The Wool Season
From Melbourne a correspondent writes as follows:—The suspension of the wool sales over the holidays affords a favorable opportunity for making…
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Farm and Garden
Does it pay to buy fertilizers when you can grow clover sod that is estimated to be worth twelve dollars per acre for that purpose? Remember that besides the sod…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Dropping
On the question of that frequent trouble with sheep, the dropping of their wool, Mr. S. Henry gives the following in the American Agriculturist as his opinion of the cause of it:—“There…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Burning of a Wool-scouring Establishment
The wool-scouring establishment of Messrs. Francis and Cook, situated in close proximity to the Prince Albert bridge, over the Barwon River, Geelong, was, with its contents, totally…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week
THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—It would be well, where the soil of the garden is sandy, to take any opportunity that may occur of adding strong loam, or even clay if it can be obtained…
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A new dairy residence, house, milk yard, and farm buildings are being erected at the Agricultural College grounds, Hawkesbury, and it is expected that they will be completed…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Farms and Homes around Berrigan .(By-our Special Reporter.) Iii Second Day
An early start from the Federal Hotel and we arrive at The Model the [?] Reynolds on and Russel just as the harvest teams are' going to the Paddock [?] farm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Offices. Deniliquin Friday Evening, January 5, 1894
THE weather during the early part of the week has been not and [?] the [?] reg[?] last 1095 [?] In the evening a heavy [?] passed over the town, and the wind blew with [?]…
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The lives stock is not much given to lying abed late In the morning. This you can easily determine by visiting, the barn about daylight. Now, in the cold winter mornings…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne Wool Markets. The New Zealand Land Association Limited, on hehalf of The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited.) Melbourne. 8rd January. [?]
WOOL—Since our sale of the 21st December[?] held, but [?] will be [?] on the 9th [?] our sale [?] the 11th instant. As a fair [?] will have [?] in the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Make Apple Butter
A new subscriber sake how to make a large quantity of apple butter. The President.—We have in reserve directions for making apple butter on a large…
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At a meeting of the British bee-keepers association streets was laid by several of the speakers on the necessity for thorough education in the details of this pursuit…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sundries What a Farmer Should Do
Always believe in farming so long as it pays. Always blanket the warm horse standing in the wind…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
The following stock movements are reported locally: -- January 6--23 cattle, bred in Victoria, exported for re-introduction on July 11, Geo, Clark owner, Jan, 8 -- 10…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wodonga Cattle Sales
Messrs. ARTHUE S. KING and Co. report the yards at Wodonga to have been fully supplied beyond requirements with several drafts of Queensland bullocks and cows, as well as with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Expert Experiences of Australian Butter
Mr. Valentine, the New Zealand dairy expert, whose name has become familiar in connection with the butter and cheese exports from that colony to London, has just returned…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society
A meeting of the committee of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held on Wednesday. Mr. G. A. Thompson occupied the chair, and the other members…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →How to Pick Good Sheep for Breeding
To attain this end those sheep with the strongest, longest, finest, densest, and most even fleeces only should be taken. And the nearer the carcase approaches a square every…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A New Market for Wool
The United Slates is at present a centre of great interest to Australia. The “free wool” proposals, so long looked for, have at last been definitely included in the tariff reform…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne, January 9
The UNION MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY held their first sale for this year, and submitted catalogue of 3000 bales, neatly the whole of which was sold. Prices ruled slightly in favor…
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