Peeps Around the District. Glen Farm
THE above-aptly named property is situated on Furracabad Plains, about four miles from Glen Innes, and is owned by Mr. D. Bull-- a true type of an English farmer. It is now…
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Farming & the land, 1893
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Farm and Garden. Management of Swarms
An increase of colonies and a large amount of surplus honey cannot be secured at the same time, and the apiarist should work his bees in the way he most desires. Sometimes bees…
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Clean seed wheat can he gotten most easily by a little work before harvest. I have found that I can run over a few acres of standing wheat rapidly, taking out all…
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SIR,-- Under an advertisement from the above association I learn that the proposal to hold biennial district shows, in conjunction with the Armidale Association, is assuming a position of…
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During the current wool sales, 51,000 bales were sold. Merino is firm, and crossbred a farthing dearer…
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THE apathy of the fanning community in some things to which they should apply their closest attention has frequently been reverted to in the columns of the 'Examiner,' and…
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Rudolph Knorr, charged with the baby farming case, was before the police court to-day, and remanded till Tuesday week in consequence of the illness of the female prisoner, Minnie Thwaites…
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A good authority claims that in a hundred pounds of corn, eight pounds go to make muscle and bone and seventy-five pounds to make fat. In a hundred pounds of oats…
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THERE is not a more fertile track of land on the Tableland than that which is farmed by Mr A. Hutchison near Stonehenge. Well sheltered, abundantly watered, within easy access of Glen Innes,…
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MR. Gilchrist, Orbiston Farm, Bellshill, an assistant lecturer on agriculture at the Glasgow Technical College, sends us the following note of experiments in…
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There was a good attendance, and keen competition at the wool sales. Prices were firm…
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Minnie Thwaites has recovered sufficiently to be able to appear to-morrow in connection, with the baby-farming cases…
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ATTENTION has been directed very forcibly during the last few weeks to the injury resulting to wool through the use of tar in branding sheep, and several prominent European…
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The receipts of wool at Darling Harbor since July are 124,000 bales, of 30,000 more than last year for the same period. At Morpeth and Newcastle the receipts were 40,000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Commercial Column. Sydney Wool Market. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
WE (Dalgety and Co. Ltd., Sydney) report that the wool sales opened this afternoon in the pressenee of a splendid attendance of buyers, and everything connected…
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The farmer of America has his ideas about farming, and so has the farmer of the Orient. The difference in culture is great, and so is the difference in yield, the balance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden. Boarding the Strawberry Bed
Mulching or covering strawberry beds with boards, and boring large holes in which to insert the plants, might prove a good system, but at the same time, a rather…
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Messrs. Winchcombe, Garson, and Co., report:--Our opening catalogue for the new season comprised 1432 bales, wool, representing principally the western aud north-western districts. On the whole this year's…
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The wool sales closed on Saturday; 185,000 bales were sold. Prices as compared with the July series for merino greasy, good average quality, are from par, to 12d higher;…
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AT the current London wool sales the market is fairly brisk, and prices are unchanged, but there are many withdrawals. Momba brought 6¼d.; Mount Mitchell,…
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