Wodonca Cattle Sales
Messrs. PEARSON, BOWE, SMITH, and Co. report having sold by auction, in their yards at Wodonga, on 1st inst,, 483 bullocks and cows for Messrs. Ware and Scott, Mooney plains,…
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Sheep Licks Against Worms
It is reported that the following licks have been used with good results -- Salt and sulphur; salt and sulphate of iron; salt and turpentine; salt, sulphur, and…
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The Dubbo Dispatch reports :—On Sunday morning last the inmates of “ Whitethorne,” the residence of Mr. E. H. Mumford, storekeeper, of this town, were very much shocked…
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Mr. H. A. Thibault, of the “Champ E[?]ysees Farm,” Mulwala, has sent the Mercury a sheaf of a new kind of wheat grown by him on the farm mentioned…
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The Swedish wheat, supposed to be rust resisting, grown by Mr. James Williams, near Numurkah, few developed rust in severe form, although the disease has not been…
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Messrs GOLDSBROUGH, MORT, and Co. report: — We offered 6426 bales of wool yesterday. The assortment being an unusually good one there was a full muster of buyers who competed with…
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Messrs. DALGETY and COMPANY LIMITED report :—At our wool sale to-day we offered 3400 bales, comprising an excellent selection of good to superior merinos and crossbreds, chiefly from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Prize Farms and Crops. Mr. West’s Report
To the President of the Berrigan Agricultural Society :— SIR,—I have the honor to report that in accordance with the request of your Society…
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HOWEVER much lawful means of gaining a livelihood may have been fettered during the existing period of depression, baby farmers appear to have their hands well…
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The advocates for flat cultivation of maize say that whoever looks at a field of growing corn will see by the way its leaves shed the water how and where…
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The sensational baby farming caas, in which Frances Knorr, a young married woman, was charged with having murdered an unknown infant in a house in Moreland-road, Brunswick,…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Horse and Dairy Stock. Melbourne, December 6
Messrs. CAMPBELL AND SONS, Kirk’s Bazaar report:—Horses continue to come forward in large numbers, the majority of which this week were a very inferior class. The demand has…
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A party of World’s Fair foreign commis-missioners and other visitors (writes the New York correspondent of the Adelaide Observer) not long ago went up into the great wheat…
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THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Kidney beans should not be placed deeper than two inches, but peas will vegetate at doable or even treble that depth. Swedish sod orange jelly or white…
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Six lively sheep ticks will make the existence of a lamb perfectly miserable, and a dozen will rain all hope of profit in lamb feeding, however generous the ration. From…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening. December 8. 1893
During the next week the weather has been [?] and [?] The [?] ranged from 96 [?] to 99 [?] three days of the week but since then it has been [?] co durable A [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. an Object Lesson in Protection. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
SIR,—According to some Protectionists the result of a restriction against [?] competition is a reduction of prices. I am not aware of the fiscal belief o four butchers but sincerely trust they are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne Wool Markets (Dalgety and Company Limited), Melbourne, December 6
WOOL our wool sale on Monday we offered [?] [?] excellent [?] of [?] to superior [?] Victoria, Gippsland and Tasmania. Competition for all [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sales. From the Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company-limited, Melbourne. Tuesday, DECEMBER 5
We offered to-day 4240 bales and sold 3870. Competition was very active, tut not beyond recent limits. prices remaining earns as last week. Walla Walla sold to 131, fleece to 8¼1; Nichol iambi 114d,…
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An authority on pruning says: A tree on which the fruit is borne chiefly on the ends of limbs has not been properly pruned. Judiciously trimmed, the fruit buds will be…
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