Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
WARM, sultry weather has obtained since last report. On several occasions a climax has apparently been at hand, but with irritating recurrence just as often did it…
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Pastoral and Agricultural Society
A meeting of the committee of this body was held on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. C. J. Morton occupied the chair, the other members present being Messrs. Grieve, W. Tutner, J…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Compact the Wheat Ground
Wheat succeeds best in a compact seed bed; one in which the particles are not fused into masses, but in which they are distinct and in close contact. Hence, in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wheat. London, November 29
The market in colonial wheat is steady. Australian wheat is unaltered at 39[?]. 6d. per 4961b., ex warehouse, and New Zealand at 37a. 9d. same delivery…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Australian Pastoral Company. London, November 27
The Australian Pastoral Company Limited pays a dividend at the rate of .6 per cent, per annum on the preference chares, places £50,000 to the reserve, and carries forward…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Cheese and Butter. London, November 30
New Zealand cheese is firm, the average price being 43[?]. per cwt. Butter is selling at from 38 J. to 60s. per cwt…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Monetary and Commercial Intelligence. the London Wool Sales. London, November 29
At the wool sales to-day, the market showed a hardening tendency, Victorian and New South Wales scoured wool, the new clip, sell at 2s. per 1b…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Farmer. A Convenient Cheese Curing Room. GEORGE E. NEWELL
A convenient curing room for cheese is necessarily on the ground floor of the factory and separated from the making apartment by a tight partition. The partition should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm, Station, and Garden. to Correspondents
“Subscriber” wishes to know how to make skim milk cheese, simply for home use. [Can any reader favor with the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Open Column. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times )
SIR,—As my name appears in the list of applicants for Council Clerkship in your issue of the 4th inst., kindly grant me space to state that I was not an applicant, but merely submitted a tender as a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, December 6, 1889
THE weather has been very hot during the week and the summer seems to be upon in earnest. The heat however, [?] exceeded 104 in the shade, but it has been [?] and and its effect [?] there visible. Stock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne. December 4
WOOL—We held oar seventh wool sale of the present season on Monday afternoon last, the and instant, when we submitted a catalogue of 8621 bales to a full attendance of buyers. The selection of wool was a particularly choice and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sales. From Messrs Gold[?] and C [?] Melbourne, December [?]
We catalogued 5000 [?] sold at [?] bales. Competition was very [?] good crossbred, which are in [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Beef, Blood and Bones, Concluded
Returning to the skinned beast, we find a swarm of human bees taking away the different parts for different purpose. The first run of blood from the cut throat of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
THE chief dread amongst pastoralists and farmers now is fire. The immense quantity of grass which the splendid season has provided is now a menacing source of danger…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Butter. London, December 9
Five tons of Victorian butter shipped by the R.M.S. Orizaba has been sold, fine quality fetching 112s, per cwt…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Wheat. London, December 5
Australian wheat is still quoted at 39s. 6d. per 496Ib., ex warehouse, and New Zealand at 37s. 9d. same delivery. Business in both descriptions is quiet…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Wool Sales. London, December 5
At the wool sales to-day prices were steady, with occasional variations in favor of buyers. LONDON, December 7. At the wool to-day increasing symptoms…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Wool and Station Produce Reports. Sydney, December 6
Messrs. GOLDSBROUGH, MORT, AND CO. LIMITED, report:—We sold to-day 2035 bales of wool, making the total for the week 4129. The attendance of buyers and the competition were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer. Feeding Calves
Farmers have various contrivances for feeding young calves waste milk and whey, but out of the many very few are convenient or desirable. As soon as grass has a good…
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