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SIRa,—Having given attention to what has been said lately about cattle sale yards, I purpose, with your kind permission, to make some remarks pertinent to the subject. I propose in the first place, to show, in opposition to then…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WOOL.—During the week we have received some consignments, which have been detained since last season owing to the rivers not being navigable. The market continues firm, and the English telegrams advise that the improved tone at the London sales…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In reference to the cattle spoken of by a correspondent at Richmond in a communication published in our issue of Friday last, we are informed that the District Sheep Inspector has visited the station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Coroner, yesterday afternoon, held an inquest at the Sir Maurice O'Connell Hotel. Riley-street, respecting the death of an infant, named William Alfred Leith Buckland, who was accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →10,000 sheep aro travelling down the Darling, under the charge of Mr. Murdoch, but whether the are en route for a market, or merely in search for food is not stated…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE flocks and herds of the great interior pastoral districts are now beginning to feel the pinch of winter, and the hopes entertained that the rains of the past and present month would afford a fair supply of feed are likely to be…
Continued on Trove, page 773 →MR. M. H. Devlin's herd, which is located at Oak Hill, near Wagga Wagga, has of late received some very important strains in the form of seven cows, two young bulls, and two calves, from the well-known Colac herd. The bulls…
Continued on Trove, page 773 →THE sales at Homebush and in the city during the past week have been well attended, and full prices have been obtained in ail kinds of stock. Bullocks have advanced 10s per head, and lambs and pigs being is [?] full [?] The following is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the United States of America the shorthorn and Jersey are not the only breeds of cattle that are the subject of herd-books; Ayrshires have for many years past been regarded…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →WE are not informed, but we scarcely think it probable that Mr. Hamilton Hume, when he first beheld that noble stream the Murray, could have anticipated the probability of its being converted in years to come into a hot spring,…
Continued on Trove, page 773 →Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:—Fat cattle: 1042 were yarded during the week. The result of Monday's sales showed an advance of fully 103 per head upon last week's quotations. Prime and weighty were well competed…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →On the fifth page of our supplement will be found a sketch of one of the great woolwashing establishments in the pastoral country on our Southern border. Mr. sugden employs upwards of thirty men, who can…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →[We shall bo happy to receive from practical farmers such, suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, or stock as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A builder of farmeries, with extensive practice, came today with a neighbour who wished to have a covered yard like mine. He remarked that an agriculturist, who had one, was obliged to use the watercarb to wet the straw in it, because…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE weather hitherto has been most unfavourable to growing crops and farm work generally. Scarcely a day passes without rain. A tine night, with a few hours sunshine in the morning, suffice to raise forlorn hopes of getting to work…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THERE are few so striking instances of tke successful production of a breed of animals, fitted for a particular purpose, ras that presented by the Poland-China swine. The actual addition to the material wealth of the country, during the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →It is generally considered that land possessing a certain amount of clay is the best adapted for the growth of wheat. Farmers when they speak of wheat Janel invariably mean land of a firm texture, and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →A WRITER in the LIVE STOCK JOURNAL says:—I think that I liave read all the letters on the merits of the different breeds of cows which have appeared in your naper since its first issue. Little notice has been taken…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Wool.—We catalogued [?] bales for our auction to-day, and had a brisk sale, 216 bales being sold at excellent prices, considering the aspect of the English market. Greasy realised 7d to 12d, and scoured pieces 14d to 19d, the latter price being obtained for [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The right division of the Turkish army operating in Asiatic Turkey have retaken the position Delibata from die Russians…
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