Farm and Garden. Notes on the Culture of the Pansy
POETS have immortalised the Pansy. But the. Pansy of the poet and the Pansy of the florist differ somewhat. “The Pansy freaked with jet” is the poet’s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1879
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What Shall the Young Farmer Study?
THIS question has beon propounded by a subscriber of the TOWN AND COUNTRY. To answer it satisfactorily is difficult, if not impossible, as so much depends on the peculiarities of each case—on the extent…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Wheat Market
LONDON, October 17.—The grain market is strong, with an upward tendency. Australian wheat is selling, ex store, at from 60s to 63s per 4961b, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The American Cotton Crop. New York, Oct. 16
The Agricultural Bureau has published a monthly report stating that the average cotton crop in the States of Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisana,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The American Cotton Croppartial Failure. New York, October 16
The Agricultural Bureau publishes its monthly report, stating that the average cotton crop in the states of Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Lousiana,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Encouragement to Farming Enterprise
GOULBURN, Wednesday.—Messrs. Hayes, the millers, offer a premium of £100 for the first 1000 bushels of wheat grown at Kenmore farms, about to be Gold on the 29th instant; also a bonus of £50…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Crops in Austria. Vienna, Oct 21
Reports from all parts of the country confirm the news of an extraordinary failure in the crops. The failure is so complete in its effects that famine is already severely felt,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Items
At Bridgman, stock is looking well, and there is plenty of food and water. The PASTORAL TIMES says:—The wool and stock passing through gives a lively appearance, and some…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Agricultural Pastoral Forthcoming Shows
General Show National Agricultural Society of Victoria — November 5, 6, and 7. Ballarat Agricultural and Pastoral Society, Spring Show.—November 30 31…
Continued on Trove, page 698 →The Weather—Agricultural and Pastoral
The weather of the past six days has been unusually variable, but withal wanner than usually falls to the lot of October. Light rains have fallen on parts of the coast line, but the downfall was remarkably heavy in the southern…
Continued on Trove, page 705 →Original Poetry. a Highland Pastoral
The Pope floats down the stream of time, And aye he blows his horn, With keen distress and fear sublime His holy heart is torn…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter, Cheese and Bacon
ALTHOUGH last week we ereferred with, satisfaction to the fine samples of cheese, from the Bega and Bodalla dairies, displayed at the Garden Palace, we cannot disguise the fact that, as an essentially…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Grazier. Pastoral and Agrioultural Mems
THE Agricultural Society's Council determined at its adjourned meeting last week, to elect a secreted whose salary is to be £250 a year, with 5 per cent, on subscriptions collected, and…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Melbourne Wool Sales
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Messrs. Hastings Cunningham and Co. held their first wool sale this season yesterday. The biddings were very active, and for all lots of fair quality, merino especially,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Market
LONDON, October 23.—A further advance in the wool market is anticipated at the opening of the next wool sale…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Sales
Wool.--The Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company, Limited, have received the following from Helmuth Schwartze and Co., dated London, 22nd instant, through Reuter:--"Next…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Tamworth
Fat cattle are in full suppl. Rogers's bullocks old at from £47s 6d to £5 2s 6d. Forster's cows, £3 15s 4d. The [?]atsheep market is well supplied. Breeza wethers sold at [?] Bennett's wothers, 9s Barry's lambs, 7s 6d. Store…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →The Next London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 22
The next series of wool auctions is fixed for the 18th November. The arrivals to date amount to 70,000 bales. The total probable quantity to be offered, including that left…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Next London Wool Sales. London, October 22
The next series of woof auctions is fixed for the 18th November. The arrivals to date amount to 70,000 bales. The total probable quantity to be offered, including that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mort and Co.'s Annual Wool and Produce Circular
Since the date of our last annual circular the disastrous and long-continued drought has been thoroughly brken and copious rains have fallen at frequent interva;s throughout the whole of this, and over the greater portion of the…
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