International Wool Exhibition
LONDON, January 29.—A meeting has been held at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor presiding, with the object of furthering the proposal to hold an…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farming & the land, 1881
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Adulteration of Milk and Butter
THE local Government board (says the L. S. JOURNAL) has issued, in pamphlet form, an extract from its last annual report, in reference to the operation of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act. During last…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral
At length there appear indications of a change in the weather, and we may, on good grounds, think we have, for the present at any rate, happily escaped the realizations of the unpleasant forebodings of a few weeks back. The…
Continued on Trove, page 220 →Latest; Pastoral Intelligence, [By Electric Telegraph.] Tasworth
Messrs. Nathan. Cohen and Co. report:—Fat Cattle; A large supply of middling quality sold at 9s per 100lb. We sold Munroe's bullocks from £2 11s to £3 10s; Watkin's bullocks fetched £3.. In fat sheep there is a slight…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Melbourne Wool Market. Melbourne, Friday
The Australian Mortage and Agency Company report:-We offered at auction to-day 730 bales of wool." Prices were easier for all but scoured of fair quality, which met with good competition…
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WOOL.—The auctioneers' catalogues, this week, comprised about 3070 bales. For the better qualities of wool there is still a brisk demand, and they sold readily; but the commoner kinds, which constitute the larger part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wheat Returns for the Past Season.—Albury District
The wheat-growing districts of this colony represent a fractional quantity only of the arable land contained within its boundaries. When tho great extent of agricultural land is taken into consideration, the laxity in farming becomes…
Continued on Trove, page 214 →The Cultivator. Flowers of a Tree as a Cattle Fodder. the Mahwa, Madhuga, or Madoodoomah Tree (Bassia Latieolia)
ATTENTION has recently been drawn to this Indian tres by reason of several tons of the flowers having been sent to New York, as a trial shipment, by the Indian representative or corroapondont of a…
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THE fruit crop in Victoria bids fair to be a general failure. IT is stated that there will be a profit of between £2000 and £3000 on the meat and butter…
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It has been boasted "many a time and oft" by those who have had a shave in the framing of our land laws that, however imported those laws may be in matters of detail, they still…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →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 18 →Ostrich Farming
Mr. J. D. Ellis, a gentleman visiting Adelaide from Cape Colony, who has bad a considerable amount of experience in ostrich farming, has supplied the South Australian Register with a few…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Je seys for the Dairy
SEVERAL accounts of the milking qualities of Jersey cows' in America have appeared in our columns during the past year. The breed is the most popular amongst the dairy farmers of the Great Republic. It…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The February Wool Sales
LONDON, February 4 -The February wool sales commence to-naorrow, February, 5…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Industries of the Colony. (By Our Special Reporter.) Xxix.—the Wool Trade at Bourke
Bourke is the first important centre to which the wool is sent from the stations in the north-west for dispatch to a port of shipment, and Bourke is the town to which the Great Western Railway is being…
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The FORBES TIMES reports that on the 4th, 4000 sheep passe 1 for Waterhole station. Mr. Logan, owner, in oharge. On Tuesday 1100 fat sheep, the property of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Spurious Butter
FOR some years past large quantities of buiterine have been disposed of in Dublin as pure butter. Hitherto the fraud has escaped almost unnoticed, to the great loss of dairy-farmers Recently, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Improved Cattle Pen
THE engravincs show a portable cattle pen made in sectious that may be readily transported, and these sections are provide with hinged sides so that they may be easily joined together, forming a series of…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Diseases in Cattle. (Continued.)
THE next dreaded disease among cattle is Blackleg. This disease, i.e., when a visitation takes place in reality, ia a scourge among cattle, and in most cases the downfall of the owners, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral
Since the 5th instant, the date we last treated of the weather, a remarkable and very satisfactory change has taken place in the aspect of pastoral and agricultural affairs. There has been a rainfall which has been almost…
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