A Cow's Yielded in Butter
WHAT quantity of milk can a really good cow yield in a week? This is a question which has been frequently asked, and has been authoritatively answered lately by the proprietor of a herd…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Farming & the land, 1883
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Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral
The present summer is affording an abnormal share of moisture to the coast districts, and is not niggardly to the country weft of the coast range. The past week's rainfall was almost general, but some of the far western districts…
Continued on Trove, page 227 →London Colonial Wool Sales
LONDON, January 31.—The committee of the Colonial Wool Importers' Association have had under consideration the proposal of Mr. Edmund Young for altering the dates of next year's series…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Melbourne
Messrs. King and Cuningham report:—Fat cattle: 17,000 rarded, all Victorian, prices rather butter than lash week's; prime bullocks, £9 10s to £11; good, £8 to £9; cows, £7 12s 6d. Our sales are Gippslanders, and from near town…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Reports
Wool.—The quantity of wool offering is becoming less as the season goes on. About 6600 bales were catalogued for the week's sales, of which about 4600 were sold publicly. Fleece realised from 17d. to 19½d.: scoured, 17d. to 21d.;…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Grazier. The Wool Season in Riverina
IN a lengthy article upon the wool products of the district, the "Pastoral Times" feels confident that, notwithstanding the dry weather, the total clip in that quarter for 1882 will come very nearly, if it is…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Rust Proof Wheat. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
Sir,—Sometime ago I received from Mr. Robert Butler, of Cinnabar Mines, Rylstone, a small quantity of wheat, said to be perfectly rust-proof; having numerous inquiries for rust-proof grain, I sent a email quantity of the seed to…
Continued on Trove, page 211 →Wheat-growing on Bathurst Plains. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
Sir,—In reading your issue of the 13th. instant, under the heading of "Harvest Estimates," I find the following sentences:—"In travelling by the Western railway extension, once the Bathurst Plains are crossed, the prospects of…
Continued on Trove, page 211 →Fallacies in Farming
MANY farmers if asked why they do certain things would as likely as not reply "because other farmers did the like." That this blindly follow the leader without due inquiry is not sufficient…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Farmer and Grazier
We shall be happy to receive from practical formers 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 20 →Farm and Garden. Operations for February
KITCHEN GARDEN.—Sow, if the weather be favourable, cauliflowers, cabbages (early sorts), savoys, dwarf peas, radish and onions, for autumn and winter nee. Plant out any plants…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden Memoranda for February, 1883
As is usual, when a severe spring drought once breaks up, and a sufficient quantity of rain falls to start the natural vegetation into vigorous growth, this season ample falls of rain have followed. Hence…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →London Wool Sales
Sale of 1338 bales, from Sydney an Queensland, by Charles Balme and Co., on Tuesday, November 23, 1882:- Ex Ravenna, from Sydney: WE[?]R, Rose Valley, over B, 78 scoured combing at 21d. 34 at 17d; ditto over BB. 34 at 20½d. 31…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →London Wool Sales
Sale of 369 bales, from Sydney, by Willans, Overbury, and Co.:- Ex Carthage and Abergeldie, from sydney: JC, 17 at 18d, 1 at 15d; LLK. 9 locks it 14d; LK. 26 at 13½d…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Commercial. Wool Sales.—wednesday
By Mort and Co.—A [?] bales grease at 10½d; JG over Horse Park, 12 grease at [?]d; GS, 6 grease at 8d; RC, 11 grease at 9½d; RRR over G. 13 grease at 11½d; MBN, 7 grease at 11d.; SW, 11 fierce at 15½d; MGI, 13 [?] at 16¼d; [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool and Produce Sales
Wool.—On the 29th December the New Zealand Loan and Produce Company report:—Since date of our last issue via Brindist, viz., on 15th instant, but few features of interest have presented themselves in this market. Sale to a moderate [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm Produce
At the Darling Harbour Harbour Railway terminus this morning there was a very large supply of forage and produce at market, from the intermediatd stations along the Western and Southern lines. There was a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Making in Italy
The United States Consul at Milan, in reporting on the dairy interests of Italy, says:—Butter, when made in families who have little milk, is made in cylindrical churns, in which the cream is shaken by movement of the churn…
Continued on Trove, page 259 →Experiments with Wheat
Professor Blount, of the State Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado, in a communication to the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, gives some information with regard to the cultivation…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Pickling Seed Wheat
For many years I followed the usual practice of steeping my seed in a strong solution of brine or urine, and afterwards mixing it with quicklime. On some soils this a preventative of smut; on others, with the same treatment, no such result…
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