Wool and Stock Reports
RIVERINE GRAZIER OFFICE Tuesday. There are no stock movements to report, except truckings, since oar last issue. Chas Hidgeock reports having this day consigned,…
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Sheep and Wheat. Combined Farming Most Profitable
We frequently see the question of "Sheep versus Wheat," raised by sheepbreeders and wheatgrowers, and many of the sheep men deplore the handing over of so much of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire at a Butter Factory
The creamery at Tallangatta Valley was destroyed by fire on Wednesday. The damage is estimated at £600, which is only partly covered by insurance…
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The American visible supply east of the Rocky Mountains is estimated at 52,249,000 bushels, against 52,956,000 bushels a week ago, and 52,378,000 bushels a year ago. All the markets…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Taxation in Canada. Demand by Quebec Farmers. London, January 4
A protest against the excessive taxation in Canada by 1700 farmers of the province of Quebec has been presented to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier. A demand was also…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Farm and Garden. for One-man Power
Where one must do much of his work alone, some method of utilising one-man power to the best advantage must be devised. The cut shows a two-handled frame for getting in corn…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, January 6, 18[?]9
SINCE the rain of a fortnight ago the weather has been extraordinarily cool for this time of the year, in fact the temperature at night is more like that of winter or very early spring. There is a slight [?] of green on…
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No. 67. The Hop (continued)—Gathering the Hops—Drying—Bagging—Different kinds of Bagging—Snipping and Stacking—Crops—Expense of forming a…
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No: 6[?]. Coffee (continued)—Its effects when used as a beverage - C[?] - Description of Tree - Leaves, Flowers, Fruit - Seeds - Pulp - Chocolate - How Chocolate Cakes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Keeping Butter Cool
The following method of keeping butter cool is given by an exchange :—Get a common flower pot and a large saucer, fill the caucer half full of water, and set the dish of…
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Mr. H. R Carter, Wheat Broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports under date, Jan. 10th:--Wheat has had a quiet week locally, there being little…
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The fourth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the above company was held ab the office of Messrs. Roxburgh and Aikins on Friday last, the 6th inst., to transact the…
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IT may be a sign of scarcity in Riverina that the great wheat-buying firm of Messrs. JOHN DARLING AND SON have withdrawn their agents from several, if…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Purification of Wheat
The impurities contained in and upon the wheat berry—the embryo, with its membrane and surroundings, the bran, the vegetable hairs at the end (which are really tiny tubes)…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Novel Experiment in Wheat Sowing
Mr. J. J. Piper, writing to the Tamworth News, gives the following particulars of an experiment in wheat sowing :—" For the last two or three years I have…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cropping 640 Acres
Fanners who have entered recently on the land should be careful not to exhaust the fertility of their farms by excessive cropping. It has been too much tho habit in the past to get…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farm and Garden. Saw Off the Horns
Dehorning looks to be cruel, but after one sees how much better animals act with their horns off, one soon changes his mind. Get two strong posts, 6 to 8ft. apart, and a 2 by 6…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sheep’s Head
Repaired : A sheep’s head, three carrots, three turnips, three parenips, five onions, parsley, pepper and salt. Method,— Soak the head in warm water to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stock Report. Pastoral. Times Office Deniliquin Friday Evening , January 13, 1899
IN the early part of the week the weather decidedly hot, the thermometer going up.to 104 leg and 106deg on two days, in the shads. Then after a furious blast of wind and clouds of dust, a few drops of rain fall, and…
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68. Plants used for Clothing, Cordaga, &s. —Preliminary remarks—Lint or Flax— General Description—Effect on ground-As an ornament—Countries of Supply—…
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