800 bales at their wool sale to-day, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wheat Market. London, January 7
The English wheat market is weak in tone and without quotable change in price. The Continental markets are steady. The American market is tending upward. Forward…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Rules to Be Followed in Wool-washing
The following rules for wool-washing are given in the Textile Record :— 1. Never permit the temperature of washing liquor to exceed 100deg. Fahr. The…
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