The Farmer and Crazier
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 Dairy Lesson
Dr. Voelcker gave a lecture on cheese-making some time ago to a number of farmers' wives and dairyworuen in England. At the close of his remarks a lady said: "What you tell us is all very well, but can you make a cheese?"…
Continued on Trove, page 259 →Farm and Garden. Egg-laying Breeds of Poultry
THERE has been a wonderful improvement made in the last few [?] in through-bred poultry, bred for special [?] It is Impossible to combine all the [?] in any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Poultry
THIS department of the farm is usually considered to be under the special management of the mistress. It is under her superintendence, at least, so far as setting the clutches of eggs, rearing the chickens,…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Victorian Railway Wool Rates. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
The Minister for Railways has arranged the wool rates for this season. There is to be no alteration in the rates for Riverina wool, but the boundary line in which the reduced rates of 4s. 6d. per bale is charged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victorian Sheep Sales. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
The first of what is to be an annual sale of the Hon. Philip Russell's Carngham sheep was held at Ballarat today. The flock has been bred from the best sires of Victorian and Tasmanian flocks. There was a large…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral Districts
The Walgett Mail of the 10th instant says:—"The usual weather prevailed here until Saturday last, when we were accorded a slight sprinkling, just sufficient to lay the duet It continued showery the whole day and part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 306 →The Exportation of Live Cattle
In connection with the proposals to export cattle from Australia to England, it is noteworthy that the scarcity of live stock in Great Britain is becoming each year more and more apparent…
Continued on Trove, page 306 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. (By Telegraph.) Melbourne
Messrs. King and Co. report:—Cattle: 1370 yarded. Prices unchanged for middling; prime slightly advanced; best pens, £12 to £13 15s; good, £9 to £11; cows, £9 10s. We sold 143 bullocks and 20 cows from Durbam Downs…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →New Cattle Disease. To the Editor
SIR,—Your correspondent, "G.N.L.," has hardly described the case accurately enough to admit of a positive diagnosisj but I am inclined to think it is the following:—impetige labialis et facialis. This disease…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Goulburn Annual Sheep Show. Goulburn
The Agricultural Society's second grand sheep show was held on the grounds to-day. The weather was line, but very cold. The attendance of the public was very good, and the exhibits were far superior to those of last year. The poultry…
Continued on Trove, page 328 →The Grazier. A. Likely Method of Hurdling Sheep
SOME time ago an English gentleman devised a method of irrigating grass land, and a method of successfully feeding of sheep upon the enormous crops of grass he is thus enabled to grow. It will interest…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Victorian Railway Wool Rates. Melbourne
The Minister for Railways has arranged the wool rates for this season. There is to be no alteration in the rates for Riverina wool, but the boundary line in which the reduced rates of 4s. 6d. per bale is charged…
Continued on Trove, page 303 →The Wool Market. London, August 16
The wool market is quiet. The total arrivals to date, including the quantity held over from last sales is 430,000 bales. The following telegrams are from other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ayrshire Cattle. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
Sir,—A writer in your paper of the 27th. of July appears to throw a doubt on the fact of any pure Ayrshire cattle having been imported into Victoria 30 years ego. About 12 months previous to the discovery of gold in Australia I…
Continued on Trove, page 308 →The Treasury, Queensland, 13th July, 1883. Annual Pastoral Rent List for 1883
The attention of Crown Lessees and others is directed to the Queensland Government Gazette of 13th July. 1883, containing a List of all Pastoral Rents due and payable at the Treasury on or before the 30th September, 1883…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →American Agricultural Experiences. N0. Vi.—wheat Harvest in California
A MARKED feature in the character of your real Americans is their hospitality and unaffected desire to make you comfortable, and in every way give a stranger any information he wishes to obtain. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Great Loss of Cattle by Eating Variegated Thistles. To the Editor
SIR,—About a mile below my house at Buggaboo, there is a small angle on the Maoquarie River. Until lately, or this year, but few thistles ever grew in it, and I never knew any stock to die from eating…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Sheep Sales at Adelaide. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide
The second day's sale of the Levels stud flocks was highly successful, even more so than the first day. The weather was fine and there was a large attendance again, including several buyers from other colonies, and these…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →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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