Ostrich Farming in Victoria
VISITORS to Mildura may form an agreeable break in their journey by Arriving at Kerang one day in advance of the steamer Baby leaving Swan Hill, and driving over to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1890
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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
SINCE last report only 17 points of rain have been locally registered. Last Friday night a thorough change appeared imminent, but a soft rain fell far a few hours,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter. London, February 20
The Victorian butter by tho R.M.S. Cuzco is selling at from 100a. to 105s. per cwt. for choice quality, and from 70s. to 80e. for medium quality…
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Messrs Boxton, Ronald and Co's annual report for 1889 is to band. The circular makes the following observations on the subject of the market…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat and Flour. London, February 22
The English wheat market is dull. The Continental markets are changing a little for the worse. The American market is advancing. For forward shipments of Australian wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Farm and Garden. Live Stock Notes
Shelter in Pasture.—We have often urged the need, in a treeless pasture, of some shelter to afford the animals protection from the excessive heat of the sun. If this shelter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →farmer. Management of Cream. Rexry Stewart
The management of the cream is the most particular of all the special points in butter-making, both as regards the quantity and the quality of the butter. Sweet cream…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm, Station, and Garden
THE VALUE OF IRRIGATED LANDS. Irrigation in the United States is almost an unknown quantity. Certainly so to the general public. yet it is already the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Baby Farming at Warsaw. London, February 24
The police at Warsaw have discovered that baby farming on an extensive and systematic scale has been carried on in that city. It has been ascertained that no fewer than 76 infants…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Farmers and the Singletax. to the Editor of the Albury Banner
SIR,—Mr. Brittlebank in a number of involved sentences culled from the works of Henry George takes exception to your having said that the Georgian theory means…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening February 28, 1890
Two points of rain fall last Saturday, the first [?] from the clouds for over five weeks, and for a day or two afterwards the weather was moderately cool, but on Tuesday and Wednesday the temperature…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, February 26
WOOL—Our local sales were resumed last week, and on Friday, the 21st inst., we submitted a catalogue of 430 bales to a good attendance of hovers. Competition was brisk and we were able to sell 807 bales at satisfactory prices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
IN the North-eastern district of Victoria the dams are beginning to dry up, and owners of overstocked country begin to view the position as serious. The few…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opthalmia in Cattle
MR. THEODORE, WATSON, Inspector of Stock at Corowa, has favoured us with a copy of the following correspondence relating to the outbreak of ophthalmia in cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →D[?]termary. Diseases in Cattle
Dadd says the pathology, or doctrine of diseases is little understood. Many different causes have been assigned for disease, and as many different modes of cure have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial Intelligence. Wheat and Flour. London, March 1
The English wheat market is firmer. The Continental markets are inclined to buoyancy. The American markets are tending upwards. Superfine Australian flour is quoted at an…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Farmer. Disease in Farm Animals
We should endcavor to prevent the appearance of disease rather than to cure it after it has come. Sanitation; not medication, is what will reduce disease among farm animals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm, Station, and Garden. Spraying Fruit Trees
The most important accession to recent horticultural practice is the spraying of fruit trees with arsenical poisons for the destruction of various insects. No…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Stock Report Pastoral Times [?] March 7. [?]
The dry weather still continues and with the exception of two points in Fahrosry, two in January, and two in December, we have had an rain since the 18th November. a period of nearly sixteen weeks. Thee watersupply in tanks is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited) Melbourne. March 2
WOOL—The past week has been a very quiet one in the wooI trade. No sales are being held in London, and in our local wool market there has been only one small sale at which [?] hales were offered and [?] (including private…
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