Care of Farm Machinery
The wear and tear of farm machinery, especially mowers, reapers, thrashers, and others with swift-running gear, is immense. Much of this may be saved by covering…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farming & the land, 1888
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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society
The ordinary monthly meeting of the Committee of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday afternoon last. In the absence of the President, Mr George Currie,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Deniliquin £100 Sheep Challenge Prizes
The growing desire on the part of ram-breeders and practical woolgrowers to ascertain which flocks and which sheep really do cut the most valuable fleeces has had its outcome in the £100 Challenge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday, Evening, September 14, 1985
THE weather it becoming very much warmer and the [?] of obtaining a good fall of rain are becoming more distant. The pasturage is rapidly withering up. and the district tanks are becoming…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Factory
The people of Toombullup, Moorngag, and Rothsay are taking steps to establish a butter and cheese factory, with a capital of £1500, and power to increase to £3000. Some…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
THE long wished for rain has come at last, though its duration is problematical. Up till the early morning yesterday none fell, though on Wednesday there were signs that…
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 unremunerative prices, many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The London Wool Sales
London, Thursday.—The London wool sales continue brisk; prices show a hardening tendency…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wheat Market. London, September 15
The English market is changing a little for the worse. The Continental markets are showing a general decline in prices. The American market is declining and weak. The…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The English Wheat Market. London, September 18
The English wheat market is showing a general decline of Is. per quarter. The Continental markets are inactive. The American market is tending upward. The average price of English…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Rural Notes. Organising a Company and Establishing a Butter Factory
The formation of pi limited liability company is a very simple, easy proceeding, provided that you have the men willing to associate; but, in agricultural matters, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Wheat Harvest in France. London, September 19
In consequence of the serious deficiency in the wheat harvest in France, and the rise in price that will result therefrom, it is probable that the import duties at present levied on cereals will…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Opening of the London Wool Sales. London, September 18
The fourth series of colonial wool sales for the present year opened in London this afternoon, before a large attendance of buyers. Messrs. Chas. Balme and Co., and Messrs. Jacomb, Son,…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Farmer. The Expensive Horns
We clip the following from The Western Rural:—Mr. S. C. Bassett sends us an address, recently delivered by him, from which we make the following extracts: Are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dog-farming in China
The rearing of dogs for their skins is pursued in China just as sheep-farming is in Australia (says the Pall Mall Gazette). There are thousands of small dog and goat…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening. September 31, 1888
THE weather has been very warm, and rain threatened on several [?]. On Thursday afternoon rain [?] in steadily, and it was expected that it would continue but only 21 points were recorded. To-day it was cloudy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. New South Wales and the Victorian Stock Tax. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times )
SIR,—The Victorians have increased their tax on our stock to one shilling a head on sheep, and twenty shillings a head on horses, and with every probability of a still further increase after the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Important to Homestead Lessees. Butter and Others V Parsons
In the Supreme Court, Sydney, on the 12th inst., before the Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice Windeyer and Mr. Justice Stephen, the above case was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
THERE was a most welcome rainfall during Friday and Saturday, and up to the evening of the latter day a total fall of 74 potato was registered. Since then, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rural Notes. Common Disorders Affecting Cattle. Bronchitis
To be. able to distinguish between the different forms. of, disease affecting., the ,respiratory organs it is essential, to be , familiar with the number and character of…
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