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It is beyond a doubt that large numbers of sheep are worried by sneaking house dogs. They are worse than dingos when the horrible habit is acquired. Nothing short of shooting has any effect upon them;…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Despite some dulness at the commencement of late sales, and a kind of prevailing notion that prices would be prejudicially influenced by the long drought,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There has been no business done this week in the local market. The new clip is now beginning to come to hand more freely, 1745 bales having come to hand by rail, besides 162 bales from the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 421 →A peculiar case was tried at the police court on Monday, in which a man named John Berlin, alias Collins, was charged with obtaining money by false pretences from a tradesman in Newtown. It…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The twenty-fifth annual exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society of Queensland was opened at Toowoomba on the 12th instant. His Excellency the Governor was present and performed the opening ceremony. The…
Continued on Trove, page 394 →It is a fact, beyond a doubt, that South America is becoming, indeed has become, a serious competitor with Australia in wool production of high-class quality, and the sooner the matter is looked squarely…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Sir,—Some three months ago I had a cow attacked with the following complaint:—First, felting off in her milk, hair standing up, hard crust on nose, that lasted for three days, when Drought in the yard on fourth day she was…
Continued on Trove, page 395 →Spring is making its influence felt. Where the land is sufficiently moist, the pleasant green tints of growing grass are seen. The drawbacks are absence of rain, and the withering effeots of westerly and…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The annual sale of Tasmanian stud sheep was held today, by the Queensland Mortgage and Agency Company, in conjunction with Messrs. Findlay and Baynes, of Sydney. All the sheep were sold, but there was very poor…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fine weather favoured the second day's proceedings in connection with the Grenfell Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society's show, the attendance being greater than on any previous occasion. The exhibits of sheep and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A CONFERENCE of delegates from various Farmers' Unions was held at the Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday. The following delegates were present, "viz.:—Messrs. James Bligh Johnston, J.P., and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Laval Cream Separator was the most attractive exhibit of the late Forbes Show. To the greater part of the visitors it was entirely novel, and crowds eagerly watched its operations. On the first day there was a hitch in the…
Continued on Trove, page 393 →Our correspondent at Mudgee reports that the secretary of the Farmers' Union there has invited Mr. Heydon to visit the district in his character of champion of protection. He also says that amongst…
Continued on Trove, page 417 →A conference of delegates from various Farmers' Unions was held at the Freemasons' Hall, York-street, yesterday. The special business was to consider the Sydney auction sales difficulty, and to agitate for a permanent market for…
Continued on Trove, page 419 →This is made on a rather extensive scale, as the body of the trap is a barrel; generally an old slop barrel, on account of its attracitve odour. It is filled, to within about 6 inches of the top, with water; on the surface of this is carefully…
Continued on Trove, page 395 →A deputation of the Farmers' Association waited, on Wednesday, on the Commissioner of Lands, urging the subdivision of all the pastoral leases falling due in 1888, in order to give the agricul…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →In those days of inquiry as to what products other than grain might be remuneratively grown in the colonies, none have greater claims to the attention of the farmer than sugar beet. Some investigations…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →A conference of formers' unions was held in the Freemasons' Hotel on Wednesday, to discuss matters in connection with the agricultural industry of the colony. Mr. James Bligh Johnson, J.P., waa elected…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The site of a new colonial industry, otherwise known as a baby-farm, is near the head of the Lane Cove River, on the Field of Mars Common. Here a Mrs. Mary Ann Baker started a branch…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →FORBES, Monday.—The following are the local stock crossings for the week:—500 wethers (G. Jones) from Canowindra to Forbes; 360 rains (Brown), from Forbes to Condobolin ; 800 ewes and lambs (Nicholas…
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