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Experiments are being constantly made in the way of discovering some simple process for cleaning wool, and more particulary separating the burrs from the fibre without injuring the latter. A recent experiment made in England…
Continued on Trove, page 894 →Sir,—Can you inform me whether New South Wales or Victoria produces the most wool, and, if both are of the same quality, and the price woolgrowers usually look for, for wool of the best description? Also, whether there is…
Continued on Trove, page 897 →Unfortunately, as was the case last year, June finds much ground unploughed, and the usual complaints anent the effects of May rains are to hand. In many districts the fault rests with the careless custom of putting off until the…
Continued on Trove, page 894 →Another general rainfall may be reported this week, of which, as usual, the coast received the greatest share. The Western country seems to have been fairly drenched, while the South and North received as much as any of the…
Continued on Trove, page 897 →THE continuous rain of the last month has so saturated, the ground that the most sceptical must or ought to be convinced of the necessity of good drainage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT last the free cartage auctioneers, represented by Messrs Prince (of Prince, Hall, and Co.) and Mr. Inglis have concluded their stumping of the farming districts by a grand flourish at Macquarie Plains and…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →LONDON, June 5.—At the sales to-day 10557 bales were catalogued, and prices were unaltered. LONDON. June 7.—The catalogue to-day consisted of 9982 bales, and prices were wel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, June 9.—Prices of all descriptions of wool increase as the sales progress. Foreign buyers are specially numerous. The number of bales catalogued to-day were 9921…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, June 10.—The market is still firm, and competition active. 9554 bales were catalogued to-day. Scoured is 1d higher, and greasy [?]d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The WAGGA ADVERTISER writes:—The grass everywhere is most luxuriant, and all kinds of stock are said by incoming drovers to be rolling fat. The local market is still inactive. Only a small number of…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →THE sheep is so plastic an animal and has been made so thoroughly at home in such a divorsity of situations that I do not despoir of finding flocks quite as numerous intimately on clay soils as on lighter lands. But…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →It is not unpleasing to record one week of agreeable weather, and, doubtless, the return of sunshine has been well appreciated by all residents of the colony. Autumn is fast drawing to a close, the 21st of this month being its…
Continued on Trove, page 937 →A bill to regulate the travelling of stock in Queensland is now before the Parliament of that colony. In many respects it is similar to the Act which is now in force here, the permit system being precisely the same. From the…
Continued on Trove, page 934 →Mr. MacIvor, the agricultural chemist, has, at the request of the Hon. W. J. Clarke, extended his labours to Tasmania, and has commenced a series of lectures in that colony. His first impressions of Tasmania are, as related…
Continued on Trove, page 934 →LONDON, June 4.—5402 bales of wool were sold to-day, and prices were still finn, and the competition again active. LONDON, June 5.—At the sales to-day 10,557…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →HYDATIDS resembling watery bladders, located in the ventricles, are fatal in sheep;' but cysts have been successfully removed by puncturing through the nostril; and, where the skull is felt to be thin and yielding, the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Messrs. Harrison, Jones, ana Devlin report:—800 fat cattle yarded, and prices slightly improved. Best pens worth 16s per 1001b. We sold 122 bullocks, Brown's, from Cargan, averaging £5 5s 6d, and 6 cows at £6 2s. The sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →James, by the grace of God and the Apostolic See Bishop of Maitland, to the Catholic Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Maitland. DEARLY BELOVED BRETHREN AND CHILDREN…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →THE following is from a correspondent writing so the D. D. Gazette (Queensland):— "In your columns I have more than once seen the treatment of seed wheat with carbolic acid…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Wool.—As usual at this season of the year this market is very barely supplied and the wool available generally of an unattractive character, comprising small lots of greasy, scoured, and remnants of clips already dealt with, and values…
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