Wool and Stock Reports
THE AUSTRALIAN MORTGAGE LAND AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, Melbourne, we have received the following telegram from Messrs. Heimuch, Schwartze and Co., London…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming & the land, 1889
646 stories in Murray's papers · page 13 of 33
Sheep
A sheep whose wool made nineteen yards of cloth a yard wide is owned by a fanner in Pennyslvania. The clean, long-fired fleeces are the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Snakes as Dairy Maids. How a Couple of Serpents Grew Fat at a Planter's Expense
Samuel C. Gates, says a letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, prides himself on his fine cows. Recently he noticed that one of them gave very little milk and he came to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Making Hay White the Sun Shines
As our farmer friends, we hope, will soon again be making hay while the sun shines, it may be well to briefly note the leading facts that science has to teach us respecting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
MORE rain fell on Saturday and Sunday last bringing up the total fall since 1st inst. to 4 inches 6 points. Since then the weather has been flue, and during the sunny hours of the day, warm. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Meeting of Sheep Directors
A meeting of the local Board of Sheed Directors was held on Saturday last. Present—Messrs A. McFarland, John Dill, and G. Melrose. Mr McFarland occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Station Reports. Produce
The next wool season will witness an addition the list of Melbourne wool-selling brokers. The new firm is that of Younghusband and Co., Limited, which has just been registered under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat and Flour Markets. London, May 9
Australian wheat is lower, being quoted at 39s. per 4961b., ex warehouse. New Zealand long-berried wheat is weaker at 38s. 6d. ; LONDON, May 11…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Dairy Maid's Fate
Ploughs are now made without handles and the plough boy has only to sit above a pair of wheels and drive across the field to turn up the earth. The dairy maid will be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer. Don't Fight the Team
If a horse shows signs of stubbornness or contra[?]inees, just get mad yourself, and you [?]an rest assured you are fixed for the rest of the day, as long as you want to keep it up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Farms
There are many reasons why small farms are better than large ones, writes a correspondent in the Husbandman. Countries in which large farms predominate are sparsely…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Rural Notes. Use of Manure on the Farm
“Practice with science” is the motto of the best farmers in England, and Borne of the best Agricultural Societies, Colleges, and journals have adopted these words as a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Melbourne Wool Market, (D[?]lgety and Company Limited). Melbourne. May 15
WOOL—Local Sales—Our market remains quiet but very firm, all lots offering being keenly competed for by the trade. The English malls which have been de[?]vered during the week have brought full [?] of the sales of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The French Sheep Farm
Mr. Gustave Heuze contributes to a French journal an interesting account of the national sheep breeding farm (berger[?]) at Rambouillet, which has now been in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Worms in Sheep
A preventative remedy for nearly all kinds of worms to which sheep are liable was recently brought before the Agricultural Bureau of South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rural A Lesson in Butter
A little maid in the morning sun Stood merrily singing and churning—"Oh, how I wish this butter was done Then off to the field's I'd be turning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
The Pastoral Times (Deniliquin) says: -- nearly a quarter of an inch of rain fell in Deniliquin on Sunday and Monday last bringing the total from the beginning of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Beet Crop. London, May 20
Mr. F. O. Licht, in his May circular, estimates that for the present campaign the beet crop will amount to 283,000 tons in excess of that of the previous campaign…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, May 24, 1889
More rain fell on Sunday end Monday last to the extent of 13 [?] four and a quarter inches since the beginning of the month and nearly fourteen [?] [?] the beginning of the year. The season is now of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited).Melbourne, May 32
WOOL.—Local Sales—We held our usual monthly winter sale of wool on Wednesday last, the 16th inst., before a very good attendance of buyers. Competition was very animated, and we were able to effect a good clearance at prices…
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