Wheat Experiments
BY special invitation of A. F. Holroyd, Esq.,a number of gentlemen were present at his experiments farm, Sherwood Scrub, early on Tuesday morning, see the harvesting of this year's wheat. The…
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The Grazier. Polled Cattle
ALTHOUGH in Europe and America the polled breeds of cattle are rapidly and surely growing into favour, yet we in Australia have, so far, failed to practically realise either…
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WHEAT-GROWERS of the Camden and Windsor districts in New South Wales, and of the Darling Downs in Queensland, will think it grand news…
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IN order to prove that wheat can be grown free from rust in the County of Cumberland Mr. A. T. Holroyd has been experimenting near Parramatta, and on Tuesday at his invitation a party of…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Latest Pastoral News. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Messrs. Ring and Co. report — Cattle:1760 yarded. Market slighrly improved. Prime pens, £7 to £17 10s; good, £7 10s to £8 10s; prime cows.£7 to £7 17s 6d; others to £6 10s. Our Billes are from Gippsland paddocks and near…
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Spring closes with exceptionally hot weather. Last Wednesday was the hottest day recorded at the Observatory of this city for many years. At 9 a.m. the shade thermometer read 82-6 degrees; the maximum shade read…
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A New Zealand farmer writes to the Otago Witness:—"Seeing that we have now a means provided by the New Zealand Shipping Company of sending our surplus stock of tatter to the home markets monthly, and that any of it sent…
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SIR,— On looking over the queries of correspondents in your paper of the 17th instant, a correspondent (Bundarra) asks about " the bottle disease in sheep," and by your replying to the same acknowledges the term…
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SOME time a, farmer, writing to the LEADER suggested that experiments should be made to determine whether smut could not be somewhat guarded guarded. Whether the suggestion was…
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ANOTHER week of hot, sultry weather, with flying showers in various directions. The metropoliton and border districts to the south are specially…
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WOOL.—The catalogues offered this week have been unusually large, and the sales considerable. The market, however, was decidedly weaker. Even for the fine wools buyers did not compete so freely, except to prices somewhat below…
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THE month which has elapsed sinne we last wrote has been remarkable for the large number of buyers attending our market, and for strong and spirited competition, especially for the better descriptions of wool…
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We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestion 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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In order to realise the very great importance of bee culture to New South Wales, it is only necessary to compute the capabilities of this colony for producing honey; and in doing this it will be keeping well…
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The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,800,000 quarters…
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By special invitation of A. T. Holroyd, Esq., a number of gentlemen were present at Ms experimental farm, Sherwood Scrub, early on Tuesday morning, to see the harvesting of this year's wheat. The…
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On the wharves this morning there was a good supply of Hunter River lucerne at market, with a fair business doing at from 35s to 60s per ton. Maize, 3s 3d and firm, feed oats. 2s 5d to 2s 9d; seed oats, 2s…
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At the Darling Harbour railway terminus, this morning there was a small supply of forage forward from the various intermediate stations along the western and southern lines. There was a…
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GREAT activity in the Sydney wool trade. Ware, houses filled, shipping very active, as are the sales also. Melbourne in much the same state. At the sales in Sydney, the average of lots passed either…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →To Ascertain the Weight of Cattle
TAKE the measurement of the girth where it is smallest (close behind the shoulder), and the length of the animal, from the front of the shoulder to the juncture of the tail. Multiply the square of the girth in feet…
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