Farm Notes
[We shall be 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…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Farming & the land, 1880
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The Cultivator. Farm and Garden Memoranda for April
RAIN towards the end of March has been both abundant and general. This will enable farmers to complete their ploughing and get their wheat and other grain crops sown early—a great advantage in many…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Farmers' Native-Cat-Proof Fowl House
FARMERS going in for rearing fowls in the Australian bush, where native cats are such a dreadful post in destroying them, may easily avert the mischief, and save their young chicks, by means of constructing a…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Colonial Wool Sales
The first series of colonial wool sales opened on February 17, when there was a large attendance of buyers. Messrs. Thomas and Cook report a rise of 1½d to 2d per lb. on scoured, and 1d to 1[?]d on greasy. At the two subsequent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Commercial. Wool Sales.—yesterday
By Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin.—FU over Dundee, 2 bales scoured firsts at 21d, 3 seconds at 20d, 4 thirds at 17¾d, 2 at 16¾d, 1 ditto lambs' at 17½d, 1 ditto locks at 14½d, 1 scoured at 16½d; TX[?], 5 firsts at 19¼d, 9 clothing firsts at 18d, 1 combing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Commercial. Wool Sales.—yesterday
By Messrs. Mort and Co.—WB over B, 1 greasy at 8[?]d, AABB over Yarralumla, 1 mixed at 13½d; HI, 1 lambs at 8½d, 1 wool and skins at 4[?] d; GHL conjoined over Blairmore, 2 at 4¾; SHW over M., 2 [?] ambs at 7d; AB over T, 2 at 7½d; EG over T,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral
The closing week of March and first week of April brought about a change which was most acceptable to the agriculturists of the colony, who now enter into autumn work with spirit, the soil having for the greater part…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Commercial. Wool Sales.—yesterday
By Messrs. Maiden, Hill, and Clark.—GSB over T, 5 bales greas at 10¼d, l pieces and looks at 2¼d; CCC, 1 greasy at 8¼d; JH, at 9d; Black cross, 2 pieces and locks at 4¼d; O. 1 locks at 3¾d; A, 1 Angora goat at 6½d; O, 2 greasy and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Tramways and the Farmers of Large
WHAT can the "League for the Encouragement of Colonial Industries" have been thinking of that it has allowed the Tramway Bill to pass through Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Items
At Armidale since our last has been seasonable, and everything in the shape of vegetation presents a most healthy appearance. At Wilcannia there is a good demand for suitable…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Agricultural Pastoral Forthcoming Shows
Bathurst Agricultural Association, April 14th and l5th. Clarence Agricultural and Pastoral Society, at Grafton, 14th, 15th, and 16th April. Orange Agricultural Society, at Orange, 20th April…
Continued on Trove, page 686 →Breeding of Sheep
THE well-known famous merino stands first in the list of fine-woolled sheep, and as such, shall have my first attention. If you wish to breed large, bulky framed merinoes, you must make a careful selection…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Molasses for Cattle Feeding
An English farmer, Mr. Joseph Boyt, of Romsey, furnishes the Produce Markets Review with the result of his trials of molasses as a food for dairy stock. It will be seen that he is thoroughly satisfied that when used with the chaff…
Continued on Trove, page 687 →Waste of Cattle Food
If all dairy farmers could be made to realize the simple fact—so simple that it is commonly lost sight of—that whatever milk or beef is produced must be produced wholly from the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Wool Sales
LONDON, April 9.—The prospects for the next wool sales are improving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Deniliquin
The crossings on Sunday were: 2500 (Peter's) fat sheep, to Dougharty and Co.; 210 ditto (Rudd's). Messrs. Mann and Co. sold 250 brooding ewes (M'Lean's) to Borwick, and 1400 mixed store sheep (P. Smyth's) to Cahill, Jerilderie…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Young Folks The Proud Little Grain of Wheat. CONCLUDED
The proud grain, which must be called a blade now, had plenty of change and company after this. It grew taller and taller every day, and made a great many new acquaintances as the weather grew warmer. These were little gold…
Continued on Trove, page 683 →The Sydney Mail. Saturday, April 10, 1880. Wool Report
We have the pleasure of announcing that a prominent feature of our next issue will be an elaborate wool report, suggested by (though not confined to) the wool exhibits in the Garden Palace, and prepared specially for this journal…
Continued on Trove, page 705 →Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular
Wool: The season may now he considered over. It has been one of comparatively brief duration and more than usual activity. Out of 172,000 bales shipped since the first of October, 121,000 were cleared before the end of January…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Seasonable Hints for the Farm
The rainfall having occurred somewhat earlier in the season than usual, an opportunity is at hand for doing more towards cleaning the land than has been possible for several years past…
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