The Crops in the District
There has been a much larger area of land placed under cultivation this season, the estimated total area being 3800 acres, as against 2200 acres last year. The yield per…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1896
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Farm and Garden. Strong Fruit
A cool cellar or room is the place that the majority of amateur gardeners have at their disposal for fruit storing. No place could be better for the purpose, except, of course, a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Travelling Sheep Act
AT the local court last week two drovers were each fined for not con forming with the regulations laid down for travelling stock in the Diseases in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Liquid Manure for Fruit Trees
The roots of many fruit trees are excessively dry; so much is this the case that it is astonishing how some trees manage to remain in health. A thorough watering of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kiewa Valley Butter Factory Company
The usual monthly meeting of directors was held at the factory on Saturday, the 14th inst. Those present were the chairman (Mr. Macdonald) and Messrs. Clee, Maddock, Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →The Price of Wheat
The American election is likely to exercise a powerful influence on the price of wheat. As long as it was feared that Bryan might be elected and free silver…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Sydney Wool Sales. Wednesday, November 11
THE SYDNEY WOOL SELLING BROKERS' ASSOCIATION report that the usual pales were continued this week, the presence being so great as to necessitate the holding of sales on Monday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Item of Interest for Dairy Farmers
The accounts for October supplied to the directors of the Kiewa Butter Factory at their recent meeting gave a strong proof of the lose the dairy farmer will suffer who does not…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Loans to Farmers
We desire to draw attention to an announcement of the Australian Mutual Provident Society in our advertising columns to the effect that this old established institution is…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Crops in the Hay District
There has been a much larger area of land placed under cultivation this season, the estimated total area being 3800 acres, as against 2200 acres last year. The yield per [?]ro will…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week
THE KITCHEN GARDEN. — Thin out the weakest specimens in the onion crop, leaving the remaining 4 inches apart for bulbs of medium size, but where large onions are…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Wheat Market
We heard of a sale of a parcel of wheat in Albury (says the Border Post), at 4s 3d, which price is the nominal quotation. Flour, locally, has advanced to £12 10s per ton, and bran and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, November 20, 1896
THE[?] weather has been experienced during the weekend with the exception of seven points on Tuesday morning and an equal quantity at The Willows [?] other records are to hand. Generally speaking the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sales. (Dalgety and Co. Limited.) Monday, November 16
WOOL.—We advise having offered 3100 bales of wool at our sale to-day, in the presence of a full muster of buyers. The vigorous demand reported at our last week’s sale was equally pronounced to-day, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Parsley
This useful production will require extra care some seasons. Heat and drought in excess are never favourable to its growth, and both seem to breed parsley pests. As has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Case of Alleged Sheep Stealing at Mulvala. Accused Committed for Trial
THE two young men, Donald Burns and Roland Hill Ellis, who were charged before Messrs. W. B. Cairnes and A. Camplin, Js.P., at the Mulwala Police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden. Strong Fruit
A cool cellar or room is the place that the majority of amateur gardeners have at their disposal for fruit storing. No place could be better for the purpose, except, of course, a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wool Sales. MELBOURNE, Nov. 23
Dalgetty & Co. Ltd. report having held their weekly wool sale to-day in the presence a full attendance of buyers to whom they submitted a large and representative…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Returns. (To the Editor Berrigan Advocate.)
SIR,—Like the poor he is always with [?] that [?] getting seven bags to the [?] He turns up every year, [?] Effect Metropolitan [?] —Large yields in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Rinderpest. Enormous Loss of Cattle. London, November 21
The losses caused by the rinderpest in South Africa have been enormous. It is estimated that the Matabele have lost 200,000 cattle, and Khama, the chief of…
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