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The contract system has been found to work best in connection with rabbit extermination at Moorara. The contractors receive 4d. per skin, which sum also they pay usually to their employees. A profit is…
Continued on Trove, page 112 →We extract from the Coottamble Times the following remarks upon the sheep which were exhibited recently at the Coonamble show :—Although the number of exhibitors of sheep at the late show was limited to not over five, the…
Continued on Trove, page 113 →In accordance with the custom which has been observed by this journal since the stud sheep Bales commenced in this city we publish in this issue the portraits of the principal animals sold at the late fair. The drawings are…
Continued on Trove, page 134 →That our predictions regarding the Sheep Fair of 1887 were based on sound reasons is amply proved by the prices which have been realised. We expressed ourselves as almost confident that the general average…
Continued on Trove, page 112 →Three thousand wether hoggets, from Kialgara station to Merotherie, E. M. Bowman, owner; 1500 bullocks, in two mobs, from Western Queensland, J. D. Mayers, owner; 250 fat bullocks, from Culgoa, Queensland, for Sydney;…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. F. Y. Wolseley, the inventor of the sheepshearing machine which has recently been extensively exhibited and described in Sydney, Melbourne, and other places, is the third son of the late Major G. J…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The information conveyed in the letters of the week from our Windsor and Manning River correspondents is more than ordinarily pleasurable. It is well to find that the farmers of the old districts of the colony are…
Continued on Trove, page 112 →It appears that excellent results are being obtained in the Munster Dairy School. According to the report recently issued, the increase in the number of entries of female pupils in the dairy school has continued. The…
Continued on Trove, page 114 →WOLLONGONG FLOWER SHOW.—At a meeting of the committee of the Wollongong Agricultural Society it was decided to held a flower show in October next…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The first annual meeting OF the Fruitgrowers Union of New South Wales was held at Parramatta on Saturday afternoon last, Mr. John Nobbs, J.P., vice- president, in the chair. An…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, July 16.—The wheat market is inactive owing to large American shipments, and with every probability of an increased supply. Coast cargos are numerous, and the demand for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.--The wool market is quiet but steady. The arrivals for the next sales up to date amount to 200,000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CAMDEN, Saturday.--A lecture on the butter factory system was delivered last night by Mr. Pateson, of Sydney, before a large audience, who warmly approved of the lecturer's remarks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Paterson, of the Fresh Food and Ice Company, delivered an interesting and instructive lecture on the butter factory system last night, before a very large audience. Mr. J. K. Chisholm, J.P., who presided, expressed the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →YOUNG, Saturday.—Stock movements: On the 13th instant, 1950 mixed weaners, Cootamundra to Young (John Bridle); on the 14th, 624 ewes, Burrowa to Thuddungra (John M'Lachlan)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—in a leader of this morning's paper, referring to the Crown tenants' complaints, you say " there is now a secure tenure for one-half the run, and no compulsion to buy land at all," and you infer that much of the discontent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following stock are approaching from Queensland:— 340 cattle, Dynevor Downs to Sydney, Jones, Green, and Sullivan; 500 mixed cattle, Angelala Downs to Sydney; 550 store bullocks, Cudnapper to Sydney, Cobb and Co.;…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,--Under the above heading I find the following in the Bathurst Daily Times of Saturday last, viz.:--"It has been the custom of the Railway Department to make a minimum of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Under date London, 14th June, Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Co. write:— All sections of the trade were wall represented at the opening sales on the 7th, and with general competition, a better undertone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The weather is fine and the Namoi is now fordable. Stock are in good condition, and no complaints of worms in sheep have been made lately. The Liverpool Plains are looking splendid. Large numbers of Queensland store…
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