Fat Cattle along a new Route
COWRA,This Day.--The first experiment of sending fat cattle from Bourke to the Melbourne market via the Murrumburrah-Blayney railway route, came under my…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1888
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Butter and Cheese for the English Market
The following information was supplied to Mr. Levin, of Wellington, New Zealand, by a London broker:—It is very advisable to have the cheese all once size, say, about 50lb. each, and to be very sure that each cheese is even in…
Continued on Trove, page 785 →The Wool Trade in England
Several attempts have been made within the past few years to induce the London auctioneers to sell Australian wool under a system of farthing bids. Heretofore they have accepted advances of a half-penny…
Continued on Trove, page 788 →The Wool Sales. London
At the wool sales to-day 12,100 bales were offered. Prices are firmly maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Black Sheep in the House Folords. I
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach speaking at Bristol on Feb. 6, ridiculed some of the interpretations put upon his recent speeches, maintaining that his words were in accord with the true Unionist…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Albury
The following stock movements are reported:—Shorthorn bull from Mount Noorat, Victoria, to Ellerslie, Peterson and Sargood owners; 650 merino rams from Wooloomanata, Victoria, to Nocoleche, F. W. Armytage owner;…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Priest and Twelve Farmers Imprisoned
London, April 8.-A Roman Catholic priest and twelve farmers were yesterday each sentenced to three months' imprisonment for attending pro claimed meetings of the League at Newmarket,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Victorian Farmers and the Tariff
The proposals of the Victorian farmers, which have been formulated at a conference lately held in Melbourne, may be divid into two parts. The first contemplates a duty of 25 per cent. upon all grain, pulse,…
Continued on Trove, page 783 →Bee Farming
GRAFTON, This Day.--A Clarence Lower River settler sent half a ton of honey to Sydney this morning by steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The Poor Victorian Farmer."
THE Victorian statistics of agriculture for 1887, just received, contain some truths exceedingly inconvenient to Foreign-trade oratory. It has been the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Fruitgrower and Farmer. Fruitgrowers Union of N.S.W. the Codlin Moth.to the Editor of the Mercury
SIR,—By referring to my monthly reports of last year in connection with the Union which appeared in your journal, yon will find that I took a great deal of trouble in collecting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Model Farms
ALL who have at heart the well-being of agriculture in its broadest meaning—that of mating the earth yield its increase to its utmost extent—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Notes for Farmers
THE POTATO DISEASE.—The dangers and difficulties of in-and-in breeding are not only too plainly indicated by the results of the intermarriage of first cousins—they are visible to us in the vegetable…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Farming in the Carcoar District. (From Our Reporter.)
The Carcoar district has been long famous for its fine samples of cereals and fruits, and for its fine grazing lands. On the occasion of the late show the samples of wheat exhibited, although not…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Dairying in Switzerland
The canton of Berne has 639 cheeseries, Zurich 282, Lucerne 358, and the other cantons in proportion. The preparation of condensed milk has so extended that in 1885 Switzerland exported 16,000 tons of that…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →A Victorian Stud Farm. Mertoun Park, Near Colac. (From Our Reporter.)
Among the numerous fine properties around Colac deserving special mention is Mertoun Park, owned by Mr. William M'Culloch, the well-known Victorian stockbreeder, who, upon discovering that his herd…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The Wool Sales. London
At the wool sales to-day 12,100 bales were offered. Prices are firmly maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →English Commercial. the Wool Sales
LONDON, Friday Night. -- At the wool sales to-day 12,000 bales were disposed of. LONDON, Saturday Night.--The number of bales disposed of at the wool sales to-day reached…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Agricultural A!nd Pastoral. Weather and Stock. (By Telegraph.)
DENILIQUIN, Friday.--During the past week the weather has been much cooler, but no rain has fallen. Messrs. Braim, Davidson and Davidson report saies of 4500 two-tooth ewes,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correpondbnts.) Bourke
The following are the stock movements for the past week:—2800 fat sheep, from Beenury station to Melbourne by rail. Kirkpatrick and Quinn owners; 380 fat bullocks, from Thargomindah, Armitage and Powell owners,…
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