Fisher's North Australian Pastoral Company. London, May 24
The shares in Mr. C. B. Fisher's North Australian Pastoral Company, with a capital of £300,000, have been over-subscribed…
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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Brisbane
Stock passings at Borilia: 900 fat bullocks, from Rocklands station, for Melbourne; 350 fat bullocks left Lake Nash for Adelaide; 750 bullocks, Booth, Burton, and Co., purchasers, are about to leave Combah for New South…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Big Poultry Farm
Mr. E. C. Howe, of Hammonton, in the State of New Jersey, is probably engaged more extensively in the chicken and duck brunch of poultry farming than any one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Rents
The Minister for Lands will not, we under- stand, take any further steps in regard to fixing pastoral rents until an opportunity has been afforded Parliament of discussing the motion on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural and Pastoral
The adjourned annual meeting of the Central Cumberland Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held on Wednesday evening ill the School of Arts. Parramatta. Mr. Neil…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Albury
Stock movements: 4275 mixed merino sheep, from Victoria for Combanning, W. Blair; 1890 merino wethers, from Seven Creeks, Victoria, for Albury, W. H. Haley; 450 merino ewes from Burnawortha, Victoria, for Albury,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tue Sugar Crop. (By Telegraph.)
BALLINA.--Our Bailina correspondent wires:--"The various sugar mills in the district are hostly engaged in preparing for the approaching crushing season. Great crops are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c
Dry, cool weather, favourable for both pastoralists and farmers, has been the rule this week. Lambing proceeds with satisfactory results. The plough is kept busily at work, and wheat-sowing has commenced. The year so far…
Continued on Trove, page 1115 →Cattle
The cattle section occupied about 125 numbers in the catalogue. This was not a large collection for a metropolitan show, but it bore comparison with the principal country meetings. The reduction in prices has materially affected…
Continued on Trove, page 1111 →Sheep
A stranger in the colony would have been much deceived regarding its strength in wool and mutton if the present show had been taken as a guide. The sheep section was miserably weak. In all there were not more than 40…
Continued on Trove, page 1111 →Overworking Butter
When butter is gathered in the churn in granular form it is never overchurned. Pounding it after it is in a lump or large masses is what overchurns it. in seasoning…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Agricultural and Pastoral
The Cobar A. and P. show committee are making great preparations for the July exhibition. Our Ballina correspondent wires:--"General…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pulsford “By the Wool.”
WE must pay Mr. PULSFORD the compliment of admitting that he accepted our challenge. We must also admit that he evidenced the courage…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Weather, Wool, Stock Movements
THE WEATHER during the past week has generally been fine, with plenty of sunshine, warm days, and frosty nights; by many regarded as indicating a prolonged and severe winter. The Armidale EXPRESS…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Our Illustrations of Prize Horses and Cattle
Our artists have selected some of the principal exhibits in the live-stock sections for portraiture in our present issue. Three of the horses are recent importations by their exhibitor, Mr. J. H. M'Culloch, of Ascot Vale, Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 1114 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Bourke
The following lots of stock are reported from Queensland:—220 fat cattle, Tinapagee, Gilmour owner, Gordon in charge; 350 fat cattle, Bulgroo to Melbourne, Willis and Co., J. Robertson in charge; 280 fats, Tobermory to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Dairy Produce
The various products under this heading found a place in the pavilion, and, taken as a whole, they were by no means so numerous as might have been reasonably expected, while the quality of some of the less important…
Continued on Trove, page 1112 →Alsike Clover for Farmers
An Illinois farmer wrote recently to an American contemporary:—My experience with alsike clover covers a period of about twenty years, and teaches me that it will do well on almost any soil in the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Poultry Farming in Australia.—XVII. Cochins (Continued)
By the aid of the accompanying illustration of a pair of buff cochins my meaning as to the true cochin type should be readily understood, as it refers to the question of form, differing in this breed from…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Notes for Farmers
GRAPE FOR CHALKY SOILS.—It seems probable that the Minister of Agriculture will send a scientific mission to the United States to determine which is the best and most suitable grape for the chalky…
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