Farmer. Practical Dairy Hints
A Kansas city paper gives the experience of w. Z. Hickman, of Kansas, in butter-making as follows :—592 His experience is that of almost every…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farming & the land, 1888
637 stories in Murray's papers · page 22 of 32
Disastrous Voyage of a Wheat Ship. London, August 20
The Iron barque Araby Maid, 837 tons, which left South Australia on April 5 for the United Kingdom with 44,830 bushels of wheat, has arived at; Queenstown. She experienced terrible…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Farmer. Salt for Live Stocks
Salt is a mineral substance which is perhaps unique in its usefulness to animal life. One distinction which is often made between plants and animals, especially those high in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin Friday Evening, August 24, 1888
Fine and dry weather still rules and the prospects are becoming daily more unsatisfactory. The rainfall for this month has only been about twenty points as against nearly an inch in the same period last year and the total…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Wool in the United States
Australian wool is being much praised in the United States It is, remarked a Boston paper that "it is a curious fact that American…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Washing Sheep
The impolicy of washing sheep is beginning to be recognised by woolgrowers, as it has been for some time by the manufacturers (says the Leader). It is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
The weather since our last issue has been uniformly fine, with a clear sky and warm temperature. At present there seems to be not the remotest prospect of rain, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Why Butter Is Poor
A New York commission merchant has compiled for the benefit of his customers some of the reasons why butter is poor, and brings poor prices in the market. Among…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wool and Station Reports Produce
Messrs. DALGETY and COMPANY (LIMITED" report.—Wool,—Several small sales were held in Melbourne on Wednesday last, some 480 bales being offered and 379 bales sold, including a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Market. London, August 21
The English wheat market is showing a general advance of 6d. per quarter. The Continental markets are tending upwards. The American market is advancing, with increased…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Farmer. A Great Irrigation Enterprise
On Wednesday, February 1st, the proximate Completion of one of the most expensive and expensive irrigation enterprises ever prosecuted in California was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →R U R a L N O T E S. Farmers Should Breed Their Own Stock
There are many good reasons why a farmer should breed his own stock and not tryst to purchasing to keep up his numbers. In the first place, it will exercise…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Open Column. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
SIR,—In your paper of Saturday last, you make the statement that “a number of men” in this place “had signed the agreement, but oh the representations of an agent they declined to go to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, August [?], 1888
The weather doling the week has been dry. On Sunday last there were some indications of a change and some showers, aggregating 9 points, fell; but the effects of such a limited fall were almost [?]. This morning set in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. British and American Wheat Growing
The Quarterly Review, in a recent issue, treats at length of 'Competition in Wheat Growing," and says that "after three years of unromunerative prices, many…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cruelty to Sheep
Mr. Paton, an officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is at present in Bourke, his special object in visiting the Darling being to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Factory Evidence
Speaking at the preliminary meeting at Lake Rowan, held to decide the question of establishing abutter and cheese factory at that centre, Mr. foster is reported by…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Deniliquin £100 Sheep Challenge Prizes
The growing desire on the part of rambreeders and practical woolgrowers to ascertain which flocks and which sheep really do cut the most valuable fleeces has had its outcome in the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Wolseley Sheep-shearing Machines
We take the following correspondence from The Argus :— TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS. Sir,—I am induced to write to you on the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Deniliquin £100 Sheep Challenge Prizes. the Fourth Challenge Prize
Although the annual show of the Australian Sheepbreeders' Association has been the chief source of attraction at Messrs R. Goldsbrough and Co.'s…
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