Vine Crops in Drills
After several years experience I am well pleased with the method of planting melons, squashes, and cucu[?]bers in drills with [?] this plan proves superior to the old system…
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Late-planted Crops
The usual reason for delaying the planting of a crop is becau[?] the season a backward a matter which man cannon controlor because the land is wet, and is slow in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Garden. ONIONS
One of the most wholesome vegetables grown is the onion. Yet, strange to say, but few people use it as liberally as they should. Boiled onions used frequently in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Springhurst Butter Factory
As the Corowa butter factory is shortly to be an established fact, shareholders and intending shareholders would do well to reed the following lesson on the folly of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victorian Railway Freights. the New South Wales Wheat Rebate Abolished
The question of securing some intercolonial arrangement to charge ordinary railway rates near the border was discussed at a conference on Tuesday between the Minister of Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Big Bee Farm
At Butler's Falls, near Dabbo, says an exchange, one of the most extensive bee farms in the west is to be found. The proprietor, Mr. H. Ingram, has spared neither time nor money…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week
THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Gardeners of all classes, more especially amateurs, would do well to endeavor to make improvements in the quality of the vegetables they grow by…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Cattle
Of the nine entries in the cattle classes only one came forward, a heifer over two and under three years, owned by Mrs Hannan of Deniliquin, and it was awarded a first prize in its class…
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There was a very noticeable emptiness about the pens as contrasted with what visitors were accustomed to in previous years, but notwithstanding this drawback to the success of the show, there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gathering Butter
Oftentimes both the farmer’s wife and professional dairymen experience considerable trouble in gathering the butter into a solid mass, even after it appears in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anthrax in Sheep. Legislation [?] Necessary
A conference of delegates from the pastures and stock boards of the colony was held at Aarons’ Exchange Hotel last week to discuss the question of anthrax in sheep, with the view of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How to Judge Wool
The finest and softest wool is always on the shoulders of the sheep. An expert on judging sheep always look at the wool on the shoulders first. A writer of experience in rearing fine woolled…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, July 20, 1894
THE weather been unpleasant daring the week end there has been little business doing owing to the elections races and show. The river at Albury has been rising for several days past, and e fairly high flood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Dairy Produce
The show of farm and dairy produce was not up to the usual standard. Mr Ingram, of Norwood, and Mr T. Treloar, of Studley Park, showed some, good samples of wheat, the former getting the first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society’s Show. Thursday & Friday, July 19Th & 20Th List of Judges :—
Marino Sheep.—J. H. Sargood and J. L. Currie. Cattle—J. W. McLaurin and W. Matthews. Horses—J. G. Ross, H. McLennan and Osborne Wilshire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Markets (Dalgety and Company Limited), Melbourne, July 18
WOOL.—Under 11th Inst., ear London office reports ;— The market is active competition at the sales is brisk. English and Continental buyers are the principal operators. Nearly all the offerings are being sold. Also,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales. (From the Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company, Melbourne.)
We have received the following telegram from Meters H[?] and Co., London, dated 19th inst, —“ Wool Sales. —Since our last telegram there is no change for the bulk of wools. The sales, as at present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following are the details of the awards :—Wool Section A—class 1
Second and last year of the Tenth Challenge Prize, for the scoured fleece of highest value shorn at Deniliquin Show Yards during the show week in July, 1894, from Merino Stud Rams, grass fed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Cultivation and Value Clover
At the recent Spring Valley Farmers’ Institute an address on clover was given by G. D. Brill which, as reported for the Country Gentleman, is as follows :…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool and Stock Reports. the Australian Mortgage and Agency
COMPANY, LIMITED, report, Melbourne, 18th July, 1891:—Wool—The London sales have progressed most satisfactorily, opening rates being well maintained and in some…
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