Wool Prospects
THE slight check to the progressive advance in the value of wool, noticeable towards the close of the last series of London sales, has occasioned an uneasy feeling in regard to the market for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New England · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1887
283 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 15
The Farmer & Grazier. The Price of Sheep in England
THE Sussex Advertiser publishes a list of the prices of sheep and lambs at Lewes Fair for 40 years. Southdowns chiefly are sold there. The top price for sheep at the fair held the other day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rust-Proof Wheat
The great interest taken in the work of discovering a rust-proof wheat led tbe Queenslander to distribute last season parcels for experimental purposes of a wheat about which Dr. Bancroft held a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rust and Mildew in Wheat
MR. Wm. Carruthers, F.R.S., Consulting Botanist to the Royal Agricultural Society of England, contributed an article to the Journal of the Society an 1882 giving a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Home and Farm. Pasturing or Stall-feeding
MEN usually honestly differ in their opinions upon subjects because of the different standpoints from which they obtain their views. A farmer with a large,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some and Farm. to Clean Glass and Silverware
Egg-shells crushed into small bits and shaken well in decanters three parts filled with cold water will not only clean them thoroughly but make the glass look like…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmer & Crazier. Haymaking
I HAVE before me a copy of a paper read by a prominent Bedfordshire farmer to the Farmers' Club during the month of April last. As the hay crop is a very important factor in wintering stock,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Does Salt Add Weight to Butter?
WE are asked this question, and have seen and heard it asked many times before. We unhesitatingly answer, yes—if the salt is retained in the butter. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales
LONDON, January 13.—There is a brisk demand for wool. 3000 bales have been sold at an advance of from 5 to 10 per cent, on the lowest December rates…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Interesting Experiments in Wheat Culture
A CORRESPONDENT at Nuriootpa, writing to the Kapunda HERALD under date Dec. 28, says:-"As I arranged with you some time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmers' Horses
IN no department of farm enterprise is there so much interest exhibited, or so much anxiety felt, as in the horse department. It is distinctly understood that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Market
The tone of the wool market is firm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Wool Market. (By Telegraph.) Melbourne, Thursday Night
WE (the Australian Mortgage and Agency Co.) offered 1230 bales to-day, and sold 1084. Competition was active, and full prices were obtained. Greasy sold to 10d.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Farmers' Wives
AN Item went the rounds of the papers that Mathew Arnold, while in Boston, heard that "a farmers wife who had read all his works…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Market
We (Mort and Co,) offered 2700 bales wool at auction on Wednesday. The brisk bidding so noticeable at our sale last week was apparent again to-day, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Select Poetry. Rest for Us and the Cattle
JOURNEY, and journey back, Scarcely a time for a bite, Six long days on the track, And now it is Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest Cablegrams. London, Wednesday. Wool Sales
The wool sales opened at prices from ½d. to 1½d. higher than at the close of the last sales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Crop of the Colony
IN the Town and Country Journal of the 22nd January is published an article giving the probable wheat yield for the past year. The writer's remarks are of more than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Uncommon Wool
A sample of wool from the fleeee of a three-year- old merino sheep has been left at our office (Hamilton Spectator) for the inspection of those interested in such matters. The staple measures…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Market
The wool market continues firm. The average rise in price for scoured and merino wools is fully ten per cent. Other sorts are quoted at a rise of from seven…
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