The Wool Market
LONDON, September 9.-The prices in the wool market are well sustained, and 9493 bales were catalogned this morning. LONDON, September 10.-The attendance of…
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The Towns and the Farms
AN English writer has done good service by calling his countrymen's sttention to the shocking want of general interest in agricultural matters. Farmers and country gentlemen, of course, are…
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From Blackall we learn that good reports have been brought in from the west that there is plenty of grass and water. The NAMOI INDEPENDENT says grass and herbage…
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Glendaruel, Beckworth, Clunes, Eglinton, Victoria, and Glengower Agricultural Society.—At Clunes (National Show), October 23 and 24. General Show National Agricultural Society of Victoria…
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The fourth annual Show of the Grenfell Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held on Wednesday last, and had the weather during the few previous days been dry enough for stock to travel from a distance, the show,…
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With regret we have to state that the weather of the past week will cause the winter of 1879 to remain in the memory of agriculturists as one which closed disadvantageously. The fine springlike weather recorded in our last issue, which…
Continued on Trove, page 417 →Scientific, & c. Purifying Rancid Butter
Calvin Peck some ten years ago obtained a patent for restoring butter; his invention relates to a new process for purifying butter, having especial reference to arresting fermentation and restoring rancid butter. His process…
Continued on Trove, page 416 →The Cultivator. The Wheat Rust
THE period for the appearance of this parasitic fungus or mildew blight, on our wheat fields is at hand; and as several articles have been published of late on the subject, we think the following illustrated…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Wool Sales. London, September 9
At the wool sales to-day 9000 bales were offered. There was an active demand for all descriptions and an increased attendance…
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Sir,—I was hoping some of the farmers would have adopted your suggestion, and have mode public their experience in rust, as no doubt an expression of opinion coming from practical men would greatly assist scientists in dealing…
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[We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, and stock as their experience lias proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Seasonable Farming Notes for September
Last month we gave particulars as to the treatment of maize as a grain crop, which should be sown according to the directions given from the beginning of the present month to the end of…
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WINTER-RESTING ORCHIDS.—There are few matters connected with the cultivation of Orchids in which beginners in their growth are more liable to…
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LONDON, September 4.—In consequence of the severe wintry weather and heavy floods, the fears of the destruction of the grape crop in France and Italy have been realised…
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At the wool sales to- day, 6600 bales were offered. The market is firm, and there is an active demand…
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The Morpeth has on board this trip 91 bales of wool, consigned to Mr. M'Cullooh, being the first wool from Gunnedah since the opening of the railway line. The quick despatch deserves to be noticed. The…
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Since 1788—the year when the first settlers landed on the shores of this colony with one bull, four cows, one calf, one stallion, three colts, three mares, and a few sheep, goats, and pigs—the pastoral industry,…
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At Wollimni pasture is very fair, and stock in general are in good condition; free from disease. A mob of cattle were lately sold at Tumut for £1 per head…
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The Romish bishops, in New South Wales, have issued a pastoral on the education question, which has, at least, the qualities of extraordinary length and extraordinary warmth. The…
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Glendaruel, Beckworth, Clunes, Eglinton, Victoria, and Glengower Agricultural Society.—At Clunes (National Shew), October 23 and 24. General Show National Agricultural Society of Victoria…
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