Maitland Wheat and Flour Market
THIS market has not experienced any change of note. A moderate demand is maintained for flour, which is in good supply, and prices are on a par with those…
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Farming & the land, 1887
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Home and Farm Chicken Cholera Remedies
The following are a few simple remedies for cholera, which is one of the most fatal diseases poultry-men have to contend with:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Government Farm that Pays its Way
A HINT as to how a Government experimental farm might, be made to pay could well be taken from the following paragraph, from the Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania :--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The London Wool Markets. London, April 23
THE colonial wool sales closed to-day, the market being very firm. 120,000 bales were taken for export, and 25,000 bales were reserved for nest sales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unsalted Butter
IT is a sound rule that everything should go to market as soon as it is ready to ship. This rule applies with particular force to such a perishable article as butter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Profit of Wheat Growing
A correspondent of the Canterbury Press says : --Figures concerning the profit of wheat growing will probably interest your readers, and I can give you some from this year's returns which are…
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THE average yield (says the American Agriculturalist) of wheat per acre in this country is not quite twelve and onehalf bushels per acre. The average…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Farmers Union
FORESEEING the necessity for the formation of a Union as above for this district, we placed ourselves in communication with the Secretaries of farmers unions in other colonies,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer & Grazier Apples for Pigs
WE learn from the National Stockman that a diet of apples produces a superior quality of pork. The writer says :--" It Was our good fortune a few days ago to sit at the table of a very progressive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Home and Farm. Hard Water
We easily know when washing our hand, whether the water is hard or not, it being most difficult to form a lather with hard water. This fact, led Dr. Clark, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Holdings. (Gazette, April 30.)
IT is hereby notified that the fees for the occupation licenses specified hereunder have been determined at the respective rates and amounts stated, per section,…
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HOW TO BE HEALTHY.--A mail's happiness depends on his health. " Health," said Somonides, " is best for moral man ; next, beauty ; thirdly, well-gotten wealth:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Shipments
Large shipments of fat cattle are being made from Queensport, Queensland, to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Editor's Column. (While giving insertion to Correspondents letters, we do not necessarily endorse their contents. Form a Farmers Union
SIR.--Now that the formation of a Farmers Union in the Glen Innes district has been mooted, it would be as well for the farmers (to whose benefit it would mostly concern) to organise a public…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Home and Farm. How Eye Diseases Are Spread
To mention a few of the modes of contagion, I have to speak, in the first place, of towels, especially of that abominable institution known as the roller-towel,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Market
WE (Harrison, Jones, and Devlin) held our fortnightly sale on Monday, submitting a catalogue of 308 bales. Greasy classes were poorly represented, most of…
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THE somewhat firmer tone in the flour market reported last week has been maintained. The movement by American speculators to keep up the price, however…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hired Men on the Farm
MRS. F. N. D. writes to us that she would earnestly urge all farmers' wires to protest against the boarding of farm hands. She considers that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dehorning Cattle
It appears that the practice of dehorning cattle is becoming common in the United States. A correspondent of the New England Farmer sends the following propositions for discussion:--1st…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Smooth Versus Wrinkled Sheep
No candid person will deny that wrinkles are a great nuisance to the shearer. Why else do the fancy breeders have to pay from 25 cents to 1 dollar for the shearing…
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