Farm and Garden. Winter Care of Cows
The arrangement of the barn and yard should be such as to reduce the labor as much as possible. Excessive warmth is not conclusive to robustness, health, or profit. If a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1888
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Extraordinary Disappearance of Several Farmers in South Australia. Strange Coincidences
The following facts (says the Narracoorte Herald) make a series of coincidences worth recording. Within a short time two men of the same name, both farmers, living near an…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, June 1, 1888
The weather daring the week has been changeable. At them the fronts were heavy and again light showers fell. [?] it is raining, and the temperature is such as to indicate a fairly food fall before the change clears off. Heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited)
WOOL—Press and private massages confirm the intelligence we published last week as to the improvement in the market since class of the London [?]ales. There is still a fair local demand, and we continue to make sales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. the Usual District Ball. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
[?]—I am in receipt of a circular from the Hon. of the above [?] requesting to be informed would be willing to become a subscriber, &o., and [?] that the subscription was cot expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parliamentary. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, 29Th May, 1888. Pastoral Leases: Occupation Licenses
Mr Waddell asked the Secretary for Lands—(1.) Will he, in cases where pastoral leases or occupation licenses have been fixed at the minimum and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
WITH the exception of Friday evening, when there was a heavy downpour, the weather has been fine since last report. The nights and early mornings have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wheat Market. London, June 2
Forward business is weak at a decline. Arrivals of foreign wheat are moderate. The off-coast cargoes from Australia have all been disposed of. For cargoes of Australian wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Wool and Station Produce Reports. Melbourne
Messrs. DALGETY and COMPANY (LIMITED) report:—Wool.—Business is still restricted to private sales of small parcels. Tallow.—We quote:—Good to prime mutton, £19 to £20;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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 overcredulous or lacking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)
Facts are [?] While I am thankful for [?] of the people have reported [?] to justify to the letter, I beg to make them [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Usual District [?]All. (To the Editor of the Pastoral [?]
Sir,—The above being a private [?] which the public have [?] to reply [?] necessary but for [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, June 8, 1888
DURING the week the weather has been seasonable. To-day a [?] heat prevails, and although the [?] is clear it is [?] that a change to rain will soon take place. The pastures are growing splendidly, and there is a strong spring of good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company limited). Melbourne, June [?]
WOOL—Business is still restricted to private sales of the small parcels, chiefly of [?] which arrive from time to time. The next sales in London open this day fortnight. Up to 31st ult. exports of wool show an excess of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scotch Cattle for New South Wales
After long and vexatious delays the ports of Australia have been re opened to cattle from Europe and America, and the colonies will no doubt soon receive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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
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 →The Wool Sales
London, Thursday.—60,000 bales have been excluded from the wool sales, opening on the 19th inst. The cargoes of nineteen ships arrived too late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Automatic Wool Cleanser
The following is a description of Messrs. W. Judell and J. Singer’s machine for cleansing wool by the application of bisulphide of carbon :—The apparatus consists…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Wheat Market. London, June 9
The English market is unchanged. The Continental markets are declined with increased weakness. The American market is changing a little for the better. The spot…
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