Prize Farm
We (Advertiser) learn on good authority that the prize offered by the Department of Agriculture for the best-managed farm in the South-western district of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Farming & the land, 1891
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Hume Farmers’ Union
The half-yearly meeting of this body was held on Saturday last at Burrumbuttock. Mr. C. J. Morton, president of the Union, occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne. March 4
WOOL—The London sales [?] on the 28th inst., on [?] date our London office advised us that they closer without father change, prices being fairly maintained Out of the total net quanitity available for sale. some 180.000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strange Fatality Among Cattle
In our issue of the 2th ult. was given an account of the strange fatality which had occurred among some cattle belonging to Mr. R. E. Prideaux, of Katandra. It…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Manuring for Wheat
The old plan of manuring for wheat was haul out and apply oh the stubble and then, plough under. After this came the plan of top dressing, preparing the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ballarat Butter in London. London, March 9
The butter sent to London from the Ballarat Industrial Exhibition is pronounced to very fine quality, and has sold at 114s per owt…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Commercial Intelligence. Boom in Wheat. London, March 6
A “boom” is setting in in the wheat market, and prices are rising rapidly, an advance of 2s. 6d., ex warehouse, and 1s. 6d. for off coast cargoes being already noted, and the market…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Flower Farming
Amongst the new industries which, it is suggested, may be fostered in Victoria by the aid of the Parliamentary grant of £26,000, is that of flower-farming. The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Farm, Station, and Garden. Work for the Week
THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—The rains that fell in abundance a fortnight ago in the southern parts of the colony were less plentiful in the north, where the soil…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society
The ordinary monthly meeting of the Council of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday last. Mr J. F. Carmichael occupied the chair, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, March 11
WOOL—The past week has been distinguished by an [?] of business both in London and in Melbourne Small sale will, however, be held here on Monday. [?] and Wednesday next, and as there is an active privates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
A WELCOME change in the weather took place on Monday afternoon, when nice showers of rain fell, and continued at short intervals during the evening and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Thousand Sheep Frozen. London, March 16
News continues to come to hand of farther disastrous effects of the recent severe weather and heavy snowfall. In Wales 5000 sheep have been frozen to death within the last day…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Farm, Station, and Garden. Work for the Week
THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Very unfavorable weather has been experienced during the past week; the extremely high temperature dried up the soil to a serious…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March 20, 1891
[?] several [?] hot days at the end of last week, a heavy thunderstorm passed over the town at [?] four o’clock on Tuesday morning last. The lightning was very vivid and the thunder was [?] and at times [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, March 18
WOOL—Local Sales—We held our fourteenth wool sale of the present season yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, when we offered 868 bales, of which we sold [?] bales. Although several buyers have already left for Europe, [?] most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock and Pastoral News. Wool and Stock Report. Riverine Grazier Office
THERE have been no local stock movements since our last. At the Sydney stock sales yesterday 1757 cattle were yarded, and the market was unaltered. Best beef, 15 per cwt;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The 1890 Wool Clip
Messrs Goldsbropgh, Mort and Co's annual report states that the clip of 1890 proved for growers almost as great a disappointment as the prices…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cleanliness in Butter-making
It has probably never been claimed that godliness is in the least degree essential to the making of good butter ; but its twin virtue, cleanliness, is certainly the very…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Exportation of Surplus Butter
The following letter originally appeared in the Kiama Independent, and is worthy of attention by those interested :— Sir,—On reading the effusions of “ One…
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