Sensible Hints for the Farmer
The following remarks (from the Australasian), although addressed to "Victorian farmers are applicable to those of this colony:—Good husbandry docs not end with the…
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The Farmer and Grazier
We shall be happy to receive from practical farmer 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 18 →New South Wales Farming, by a New Zealand Farmer. To the Editor
SIR,—I have been having what we colonials call a run through the country, and I must say that fro[?] what I have soon of New South Wales I am wel pleased with the country as a whole. But, sir, ther[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Wool Market
LONDON, December 11.-The wool sales closed at the level of last sales. Superior sorts showed an improvement of [?]d to Id ; scoured easier…
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LONDON, December 11.-The wool sales closed firmly. The Dumber of bales catalogued were 124,150, of which 11,000 were withdrawn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Afloat. London, Dec. 10
The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,350,000 quarters. LONDON, December. 9. The directors of the Bank of England have…
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LONDON, December 13.-The wheat market is declining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. have received the following cablegram:- "London, December 11.-Wool: The sales closed at the level of last series. Secured market…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial. Wool Sales.—monday and
By Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin.—Wool: AWS over Sheep's Held, 6 grease at 7d; GHD, 6 fleece at 16½d; JJRG, 17 grease at 8½d; WT over 2, 21 grease at 9½d; JJ over Bottle, 1 locks and black at 4d; JP over B, 1 at 4[?]d; WS over Mila, 10…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →American Sympathy with the Irish Tenant Farmers. New York, Dec. 13
The United States Chambers, at a meeting to-day, voted resolutions expressive of sympathy with the Irish tenant farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commercial. Wool Sales.—wednesday
By Messrs. Mort and Co.—Wool: WM over X, 4 grease of 9[?] 1 lambs at 8½d, 1 bellies and lambs at 5½d; Inglevale, 28 grease at 12[?]d, 1 lambs at 8¼d, 2 bellies at 6d. 1 locks at 3½d. 1 crossbred at 8½d; G in diamond over Byalla, at 5¾d, I broken and pieces at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne Wool Market. MELBOURNE
Messrs. K. Goldsbrough and Co. report: We have sold 4000 bales this week. Inferior to good greasy from 7d to 12[?], and washed fleece from 13d to 2s. There was a full attendance and brisk…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Farmer Murdered
LONDON December 15.-A farmer has been murdered at Granard, a town in Longford, for his opposition to the designs of the land leaguers. The murderer is,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Rates for Farm Produce. To the Editor
SIR,-In a latter to your journal a few weeks since, I directed attention to the hardships the farmers and others were compelled to end are in consequence of the excessive rates charged for the conveyance of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral Items
The weather at Deniliquin during the past week has been fine. Stock movements have not been numerous. From the Mudgoo district we learn that shearing is…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Magnetized Wheat
IT seems that the introduction of magnets into the great grain mills of the United States has fulfilled the highest expectations of those who complained of wire in wheat. Not only have the magnets captured all the stray pieces…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Hints on Sheep Breeding
THE growing tendency to breed, raise, and fatten sheep, will make a few hints on this subject acceptable to the farmer meditating sheep husbandry. Obtain in the fall good grade ewe lambs and feed well until shearing time…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Origin of the Merino Sheep
As the ancient Greeks had no cotton nor silk and very little linen, and as sheep's wool was the principal texture from which their clothes were made, they took peculiar care to cultivate with especial care such breeds of sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Milk and Cheese from Sheep
Now that sheep-keeping on a small scale, by freeselectors and other settlers of limited means, and often without hired help, is becoming common, and is also calculated to largely increase the national…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral
Slight rains have fallen in a few districts since our last-report, but, save in the case of Murrurundi and Albury, the showers wore not heavy enough, to afford sufficient moisture to the soil. Despite the dryness of the…
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