The Easiest Keeping Cattle
This is precisely what most men who want cattle at all are in quest of. But it is true of cattle as it is of grass, that by the law of nature we cannot get something for…
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Farming & the land, 1887
283 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 15
Maitland Wheat and Flour Market
A fairly active demand is experienced for flour, but to a great extent the demand is retail. The market is scarcely so firm, due to the change reported in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Market. (Harrison, Jones, & Devlin.)
Since our last, the chief item of interest has been the close on the 17th instant of the London January-February Sales. These hare been marked by many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TO 9½d. Sydney Wheat and Flour Market
In breadstuff's more trade has been done; the market having a firmer tone. Quotations for baker's lines are as follow:—Adelaide, £10 10s. to £10 15s.; South'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmer & Grazier. Stack-Building
EX-FARMER in the Otago Witness says:--The stack that I have found during my experience to be the most convenient is the oblong stack--say 14 feet wide, 36 feet long; and 16 feet high. There should…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Home and Farm Short Suggestions
Cistern water may be purified by charcoal put in a bag and hung in the water. Coffee cake should be wrapped, while warm, in a napkin, aud there remain till…
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Experiments with Wolseley'e patent sheep shearer were made before a number of squatter from all parts of Australia. Four sheep were shorn, the time 5 mins.,…
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SHEEP eat a much larger number of plants and wild herbs than will cattle or horses, and for this reason the sheep may thrive where the cow or the horse might…
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THE year just passed has been noticeable for the extraordinary rise and fall in wool. In the United Kingdom for many years past there has been no year in which wool…
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Mort and Co., limited, report:—No public transactions have taken place this week, and there is no change to report in the local market. A cablegram from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Shearing by Machinery
A very numerous company assembled at Messrs. Goldsbrough's wool store on Thursday, 24th Feb., to witness an exhibition of sheep shearing by machinery. The inventor of the apparatus is Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Wheat and Flour Market
FOR flour a moderate demand is experienced, but few transactions of any consequence have been reported, and the tone of the market generally is unchanged. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Trade of 1886
THE year just passed has been noticeable for the extraordinary rise and fall in wool. In the United Kingdom for many years past there has been no year in which wool has risen so rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sydney Wheat and Flour Market
IN breadstuff's there is a better trade. A considerable line of Adelaide flour was quitted on private terms. Quotations for bakers' lines are as follows:—Adelaide,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Royal Dairy. the Interest Queen Victoria Takes in Her Farm and Its Occupant
THE Home Park is about four miles in circumference, extending from the north and east sides of the castle to the banks of the Thames, and containing about 300 acres, largely studded with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Notes
Near Stockholm, Sweden, a farmer and his father before him have successfully cultivated tobacco upon the same few acres of land for nearly fifty years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Home and Farm Acoustics
Again if I see a vivid flash of lightening and two seconds after I hear a tremendous clap of thunder, I know that the thunder cloud is not more than seven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Flour and Wheat Market
IN breadstuffs we (HERALD) note a steady trade demand at the following range of quotations:—Adelaide, £10 10s. to £10 15s.; South Australian country brands,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mattland Wheat and Flour Market
FOR flour a moderate demand is experienced, but few transactions of any consequence has been reported, and the tone of the market generally is unchanged. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney Wool Market. Mort & Co., Limited
WE offered 1130 bales this week, and found the market firm at, in some instances, slight improvements on late rates. The opening of the London March sales,…
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