Probable Rise in the Price of Wool
In a circular, Messrs Buxton and Ronald state that, the prospects for the next series of wool sales are excellent, and that a rise in the price, of merinos…
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Farming & the land, 1898
377 stories in New England's papers · page 13 of 19
London Wool Sales. LETTER No. 82. a Satisfactory Finish. Bradford. July 22, 1898
The sales have finished, and once again buyers have returned home. Its been a most happy time and the results must be regarded by my…
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Wk understand that Mr. F. A. Wright. of Llunhilda, Ryde, has purchased the imported Jersey bull Effingham Duke, which was sold at the recent sale of the Kirkham herd, for 125 guineas…
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A CORRESPONDENT of a New Zealand paper makes the following sensible remarks on the feeding of sheep. They are as old as sheep husbandry, and their truth will be admitted by everyone, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Make up Good Butter
THIS is what an expert has to say on the desirableness of making up a good article :--I have had many opportunities to notice how a buyer can always be found for first-class butter. For instance,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cattle Tax. Sydney
IN the West Australian Assembly, on Saturday, the Government proposals to reduce the tax on cattle from 30s. to 15s. was affirmed…
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WITH regard to the Farmers' Parliament which has been sitting at Bathurst, a correspondent writes:-- Year by year the conference is growing in power and influence, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer and Grazier. Liability for Seeds
IT not infrequently happens that farmers do not get when purchasing the kind of seeds they have stipulated and paid for. The liability in a case of this kind was shown the other day in an action…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Condemned Cattle at Homebush
The number of cattle condemned at the Homebush stock market average five beasts at each sale; a valuable beast was shot yesterday in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. the Wool and Produce Botcott. to the Editors of the Armidale Express
GENTLEMEN,—I have waited long thinking that some more able person would have taken up this most impudent and tyrannical piece of Boy-cotting which the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Graden Original Articles No. 49.-- the Orange (Continued)-- Found in Africa, India and China-- Ties and Species -- Subdivisions-- Theories Respecting Differences Cussed-- Contrasts-- Latitude-- Soil Oranges Grown in the Azores and in Malta Compared-- General Remarks
The orange is said to have been found by the Portuguese upon the east coast of Africa, but it is not known whether it had been indigenous there or disseminated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Notes. Mixed Rations for Stock
In all feeding experiments it has invariably been noticed that when ever bran was made a part of the ration for some of the animals being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bran Water for Dairy Cows
A British, dairy farmer strongly, advocates bran water as a milk slimulant for dairy cows. This is what he says:—If you desire, to get a large…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lincoln Sheep
HIGH prices were realised for Lincolnshire sheep at Mr. Henry Dudding's sale, at Ribygrove, Lincolnshire. Fifty -two long -wooled rams were brought under the hammer, and they made the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer & Grazier. Insect Enemies
ANY one of a great many of our common insects would ruin the fruit industry if it wasn't for the warfare waged on them by their enemies, who, by the same token, are our good friedds. Even the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales
The Sydney Wool selling Brokers held a sale yesterday afternoon. Only 813 bales were catalogued, and bidding was spirited at last month's price. The weather cheeked…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Boycott
SIR,-- A short time since I wrote urging that every woolgrower in the country who could do so should ship his wool to London and refuse to sell in the Sydney markets, where the associated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles No. 50.-- the Lemon-- General Description-- Fruit, Juice, Flavour-- Ties -- Multiplication -- Mildura Lemons -- Uses of the Lemon -- the Citron-- Species-- the Tree, Leaves and Fruit -- Kinds -- Cultivation -- Varieties -- the Lime -- Description -- Native of Asia-- Cultivated in West Indies -- Varieties -- the Shaddock -- Description and Qualities Tion of Name -- Raising by Budding and From Seed -- on the Citrous Tribe Generally
The lemon is a knotty wooded tree about eight feet and sometimes more in height, with rough bark and pale green leaves. The fruit is oblong and smooth, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Feed the Sheep
A correspondent of a New Zealand paper makes the following sensible remarks on the feeding of sheep. They are as old as sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Coming Wheat Harvest
The Sydney 'Daily Telegraph' on Monday last publishes its first fore[?] with reference to the next wheat harvest, which shows that the…
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