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…
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A Visit to Warwick Farm
HAVING received an invitation from Mr. William Forrester to visit Warwick Farm, I, last Monday, availed myself of the fine weather to make a trip to that locality, and well was I repaid my trouble. No…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Deniliquin Sheep Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Deniliquin
The judging at the Deniliquin Sheep Show commenced to-day. The following are the awards:— Ram, above four-tooth—Paterson and Co., Austin and Millear, M'Farland; 12 entries. Class 2, four-tooth ram—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Whariage Rates
Advices have been received from Melbourne stating that in furture in that city wharfage rates on wool will be paid weight and not as hitherto, by measurement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canada and Wool
The question whether Canada has or has not a duty on wool may, so far as we are concerned, be answered in two ways. There is a duty on certain kinds of wool specified under class [?] but all other wools are still…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London Wool Sales
Sale of 2664 bales, from Sydney and Queensland, by Helmuth Schwartze and Co., on Friday, May 19, 1882:— Ex Western Monarch, from Sydney: R. Fitzgerald, Windsor. N.S.W., 4 combing hoggets at 31d, 10 combing at 30d, 10 at 27½d…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Deni[?]quin
The Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show was held to-day, and was a complete success. The particulars of the awards in the sheep classes have already been sent. The show in this section was first-class. Austin…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bourke Pastoral Show
THIS event came off on July 5. The exhibits of sheep, as a rule, were not up to those of former years, though notable exceptions occurred in those shown by Messrs. Dickson (of Yarowin), and Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Sheep in Queensland
The report of the Chief Inspector of Stock in Queensland, for the year 1881, shows that at the close of that year there were in the Northern sister colony 8,104,368 sheep, an increase of 1,666,626 on the…
Continued on Trove, page 134 →Improved Sheep Shears
THE engraving shows an improved sheep shears recently patented by Mr. Alfred P. Mann, in America. The improvement consists of flexible padded casings, connected by a strap, and capable of peing bent over…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Deniliquin Sheep Show
The judging at the Deniliquin Sheep Show commenced on Wednesday. The following are the awards:—Ram, above four-tooth—Paterson and Co., Austin and Millear, M'Farland; 12 entries. Class 2, four-tooth…
Continued on Trove, page 141 →The Stud Sheep Sales
LOWER prices provailed during the third day at Mort and Co.'s, where the closing sale was held, yet fair prices were got for first-class animals. Mr. Abbott again officiated, with his accustomed energy,…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Wool Wedding
THUS, AUSPICIOUS DOES THE RING OF GOLD(SBROUGH) EVENTUATE A MORT-ISING OF POWERS WHICH SHALL BE FELT AROUND THE WORLD…
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The sheep sales in connection with the Pastoral Society's Show, took place to-day, when Messrs. Austin and Millear's exhibits brought high prices. One ram realised 520 guineas, another…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Annual Sales of Stud Sheep
It was not until the evening of Friday, the 14th instant, that the annual stud sheep sales of this year closed. They commenced on the Tuesday. Thus it will be seen, that it took no fewer than four days to clear the catalogues. Four years…
Continued on Trove, page 133 →Insects in Rusted Wheat
RUST appeared in West Australia about 14 years ago, at first only attacking the wheat crop, but soon extended to barley and oats. It has gradually decreased for the last five or six years, only appearing…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral
The winter is severe in the high districts. There have been snowstorms in New England, Monaro, and Braidwood, and several districts have experienced severe frosts. In these localities the stock are not in an enviable condition,…
Continued on Trove, page 141 →Cattle Disease on the Southern Coast
A grazier writes from Milton, Ulladulla, on the 22nd instant:—"Will you kindly inform me the cause of my cattle dying? The symptoms are fast breathing and little frothing at the mouth, and they die without straggling…
Continued on Trove, page 141 →The Grazier, The North-west Sheep Country
To those acquainted with the early history—now some 20 years old—of the country vorging northward towards the Gulf of Carpentaria, the state of things now prevailing may well excite surprise. The…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Messrs. Mort and Co's. Stud Sheep Sales
MESSRS. Mort and Co [?] sheep sales, extending this year over three days, closed on Friday. This years sales have been very successful; and although in many instances a similar…
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