Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
STILL the same doleful, but now rather alarming cry, is heard on all sides, "When are we going to get any rain? Changes we get in plenty. Now it will be a burster…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1890
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Wheat. London, January 11
The English wheat market is lifeless. The Continental markets are firm. The American can market is changing a little for the worse. A cargo of 6500 quarters of Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Dairy. Creameries, and Causes, Contributing to Their Success or Failure
The success of a creamery, like most commercial concerns, depends greatly on its situation. If a creamery is intended for the manufacture of butter alone, and its bye…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Lime, and How to Use It
Lime of itself is not a manure. Its office as a fertiliser is to neutralise acids in vegatable matter, thereby hastening decomposition, Po[?]sh is nature's neutraliser, but being very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Exportation of Dairy Produce. a Highly Successful Experiment
The Victorian Minister of Agriculture has received the subjoined communication from Mr. D. Wilson, the dairy expert, respecting the exportation of Victorian butter to the…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Farm Station, and Garden. Fruit Blights and Their Remedy
From a work published by the New Zealand Government we extract the following:— THE CHIEF DISEASES OF FRUIT TREES ALSO THE MOST PREVALENT FUNGOID…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin Friday Evening January 17, [?]
The weather continues very hot and yesterday the thermometer was again up to 108 deg In the elude The river continues to fall slowly, and the pasturee and stored water are d[?]ying up very fast There is an enormous quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne. January 15
Wool—After the rise established last week, prices have shown no further change, though the market remains [?] At last week’s auctions in Melbourne some 21.500 bales were offered and 18,700 bales sold. Our next sale will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sales. From Messrs Goldsbrough, More and Co., Limited Melbourne, January 15
We offered 7000 bales for our tale to-day and told at auction and privately during the week 6400 bales. There was a large attendance of buyers and the competition very brisk for all lots at late [?] Greasy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Meeting of Sheep Directors
A meeting of local sheep directors was held on Saturday, at the stock office. Mr Donald Grant, chairman of the board, occupied the chair, and the other gentlemen present were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Lime, and How to Use It
Lime of itself is not a manors. Its office as a fertiliser is to neutralise acids in vegetable matter, thereby hastening decomposition. Potash is nature's neutraliser, but being very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Remedies For Cattle Lice
Kerosene and lard, kerosene emulsion, potato water and pyrethum were experimented with upon infested animals the past winter, with the following results:--…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
NOTHING to chronicle but a succession of scorching hot days, with the thermometer at from 98 to 109 in the shade, with no sign of change, water on all sides getting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat. London, January 15
A cargo of 10,000 quarters of Australian wheat, new crop, January-February shipment, has been cold at 35[?]. 3d. per 4801b. c.[?].f. LONDON, January 16…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Selection and Improvement of Seed Wheat
It is true that wheat taken from a good a poor soil will yield less than it did on the good farm, yet it will yield more than the seed grown on the poor soil will…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wool and Station Produce Reports. Melbourne, January 16
THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY COMPANY LIMITED brought forward a catalogue of 5975 bales, in the presence of a large number of buyers and others interested…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wangaratta Police Court. Thursday, January 16, 1890. (Before Mr. C. L. Dobbin, P.m.) Alleged Cattle Stealing
James W. Gregory, on remand, was charged with stealing a heifer from Patrick Flanagan, farmer, North Wangaratta. Mr. John Norton appeared for the defence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All About Wine. the Industry Which Will Rival That of Wool.the World’s Wine Product
The people of this magnificently rich and expansive country of New South Wales have hardly yet woke up to their enormous wealth in rolling acres, or their great future in the…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Farm and Garden. Gapes in Chickens
The only visible symptom of gapes is a continued gaping, accompanied by a wheezing sound, which increases in frequency and violence until the disease begins to yield to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Stories. A Tough Farm
"Talking of life-preservers," said the truthful mariner as he knocked the ashes out of his pipe, "you remember the old steamer Roustabout that used to run on the Lakes?…
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