The London Wool Sales. London, February 26
The wool sales opened to-day. The total quantity to be offered is 260,000 bales. 4000 bales were catalogued to-day, and the competition was active at December rates…
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Pastoral
THE season in all the pastoral districts continues of the most gratifying character. Since the plentiful rains at the beginning of last month the weather has been moist and warm, and the growth of gross has been very rapid. Up…
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IN another column we publish the chief provisions, with explanatory notes, of Mr. Dangar's Diseases in Sheep Amendment Bill, which will be brought before the Legislative Assembly for its second reading on Friday next. This…
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THE Department of Agriculture has issued a special report reviewing the harvest of the current year, which is based upon information received up to September. From the reports received at the Department…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Cattle Prohibition. To the Editor
SIR,—My object in writing on the above subject was certainly not with the intention of abusing "Clydesdale," but merely to make stockowners generally, and stud-breeders in particular, think seriously for themselves whether it would…
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THE bill is a consolidation of (1) the Diseases in Sheep Act Amendment Act of 1876; (2) of the amended Sheep Bill introduced last session by Mr. J. S. Smith, and partially pawed; and (3) of Mr. T. G. Dangar's Travelling Stock…
Continued on Trove, page 262 →Goldsbrough's Wool Exhibition at Melbourne
THE exhibition of merino wool at Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co.'s warehouses was well attended on Friday, the 15th. The competition between Messrs. E. G. Greeves, the winner of the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Home[?]us[?]
Messrs. Harrison, Jones and Devlin report:—749 head were yarded. This was a less number than we have bad for some weeks past; consequently prices may be quoted at fully,10s better, and even more on good quality. In addition the…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Intestinal Disease in the Ox and Sheep. Diarrhcea
AMONG the diseases of stock with which this farmer Las to deal, various forms of derangement of the bowels are most common. So constant is this disease that every shepherd and cowman has a familiar term which expresses its…
Continued on Trove, page 263 →Melbourne Wool Circulars. [R. Goldsbrough and Co.]
Wool.—A lair amount of business has been transacted daring the month, considering the lateness of the season, the total catalogued being 11,058 bales, of which 7953 bales have been sold. The lots offered have generally been interior to ordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 263 →The Grazier. Mr. Dangar's Diseases in Sheep Act Amendment Bill
The Bill is a consolidation; 1 of the Diseases in Sheep Act Amendment Act of 1875; 2 of the amended Sheep Bill introduced last session by Mr. J. S, Smith, and partially passed; and 3. of Mr. T. G…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Malpractices in Sales of Wool and Other Produce. To the Editor
SIR.—Feeling that a recent letter in the Herald from one of our wool and produce firms does not quite do justice to other firms in the same line of business, will you please allow me to explain that not only for "the last two years" but, during…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Notes
[We shall be happy to receive from practiced formers such suggestions as to the treatments of land, crops, or stock as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
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NEXT to ploughing for wheat, laying down pasture land should receive attention this mouth. Where possible the laud should be well ploughed during the summer, so that it may lie exposed to the action of the atmosphere before…
Continued on Trove, page 261 →Farmers, Gardeners’, and Graziers’ Column
THE SEASON.—The weather during the past week has been fine and warm for the most part, and on every side the benefits resulting from the late rain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cultivator. Farm and Garden Memoranda for March
THE long hoped for rain came at last in liberal allowance. The change in the aspect of the whole colony is magical. Everywhere and in every department of industry, the most gloomy forebodings were prevalent…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Improvident Farming
THE following remarks, which are applicable to more districts than one, are from a contemporary in the western district:—Any one who has noticed the attempts to farm in this district cannot but have been…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Wool Sales
At the London Colonial wool sales, prices are well sustained at the opening rates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Our Special Telegram. [From Our London Special, Correspondent.] the Wool Sales. London, March 2
AT the London Colonial wool sales, price are well sustained at the opening rates…
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