The Sheep
The sheep section is this year only moderately filled, as usual; our show being, as it pretty well knows, almost, if not entirely, dependent on importations from Victoria and Tasmania,; but on the present…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1875
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Balanced Screw and Revolving Wool or Cotton Press
THE several points of merit claimed for the improved cotton press herewith illustrated are simplicity of construction, rapidity, and reliability of action, and the saving in time of pressing effected. Those, with other…
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The snow of vegetables was poor, both as regards the number and character of the exhibits. Mr. J. Ramsay, of Nanama. Yass, the principal exhibitor of farm produce, and his show of cereals was excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WOOL. Stewards: Messrs. P. HT. Trobeok. L. Haigh, and C. H. Humphery. Judges: E. Ebsworth, Sydney: J. Miller, Sydney; J. Vicars, Sydney
The wool exhibits occupy a prominent position in the building', and constitute, an important feature of the exhibition. There are two compartments specially walled off for their reception, and it is matter for…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Pastoral Items
A much cooler temperature has prevailed generally since our (HAY STANDARD) last report, and appearances led us again to expect a favourable change, but only a light shower or two fell. Rain fell at Wagga on Friday evening,…
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THE pastoral districts, seconding to latest reports, have remained in pretty much the same state as they were in at the date of our last notice, little or no rain having fallen. The feed is not so scarce at present, but rain has…
Continued on Trove, page 487 →Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops
AFTER a week of changes, in which sunshiny days alternated with a damp cloudy atmosphere, the weather in the metropolitan county seems to have taken a decided aspect. On Wednesday the sky was thickly overcast, and rain…
Continued on Trove, page 487 →Queensland Pastoral Matter. Brisbane, April 7
SINCE my last communication, having occasion to visit Dalby, and being inquisitive as to causes of disputes between some of the large owners or occupants of land in the neighbourhood, I accepted an invitation kindly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Pastoral Matters. [From a Correspondent.] Brisbane, April 7
SINCE my last communication, having occasion to visit Dalby, and being inquisitive as to causes of disputes between some of the large owners or occupants of land in the neighbourhood, I accepted an invitation kindly…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Facts for Farmers
A new preparation of rennet is being made in Germany on a large scale, which is free from the usual disagreeable odour accompanying that essential in cheese-making as generally prepared by dairymen…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Farmer's Fireside
Around the fire, one wintry night, The farmer's rosy children sat, The log fire lent its blazing light, And mirth went round, and harmless chat…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Pastoral and Agricultural Settlement in Queensland. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—It is now sixteen years since New South Wales lost two-thirds of her territory, to be formed into the colony of Queensland. This splendid inheritance of 430,000,000 acres was handed over to a population estimated at 25,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Travelling Sheep. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—I hold a five-mile blook on the Bogan River frontage, sufficient in its unimproved state to graze 5000 sheep, and for which I pay the Government a proportionately high rent for the size of the run. But notwithstanding…
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IN the north-western districts the protracted dry weather has tended to limit the feed, which in some parts is withering. Evidences that winter is close at hand are apparent everywhere, and slight frosts are beginning to show…
Continued on Trove, page 519 →Pastoral Items
A telegram has lately come under the notice of the DUBBO DISPATCH, in which is is stated that the first of bales of the L[?]omban clip sold at the last February wool sales in London, realised an average of 15d per lb in…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops
IN the Metropolitan district the weather at the end of last week, and in the first half of the present, was unsettled, rainy and fair alternately, with a varying temperature, sometimes wintry, and then genial as in early summer…
Continued on Trove, page 519 →The South Australian Wheat Statistics
THE ADELAIDE OBSERVER has the following with re ference to the wheat statistics of South Australia:—It will be a surprise to many persons to find, from the light thrown upon the subject by Mr. Boothby's…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Cabbages a Field Crop
The value of the cabbage as food for stock is rarely considered. Yet as a fodder crop to be consumed in summer when the freshness of the pastures is past, or as green winter fodder for young stock, fattening stock, milk cows…
Continued on Trove, page 519 →Facts for Farmers
It has long been a problem with dairymen how they might best utilize the valuable nutritious matter usually wasted in the milk from which the butter has been extracted. If we remove 3½ pounds of butter…
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