Wool Report. London, April 26
Since last sales little business transacted and except much improvement occurs in home and export trade a serious decline is anticipated for medium and faulty…
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Farming & the land, 1867
9 stories in South Coast's papers
Wheat Sowing
Nearly everyone has his own system of dressing seed wheat. One insists upon the merits of lime and water alone, if sufficient to bear up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Selected Poetry. “Experientia Docet;” Or, the Pleasures of Farming
“If you will take my advice you will[?] a nice little piece of land and occupy yourself in farming. There is money to be ma[?] by farming; though I never made anything by it myself, [?] I am told some people do, and it is so much…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Diseases in Wheat
The third prize South Australian essay on the disease of wheat has now been published, and is certainly short, but very much to the point. The writer, Mr. W. Ey, says that after carefully-conducted observations and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Farming on a Small Scale
A writer in the Australasian solves the question, as to whether sheep farming on a small scale will pay as follows:— It is often said that sheep-farming on a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Combination of Farming and Grazing
AT a recent meeting of the “Light Farmers Club,” South Australia, Mr. M. Kenny, Secretary of the Club, read the following paper :—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Report
Colonial bales catalogued to 21st June, 141,915. Sales are active; only 43,000 bales unsold. All descriptions of faulty Id. lower, and not in enquiry; best wools,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming and Pastoral. Things a Farmer Should Not Do
A FARMER should never break up more land than lie can cultivate thoroughly; half-tilled land is always growing poorer, while…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Silting Butter
There are proper seasons for every description of work connected with the farm, and the time for salting butter is not even excepted, at it is a well known fact that if…
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