Facts for Farmers and Graziers
AT Wagga Wagga, on Friday last;, 6289 acres of land were selected. Most of the farmers in the Carcoar district are now busily engaged threshing their wheat, which…
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Poultry Farming. (CONTINUED.)
BESIDES selecting for the site of a poultry farm a moist district, in order to counteract as far as possible the debilitating effects of an excessively dry and hot atmosphere, as explained in our previous article, it…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Commercial. Wool Sales—monday
By Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin.—Wool: SMP Co in diamond, 20 scoured at 17¼d. 7 at 16d, 10 at 13¾d; H. M'Namara, 10 scoured at 16d; C&F over Corilla, 8 scoured locks 9[?]sd; JS over Barraba, 5 greasy at 8d; JS over Mudgee, 20 greasy at 9¾d; JC…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Commercial. Wool Sales.—wednesday
By Messrs. Mort and Co.—Wool: PQ, 5 grease at 7½d; Hover W, 20 [?]eece at 15[?]; ME, 5 lambs at 6½d; DW, 28 fleece at 16[?]d; E over SG over Moree, 7 lambs at 3¾; WM over P, 8 fleece at 14d; 4 in diamond, 7 grease at [?]d; JEN, 8 fleece at 16½d;…
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At "Wilcannia the weather has been cold and fine, and it is foared that a dry month will succeed. At Urana, we loarn by telegram that splendid rain has fallen…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Agricultural Pastoral Forthcoming Shows
Clarence Agricultural Society, at Grafton, 6th, 7th, and 8th April. The Goulburn Agricultural Society, 6th, 7th, and 8th April…
Continued on Trove, page 538 →Braidwood Pastoral and Agricultural Show
The sixth annual Show of the Braidwood Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held in the Racecourse Paddock on Thursday last. Notwithstanding the unusual number of race meetings, sports, and other attractions, which have been…
Continued on Trove, page 539 →The Weather—agricultural and Pastoral
The week which has nearly closed was rather remarkable in two particulars—heat and moisture. On the coast the maximum temperature ranged from 73 to 76, and in some districts inland west and south the thermometer's register was…
Continued on Trove, page 549 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] Tamworth
Messrs. N. Cohen and Co. report:—Fat Cattle: Large supply yarded; prices averaged 11s per cwt. Sold Browne's bullocks, £-1 2u to —3 9s 6d; Jonos's cows, £2 7s to £3 8[?]; Rixon's bullocks,£3 10s; M'Intosh's bullocks,…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →The Outltivator. Pastoral and Agricultural Shows to Come
SECRETARIES of Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Shows to come will oblige by informing us of what fixtures have been made for those Exhibitions: Clarence Agricultural Society, at Grafton, 6th, 7 th,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Preparing Seed Wheat for Sowing
WE take the following useful information from the Leader for the benefit of those who are not already aware of it:— The seed having been well screened, the next…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Wool and its Manufacture. (CONCLUDED.)
Before giving a brief account of the various processes through which wool is put in the course of its manufacture, it may not be amiss to devote some remarks to the importance of the care and management necessary in getting up…
Continued on Trove, page 539 →Shipping Cattle. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—For the sake of humanity, or perhaps of what is more consequence to many, the increase of worldly wealth, when will proper provision be made at this port for shipping live stock on board the fast increasing steam communication…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Report
WOOL.—The auctioneers' catalogues are becoming smaller. At the fortnightly sales, which were held this week, there was an improved demand for good wools of all descriptions —greasy, scoured, and fleece; but inferior wools were not so…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Grazier. Colonial Wool Sales for 1880. (From the New ZealandLoan and Mercantile Agency Company's (Limited) Circular, January 14.)
THE history of the colonial wool sales for the year 1880stands ont in market contrast to that of its predecassor. During the first line month of the earlier there was a porsistent doelino, while…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Facts for Farmers and Graziers
IN several Victorian districts grasshoppers are reported to be making sad havoc in orchards. Young cereal crops as well as young grasses ought to be rolled before they are too far advanced…
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We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions an to the treatment of land, crops, and stock as their experience has proved to his useful. By writing for this journa…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Protection and Farmers
The Australasian has instituted some inquiries with the object of discovering the causes which have led to the agricultural distress at present existing in Victoria, and has arrived at the conclusion that it is a…
Continued on Trove, page 538 →Dairy Husbandry
The following is the opening lecture, by Professor J. P. Sheldon, here somewhat abridged, delivered at the Wilts and Hants Agricultural College, Downton, Salisbury:— It is difficult to decide which is the more important…
Continued on Trove, page 540 →"Farm and Grarden Memoranda for April, 1881
MARCH weather has been generally favourable, both for pastures and for farm operations, although there are some districts suffering from lack of moisture. The metropolitan country ospecially is in bad…
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