The Wagga Farm
The Minister for Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Sydney Smith, has received a request from the farmers of Albury and other places to ask the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Farming & the land, 1896
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Pastoral and Agricultural Society of Deniliquin
The ordinary monthly meeting of the Co[?] of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society of D[?] was held at the Royal Hotel on Wedne[?] last, Mr. W. R. Raleigh, the president, being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March 13, 1896
THE week has been hot and angry, several days being over a hundred in the shade. Rain has threatened on two or three days but none fell until this morning. Heavy [?] of clouds backed up in the west and south…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. Land and Income Tax Points. ( To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
[?]—Will you kindly answer the following [?]tions through your paper, as myself and many [?] are in a quandary as to what we have to do [?] Land and Income Taxes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne Wool Markets (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, March 11
WOOL.—The London wool sales continue firm and active, with very brisk competition, and our head office cabled us as follows;— “As compared with the last series of sales, prices for Western Victorian greasy merinos, also all sorts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden Fowls Eating Feathers
Some fowls are very troublesome in this way. If it is only one or two that do it, which is often the case, they should be killed. Fowls in confinement have rather an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer Nick’s Scarecrow
Out in the corn-field, grouped together, A flock of crows discussed the weather. Observing them, thrifty farmer Nick Declared that the crows were ‘gettin’ too…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool and Stock Reports. the Australasian Mortgage and Agency
COMPANY, Limited, Melbourne, report, 11th March:—Wool.—There is good inquiry privately, and we report the sale of several oddments at prices which show an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden Derhoning Cows
In a number of cases that have come under observation the yield of milk of cows inclined to be bad tempered has been very materially increased by dehorning; and at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat
Australian wheat-growers may be able to gauge their power to compete with the American wheatgrower in the markets of the world from the following, supplied by a writer in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Pastoral and Agricultural Society
A meeting of the committee was held yesterday, Dr. Andrews in the chair. The report of the Improvement committee was read, recommending the painting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Essay on Mixed Farming in the Berrigan District. First Prize Essay
The following essay was entered at the late Show, and. was written by Mr J. W, Guthrie, of Yarroweyah. As Mr Guthrie has had considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden Derhoning Cows
In a number of cases that have come under observation the yield of milk of cows inclined to be bad tempered has been very materially increased by dehorning and at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Farmer Shows How
In order to make farming pay Mr. C. H. Lyon, a farmer near Ballan, says it must of necessity be by the use of quick-working implements. He argues thus:—"I have three…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Book Keeping on the Farm
Farmers as a rule are too negligent to keep books. They look upon it as quite unnecessary, yet they often complain of hard times, cheap wheat, and low prices for all other…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week
THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—The hoe will require to be kept going amongst whatever plants may be in the ground, not only for the sake of keeping it free from weeds, but also to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Stock Report Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March 20, 1895
A SPLENDID fall of rain was experienced on Sunday morning last. It commenced early and rained steadily until about two o’clock, when heavy downpour took plate. The sky then cleared until about seven o’clock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. the Deniliquin Co-operative Bakery Company. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
SIR,—I as a shareholder of the late Co-operative Bakery, would like to get any information as to why they have not wound up the Company, and if there is any dividend. If so, why is it not divided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Markets. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, March 18
WOOL.—The London wool sales keep extremely firm, and prices are steadily hardening. All classes of wool are eagerly competes for, but for the high-class Western Victorian district wools the demand is irregular, and prices do…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden
One of the best means of destroying snails and slugs in the garden is to dust the plants with lime. Salt strewn along the edged of beds will also keep them from the plants…
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