The Wool Sales. London
At the wool soles to-day, 9500 bales were offered. Prices continue firm. The Withdrawals to date number 4000. The total quantity offered has been 99,600…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1888
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EXCHANGE. The Wool Trade. FEBRUARY 8
The London sales are progressing firmly, as the following telegrams, which have been made public since our last clearly show:— (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)…
Continued on Trove, page 300 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wagga Wagga
Stock passings:—2746 ewes, C. Thatchers, Meruleball to Greenhills, Forber, via Junee and Morangarell. YOUNG, FRIDAY. On the 8th February 1000 mixed weaners passed from…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Prize Dairy Cow
Dairying is rapidly coming to the front in this colony, and the illustration of the well-shaped dairy cow which appears in our columns will serve to give a good idea of the animal to which the judges awarded first prize at the Centennial…
Continued on Trove, page 306 →Preparation of Food for Dairy Cows
Cutting the fodder has the effect of reducing the muscular work of the cow. Every movement of the cow's muscles, every motion of the lungs as the animal breathes, consumes some of the muscular tissue, and requires some…
Continued on Trove, page 292 →The Working Dairy at the Exhibition
We are pleased to find that the working dairy at the late Exhibition, although faulty in some respects, afforded pleasure and instruction to many visitors. The press criticisms on themecting are all favourable to the adoption of the…
Continued on Trove, page 291 →Crops and Manures
At one period in the history of agriculture there was but one kind of manure for every species of crop raised upon the farm. The term " manure" meant simply farmyard manure, or dung, as it was more…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Trucking Farm Produce
Mr. Sydney Smith, M.L.A., has received the following communication from the Railway Department:—"Department of Railways, Sydney, February 2, 1888. Sir,—With reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Notes for Farmers
SHADE FOR BEES.âA few trees, evergreens, and flowering shurbs planted among the hives help to remove the sameness of the scene, and in summer give a grateful shade to the bees and their…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The Wheat Harvest
Early in the spring the Government Statistician and the Foreign-trade journals indulged in roseate predictions Concerning the probable wheat yield for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Sales
LONDON, Friday Night.—At the wool sales to-day 10,400 bales were offered. The market remained firm. London, Saturday Night.—At to-day's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commercial. the Wool Trade
The London sales are progressing firmly. By mail we have brokers' annual circulars reviewing the post year's business, and, what is of more interest at the present moment, giving their ideas as to the prospects for 1888. All…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bounties on the Exportation of Live Cattle
We have been, furnished by Messrs. J Barre Johnston and Co. with the following translation of the law passed by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Argentine Republic, allowing a bounty on the export of live cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Wool Sales. London
At the wool sales, to day, 10,100 bales were offered. Market firm. LONDON, Saturday. Today 14,500 bales were catalogued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Walgett
The stock movements during the week were—6600 weaners, Wilkie to Torybum, Blaxland owner; 4900 ewes, Pericoota to St. George; 2000 ewes from Chowan station; 2000 ewes, Mashonna station; 2000 ewes, Culmo station;…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Roman Catholic Lenten Pastoral Letters in Victoria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
To-day the usual Lenton pastoral letters of the Roman Catholic Archbishop to the clergy and laity were road in all the churches of the archdiocese. Inter alia the pastoral letter enjoins the clorgy to warn the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Stayton's "Farm."
No apology is needed for drawing further attention to Mr. STAYTON'S' scheme for sewering the western suburbs. It is the plain duty of every…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural and Pastoral
Our correspondent states that the Moruya A and P. Society's show, which takes place on the 22nd and 23rd inst., promises to be a great suo cess…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Pastoral Problem
AN official statement was recently made that on the 1st of January there were seven and a half millions of sheep in the colony. The stock and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Market
THE news received yesterday that the price of wool in England shows a tendency to decline is the reverse of pleasant. The country depends mainly for its prosperity…
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