A Word about Smut in Wheat
As I am aware there are plenty of sceptics fin the wheat-growing world besides myself, I send you the following to publish for their benefit, if you think it worth while…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Farming & the land, 1881
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Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Report
WOOL.—The catalogues offered at the fortnightly auction sales this week, were mostly small, comprising scoured lots of wool. The prices exhibited no [?]erial change on those lately ruling. The best scoured wool realized up to 19d.,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wool Trade of New South Wales
VIEWS ON THE MURRAY —ECHUCA TO WENTWORTH…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wool-trade of New South Wales. Views on the Murray—echuca to Wentworth
THE river Murray plays an important part in the pastoral industry of Australia, by furnishing facilities for the cheap and rapid conveyance of wool produce to the leading sea-ports, from thence to be shipped to the great…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →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 him proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Farmers' and Produce Agents
At the monthly meeting of the Bathurst Farmers' Union last week, the question of appointing a Sydney agent was again discussed, but no resolution was arrived at— principally because of the impossibility at present of…
Continued on Trove, page 783 →Ostrich Farming. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
Sir,— In your issue of the Sydney Mail of April 30 1 notice an article, headed Ostrich Farming near Sydney. Having read your article carefully, I regret to say that I find a great error, in the latter part;—viz., in the price of…
Continued on Trove, page 782 →The Farm & STATION. Agricultural Affairs in England. (From Our Own Correspondent.)
THE agricultural outlook has become very dark since my last letter. Storms and floods in England and deep snow in Scotland have prevented farmers from working the land for spring crops, and there has been but little…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →London Wool Sales
Sale of 2497 bales from Sydney and Queensland, by Charles Balme and Co., on Friday, 4th March, 1881:— Ex Cambrian Princess and Peterborough, from Sydney: York and Walsh over Rose Valley over B, 18 scoured combing at 21½d,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disturbers in Sheep's Clothing
A correspondent sends us the following :--"A large body of persons repudiate the idea that matt dates his ancestry from the apes and dogs, or that these and other animals possess the more elevated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Wool Sales
Sale of 1274 bales, from Sydney and Queensland, by Charles Balme and Co., on Saturday, 12th March, 1881:- Ex John Duthie, C[?] Rosetta, and Cimba, from Sydney: York &. Walsh over Rose Valley over B, 11 s[?] combing at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Sales
The following cablegram has been received by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Co.:—"London, May 17.—Wool: The sales progress firmly. Up to date 50,000 bales have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales
LONDON, May 19.—There is a good demand at the colonial wool sales, chiefly by French buyers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Items
Wilcannia reports state plenty of water now, and fair prospects for stock. Sydney consumes over 2000 cattle and 14,000 sheep, weekly…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Improved Sheep Shears
As an article of the seasonable kind for the approaching shearing season our illuatration shows Marshall's patent double bow sheep shears, introduced two seasons ago by Messrs. F. Lassotter and Co., of…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Wheat Growing
The difficulties by which the wheat growers of South Australia are surrounded have brought many counsellors to the fore. Amongst these one of the most practical is an ex-farmer who tenders the following practical hints…
Continued on Trove, page 822 →Classifying Wool
THE commencement of another shearing season is a suitable time for submitting a brief treatise upon wool sortings— if it is only a meagre and crude effort…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Drafting Yards for Cattle
Through the courtesy of Mr. R. Wiseman, overseer of the Australian Agricultural Company's estate, Gloucester, we are in a position to publish the accompanying plan of the Company's cattle-drafting yards, in which all the work…
Continued on Trove, page 823 →Hard Upon the Sheep
The straits to which stock owners were put are the recent rain fell, is thus acpicted by the ADVERTISER of Ararat:-Some flockmasters are purchasing oats on which to food well-bred sheep, and, should…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Late Agriculture. the Weather-agricultural and Pastoral
Since last Tuesday the weather has been rather wintry along the coast, and several light showers have fallen. The week's return of rainfall is light, the North-Western districts being most favoured, On the Hunter and Goulburn the soil…
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