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THE next annual meeting of sheep owners competent to vote for directors of the several proclaimed sheep districts, is appointed by Gazette notice of the 4th January instant, in terms of section 7 of the Diseases in Sheep Act of 1866, to…
Continued on Trove, page 100 →THE fourth series of wool sales for the current year commenced on the 23rd November, with a more numerous attendance of buyers than the unsatisfactory condition of trade had given reason to anticipate. The arrivals…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Wool trade in general has throughout the year just closed been a very unsettled one, and, as the present position of the home market does not seem to be based on much sounder grounds, the new year begins under somewhat…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →FROM a paper of great merit that was read before the Warrambool Farmers' Club on Thursday, November 25, by Mr. T. T. Rawlinson, C.E., we take die following:— A light soil, with sandy or other porous subsoil, will, under…
Continued on Trove, page 102 →DURING the week ended Wednesday last, the weather in the metropolis and the surrounding districts was high in temperature, and owing to the occasional rains which accompanied several thunderstorms, the air has been very…
Continued on Trove, page 101 →INTELLIGENCE from the pastoral districts in not yet of an improved character, though to some of those which have suffered most by drought a favourable change seems in prospect. At Deniliquin the weather has been all that…
Continued on Trove, page 133 →The weather during the past week, says the Wilcannia Times has been somowhat warmer than hitherto, one or two days being exceedingly hot. On Saturday last 500 fat cattle (Williams Bros) from the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wool.—The Christmas holidays interfered somewhat with transactions in this staple, but at the two first week's public sales since held, a considerable amount of bittiness was done, and on the whole at prices showing no very material…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →THOUGH we have had a few thunderstorms, yet rain is still badly wanted. The demand for Ritchic's gang-plough has been, both this and last month, a large one; as many are at last learning to cover up their stubble and sow…
Continued on Trove, page 132 →THE weather in the county of Cumberland since our last note has been sultry with a moist air, although very little rain fell up to Wednesday. The soil has been benefited by the showers of preceding weeks, and paddocks and gardens…
Continued on Trove, page 132 →CURING CORN-FODDER.—A method of curing partly dried corn-fodder, is to cut it with a fodder cutter into chaff, and mix it with straw cut in the same manner, then pack it away in a mow, trampling it down closely…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →HAD we been writing on this subject tnree or four years ago, we might have had some doubts upon our mind, from the naiural tendency in everthing to fluctuate, and the immense disproportion of grazing…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →SIR,—Last year I sent to Berlin 60 bales of my wool. I enclose you the printed results; you will see I sold in London [?] the same quality of wool—the difference in shipping to Berlin will surprise you. I hope you will, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Inverell Police Court on Friday, 28th, January, Mr. Thomas Virer's, of King's Plains, summoned Mr. Alexander. Youney for feloniously buying and receiving two sheep, his property, knowing the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Balclutha, which left a few days since for Maryborough, took with her a splendid shipment of pedigree cattle, consisting of twenty-one Devon heifers, six Devon bulls, and one Hereford bull, all from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have watched with much interest Mr. Mort's [?] with his factory for expo[?]ting frozen meat, and with regret the apathy of st[?]holders in regard to providing the £25,000 required for the expenses of a trial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOME of our contemporaries have been giving currency in ala[?] terms to the failure of the tobacco crop of this season on the Victorian side of the Upper Murray. One writer has alleged that "growers, who last season…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THERE are some hopes now that the districts which have suffered most from the drought will soon be relieved; indeed, some of them have already had the first benefits of a change. The northern parte of Liverpool Plains and the…
Continued on Trove, page 164 →THE Central Australian (Bourke) reports: Since our last no very important change has taken place as regards the weather. On Tuesday night we were visited with a thunderstorm of short duration…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE portraits of Mr. S. Gardiner's two great Colac purchases, Roan Duchess and Duke of Alvie, appear in our illustrated supplement of this week. Not having an opportunity of seeing in flesh the animals which we depict,…
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