Farm Produce
At the Darling Harbour Railway Terminus this moraine there was a fair supply of forage forward from the various intermediate stations along the Western and Southern lines. The market was fairly…
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Wool Sales.—thursday
By Mr. F. L. Barker.—Greasv; AM over T. 6 bales at 10d; JBC. 8 bales at 9¾ first pleces at 7d. second pleces at 4¼d, bellies at 4d; WB over biock, 5 bales at 9[?]; OS over Thurrona, 8 bales at 3½d; JSJ over FP over DD over Q. 8 bales at 8½d pices…
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The Brewarrina Express of the 20th instant says:—"We have at length the pleasure of recording a rainfall of some benefit. After our last report the weather gradually assumed every appearance of approaching rain, and on…
Continued on Trove, page 787 →Packing Butter
It is by this time pretty generally known that much of the skill and sure exercised in making butter in this colony is neutralized by the defective packing arrangements. It is this that has…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →American Sheep
The mail steamer City of New York, which arrived this week, brought to this colony 97 American sheep. Including this shipment, since last January no fewer than 557 of such sheep have been landed on these…
Continued on Trove, page 786 →Concerning Sheep Shearing
REGARDING tallies by fast shearers I have had 20 years experience—10 as a shearer and 10 as a manager of woolsheds—therefore I send you the following, by which I should like some of the readers of the "T…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Wool Shipments
WooL is now coming down to port very fast, and some 34,000 bales have already arrived during the present month, but a large quantity is still going into store. Dorine the forth coming week several…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →An Improved Cattle Car
The following is from an American journal, the "Railway Age."—"The American Humane Associated [?] awarded a gold medal to the Burton Stock car company for its improved cattle car. A fund of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late Agriculture. Pastor Weather—agricultural and Pastoral
Since our last issue there has been a fair share of [?] and several districts have been well moistened. M[?] moisture is yet required in the back districts but th[?] the coast have received quite enough. There are even [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Pastoral, Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] Gunnedah
Messrs. F. Bacon, and Co. report:— light snowers fell this week. The weather is now unseasonably hot. More rain is wanted to keep the grass growing. Sheep The demand is more active. There is brisk inquiry for good…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Rural Notes. Sheet and Cattle on the Railways
The amount of suffering inflicted upon sheep and cattle travelling upon our railways by over-crowding occasionally would appear incredible to those who were not acquainted with the fasts…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Grazier. The New Wool Buyers' Association of Victoria
THE following regulations were adopted at a meeting of the above held on the 16th October, 1833, to be submitted to the selling brokers for adoption:— CATALOGUES…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Weather— Wool—Movements of Stock. the News in Brief
No heavy rain to record, butshowers have been doing much good over large areas of country. We were able in last issue to give in brief our ideas of the opening wool sales in Sydney and in Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →High Farming
"On behalf of a client I am directed to inquire and ascertain why, wherefore, by what right, whose sanction, leave, license and authority certain cesspits were opened," wrote an indignant personage to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farmer and Brazier
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 →Poultry Farming
At a recent meeting of the Chamber of Manufactory South Australia, Mr. Hoddenott read a paper on the above subject, from which we extract the following :— "I can but feel how little able I am to do…
Continued on Trove, page 787 →Hop Crop of the World
In September the largest hop crop grown since 1875 was expected in England. The 1875 yield was 700,000cwt. from 69,971 acres, or close upon 10cwt. per acre. There "was this year 68,027 acres under the…
Continued on Trove, page 786 →Farm and Garden. Laws Resulting Irrigation. (“ Australian’s ” Special Correspondent in America.)
IT would obviously be impossible to carry on such an extensive system of irrigation as that of Colorado without the enactment of special laws for its regulation. The vexed question of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral Settlement
LONDON, October 27.—A company has been projected to purchase and stock a large area of country in the Carandotta district, Queensland. The capital of the company is £250,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales
Sale of 1944 bales, from Sydney and Queensland, by Edenborough and Co., on Thursday, 23rd August, 1883:— Ex Gladstone, from Sydney: A. Tobin and Sons. Wingadeo, 29 [?]oured combing at 28½d, 26 at 23d. 22 at 20½d, 8 clothing at 23d,…
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