Mixed Green Crops
Great differences of opinion have always prevailed among practical men as to the utility of attempting to grow two crops together on the same land, and several " old saws " have been…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Farming & the land, 1880
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The Farmer and Grazier
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 19 →Facts for Farmers
GOATS' MILK.—Goats milk enters largely into the composition of some kinds of cheese and butter on the Continent. Goat-keeping on a large scale is about to be tried in America by certain Europeans…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The South Australian Wheat Crop
ADELAIDE, Monday.—Deplorable accounts came to Land about the state of the farmers on Millicent Flats, south-cast district (S.A.). The crops and roads are completely submerged, and…
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LONDON, August 16.—The tone of the wheat market is declining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The London Wool Sales
LONDON, August 17.—The wool sales have opened at a decline of ½d to 1d per lb on the average prices of last series. Home buyers are purchasing freely, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales
LONDON, August 18.—The wool sales progress without material alteration in prices. Messrs. Dalgetty, Blackwood, and Co. have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales. London, August 17
The new series of colonial wool auctions was opened to-day. There was a good attendance of house and foreign buyers. The quantity catalogned was Good bales. The prices realised…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(Reuter's Telegrams.) the American Wheat Harvest. New York, Aug. 17
The reports from the wheat districts are favourable, and there is a prospect of a good crop. LATER…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The American Cotton Crop. New York, Aug. 17
The Agricultural Bureau has published its monthly report of the prospects of the coming cotton crop. It is estimated that the crop will be ten days earlier than in former…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The American Cotton Crop. New York, August 17
The Agricultural Burean has published a monthly report of the prospects of the coming cotton crop. It is estimated that the crop will be 10 days earlier than in former vears and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Market
LONDON, August 19.—The price of Australian greasy wool has advanced ½d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Items
Metropolitan agents mention an increased demand for good pastoral proporties. In the Dubbo district there has been a heavy fall of rain, and shearing is pretty general…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Agricultural Pastoral Forthcoming Shows
Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association, at Young, 25th August. Australian Sheep Breeders' Annual Show, in Melbourne, 30th and 31st August…
Continued on Trove, page 354 →Forbes Pastoral and Agricultural Association
The attendance on the second day was large. The dinner took place at Mitchell's Albion Hotel in the evening, and the ball at the same establishment on the following evening. The following, which we take from the Gazette, completes…
Continued on Trove, page 355 →The Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral
During the past week many parts of the colony have experienced a sudden transition from the bitter cold of a severe winter to hot, oppressive summer weather, Everything is beginning to present a parched and…
Continued on Trove, page 376 →Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association
The fourth show of the Upper Hunter Agricultural Association opened on the 11th instant, and after the experience of the two days during which it was held the writer is in a position to say that the fourth effort was not quite as…
Continued on Trove, page 354 →Jersey Cattle for our Dairies
THE dairy must erewhile become one of our chief agricultural industries. At the present time a large number of people are engaged in it, but on the whole it cannot bo said that the results have been…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The London Wool Market
LONDON, August 17.—The wool sales have opened at a decline of ½d to ld per lb on the average prices of last series. Home buyers are purchasing freely, but…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sheep-shearing Extraordinary. To the Editor
Sir,—You have invited replies to a correspondent a question as to the largest number of sheep shorn in one day by one man. I notice answers by three correspondents in your last issue:—(1.) "Kurrilla"…
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