A New Breed of Sheep
A new variety of sheep has been raised in the Agricultural Department of the University of California. This breed, which it is said will mean much to the wool and meat markers,…
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679 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 34
Wheat Lands of the South. Abound Berrigan
Since my last communication under this heading I have spent a week in and around Berrigan, which as intimated in my report of its show, is the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Australian Dairying Industry. a Manchester Delegate's View. London, March 8
Mr. Benjamin Jones, one of the delegates of the Manchester Co-operative Society, who visited Australia and New Zealand last year with the view of establishing…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Candidate and the Farmer
There is a good story going the rounds in London concerning the newly-appointed chancery judge—Mr. Justice Byrne. It is printed by the Rocket, and refers to the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dairy Notes
A writer in Hoard's Dairyman, calling for the experiences of others in crossing breeds or the production of a model dairy cow, makes the following statements:—"I have from time…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week
THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Curled kale may have the plants set up and further Bowings of seed made. Brussels sprouts and savoys may receive similar treatment. Parsnips, carrots,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Pastoral and Agricultural Society of Deniliquin
The usual “monthly meeting of the Council of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held on Thursday afternoon. Mr W. E Raleigh occupied the chair, and the following members were also…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report Pastoral [?] OFFICE, Deniliquin, Friday Evening March 12 1807
THE weather [?] the week has been fine and cool In the early part the wind was cold and blustering but during the last two [?] has been calm and pleasant while the temperature is all that could be desired if…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. Purchase of LAND.(To the Editor of the Pastoral Times )
SIR,—Referring to the paragraph in your contemporary’s issue of 11th instant, headed “Purchasing Road,” permit me merely to point out that have no such intention, which might have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne Wool Sales. [From Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd] Friday, February 26
Wool —The periodical Wool Sales have been held this week and [?] yesterday a small catalogue 685 bales and sold [?] private sales of 192 hales, a total at 646 bales since [?] lastsale The attendance of buyers was so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales. From the Australian Mortgage Land Finance Company, Melbourne) Friday, March 12
We have received the following telegram from our London office, dated 9th March:— “Wool Sales-The sales opened with a large attendance of both Home and Foreign buyers, the selection of woole is poor but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. to Dye Fancy Grasses
The dying of fancy grasses is a way is which spare moments may be profitably occupied. In this case of course, the possession of the grasses is the main consideration,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wheat Market
The Sydney wheat market is reported to be in rather a nervous state. Wheat is worth 4s 6d to 4s 7d, Darling Harbor delivery for small lots, but prices are higher…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Inspectors and the Public Service Board
A question has lately arisen as to whether sheep inspectors are public servants subject to the Public Berries Board, the stock boards having taken up the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Useful Flowering Orchid
Orchids are not plants that the majority of [?] care to cultivate. Amon[?] them the idea is general that they are expensive to buy, difficult to cultivate, and give poor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Making Prize Butter
The following method of prize butter-making is given by Francis M. Cole, in the Mark Lane Express?—"The milk used is the produce of some of the Jersey cows which compose the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Treatment of Seed Wheat
At a recent meeting of the Mount Gambler Fanciers' Institute, Mr. Wedd said that a much larger percentage of f[?]all-thrashed grain germinated than of machine-thrashed, but it did not…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wheat Lands of the South. Iii
My last letter on this subject contained the conclusion of my remarks noon Berrigan, which town I left on the 24th ultimo, bound for Cobram…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Literature. the Wild Cattle of Cadzow Forest. Impossible to Drive or Corner
Cadzow Forest, Dear Hamilton, in Lanarkshire, is notable, as all West of Scotland people are aware, for its wild cattle and old oaks. Some of the trees are of…
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