Wool and Stock Reports
MESSRS PITT, SON, AND BADGERY wire under yesterday's date:—20,000 sheep were penned to-day, and the market was very firm throughout. We sold 5500, including…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farming & the land, 1891
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Commercial Intelligence: Great Excitement in the Wheat Markets. London, August 14
The action of the Russian Government in prohibiting the export of rye has ca[?]sed a panic in Germany, where rye is now 16s. per quarter higher than wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Farm and Garden. The Use and Abuse of Lime
Some time ago the Border Union Agricultural Society offered a prize for the best essay on this subject. The successful competitor was Mr. G. S. Douglas, and the essay has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Work on the Farm
It is usual to consider that spring commences in earnest about the middle of this month. Such being the case, it is to be supposed that farmers, awake to their own…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Cattle Yards Question
IT is really time that the cattle yards question at Deniliquin was settled. It has been long enough before the Council, and some definite steps should be taken to provide for the necessities of the case,…
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SIR—In view of the settlement of [?] agreement and the acceptance of [?] by the A.S.U. on the 8th instant, [?] thought by sheepowners. who are members[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin Friday Evening August 21, 1891
SOME light showers fell in the Dart of the week, and [?] then the weather has been cold and [?] until to-day. It is now [?] and [?] ton temperature [?] being that of an [?] spring day. The season…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
[?] I see by your report of the meeting of the [?] of the Common in your issue of the 8th [?] the herdsman has applied for more salary. [?] indeed strange in view of the fact that there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, August 28, 1891
THIRTY points of rain fell since last report. This makes a total of [?] points for the month, and 15-97 inches since the beginning of the year. The weather now seems to have not in fine, and to-day the temperature is comparatively warm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, August [?]
WOOL—The first instalments of new clip wools have reached the seaboard, but it would be [?] early to give an opinion as to its quality. We have received the first bales of [?] wethers’ wool, which appears bright and in…
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For the early part of this week we have experienced summer weather, end the damp and dull days which have been so continuous for some weeks past has for a time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Things Farmers Should Know
THE young farmer not only needs the rudiments of o good English education, but professional knowledge also. He has to deal not only with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
The days are now getting warm, with indications of a change by way of thunderstorms. Vines are springing fast-- in favoured localities being already in leaf…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Gauge the Age of Sheep
Almost every stockman knows how to tell the age of a horse by its teeth; but many of our readers may be (that is, those who are not connected with pastoral…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Humorous. A Farmer's Review of Religion
This argufyin' useless pints. As where Cain got his wife, Was Jonah swallowed by the whale? Is death the end of life?…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Hereditary, or Selective Breeding
(A paper read by Prof. Lewis McLouth, President of Agricultural College of Dakota, before the Dakota Fine Stock Breeders' Association, at their annual meeting at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer’s Garden
Life, and agricultural life especially, is not worth living for simply what financial headway one may make. The comfort of the home and the pleasantness of rural…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mundawaddera Farmers’ Union. Monday, August 31
A special meeting of the members of this union was held on Saturday afternoon last in the local schoolroom, the president, (Mr. G. F, Plunkett) occupying the chair. There was a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Cancerous Cattle
IT is surprising that no special legislative effort is made to cope with the dread disease, cancer in cattle. Every now and then we hear of an odd bullock being detected as diseased…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Murrumbidgee Pastoral Show
THE twenty-seventh annual show in connection with the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association was opened on Wednesday, when the greater part of…
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