An important Departure Affecting the Wheat Trade
THE following circular letter has been forwarded to every Agricultural Society in the Colony --" By direction of the Grain Trade Sectional…
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Farm and Garden. Original Articles
No. 112. The Clove Tree (contiuned)—Essential Oil—Characteristies—Medicinal Uses—Condiments—Soil and Situation—Traders Devices—Firs or Spruces—The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fattening Sheep
In some parts of New Zealand sheep are fattened on gorge, and as many as six sheep are turned off to the acre. An experiment was lately mide at the Woburn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Judging Good Sheep
PROFESSOR Curtiss, Iowa, U.S.A., makes the following pointed observations on what constitutes a good mutton sheep :-"First let there be a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War and Wheat
The war fever has supplied the needful stiffening to markets to keep wheat moving, and it is impossible for millers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Australian Wheat Yield
The present season is expected to be a record one so far as the wheat yield is concerned for the three colonies, New South Wales, Victoria and South…
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ALTHOUGH it is extremely difficult to give anything like an accurate estimate of what the wheat yield for the Wagga district will be, still there are now sufficient data…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Latest. London, Nov. 30. Wool Sales Postponed
The London wool sales were again postponed to-day owing to a dense fog. IMMENSE FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA. A great fire occurred in Philadelphia,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Experiment Farm. This Season's Prospects
MR. G. M. M'Keown, manager of the Experiment Farm, in conversation with a member of our staff yesterday, s[?]ated that the early sown crops at the Farm are being cut…
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At the Wagga Experiment Farm a considerable [?] of activity now prevails in connection with harvesting operations. The season, although not a wholly favorable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the Farmer. the Western Country
Mr. E. D. MilLen, who as lately made an extended tour through the western district of Mew South Wales, starting from the town of Bourke, thus describe (in " Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?] Bags as Wheat
With the high price ruling at [?] for bags, and the low price of grain, farmers may well seriously caused some more equitable way of dealing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on a Station. Grass and Wheat Destroyed
NEWS has been received in town of a bush fire which broke out at West Geroger Station on Saturday, and which, before it was extinguished, was responsible for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at the Tobacco Farm. 250 Acres of Grass Destroyed
DURING Saturday morning, after the strong wind commenced blowing, a dense volume of smoke in the direction of Messrs. Hugh Dixson and Son's tobacco farm, across the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New South Wales Contingent. Arrival at Capetown. President Steyn and Mr. Schreiner Young Dutch Farmers Joined Boers. the Highlanders at Modder River. Conspicuous As Targets. Suffer Heavily. London, Dec. 3 (Afternoon)
The steamship Kent, with the first portion of the New South Wales contingent for service in South Africa, has arrived at Capetown, and has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fine Hay Crop
We have been shown a fine sample of wheaten hay which was grown at Mr. J. H. Martin's farm Sunny Springs, Kyeamba. The crop which was cut for hay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmers' Manager. to the Editor
Sir,—By whom was Mr. J.J. Miller elected as manager of the Farmer's Co-operative Company? I should think that the directors of a company…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep and Poison Weed
Last Friday (says the "Narandera Argus") a flock of sheep being driven from Cuddell towards Junee camped on the Gillenbah plain, where a low, small-leafed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial. Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne
The Australian Mortgage and Agency Company report:—With a little irregularity oar wool site to-day passed off well, and prices were mostly well sustained, being fully…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic Intelligence. Cable News the Latest. London, Dec. 5. London Wool Sales
At the wool sales today, Australasian crossbreds showed an advance of one halfpenny per 1b. KHURDISH ATROCITIES…
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