Late Agriculture. the Weather-agricultural and Pastoral
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 805
Since our last issue snowstorms have been displaced by weather which is unmistakably warm and summer-like. Dry warm winds are rapidly parching the herbage, which is in no degree strong; and in some parts…
Continued on Trove, page 805 →Latest Pastoral News. [By Telegraph] Melbourne
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 40
Messrs. King and Co. report:—Cattle About 1220 yarded. Prices for prime sustained; lower qualities easier; prime bullocks £15 to £18, good £12 10s to £13 16s, medium £9 to £10 [?]s. Sheep: About 16,700 penned;…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →The British Wool Trade
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 22
A WRITER in the "Agricultural Gazette" of August 11, in reviewing the English wool trade, remarks that the chief feature of the trade may be said to be the greater signs of life shown by English long wool, and…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 22
IN an article in the current number of the VICTORIAN REVIEW, the editor has offered some advice to South Australian farmers, in reference to the steady, increase which is taking place in the area of…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Wheat as Food for the Horse
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 786
Upon the subject of wheat versus cats as horsefeed, Mr. Henry Stevenson, of Niddrie, Victoria, writes to the Leader ss follows:—There appears to me some inconsistency in the relative prices of wheat and oats for horeefeed, when we…
Continued on Trove, page 786 →Bombala Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bombala
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 14
The show of horses in connection with the Bombala Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show was held here yesterday. The entries in each class were num[?], and all the exhibits were of a fairly good quality. The judges were…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Weather, Wool, Movements of Stock. the Week's News in Brief
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 22
ANOTHER very fair week of early summer weather, with showers in various directions. Balranald has again got a good! sprinkling, and the prospects are improving in that quarter. The southern border…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →A Dairy Cow
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 8
A cow never reaches perfection in her line until she has arrived at maturity: and she must reach this period of her life with all her faculties [?] if we expect her to be as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farm and Garden. Boxes on the Farm
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 8
It is well enough known that bone, when ground fine, makes one of the best and cheapest manurce, especially on lands long in use. The needs of farmers with abundant capital are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Clydesdale, near Riverstone, the Country Residence and Stock Farm of John Hardle, Esq., Mayor of Sydney
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 26
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Continued on Trove, page 26 →Turkey Farming in California
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 21
MIGHT not some turkey district be found in New South Wales where the bird could be managed in a manner similar to that described below, and which is from a home paper:—"Along the foot of the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Australasian Wheat
Evening News · Monday 20 October 1884 · page 4
LONDON, October 18.—The quotations for Australasian wheat remain unchanged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Farmer Killed. ARMIDALE
Evening News · Monday 20 October 1884 · page 4
An inquest was held on Saturday on the body of Mr. Hugh M'Millan, a farmer, 38 years of age, who was found on Friday afternoon lying face down wards on the road about two miles out of town, his dray…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers' Co-operative Companies. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 October 1884 · page 4
Sir,—As your correspondent "Commission Agent" has put a wrong construction on my letter of the 6th, I trust you will grant me space for a reply. Firstly, he finds fault with my letter because it is too long; bad I known…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Sales.—monday
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 October 1884 · page 8
By Messrs Harrison, Jones, mid Devlin, Limited.—Wool: LF, 5 B greasy at 9¾, H. over Cowabee, [?] greasy pieces at 6½d; [?] conjoined, 6 greasy at 8d; J. over cross over Bann Baa, [?] greasy at 10d; E[?] over M, [?] locks at 2[?]d; H. Withers, [?] greasy at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mulga Trees As Food for Sheep
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 October 1884 · page 5
The attention of the Forest Branch of the Mining Department has been directed to the very extensive destruction of Mulga trees in the neighbourhood of Cobar, for the requirements of the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wool and Produce Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 October 1884 · page 8
WOOL.—Under date September 12, the European Mail reports that the market for colonial wool is still in a very healthy condition. The sales, which are now crawing to a close, are stil, well attended, and the biddings keen and animated prices being…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 October 1884 · page 11
By Mort and Co., Limited.H=—If over Emu, 7 bales grease at 9[?]d, 15 grease at 8[?]d; Murrulbale, 21 first pieces at 8[?]d, 9 second ditto at 6d, 6 locks at 3[?]d; JB over Werrabilla, 16 grease at 7[?]d, bellies and pieces at 5[?]d; JMM over Wectalabah, 25 first…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →New Cattle Disease. MELBOURNE
Evening News · Thursday 23 October 1884 · page 8
A resident of the Darragon swamp district, Horsham, reports that a strange disease among cattle has manifested itself on two farms there. The cattle seem to become sleepy, and in about 12 hours their limbs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Annual Wool Sales
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 October 1884 · page 2
Messrs Mort and Co. Limited, report:--Both local and foreign buyers mustered in full force again at our wool auction to-day, when we brought forward a catalogue of 1300 bales, comprising a number of…
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