Profits of Keeping Sheep
If a farmer has plenty of patience, and is willing to give close attention to details in the care of stock, he can make more money for food consumed from sheep than from any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1888
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The Cumberland Disease amongst Sheep. M. Pasteur's Remedy
The Minister for Mines has, on the recommendation of Mr. Bruce, the chief inspector of stock, decided to send a cablegram to M. Pasteur, to ascertain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
SINCE last issue those has been only one break in the fine weather which continued Up to Wednesday night, when a rather heavy shower fell. Yesterday was intensely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. The Black-Faced Heath 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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Profits of Keeping Sheep
It a farmer has plenty of patience, and is willing to give close intention to details in the care of stock, he can make more money for food consumed from sheep than from any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Growing in China
Wheat growing is one of the principal industries in the northern and middle part of China. The winter wheat is planted at about the same time that wheat is planted…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Wool Market. London, May 22
Since the close of the last series of colonial wool sales in London, on the 5th inst., 2,550 bales have been sold, prices showing a slight advance on the rates of the last sales…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Wheat and Flour Markets. London, May 16
A cargo of 6,000 quarters ot Australian wheat (June shipment) has been sold at 34s. 4½d. per 4801b. Two parcels of 2,000 and 1,000 quarters have been sold at 33s…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Flour and Grain Reports. Albury, Thursday. Wheat remains at 3s. SYDNEY, Thursday. MELBOURNE
At auction to-day sales of wheat were made at 3s. 4½d. to 3s. 5d. for prime. A parcel of 600 bags has also changed hands privately at 3s. 5d. ex store. Flour, £8 10s…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Importance of Cleanliness
The dairyman who would excel in his business and stand at the top, must practice through cleanliness in every detail Pure, [?]ant milk, round well-flavored cheese, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin Friday Evening, May 25, [?]
Cold weather has ruled during the week. The late rain did an immense amount of good to the [?], and there is now a splendid spring [?] grass throughout the district. The lambing has been completed on several of the large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, May 23
WOOL—We have received by cable from our London Office the satisfactory [?] that prices obtained at the Antwerp wool bales, now in progress are [?] to ½d above closing rates of last London sales. Locally there is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hay Pastoral and Agricultural Association
The programme for the above Association's show, which is to be held on the 12th July next, appears again in our fourth page. As we before stated, the programme as a whole bears…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Cattle-Stealing Woman
A "dashing" woman was charged with cattle stealing at Invercargill, N.Z. The evidence showed that a settler at Forest Hill, named Ross, whose land…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wolseley's Sheep-Shearing Machine
The Jerilderie "Herald" reports that an interesting exhibition of this machine was given last Tuesday week at North Yathong, the property of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Shows Subsidies
WHEN the Pastoral and Agricultural Society applied to Government at the close of last year for its subsidy, it was informed by the Under Secretary that it had been decided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How Cattle Stealers Are Detected
AS FAR back April, 1887, Sergeant Jones, of the Corowa police, received information that a man named Thomas Jones had offered cattle for pale in Corowa under suspicious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rural Notes. “Take-all” in Wheat
The following is a report furnished by the Victorian Government Agricultural Chemist (Mr. A. N. Pearson) on some samples of wheat affected by “Take-all,”…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wheat Market. London, May 24
The English wheat market is heavy and inactive. The Continental markets are steady. The American market is showing a general decline in prices. The spot quotations in New…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The English Wheat Market. London, May 30
The English wheat market market is showing a general decline of 6d. per quarter. The Continental markets are inactive. The American market is unchanged. The average price of…
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