Pastoral Items
During the quarter ending 30th September last, 339 horses crossed the Border from Riverina into Victoria, at Albury They were chiefly destined as remounts for the Indian army, and of a very superior…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Farming & the land, 1875
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Cattle Bail
THE diagram shows a Plan in use by Messrs Davies and Gibbs, Ke[?]ribree station on the Warrego, for baili[?] up cattle for branding, speying, milking, or any other purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Making Good Butter
At the winter meeting of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture, Mr. F. D. Douglas, of Vermont, read a paper on butter making, arranged under four heads:—First, that of the care…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →John Bede's Pastoral. No. V.
WE concluded our last article on the pastoral letter of Dr. Polding, relating to the Pope's Jubilee, by quoting the objects for which the Pope has proclaimed a "Jubilee…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep-Drafting Yards. To the Editor
SIR,— As the subject of sheep-drafting yards seems to have been creating some interest lately, I beg to enclose you a plan of the " Mossgiel " yards. There are over 100,000 sheep on this station, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Visits to the London Wool Sales
THERE has been so much said and written about the conducting of wool sales in London that I determined, while in London on pleasure bent, to see what I could in the wool warehouses and sales. I inquired about the mode of fixing…
Continued on Trove, page 485 →The Importation of Cattle and the Price of Meat in England
SINCE the time when the cattle plague decimated our herds, regulations have been in force to check the entrance of contagious diseases of animals at the ports. These regulations are far from over stringent, and there is the most positive…
Continued on Trove, page 485 →Tobacco As a Profitable Crop
SLOWLY but surely fanners are turning their attention to the rotation and variety of crops suitable to the soils they have settled upon, and gradually farming commences to become a profitable calling. Tobacco may now be fairly…
Continued on Trove, page 485 →Weather and Crops
The season in the county of Cumberland still continues dry, no rain of any importance having fallen in the course of the week ended Wednesday last. During a thunder-storm on Sunday a few heavy showers fell, but they were of brief…
Continued on Trove, page 486 →Farm Mechanics. No. Xlviii
TRIFOLIUM repens, or creeping white clover, is a hardy perennial, suited to a great variety of soil and climate. This clover is a native of Europe. It is now grown largely in Jamaica, and said to make very superior horse feed…
Continued on Trove, page 485 →Cheese Dairying in Victoria. [From the Leader.]
The progress made by the cheese-making industry in Victoria during the last few fears has been satisfactory in the highest degree. Up to about the beginning of 1869…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Murderous Attack on a Farmer
On August 12, as Mr. Greenaway, a farmer, residing near Haslemere, Surrey, was driving home, when at a dark part of the road, he heard the report, of a pistol, and distinctly a bullet whizz…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Facts for Farmers
A correspondent sends us the following: "I have tried the following remedy on a horse of min[?] that had taken to eating the indigo plant, better known as the Darling pea. The horse was nearly dead…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Farmer Jobson Going to Town
THE horses stand ready, old gray and the brown, For the farmer himself is going to town; The flour-bag is empty, the kerosene low, And father declares that to town he must go…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Farmer Jobson Going to Town
THE horses stand ready, old gray and the brown, For the farmer himself is going to town; The flour bag is empty, he kerezone low, And father declares that to town he must go,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of a Sweetheart by a Farmer's Son
The death of Fanny Pleasant Clarke, a domestic servant in the service of a farmer at Beautham, near Ipswich, was the subject of a long inquiry before the coroner on August 21. The post mortem…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral
NEWS from the Murrumbidgee speaks of heavy rains at Wagga on the 9th, followed by showers and cool days. This change has brightened the prospects of sheep and cattle farming, the season now being of a satisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 519 →Pastoral Items
The Uralla correspondent of the ARMIDALE EXPRESS briefly reports:—"Grass plentiful. Weather fine, with genial showers. Lambing good," Mr. Coghlan reports to the TAMWORTH NEWS…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Warehousing of Wool. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—In conformity with your request, we beg to hand you the following reply to Mr. Brodribb's letter which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald of the 5th April last, in so far as it concerns ourselves. In any remarks we…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm Mechanics. No. XLIX
SANFOIN is usually sown for hay, and the proper time to cut it is when in full flower; and hay is made from it in a similar manner to "getting" clover hay. When well made, the natural bloom and figure of the flower is retained,…
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