Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
CHANGEABLE weather has been experienced during the past week. On Tuesday afternoon the clouds gathered thickly overhead and about daybreak on Wednesday a very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming & the land, 1889
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Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:-- WOOL
There is little to report respecting this market. Buyers continuo active, and we have been able to make satisfactory sales of all lots to hand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer. How to Make Cheese
I often wonder if the younger generation of farmers' wives have given up the old-time practice of making home-made cheese now and then, especially during warm weather…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm, Station, and Garden. Agriculture As a Profession
Of late years a great deal of thought has been devoted to the question of agriculture, especially in England and America. In England the problem is how to compete…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Preparation of Stud Sheep for Sale
The following letter appears in the Sydney Mail in reply to a letter from Mr Wooldridge:— “Sir,—I read with pleasure Mr Wooldridge’s letter on the preparation of stud sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, August 9, 1899
Daring the week the weather has been [?]. On Tuesday night splendid [?] fell, and on Wednesday a [?] of 78 points was [?]. This is the first good fall once the end of June, and with the exception of 15…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited).Melbourne, August 7
WOOL—There is little to report respecting this market. Buyers continue active, and we have been able to make satisfactory sales of all lots offered. SHEEPSKINS—There bas been a keen demand tor all good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queensland Cattle Stations
The "Queenslander" of a late date says:—It is always a pleasure to record the establishment of a pure stud herd of cattle in the far bush. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →farmer. The Rearing of Chickens Ma[?]le Easy
I have come to talk of the common, every-day affairs of our lives. The little things that go to make up the sum of our lives are the subjects that must of necessary occupy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
A WEEK of dry but cloudy days, with cold winds, hap been our experience since last report. Rain in unmeasurable quantity fell an one or two occasions, Last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Wool Sales
In view of the opening of the wool sales next month, a conference of selling and buying wool brokers was held on Monday for the purpose of disc[?]ssing one or two matters of detail…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Wheat Harvest of the United Kingdom. London, August 12
The Times estimates that the wheat crop of the United Kingdom this year will be nearly 10,000,000 quarters…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Farm, Station, and Garden. the Barooga Estate
The broad province of Riverina, which stretches from the Murray to the Murrumbidgee, is famous for its large estates, its vast plains, its valuable sheep, and is also…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society
The ordinary monthly meeting of the Council of Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural -Society was held at tho Royal Hotel on Wednesday last. Mr J. S. Brain occupied the chair, and tho following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report Pastoral Times Office [?] Friday Evening August 16, 1889
THE Weather has been fine during the week. This morning was [?] and inclined to mugginess. Shearing is [?] general in the district not many of the sheds are still [?] getting ready for a start. So far there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market, (Dalgety and Company limited). Melbourne. August 14
WOOL We are advised of the despatch ct several consignments of new clip wools from the early districts of New Wales, and the condition of the chin is generally reported to be much better that was at first anticipated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Stock Reports
MESSRS GOLDSBROUGH, MORT AND COMPANY LIMITED, Melbourne, report under date 14th August:—Wool.—We catalogued 599 bales for our sale to-day, and had a full attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About Wool
Of the composition of wool this chemical [?]emte has been given: Carbon, fifty percent,; hydrogen, seven; [?]regen, seventeen; oxygen, twenty-one; and sulphur five. While…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Melbourne Sheep Show
The usual demonstration in connection with the opening of the annual show of the Australian Sheep Breeders’ Association was dispensed with on Monday, owing to the absence…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Farmer. Diseases of Fowls
There are so many diseases incident to poultry that it is impossible to describe the symptoms of all in a brief article. The disease most prevalent in the winter and…
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