Farm Notes
[We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, or stook as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Farming & the land, 1877
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Experiences of an English Farmer Are Not Open Farmyards Doomed?
I think so. It is a mere question of time—a comparative trial of the covered and uncovered must result in a verdict for the former. Open yards are of no use for cattle in summer during the fly season, whereas the covered yard is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Machinery for the Farm
It has sometimes been made a matter of reproach to settlers in New South Wales that they are backward in adopting the use of machinery, and it is frequently assumed that this arises from apathy or want of knowledge. We are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sewage System of Farming
THE sewage system of fertilising land, or using liquid manure, is scarcely known in the United States; but as the country grows older, more will be done in that direction. In England, town sewage has been…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Farm and Garden Memoranda for May
IN our Memoranda of two years ago, we made the following remarks, which we think worthy of repitition at the present junoture:— "In the metropolis and const districts the autumn…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Weather and tue Crops
The Ipswich Observer (Queensland) learns that the potato crop at Grandchester, Gatton, Laidley, Helidon, and Toowoomba is particularly good, free from any disease, and giving every prospect of a heavy yield…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Weekly Wool, Tallow, and Hide Report. [R Goldsbrough and Co.]
WOOL.—We have no transactions to report this week, the quantity coming forward being very limited, and confined principally to fellmongers' scoured, which is usually shipped to London direct at this season of the year. Quotations are nominally the same as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cable Messages. the War in Turkey. the First Engagement—the Russians Routed. England Refuses to Accept the Russian Circular. Further Fall in the Stock Market. Depression of the Wool Market. London, April 28
The Russian Circular or Despatch justifying the proclamation of war, has not yet been delivered to the European Powers. On April 28 the Russian forces, advancing on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales
SALE of 930 bales by Balme and Co., on February 21:- Ex Penrith, from Queensland: Fernlees, [?] greasy at 10d, 1 at 9½d, 9 pieces at 8d, 2 locks at 5½d. Ex Jerusalem: GRLY, 1 at l9d, l8 at 12d, 15 at ll½d, 11 at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales
SALE of 885 bales by Hazard and Caldecot on Thursday, March 15. Ex Whampoa: Langton over Teak Downs, 14 wethers at 23½d, 13 ewes at 23½d, 4 hoggets at 23d, 2 part pieces at 19d, 15 first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Trade Circulars. Wool. [Edwin Holt and Co.]
THE first series of colonial wool sales for this year opened on the 20th ultim [?] and will close about the 24th instant. The following were the arrivals in time and the quantities catalogued to date:—New South Wales and Queensland, 35,558 bales arrivals;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Cir[?]ulars
RICHARDSON AND WRENCH.—Wo[?]l: Considering that within the last few days the news that war between Russia and Turkey has really commenced, and that the la[?]est advices raise a fear that the burst-up may probably lead to a ge[?]eral war, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Weathe[?] and the Crops— Pa[?]toral
The reports which rea[?]hed us from the various country districts up to nearly the [?]d of last month, indicated, with but few exceptions, the [?] character of the weather, the hardness of the ground [?] ploughing, and scarcity of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sheep for Wool and Carcase
MR. R. McNeave writes ae follows to the "Austraiasian":— Sir,—I refer in this letter to merino sheep, the class with which I am well acquainted…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Our Illustrations. Champion Devon Cattle and a Prize Sheep
In our present issue we illustrate the two champion Devons of this year—Red Prince, the winner of the male Cup, and Curly 2nd, the honoured female, Red Prince, exhibited by Mr. Daniel Bull, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Items
The dry weather (says the Hay Standard) still continues, except a light fall of rain on Thursday night, which hardly wet the ground. There are only 7000 sheep to report as having crossed this week…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Pastoral and Agricultural Notes
A LETTER recently published by our morning contemporary contains some very interesting particulars of the power of the Inverell soils with wheat crops. Returns of nineteen farms are given with their wheat yields, and an average of…
Continued on Trove, page 548 →Wool and Wool EXHIBITIONS.—No. 2
FOLLOWING up my paper read at the Exhibition meetings, I propose to amplify some of the points then merely referred to. Whilst selecting a particular department for my remarks,…
Continued on Trove, page 549 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.]
On reference to our telegraphic reports on the weather, it will be found that an abundant rain has fallen in most, of the pastoral districts of the colony. In the Dubbo district the change was most urgently required…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →The Wool Trade
A MEETING of English wool buyers, called by Mr. H. Joachim, took place in the City Sale Rooms recently, for the purpose of calling the attention of the importers and brokers to the present mode of showing…
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