Australian Wool
The Agricultural Society is in receipt of a letter from Mr. Carl L. Sahl, the German Consul, in the following terms:—With reference to the samples of wool which were placed at my disposal to be…
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6700 Sheep Impounded
The other day 6700 sheep, the property of Messrs. Love and Murray, of Wagga Wagga district (Chalker in charge) were impounded in the Yass pound by a neighbouring settler. The fees amounted to £7…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Weather and the Crops.— Pastoral
Rain has now fallen abundantly in nearly all parts of the colony, causing a great improvement in the aspect of pastoral affairs generally, and especially on the low hands, where a fine crop of grass has succeeded the barrenness of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PASTORAL, &c
ADVICES with regard to the season in the country districts up to Saturday last are generally of a gratifying character. After the drought broke up, rain had fallen in most parts, except some districts in the North. The country round…
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The Dispatch says:—On Friday last, Mr. J. S. Brown sold at the Royal Hotel, Dubbo, on account of the executors of the late Mr. B. J. Kaine, Mundadoo station, Mora Creek with 3800 sheep, 300 head of cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →James' Pastoral Letter
A FEW weeks ago the Apostolic James of Maitland addressed a Pastoral letter to his clergy and faithful people, urging that next week a nine days' prayer should be…
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EAST MORETON, May 24.—It was raining generally all over the district this day week, and the weather seems unsettled, but it cleared up, and there has been So rain since. The seasons have been good in this…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Pastoral and Agricultural Notes
FROM a report of a committee meeting published in the Burrangong Chronicle, we learn that the Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association will hold a sheep show on the 16th of August…
Continued on Trove, page 678 →Bitter Taste in Butter
I hear a great many complaints about the briny and bitter taste of the butter sent iu for sale. One reason for it is, that the ordinary salt contains several portions of other salts…
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AS soon as tho butter has been thoroughly freed from the buttermilk, instead of salt only work the following mixture into it: —Two parts of the best common salt, purified as above, one…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Straw as Fodder for Cattle
EXPERIENCE teaches us that cattle thrive best on a mixed diet; all hay or grain will produce less beef than hay and grain. The animal structure of the ox alos demands bulk in food as well as richness, the feeding…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Homerush
Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Davlin report:—1511 cattle wa yatded, and this was a very full supply for the week; princas remained unaltered, the buyers for the Sydney Meatpreserving Comapny helping the market considerably. The…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Farm Notice
[We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops or stock as their experience has proved to bo useful. By writing for this…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Farm Notes for June
THE rains of the past month must have afforded chances once despaired of to put in wheat and other crops. Our previous notes dealt fully with the best modes of dealing with seed-wheat. Those who have yet to sow had best…
Continued on Trove, page 678 →The Process of Baby-farming
At the Liverpool Police Court, Sophia Martha Todd, about thirty-five years of age, and of respectable and lady-like appearance, was charged on suspicion with having caused the death of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wholesale Baby Farming and Suspected Murder
At the Liverpool Police-court recently, Sophia Martha Todd, about 35 years of age, and of respectable and ladylike appearance, was charged on suspicion with having caused the death of a child…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Farm and Garden Memoranda for June
THE autumn has, on the whole, been favourable to both field and garden operations. Unlike the previous autumn and winter, so productive of good crops of cereals on the poorest of heavy and undrained land…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Sydney Markets. Cattle Market
A VERY large supply of well-conditioned cattle was sent for sale [?] Homebush on Thursday—rather too many, but they were all disposed of at very fair prices, but showing a slight fall on last week. The number sold amounted to near 800. Sheep were in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales
SALE of 234 bales by Willans, Overbury, and Co., on Friday, March 16. Ex Whampoa: EA, 7 at 18½d; E in diamond over P, 8 scoured at 20½d, 2 cross-bred at 2[?]d: JF in diamond, 1 pieces at 13½d…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →English Trade Circulars. Wool. [Windeler and Bowes.]
THE auctions, which ended here on the 26th ultimo, included 241,977 bales—209,141 Australian, and 32,836 Cape—consequently a fair proportion of the imports anticipated this year has been offered during the first [?]uarter. This total shows that about…
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