Farm and Garden
Many of our fruit-growers have suffered by the sunburn of their fruit crop. Tons upon tons have been lost from that cause. It was caused by the heat recently. This is…
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Farming & the land, 1893
266 stories in New England's papers · page 12 of 14
Fine Wool and Its Price
ACCORDING to a published statement in the AUSTRALASIAN, there are two causes assigned for the present intense depression in some of the choice merino clips' of Australia. One…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Effect of Branding on Wool
In reference to the matter of the injury to wool by the use of pitch, tar, paint, and lampblack brands, brought under notice by Messrs, Goldsbrongh, Mort, and Co., some time ago,…
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The New Zealand Land Association, Ltd., repots:--We offered to-day 3600 bales of wool, and sold the bulk of the catalogue under strong competition, at prices at about equal to late rates, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Wool Report. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
WE (New Zealand L. & A. Association, Ltd.) offered to-day 3400 bales of wool, and sold the bulk of the catalogue under strong competition at prices about equal to late…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Peeps Around the District. Plainfield Farm
CONTINUING our rambles, we, a few days ago paid a visit to the old-established dairy property of Mr. Thomas O'Hara, which bears the appropriate name of Plainfield. It is…
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Horns are not only dangerous to persons, but to property, as horned cattle use the weapons freely on each other, often to their permanent injury. Especially when crowded…
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PROFESSOR Georgeson; of the Kansas station, for two years experimented with pasturing wheat to see if this had any effect upon the yield of grain. Cattle were turned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Sheep Swallows Twelve Founds
A DALZIEL telegram says that at Village Negre, near Oran, in 1 Rue des Geants, there lives an Algerian Jew who keeps a bazaar, and also lends ont money at a high…
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THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN REGISTER'S Port Pirie correspondent wrote on the 30th October:—" Farmers in this district are hailing with satisfaction the discovery of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Commercial Column. Melbourne Wool Market
WE (the Australian Mortgage and Agency Co.) offered to-day 3390 bales of wool and sold 3230. The competition was strong, but irregular oddments selling at very full…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Wool Sales. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
MESSRS. Dalgety & Co., Sydney report:— At our usual weekly wool sale held yesterday afternoon we offered a catalogue of 3393 bales, the quantity brought forward…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Helps Foe the Dairy Woman
The value of washing soda for cleansing the various dairy utensils cannot he overrated. It is most important to guard against acidity A any vessels used about…
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Potash is soluble, and manures that are exposed to rains lose this element very quickly. It is not of much use to bed with absorbents, to save the liquids, and then…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cablegrams. London, Sunday. Free Wool to America
THE joint tariff committee of the United States Congress has decided to recommend Congress to place wool on the import list free…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Baby Farming Case
The trial of Minnie Thwaites and Knorr, for the alleged Brunswick baby farming case, commenced at the Criminal Court to-day…
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French agents are buying eagerly at the London wool sales,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Commercial Column. Wool Reports. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
THE wool market was brisker to-day with more buoyancy, the demand being very strong. We (Winchcorabe, Carson, and Co.) sold greasy merino to 10d., this price…
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The trial of Mrs. Thwaites and her husband in the baby farming case was continued to-day. Mrs. Thwaites made a long statement acknowledging her intimacy with Thompson,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat as Fodder
THE low price of wheat during the last few years has led many American stock-farmers to turn their attention to utilising it as a food for stock. In reply to a question on this…
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