The Wheat Market. London, February 7
Australian wheat is quoted at 41s. 3d. per 4961b, ex-warehouse. The market is quiet. New Zealand long-berried wheat is quoted at 40s. 9d…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Farming & the land, 1889
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The Wool Sales. London, February 7
At the wool sales to-day prices were very firm, Port Phiilip greasy wools selling at 20½d. per lb. LONDON, February 9…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Melbourne Markets. Dalgety and Company Limited, report:-- WOOL
With the exception of a few small private sales, there have been no transactions in our market during the past week. All the brokers are, however, holding sales this week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rural Notes. Common Disorders Affecting Cattle. Emphysema Infectuosum—“ Black Leg”— “ Quarter Evil.”
Blackleg is invariably associated with a condition of plethora; it is nearly always a thriving animal that is struck—one that has been making rapid improvement, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farmer. A Plan For a Woman's Poultry Farm
Most of the weak points about poultry arms have to do in some way with the obstinate fact that the ground which many chickens live on will get unhealthy. Even…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer. Beef, Blood and Bones. Concluded
Returning to the skinned beast, we find a swarm of human bees taking away the dif[?] for different puproses. The of blood from the cut throat of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Exhibition Dairy
Mr. David Wilson, the superintendent of the Government working model dairy at the Melbourne Exhibition-building, has sent in a final report to the Minister of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Children. Mary's Little Lamb. The Owner of the Original Creature Relates Its Story. HOW Mrs. Mary E. Tyler Discovered the Helpless Waif and Saw It Develop Into a Good-Sized Sheep-The Verse Written in its Honor
Mrs. Mary E. Tyler gives the following story of the original "little lamb" : "One cold, bleak March morning I went out with father, and after the cows had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society
The ordinary monthly meeting of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday last. Mr W. R. Virgoe (president), occupied the chair, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Open Column. the Pastoral Society’s New Rules. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
Sir,—It seems to me that the writer of the sub-leader in your last issue on the above subject, fell into the error common to all who con[?]e part of a written instrument without grasping the effect of the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report Pastoral Times Office. Friday Evening, February 15, 1889
The [?] cooled down considerably after last week’s rain [?] within the last day or two the temperature is [?] [?]. On Wednesday 107 [?] in the shade was [?] Thursday was cooler, but to-day was [?] very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and company Limited). Melbourne, February 13
WOOL—With the exception of a few small private sales. there have been no transactions in our market during the past week. All the brokers are, however, holding sales this week, and we shall offer a fair catalogue this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sales. From the Australasian Mo[?] and Agency Company Limited, Melbourne. Friday, February 15
We offered to-day 918 bales wool and sold 898 bales including some exhibition wool, these sold up to 15d for J. L. Currie’s greasy, and up to [?] lb for Sir Samuel Wilson’s washed [?]. Ordinary wools for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Victorian Farmers’ Programme
As an illustration of one of the results of protection, nothing better can be found than the manifesto which was agreed to at a meeting of the Victorian Farmers’ Protection Association,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Stock Reports
THE AUSTRALIAN MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY, Melbourne, report under date 15th inst.:—We offered to-day 918 bales of wool; and sold 898, including some exhibition wools…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer. A Plan For a Woman's Poultry Farm
Most of the weak points about poultry farms have to do in some way with the obitinate fact that the ground which many thickens live on will get unhealthy. Even…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
THE weather still continues hot and dry. There were signs of rain here on Monday, but a strong breeze from the southward dissipated them. In spite of this the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About Washing Butter
Some dairymen do not wash the butter at all which they use at their own table, and say that they like the slightly acidulous taste imparted to the butter by the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Wool Sales. London, February 16
The colonial wool sales are proceeding, with a general improvement on the opening rates. French buyers are, especially, operating freely. The total number of bales cataloged to date is…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Close of the London Wool Sales. London, February 19
The first series of colonial wool sales for the present year closed this evening with great firmness. The total number of bales catalogued has been 250,000, of which 124 bales have been…
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