Farm and Garden. Stock Feeding
An animal on a sustenance diet neither working nor increasing is supposed to require an albuminoid ratio of 1-12 (that is, food containing one pound of nitrogenous matter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farming & the land, 1888
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The Victorian Farmer's Conference. Melbourne
The conference of Victorian farmers was resumed this morning. The bag question, railway freights, State bonuses, and the reconstruction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, April 6, 1888
The change last week from the comparatively warm weather to coolness was looked upon as an unfavourable symptom. Rain was expected while the weather was warm, hat when the cool change came without rain there were many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral & Stock News. Stock Reports &c. Riverine Grazier Office
IT drought which has been with us so long was in[?]rupted on Friday evening last, by a succession on [?]lent thunderstorms, accompanied by vivid lighting, during which some 50 points of rain fell. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cable News. the London Wool Sales
London, April 7.—At the colonial wool sales yesterday the bidding was brisk, but there was no quotable change on the opening sales as compared with the closing rates of the February series. Good…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden. Stock Feeding
An animal on a sustenance diet neither working nor increasing is supposed to require an albumiuoid ratio of 1.12 (that is, food containing one pound of nitrogenous matter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hay Pastoral Association
A general meeting of the above association was held at Messrs Wilkinson and Lavender's office on Wednesday last, for the purpose of considering advisability of amending Rale…
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London, 10th April.—At the wool sales to day, 13,000 bales were catalogued. The market for best descriptions of merino wools is improving. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rural Notes. Cure of Fluke and Worms in Sheep
Mr. W. Gibson, of Tor Glen, Inverell, thus writes to the Sydney Mail on this subject:—‘‘Being an old hand among sheep, having been a breeder in the three…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The London Wool Sale . LONDON, April 5
The second series of colonial wool sales for this year, opened this evening, when Messrs. Charles Balme and Co. and Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. offered 9500 bales. One-third of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Metal and Wool Markets. London, April 11
Copper.—The market is steady For Chili the present quotation is £80 10s. Tin.—The market is firm. For Straits and Australian the present quotation is £166 5s…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →The Wheat and Flour Markets. London, April 7
The English wheat market is heavy and inactive. The Continental markets are changing a little for the better. The American market is declining and weak…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society
The ordinary monthly meting of the committee of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal Hotel yesterday. Mr R W Frank occupied the chair, and the following gentlemen were also present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
Sir, as shearing is now drawing on it is time for flock owners to make a start and go to some trouble and expense to protect their liver, their men and their properties against the threats of corrupt, wicked…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock Report Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, April 13, [?]
[?] close weather of last week resulted in some good [?] on Friday night, but they were of a partial character the highest registration in the town being 42 points. Out [?] the rain was much heavier, and down [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Squatters and the Sheep Shearers
Some 25 gentlemen interested in squatting and grazing pursuits assembled recently at the office of Dalgety and Co., Bourke-street west…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Important Invention for Washing Wool
WE have been shown by the inventors and patentees, Messrs. W. Judell and I. Singer, diagrams of a machine for cleansing wool by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral and Stock News. Stock Reports, &c. Riverine Grazier Office
No rain has to be reported. To day showed an increase in temperature, and as the drowning man grasps at the straw, it is hoped it is a prelude to a downfall. On the 14th April…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
SINCE last report several threatened changes in the weather have come to nought, and yesterday the say was cloudless. Grass is beginning to spring up in sheltered places…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smooth Versus Wrinkled Sheep
No candid person will deny that wrinkles are a great nuisance to the shearer. Why else do the fancy breeders have to pay from 25 cents to one dollar for the shearing of a…
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