A School and a Farm
UNDER the above heading the Ballarat Star describes an attempt recently initiated in Ballarat to combine scholastic with horticultural and agricultural pursuits. Our…
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Farming & the land, 1869
12 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
Wool Sales
The first series of the colonial wool sales, commenced on the 25th February, terminated on March 24. The attendance of buyers was large, but the biddings were low,…
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Since the closing of last sales, on March 24, very little has been done in this market, and prices remain without change. Business in the manufacturing districts, both here and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Travelling Sheep
THE following letter and suggestions upon the travelling sheep question, from Mr. John Patterson of Illalong, appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clauses proposed to be introduced into a Travelling Sheep Act
1. All directors and sheep-inspectors appointed under the Diseases in Sheep Act of 1866 shall be held to be directors and sheep-inspectors under this act…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What Will Wheat Be Worth in 1870?
WITH the prospect of some years of plenty after the late seasons of comparative scarcity and high prices, this is a question now being seriously discussed in different parts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →What Will Wheat Be Worth?
THE Australasian, in an article quoted in our issue of Saturday last, produces some statements of the cost of growing wheat in California which are calculated to surprise…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Over-production of Wool
THIS is, of course, the first reason to be assigned for the late fall in prices; but the question for sheepowners to consider is whether that over-production should be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Insect Pests of the Farm
SINCE it has become the fashion to turn the study of entomology to more practical purposes than the impaling on pins of beetles and butterflies, we every now and again get…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Cattle Stock—how They May Be Improved
IN deciding which of the breeds should be selected for improving our stock, it must be borne in mind that there are few or no purebred black-polled or West Highland cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colonial Wool Sales
The third series of colonial wool sales opened with a large attendance of home and foreign buyers. The catalogue comprised 6166 bales, apportioned thus:—Sydney and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Advantages of Cross-bred Sheep
MR. J. C. WHITE, in a letter to the Courier on the subject of cross-bred sheep, says:— In a former communication on the subject of cross-breeding in sheep, I promised to let…
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