Farm Notes
[We shall he happy to receive from practical farmers such suggustions as to the treatment of land, crops, or stock as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
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Farmers’. Gardeners’, and Graziers’ Column
THE WEATHER.—Since our last issue there has been a very beneficial change in the weather, which it is satisfactory to know has been general throughout…
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UP with the birds in the early morning— The dewdrop glows like a precious gem; Beautiful tints in the skies are dawning, But she's never a moment to look at them…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Facts for Farmers
SHEEP WITH COWS.—In Holland, pastures are stocked with cows and sheep in equal numbers. The sheep eat the hard and wiry grasses which the cows reject, and keep the turf close and fine. Care is also…
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The approaching wool show at Messrs E. Goldsbrough and Co.'s Warchouse, Melbourne, is exciting considerable interest amongst a large section of the flockowners, both in this and a large the adjoining…
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WOOL.—We held our usual weekly sale to-day, and catalogued 1573 bales. There was a full attendance of buyers, and last week's rates were well maintained. In all we sold 928 bales, greasy ranging from 7½d to 11?d, and inferior to average washed,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →English Trade Circulars Wool. [Windeler and Bowes.]
DURING the auctions, which opened here on 13th ultimo, and ended on 14th instant, the quantities catalogued amount to a total of 158,298 bales; in its distribution the time occupied has again been protracted through the mdecision of holders as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great Sheep-stealing Case
A well-known squatter, named Garrett M'Mahon, was tried last Wednesday at the Dubbo Quarter Session, before Judge Josephson, on a charge of having at Talaga on the 1st of August last year stolen 658…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The judges at Goldsborough's wool exhibition are the principal woolbrokers of Melbourne, with Joseph Austin, of Sydney, and Lavington Clyde, of South Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goldsbrough's Wool Exhibition. [By Telegraph.] [From Our Own Correspondent.] Melbourne
The judges at Goldsbrough's wool exhibition are the principal wool brokers of Melbourne, with Joseph Austin, of Sydney, and Lexington Glyde, of South Australia. The fifty exhibits are from all the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colonial Wool Sales. London, February 13
The opening of the colonial wool sales has been postponed till the 26th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cattle Slaughtering Act. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—In your issue of the 4th, Sufferer complains, and justfy so, against the infringement of the Slaughtering Act. Yet, if the facts of the case are fairly looked at, it will be seen that the very severity of the law leads to its violation,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Trade Circular Wool. [Jacomb, Son, and Co.]
THE last series of public sales of colonial wools for this year finished on the 14th instant. These sales, commencing with a total available first hand stock of 183,[?]01 bales, closed after five weeks' duration, leaving a total stock of 53,208 bales held over in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool, Skins, Hides, and Tallow. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—If the brokers engaged in selling the above goods are really as desirous as they profess to be of protecting the buyers from the shameful practices which are being now so continually exposed, I can suggest a simple and effectual…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sydney Markets. Cattle and Sheep Market
AT Homebush on Thursday the number of cattle yarded amounted to about 466 all of which were sold. There were few prime bullocks, the quality being, with the exception of two lots from the southern districts, only middling. The best pens…
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THE extent of the rainfall last week is now pretty well ascertained. It appears to have been quite general over the South, lessening towards the West, covering the whole of the middle and coast districts, and falling short as it…
Continued on Trove, page 198 →Pastoral and Agricultural Notes
IT appears that there is still a dearth of rolling-stock on our railways. Complaints regarding the difficulties in obtaining trucks for live stock are numerous, and persons engaged in the live stock trade suffer a considerable amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 197 →Hoven in Cattle
DISTENTION of the stomach with gas, as a consequence of interrupted digestion, is a common disorder in all kinds of animals. Man himself, owing perhaps to the extraordinary liberties which he takes with his digestive system, is most…
Continued on Trove, page 199 →The Weather.—agricultural and Pastoral
The calamitous drought referred to in the summary of the 31st ultimo, has been completely broken up, and as a consequence agricultural and pastoral prospects are again bright and promising. The…
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