Farm Notes
The past season has been so unfavourable to farmers that we fear but jew districts hare received the necessary attention from the plough. Late rains, however, have afforded some relief; and although…
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The French Wine Crop
For 1881 the wine crop of France amounted to 34,138,715 heetolitres, against 29,677,477 hectolitres for 1880, so that the promise of fewer importations from Spain this year is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hints for the Farm and Garden. (Continued.)
YOU must now lay down the fiddle and the bow, and take up the shovel and the hoe. Ill weeds grow apace, and your object is therefore to keep them in as healthy condition as possible. At this season of the year the flower garden requires attention. If…
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THE WHEAT MARKET.—During the past week there has been a large accession to our stocks of wheat by arrivals from South Australian ports, amongst which are the s.s. Skyro and ship Lo[?]h…
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JUDGING by the heavy orders for sugar machinery, to be manufactured in the colonies, or sent to the old country for execution, the Australian sugar business must advance immensely during the next few years…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Ostrich-Farming in Australia
SEVERAL extensive districts in the Australian colonies, says the "Colonies and India," appear to possess excellent qualifications for ostrich-farming. In South Australia especially both the climate and…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Sydney Wool. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—By the steamer Orient I have received from Mr. J. D. Fuhrmunn, of Antwerp, a letter complaining of the condition in which his Sydney wool purchases were delivered in Europe…
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At the Darling Harbour Railway terminus this morning there was a short supply of forage from the intermediate stations along the Western and Southern lines. The market was well attended and…
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Queensland National I. A. and H. Association, Bowen Park, Monday, 28th August. Forbes Pastoral and Agricultural Association, 7th and 8th September…
Continued on Trove, page 745 →Packing Butter for Market
The "Weekly Times" makes some telling comments upon the effects of carelessness and want of skill in sending butter to market. Melbourne, says our contemporary, and Sydney might have been added, is…
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HAVING noticed in the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL several observations on rust in wheat, I beg to submit a few facts and my opinion and observat'ons thereon. I do not class myself as a learned…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Go Slow in Butter Making
An exporienced English, dairyman gives the following sound practical advice upon butter-making in the " Agricultural Gazette ":—" Do not work too much or too fast. Work slowly until all is thoroughly and…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral
The rain still keeps away, while in the elevated districts frosts are noticeable nearly every evening. It cannot be said that the official stock reports, indicate that the graziers in many districts are passing through a hard time; but…
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The following is an extract of a letter from one of the leading London wool brokers to a sheep farmer in this colony, dated London, January 20:—"In going to press with our annual circular wo were obligod at…
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Mr. Henry Austin, wool broker of this city, writes to the Sydney Morning Herald upon this subject, as follows:—"By the steamer Orient I have received from Mr. J. D. Fuhrmann, of Antwerp, a letter complaining of the…
Continued on Trove, page 746 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wagga Wagga
The crossings have been only local, and no sales of fat stock have been made but those for local consumption. A good demand exists for store cattle, good bullocks being quoted at from £3 to £4. Store Sheep: Inquiries are…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Report
WOOL.—As the wool sales take place fortnightly there were no sales this week, and prices, therefore, cannot be quoted. The market, however, has improved, and fair values may be expected for any parcels that may come…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Next Series of Wool Sales in London
We are now in possession of data concerning tho next series of sales in London. Originally it was intended that the number catalrgued should be 350,000 bales—a number that could be easily exceeded,…
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 19 →The Farm & STATION Rural Life of the Ancients
THE Rev. W. Houghton, in "Gleanings from the Natural History of the Ancients," says:—"The Assyrians employed dogs for various purposes—such as watching the house, guarding the flocks, and for the…
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