About the Crops. Some Good District Yields
we are indebted to a correspondent, who knows the district well, for the following information about yields and returns from agriculture this season…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1900
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Progress, Farmers’ & Settlers’ Association
The ordinary [?] meeting of the Berrigan Progress, Farmers and Settlers[?] Association was [?] Tuesday night at the Federal [?] when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Effect of the Surrender. Farmers Joining De Wet. London. November 30
The fall of Dewetsdorp and surrender of the garrison has had an unfortunate effect upon the Dutch population. Many farmers who were remaining neutral have taken up…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Some Advantages of Having a Windmill on a Farm
The following statement of the advantages of owning a windmill is taken from a current advertisement of an American windmill manufacturer. It is clear, definite and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farm and Garden. Work for the Week
ORCHARD.—The thinning and stopping of strong side shoots in established fruit trees continues. Masses of leaves and shoots in trees of all kinds must be thinned out…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Small Farms
In his paper in the " Year-Book for 1900," issued by the U.S. Agricultural Department, Mr. Geo. K. Holmes, quoting statistics of agricultural development, draws attention to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wool Tests
Mr R. E. A. Shorter, secretary of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association, has received from Mr Alfred Hawkesworth, of the Sheep and Wool Department of the Technological…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Protest. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
SIR,—From the report of a meeting of the [?]eking Belief Fund Committee held on Wednesday. I observe that it is intended to hand over £10 [?] of the £25 remaining, to the Ladies’ Benevolent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, December 7, 1900
THERE has been a [?]ell of mild weather this week and [?] of the expected December [?] for two or three days [?] has been delightfully cool, whilst the nights have been very pleasant. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Points of Good Horses
The heaviest draught horse, even, will sell very much better if he has good style and action. Select animals with round body, deep chest, short back, strong [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Stock Reports
The first prize in the Wagga sheep test was secured by the Yabtree Estate, and the second by the executors of the late Thos. Mill[?]. This first Ganmain test for merino…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Points of Good Horses
The heaviest draught horse, even, will sell very much better if he has good style and action. Select animals with round body, deep chest, short back, strong loin,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Sales
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agonoy Co., Ltd., Molbourac, report:—On Thursday last we held our uaual wool sale. when we submitted a catalogue of over 5000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Exhibits
Mr. Fegan (Minister for Agriculture) is now completing arrangements for forwarding the samples of fleece wool asked for some time ago as an exhibit for the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Kiewa Valley Butter Factory
The usual monthly meeting of the directors of this factory was held on Saturday, 8th inst. Mr M'Leod was in the chair, and Messrs Coulston, Crosthwaite, Street. Stuckey, and…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →A Welsh Sheep-breeding Experiment
Professor Winter, of the Agricultural Department of the University College of North Wales, has issued a leaflet giving particular of an experiment, with the object of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Melbourne Wool Market. Melbourne, December 10
DALGETY & CO. LTD. offered at their sale to-day 2,600 bales. Competition was good and fairly distributed, values remaining steady at current rates. Some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Boer Success. 17,000 Sheep Captured. London, December 8
The Boers continue to show great activity in the south-western part of the Transvaal. They have captured 17,000 sheep, which were proceeding in charge of a military…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →General French at Work. Thousands of Cattle Captured. London, December 6
General French, who some time ago marched from Carolina, in the Lydenburg district of tho Trausvaal, lo Bethel, and thence to Heidelberg, a total distance of 120…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →A Raid by the Boers. Cattle and Horses Seized. London, December 10
A party of Boers has made a raid on the railway at Standerton, in the Southeast Transvaal. They held up three trains on the line, and took away 129 remounts. which…
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