Prevention of Heating in Wool
The following remarks by "A Wool-growers," relative to the heating of wool, are extracted from the Toowoomba Chronicle, and deserve general attention:--…
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Farming & the land, 1876
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The Yeoman. Sheep Washing
[?] 'Queenslander' says:—estimating the value of the various systems of sheep washing adopted on different stations, no reliable deductions can…
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The ' Australasian' says:—In resuming this subject, it is perhaps hardly necessary to remark that crossbreeding requires a steady supply of pure…
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A MEETING of farmers concerning the above subject—which was convened by private intimation, from one to another—was held at Mr. Cregan's, Retreat Inn,…
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"SENEX," writing to the 'Agricultural Gazette,' says:—I am at a loss to know the reason why such large, and, to my mind, ridiculous prices are given for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →From Mort & Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular. Sydney, January 22, 1876
WOOL.—The Christmas holidays interfered somewhat with transactions in this staple, but at the two first weeks' public sales since held, a considerable amount of…
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THE following information in connection. with the sheep of New South Wales is taken from the late reports of the Chief Inspector of Stock :-- The number of sheep in the colony in 1874 was…
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The 'Queenslander' says:—In growing wheat the first selection of seed cannot be too carefully looked to. Select the variety that has the character…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Correspondence. to the Farmers of New England. (Per favour of the Armidale Express.)
GENTLEMEN—In looking over an Armidale paper some weeks old I dropped across the report of a meeting held by you, at the Retreat Inn, for the purpose…
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A very important meeting was held at the Commercial Hotel on Monday evening of the farmers, with the view of establishing a Protection Society, its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TENTERFIELD. (Abridged from the Independent.) Farmers' Protection Society
IN accordance with advertisements published in the local journals the adjourned meeting of those interested in forming a society for the better protection of the…
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SIR,-- I wish you would call the attention of the Inspector to the fact that old cows, pigs, and horses are becoming as great a nuisance as they were before we had any Inspector of Nuisances. I happened…
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IN the manufacturing of butter the first point is good cows, and then good feed, and the next the setting of the milk. Milk is almost as sensitive to atmospheric…
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IN a lecture recently delivered at Wellington by the Hon. Dr. Grace on his return from a visit to California he referred thus to the prospect of the wool trade…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →From Mort & Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular. Sydney, May 12, 1876
Wool.—The interruption to the communication per cable has left without further information as to the course of the English sales current at the date of…
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Sir—In April last I sent to Messrs. Gustav Ebell and Co., of Berlin, 50 bales of my Moolbong scoured wool, viz., 4 bales of 1st hoggets' wool, 4 do. 2nd do. do., 13…
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A SHORT time ago Mr. John Moore, of Armidale, received a letter from Mr. H. K. Woolley, dated from Sydney, in which the following interesting information…
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HAVING heard so much during the past few years of the farming speculations of Mr. C. Koch, we determined to pay his property a visit, and accordingly drove over the other day…
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HAY Hill Farm, the property of Mr. John Dewar, contains 131 acres, and situated between Riddell's Creek and New Gisborne, adjoining the Echuca line of…
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WE have no doubt that the following letter and report will be found interesting by many of our readers:—West Bourke Agricultural Society…
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