Wheat Competition
The London importers of Californian and other wheat from the new world have lately (says a London correspondent) been very hardly hit by the rapid advance of India as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farming & the land, 1882
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A Grand Cattle Sale
A more important pedigree live stock auction has probably never been held in the county of Somerset than that of Mr. Walter Farthing, last April. All the roads leading to Stowey from Bridgwater, Taunton, and Watchet were all…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Stud Sheep Sales
In our last issue we furnished particulars of the excellent arrangements made by Messrs. Mort and Co. for the reception of the stud sheep which will be sold this month (July). We may now take a similar course…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Plan for Marking Polled Cattle
There have been many suggestions as to permanent marking of polled cattle. Professor Brown, of the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm at Guelph, Ontario, in the annual report for 1881, just received,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral
The rains of autumn, which were so badly required, are, fortunately for agriculturists, being followed by a mild winter. The frosts so far have not proved severe, and the broad pasture lands are gradually being covered by the…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Wool and Station Produce
Messrs. Maiden, Hill, and Clark report: -- Wool: There is little of importance to note under this head during the past month. The quantity forward for the fortnightly sales being very small, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Characteristics of Wool, &c
We have said that the six qualities of wool for which are mainly provided classification and commercial value are as follows:—Soundness of staple, length of staple, colour, cleanness, the fineness of the fibre, and its softness and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →New Wool Warehouses in Sydney
WE have been shown plans of the wool warehouses to be erected at Pyrmont, Sydney, for Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co. The location is in Pyrmont street, where there is a front[?] of 345ft with a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wagga Wagga
In the fat stock market only small lots meet with ready sale, and these are difficult to obtain. The demand is good, for store cattle; well-grown bullocks worth 70s to 80s, Store Sheep: Inquiries aro plentiful, but sales are pri[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Loindon Wool Sales. London, June 23
At the wool sales to-day 8500 bales were offered. The tone of the market was firm, bitt there was not an active demand. June 24…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Close of the Wool Sales. London, June 29
The May-June series of colonial wool auctions closed to-day The total quantity of wool sold was 310,000 bales, and 25,000 bales have been held over for the next sales. Coarse…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farmer and Grazier
We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, and stook as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Moral Tales by a Horrid Immoralist. Vii.--smoke and Fire ; Or, the Volunteer Victim. Chapter I.--' Davy Jones's Farmer-- Pope.'
JOHN TOMKINSON BROWN was a gay Volunteer-- the pride of the camp, the delight of the fair; he'd a mien so recherche and so debonnaire and he curled his moustache with so charming an air (his moustaches I should say because he'd a pair), and in short showed so…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden Memoranda for July, 1882. GENERAL
WE shall never know the extent of the loss the country has sustained through starvation of stock during, the summer, autumn, and winter of 1882. There will, of course, be returns of stock and…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Camden Farmers' Union CAMDEN
At a large and enthusiastic meeting of the Farmerss' Union at the School of Arts, on Saturday, it was unanimously resolved to stand by the new system of non-delivery in the sale of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Trade of Sydney and the Colony. No I.
It is quite certain that the wool trade of Sydney is part of that of the colony, but it is not the less true that a part of the colony--and it is a very important one--has a wool trade outside that of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hay Pastoral Association. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Reporter.) Hay
The tenth annual show of the Hay Pastoral Association Was opened to-day. After the successful ball of Wednesday evening the visitors and residents were rather late in taking part in the show, in fact, very…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hay Pastoral Association. Hay
The tenth annual show of the Hay Pastoral Association was opened to-day. After the successful ball of Wednesday evening the visitors and residents were rather late in taking part in the show; in fact, very…
Continued on Trove, page 72 →Sheep As Mutton-producers
An interesting statistical table has lately been published in the Times on the comparative merits of various breeds of sheep as mutton-yielders at an early ago, in which the premier, position has…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →A Radical and Infamous Pastoral Letter
The fourth provincial council of Roman Catholic bishops, which met in Cincinnati, March 19th have fulminated a radical and infamous document, purporting to be the…
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