Farm and Garden. Poultry for the Farmer
GEESE.—We will begin with the goose; which affords a greater number of commercial products than any other of the feathered tribes, the down, the…
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The Cultivator. Colonial Farming. No. 2
IN making the outside fence along my boundary fine it occurs to me that the slip-rail loading to the house from the main road or track must not be omitted. I would recommend the American slip-rail as most…
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LONDON, June 20.—There is a considerable business doing in wool at full rates. 3850 bales were catalogued to-day. LONDON, June 21.—The wool sales closed last…
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LONDON, June 21.—A further advance is anticipated at the opening of the next soles. The total arrivals are upwards of 230,000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late South Australian News. The Wheat Market. ADELAIDE
The wheat market is quiet; 5s per bushel, it is reported, has been refused for a large skipping parcel to be delivered free aboard at Port Adelaide…
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From Goulburn we loam that the season is a magnificent one. The EXPRESS says at Balranald they have had a few light showers, and the grass and herbage is…
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Winter has been ushered in by inclement weather and a rainfall which has almost proved general. As indicated by our table of rainfall, the coast received several heavy showers, and the Northern districts, too, register, in many…
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George Grimes writes thus to the Queenslander:— "In your report of the meeting of the Board of Enquiry, in Queenslander of May 31, reference is made to some suggestions made by…
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Sale of 1180 bales, from Sydney and Queensland, by Charles Balme and Co., on Tuesday, 6th May, 1879:— Ex Thyatira, from Sydney: HW&Co, Navena, 17 grease hoggets at 9d, 51 at 8½d, 102 at 8d, 1 damaged at 6½d…
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LONDON, June 18.—The wool market, to-day, was very buoyant; 5763 bales were catalogued. LONDON, June 20.—There is a considerable business doing in wool at full rates. 3850 bales…
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DR. Hayes, in his reoont address before the National Agricultural Congress, romarking that an inadequate idea is given of a nation's rosourcos by the number of sheep raised-the oharacter of the animals being of…
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The crossings of fat stock for the Victorian markets were on Sunday—9000 sheep, Mathews Bros., one-third consigned to Raleigh and Co., McLbourne, some to Sandhurst; also, 112 head Rudd's cattle, consigned to Walker and Co…
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[We shall bo happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, and stock as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
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LONDON, June 27.—The wheat market is firm and steady…
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LONDON, June 27.—The wool market is quiet, but prices continue firm. LONDON, June 27.—The next series of wool sales commence on August 12…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Australian News. Immigrants.-Wheat Market.-Sewage Question. ADELAIDE
With further information approval has been expressed of the new site chosen for the deposit of the city sewage, the land being porous and generally well adapted…
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The South Russian wheat crop is threatened with an insect which has already done immense harm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Richmond River Pastoral and Agricultural Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Casino
The Richmond River Pastoral Agricultural Show yesterday on the society's new ground passed off on the whole very successfully. The weather was splendid, and the attendance about 700. Fanning, Griffiths,…
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A catarrhal disease has appeared among the lambs in the eastern districts of Western Australia. It submits to treatment by codliver oil. The news received respecting the lambing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Agricultural Pastoral Forthcoming Shows
Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association, 9th and 10th July. Deniliquin Pastoral Association, 24th July. Albury Agricultural Society, 14th August…
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