The Wool Sales. London, May 2
The competition at the wool sales to-day was of a spirited character, and prices showed an upward tendency. LONDON, May 3…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Farming & the land, 1888
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Common Disorders Affecting Cattle. Foreign "Bodies in the Stomach
The variety of objects that have from time to time been taken from the stomachs of cows dying from disease, or slaughtered for food, is astonishing—needles, pins,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Opening of the Antwerp Wool Sales. London, May 9
The wool sales opened at Antwerp yesterday. The biddings were animated, and prices advanced a halfpenny on previous rates…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Proposed Wine Duty. Retaliatory Measures by France. Expected Tax on Australian Wool. London, May 4
In the House of Commons last night Mr. Goschen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that he was willing to exempt from the proposed additional duty of 5s. per dozen on…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Deniliquin Pastoral a Agricultural Society
The ordinary monthly meeting of the [?] of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural was held at the Royal Hotel en Wedn[?] The President (Mr George Curr[?]) [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
SIR—As conflicting rumours are abroad as to the payment of insurance on my hotel, I shall feel obliged by your inserting this acknowledgment; that although the policy for one portion had not bad time to be issued,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening. May 11,[?]
A dry week followed the rain of last week, bat the new feed has already made a vigorous spring and if another inch or two falls within the next week the prospect for winter feed would be largely improved. The district tanks received little…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Director's Board
A meeting of the above Board was held in Messrs Wilkinson and lavender's office, yesterday, when there were present Messrs D. Grant (in the chair), A. M'Farland, J. Russell…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How Wool is sold in London
A correspondent supplies the "St. Lame's Gazette" with the following accounting of an Australian wool sale in London—A strange sight greeted me…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
A VERY welcome change in the weather occurred on Friday night, 11th inst. Steady rain then set in and continued almost uninterruptedly during the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Director's Board
A meeting of the above Board was held in Messrs. Wilkinson and Lavendec's office, yesterday, when there were present Messrs. D. Grant (in the chair), A. M'FArland, J. Russell…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Sale at Benalla
Messrs. J. H. TEAGUE and Co. report:— At our special sheep sale, Benalla, on the 11th inst,, 37,000 were yarded, but owing to the very dry weather prevailing, and the Scarcity of grass,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat and Flour Markets. London, May 12
The English wheat market is firmer. The Continental markets are changing a little for the worse. The American market is advancing, with increased firmness…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Rural Notes. Common Disorders Affecting Cattle. Gastro-enteritis—white Scour—skit
This disorder is one that causes a very large, mortality among calves ; probably more perish from it than from all other diseases of youth put together. It is the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Garden. Schemes
Schemes for swindling farmers are in operation constantly because they can be worked easily. They are successful not because farmers are over credulous or lacking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hints to Dairymen
There is a deal of country in South Australia that is admirably suitable for dairy farming. By “ dairy farming” we distinguish from “ dairy muddling ”—a term…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Open Column. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
SIR, —Sometime ago a generous and [?] settler wrote to me on his own [?] great success, which atten[?] genuine “C[?] on his[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, May [?]
MOST beneficial falls of rain have been experienced in Deniliquin during the past week. and the telegraph advices indicate that a large part of the colony has been visited in a similar manner. The first [?] was [?] Friday night last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ferrets and Sheep
An extraordinary story about ferrets appears in the "Tepanui Courier," N.Z. Parties who visited the Rankleburn on shooting excursions inform…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. The Black-Faced Heats Sheep
The black-faced sheep known as the Heath breed are quite distinct from other sheep of the British Islands. They are smaller than the other breeds, except the Welsh, the…
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