Pastoral Items
At Bourke over an inch of rain fell, and a fine fall is reported along the Bogan. The only passing at Deniliquin this week was 1000 store sheep (R. Holmes's, selector.)…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Farming & the land, 1881
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Travelling Sheep
So good have been the seasons experienced in this colony during the past two years that the Act to Amend the Diseases in Sheep Act of 1866 and the Diseases in Sheep Act Amendment Act of 1876, as well…
Continued on Trove, page 294 →Insects in Wool
An entomologist, M. Levoiturier, of Elbeuf, lately communicated to the French Acclimatisation Society the results of an. inquiry as to the coleoptera found in wools from different parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales
LONDON, February 17.-The number of bales catalogued to-day was 8200. It was a grand assortment, mostly Australian, Nine-tenths of the quantity offered was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mudgee Sheep and Metropolitan Exhibitions
The Western Post strongly supports our view, that the sheep-breeders of Mudgee should be strongly represented at the forthcoming Metropolitan Show next August. One portion of our contemporary's article runs as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 294 →Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral
The second month of summer has almost closed, and yet we find the pastures of the colony in excellent condition, and stockowners well satisfied with their prospects. Since our last issue the weather has been dry and warm, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 301 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wagga Wagga
Mr. H. G. Duggan reports:-The fat stock market is very quiet. There have been some inquiries for fat sheep, but they are reported to be scarce. Store cattle are still dull of sale, great difficulty being found in doing business…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Lessons From the Victorian Wool Show
WRITING under a similar head to the above, "Anglo" in the Australasian of Saturday says:— We have learned some lessons from the great wool exhibition, but methinks there are more to…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Commercial, Wool, Produce, and Stock Report
WOOL.—The wool offered at auction this week has been the smallest in quantity since the commencement of the wool season. Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin did not submit a catalogue in view of the opening of the February…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Important Letter on the Wool Trade. MELBOURNE
Messrs. Goldsbrough and Co. write to the ARGUS as follows :-" We noticed a statement in your Sydney telegram published in yesterday's issue-' The wool statistics for the present season…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Treatment of Farm and Dairy Produce
AT the present time, when the exportation of farm and dairy produce as a means of profitably disposing of our suplus is assuming a distinct form in the colonies, anything tending to bring…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Ulladulla Pastoral and Agricultural Show. [By Electric Telegraph.] (Fr0m Our Own Correspondent.) Ulladulla
THE Ulladulla Pastoral and Agricultural Association's annual show was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, on the now ground, and was an unqualified success, whilst the weather was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →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 19 →Facts for Farmers and Graziers
THE vintage on the Hunter River district promises to turn out well. LARGE numbers of sheep are being destroyed by dingoes in various parts of the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →LETTER from a Tenant Farmer on the Irish Land Question
The following extract from a letter by a [?]e[?]nt farmer, residing in the north of Ireland, will indicate the general state of things in that por[?]on of the disturbed country:--"We are having a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Farm & STATION How Condensed Milk is Manufactured
IT is a remarkable fact that, although many thousands of tins of preserved milk are annually imported into Kew South Wales, principally from Switzerland, little has been done, save at Kiama, to introduce the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Domesticated Buffaloes for Dairy Stock
ALTHOUGH the wild buffalo or bison is gradually disappearing before the steady advance of civilisation westwards, and its numbers are annually diminishing, it will not probably utterly vanish from the face of…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Colonial and Farm Produce
THE WHEAT MARKET— The wheat market is bar of all sorts with the exception of Victorian, of which there has been of late some large arrivals. Only a few samples of good New South Wales qualities to…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Travelling Sheep
Some time since (says the HAY STANDARD), in consequence of the severe drought in the Darling district, Mr. David Chrystal started 15,000 sheep from Oberon und [?] stations for Kiandra…
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