The Station and the Farm. Grazing Enterprise in Victoria
A FEW days since a pleasant pic-nic party assembled near the margin of Lake Keilambete, to celebrate the completion of certain works of…
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News by the Mail. (From the Home Papers.) London Wool Sales
THE first series of Loudon public sales of colonial wool commenced yesterday, and are expected to range over a month. According to Messrs, Dutton and Ferry, the catalogue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Station and the Farm. Oats. (From the Economist.)
WE will now say a word or two upon the matter of oats, and the treatment this grain requires to produce it successfully in our ordinary seasons. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Station and the Farm. Fencing. (From the Dubbo Dispatch.)
Fencing is a subject which occupies the minds of squatters in this district at the present time, quite as much as it did the minds of Riverine squatters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How to Make Sheep Profitable in 1869. (From the Sydney Mail.)
I SHALL now point out how sheep might still be made profitable; but as the same mode of management is not applicable to sheep depastured in the…
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[?] consider this by a brief illus[?]. Good authorities estimate that one ounce of semen requires and absorbs forty ounces of arterial blood…
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THE season reminds us of the returning duty, and the returning opportunity of the farmer. Although sugar and other crops may take the place of…
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IT is of the greatest importance at this season of the year that all owners of horses should pay particular attention to the state of horses' health, especially…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Station and the Farm. Which Colony Grows the Best Wool! (From the Amtralanian.)
IT seems hard to prove which wool is absolutely the best, that of New South Wales or Victoria. We get up intercolonial shows, to which the settlers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Station and the Farm. Goats V. Sheep As Wool-bearers
BY drawing a comparison between sheep and goats as practical wool-bearing animals, I would not, if I could, have one sheep less, or one pound…
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THE following is an abstract of a paper read by Mr. Duckham, at a meeting of the Brecon Chamber of Agriculture:— In selecting our breeding animals, it…
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THE wool market is thus reported upon by Messrs. H. P. Hughes anil Son:— We regret to notice that most colonial wool this season is either infested with burr…
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The first series of London sales of colonial wool, which commenced on 25th February, closed on the 24th inst. The quantities catalogued amounted to…
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THE current seed time is remarkable for the evidence it affords of the aptitude of our farmers and graziers to profit by the lessons of adversity. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. All communications to this journal must be a uthen ticated by the name and address of the writer. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and no rejected communications will be returned. Travelling Sheep. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)
As travelling sheep are likely to become the subject of legislation on the reassembling of parliament, I beg your permission to suggest a system which, I think, if adopted, will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Station and the Farm: Victorian. Squatters. (From the Colonial Monthly.)
IT will be remembered that when the gold-fields were discovered, in 1851, the whole country was practically in the hands of the squatters. They had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Station and the Farm. the Selection, Breeding, and Management of the Australian Merino. on the Characteristics of Good and of Defective Wool
THE most valuable wool to grow is a long fine "combing" wool; a wool that will comb "freely," that is, that will pass through the combs without…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Station and the Farm. the Selection, Breeding, and Management of the Australian Merino. (From the Leader.) on In-and-in Breeding
FOR a period of twenty-five years, the writer was engaged in testing the value of in-and-in breeding. Much controversy has taken place on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Station and the Farm. on the Selection of Rams
THE neck should be short and thick, free from straight hairs on the under part; and without dewlap. Horns spiral, not too close to the head; the first curve should be about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Station and the Farm. Sheep Washing Apparatus
SHEEP WASHING is a process which has materially changed its character during the last few years. It used to be a very primitive and simple, matter at…
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