Agricultural Pastoral Forthcoming Shows
Agricultural Association of Kiama, at Kiama, 2nd and 3ra February, 1881. Bega Agricultural Association, 9th and 10th March. The Goulburn Agricultural Society, in March…
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The Grazier. Pastoral Items
Two large drafts of cattle were sold at Bourke to Mr. Adam Hay, for Queensland. The Paroo country is badly off for water, and feed along the stock routes is getting acaree…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →A Wheat Cultivator
An American farmer who has most successfully cultivated wheat has constructed an implement which he strongly recommends as being worthy the attention of farmers. The accompanying engraving clearly shows the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Rust-proof Wheat
By the courtesy of the Commissioner of Crown Lands (says the South Australian Register) we have seen spocimens of two kinds of American wheat which seem to bo able to withstand tho attacks of red rast. They are known…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Shrivelled Wheat for Seed
The question, is shrivelled wheat suitable for seed is being ably discussed in South Australia, and the results of several experiments are already published. One farmer says:—"I believe shrunken wheat to be…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral
The year 1880, which from its outset has been drouthy, is closing with warm and dry weather, leaving in many districts bare pastures and dry tanks. Despite this, however, the news from the pastoral districts is not very…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wagaa Wagga
Business in the fat stock market is dull in cattle, and fair demand is noted for sheep. for which slightly higher prices are offering by metropolitan buyers than those obtainable last week. In store cattle there no inquiry, and…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Wheat Production and Consumption of the World
New York, November 13.—Bradstreet's Circular to-day, makes a close estimate of the production and consumption of wheat in-the world, and places the net surplus at 27,000,000 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →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 20 →Farming at Ulladulla. I.
There are few places along the Australian coast where such an extent of arable land is found as that contained in the district extending from Wollongong to Bega. Here are viewed long patches of undulating chocolate-coloured hills,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Farmer and the Railroads
The farmer, in the paper, Bead the editorial mentions That the public welfare rested On political conventions;…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Cultivator. Farm and Garden Memoranda for January, 1881
THE spring now past has been on the whole a favourable one in regard to all kinds of husbandry, although towards the end the country began to suffer for lack of moisture, but not more so than the averase of the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Australian Town & Country Journal Sydney, Saturday, Jan. 1, 1881. The Farmers and the Railway Rates
THERE has been so much said and written in connection with railway management in this country that an unobservant person might suppose the subject exhausted long…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Railway Rates for Farm Produce. To the Editor
SIR,—In a letter to your journal a few weeks since, I directed attention to the hardship the farmers and others were compelled to endure in consequence of the excessive rates charged for the conveyance of their produce by rail,…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Wool Returns
LONDON, January 2.-The wool returns of the year show that 1,057,000 bales were sold at auction in the London market during 1880…
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LONDON, January 3.-Best Australian wheat is quoted at 50s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Renewal of Pastoral Leases. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir;—I was officially informed some months age that a Mr. Gox had been appointed by the Government to appraise the rent of a run held by me under promise of a lease, which expired on 31st December. This gentleman visited…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm Produce
At auction sales, scoured wool sold from 14d to 204; hand.-washed, 12d to l8d; fleeee-washed, superior slips, 17d to 20d; fair, 15d to 17-d; inferior, 13d to l5d; looks, 8d to 12d per lb; fleece-…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Sales
Wool.—The catalogues for the week comprise about 8000 bales, including 2000 to be submitted by Messrs. Mort and Co. on Friday. The wool offered was mostly of medium and inferior quality. The competition was active,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Sugar Crop
LONDON, January 5.-The continued wet weather has seriously affected the beet root sugar crop. On the other hand he Cuban crop is particularly good, and more…
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