Proposed Intercolonial Cattle Show
MELBOURNE, This Day.--The Treasurer has promised to consult the Premier in regard to a request made by the National Agricultural Society for a special grant in…
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Argentine Wool Duties
THE agitation which has been carried on with considerable persistency for a number of years, in favour of the abolition of the duties on wool and pastoral produce…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Agricultural and Pastoral. Cassilis Lands Office. (By Telegraph.)
CASSILIS, Thursday.--Four thousand one hundred and twenty acres were selected to-day, consisting of applications by Allan M'Rae, conditional purchase 820a., conditional lease…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.) (From Our Own Correspondent.) Albury
Stock movements: [?]1600 merino ewes, from Hume district to Bechanga, G. Richards; 1000 merino ewes, from Hume district to Mullanpandra, W. S. Cheshire; 1200 merine owes, from Cromer to Mullengandra, R. Hatch;…
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The supply of forage at Darling Harbor yesterday was limited to 11 trucks, seven of which were hay and the remainder chaff and straw. There was a moderate attendance of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Lessees and the Resumed Areas. to the Editor Op Tub Daily Telegraph
Sir,--The tenacity with which the western landholders adhere to their request to have the resumed areas converted into leaseholds, and by other devices attempt to block the settlement…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Intercolonial Cattle Show in Melbourne. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
The National Agricultural Society proposes to hold an intercolonial cattle show in connection with the Centennial Exhibition. A deputation from the council waited on the Minister of Agriculture to-day, asking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →French Sheep-shearing Machine. [By Cable.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan 4
A sheep-shearing machine has been invented in France which, it is claimed, will shear a sheep in five minutes. The machine will shortly be sent to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Abolition of Wool Duties in the Argentine Republic. London, Jan. 5
The Argentine Republic has abolished the export duties on wool and pastoral produce. The total amount of the duties so abolished is 2,000,000 dollars…
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MELBOURNE. Thursday.--W. m.Easy,ararmer at Mulgrave, who was recently convicted of making a false statutory declaration with regard to certain land at Oakleigh, the property…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Packing Butter
In a paper road at the recent Dairy Conference in England, Mr. Jubal Webb said: A very handy and capital way of packing, as regards quantity, is that of even weights in differing packages, introduced by…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →The Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c Bombala, December 29
As harvesting approaches, the minds of our farmers are unusually exercised over the continued rains; for a long time the rainfall has been so persistent that heat and sunshine are quite the exception rather than the rule. The grass…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hydatid on Sheep
In the last number of the New Zealand Country Journal, Mr. Reginald Foster contributes a short article on "Hydatid on the Brain of Sheep," a disease which has existed in some part of the colony for a number of years, but which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Items of Interest. Latest Pastoral News. (Continued from page 23). Weather, Wool, Andstock Movements
FLIES— Don't allow the flies to torment your teams if you can help it. SHYING— If you whip the horse for shying, you are making the habit worse…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →A Sheep-feeding Experiment
To the uninitiated, the report of an experiment conducted by Dr. J. A. Voelcker, consulting chemist to the R. A. Society of England, and published in the journal for 1886, may not be attractive reading,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Australian Sheep Shearer
There appeared in our last Christmas number, under the heading "Shearing Sheep by Machinery," an interesting article, in which special reference was made to the success lately accomplished at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wool Trade
The auction sales were resumed on Tuesday, with the usual attendance of buyers. The catalogues, however, contained very few interesting features, being chiefly made up of medium and inferior descriptions, in small-sizeds…
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The report of Mr. E. L. Baker (United States Consul in Buenos Ayres) on "the native sheep of South America," said: At the time that the Spaniards first visited South America there vere no animals in…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Wheat Afloat. London
The total quantity of wheat and Soar afloat for the United Kington is 1,470,000 quarters, and for the Continent 370,000 quarters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne
The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company report by telegram yesterday:—We resumed wool auctions to-day with a catalogue of 2742 bales. Competition was active; December prices were well maintained. 2170 bales were sold. Greasy brought up to 114d for H. Beattie; hoggets, cross-bred ewes,…
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