Dairy Stock and Good Bulls
AT a recent meeting of the Farmers' Club at Ballarat, a Mr. Powell read a paper on "The Breeding of Cattle." He said in 1855 he started dairying,…
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The Warehousing of Wool. To the Editor of the European Mail
SIR,—The report and correspondence lately published by the Colonial Wool Merchants' Association, which appeared in your last issue, would not be complete without the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[COPY.] London, December 8, 1871. Joseph Moore, Esq. Secretary, Colonial Wool Merchant's Association
DEAR SIR,—The Attention of the undersigned having been frequently called by the shippers and importers of colonial wool to certain inequalties in the present scale of…
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THE Committee have now to present their first report:— The Association was formed at a meeting held at the Exchange on the 9th September…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Barmedman Sheep. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)
Sir,—I notice in your issue of the 10th inst. that Messrs. Richard Gibson and Co. (late of Dal. Campbell and Co.) report the sale of "2600 ewes in lamb, for Messrs…
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LARGE quantities of cattle are running wild in the unsettled areas lying between Cooper's Creek and the gulf of Carpentaria. Indeed, throughout…
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MILLET, or broom corn, is every year coming into greater demand for the manufacturer of various descriptions of broom ware, and in the United States it affords the raw material…
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The rants of the undermentioned runs not having been paid for the year 1872, it is notified in the last Gazette that the runs are now liable to the addition of a fine of 10 per…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural Society of New South Wales. the Wool Sales. (From the Pastoral Register.)
THE wool exhibits of the above were judged on Wednesday last, and the awards, which will be found appended, will give the information as to who…
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A DEPUTATION of merchants representing the wool interest waited upon the Victorian Minuter of Railways on Thursday to ask for a reduction in the charge made for carriage of wool by rail from…
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In the "Annual Register of Rural Affairs " for 1869, published by Luther, Tucker, and Son, Albany, N.Y., and edited by that well-known agriculturist,…
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The sales terminated on the 1st; they were characterised by unexplained animation; each article attained a higher range valu[?] than has been known during the present generation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Central Pastoral Association of Riverina
THE annual general meeting of this society was held at Jerilderie on Thursday lust, when there was a large attendance of members. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Notes. Setfasts Is Horsks' Backs
To CURE setfasts in horses' backs apply a strong mustard plaster, taking care to have the mustard wet, so as to penetrate well into the sore, after…
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THE London sales, which opened so auspiciously on the 8th of February, and closed with firmness on the 1st inst., were one of the most successful series ever known. The…
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THE London sales, which opened so suspiciously on the 8th of February, and closed with firmness on the 1st inst., were one of the most successful series ever known. The quantity catalogued was…
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IN growing oats, it is well to bear in mind that the straw contains fifty per cent of silica or flint, end this shows why it is that oats flourish luxuriantly on meadow land…
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ACCORDING to the accounts of the last London sales, says the Pastoral Register, Mr Charles Lawson, of Mudgee, tops the market with two bales at four and fourpence, [?]…
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WE learn from Mrs. Dalmahoy Campbell, Hepburn, and Co. that the following are the averages of the different Riverine flocks to hand last week:— 1636, Hardie and Miller,…
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AN important sale of pure short-horn cattle (Messrs. W. Degraves and Co.'s) was held at Melbourne last week, at which we observe Mr. Godfrey M'Kinnon was a large…
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