High Price for Scoured Wool
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 42
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser
The highest price realised in the Sydney market for a long time past, was obtained by Messrs. Wihchcombe, Carson, and Co. at their last sale—viz., 18d per lb. This figure was paid for the extra super; combing quality of the…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) Carcoar
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 10
Stock passing through by train: 3 trucks cattle, Cowra to Penrith, [?]rmsby to J. Ewens; 6 trucks sheep, Cowra to Hombush, S. G. Alford to Leeds and Co.; 36 trucks sheep Dubbo to Albury, to Powers and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bust in Wheat. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1081
Sir,—To those who take sufficient interest in this question to induce them to make a simple experiment, and premising that rust is a fungus whose natural food is the sap of cereal plants, I offer the following test—it is a miniature of what…
Continued on Trove, page 1081 →Rules for Dairymen
Nepean Times · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 6
Every now and then someone sits down and evolves a code of rules for the guidance of dairymen. Usually they are pretty practical. Here are the last that we have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SITES for Experimental Farms and Agricultural Schools. Ministerial Minute
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 10
Mr. Sydney Smith, the Secretary for Mines a[?] Agriculture, under date the 15th instant, has issued a minute regarding the sit[?]s for experimental farms and agricultural schools to be established within the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Electricity on the Farm
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1080
According to the Implement and Machinery Review, complete success has attended the application, of electricity as a motive power for an extensive fanning plant in the Western Pyrences. M. Cornille Gonzy,…
Continued on Trove, page 1080 →Dairy Notes
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1079
Our Lismore correspondent writes on May 11:—The rise in the price of batter has given a stimulus to the dairying industry, and, coming as it does at the beginning of winter, it is hoped the rise will be…
Continued on Trove, page 1079 →Parasitic Diseases of Farm Animals
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1079
Affections of the skin of a somewhat serious character have been traced to the invasion of nematode worms into the tissues of the skin itself, or the connective tissue beneath it. Veterinary surgeons in this country…
Continued on Trove, page 1079 →The Travelling Dairy
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1078
The travelling dairy formed in this colony by the Department of Agriculture for instructive purposes is now ready for work, and probably will be used at Bathurst next week. The plant cost…
Continued on Trove, page 1078 →Experimental Farms and Agricultural Schools
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 6
The Minister for Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Sydney Smith, has written a minute with reference to sites for experimental farms and agricultural schools, and which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Home, the Farm, and The Orchard. National Prizes for 1891
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 6
THE following regulations have been issued by the Department of Agriculture :— 1. Persons intending to compete must…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Dairying Industry. Xiv.—various Methods of Cleaning Dairy Utensils
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 22
This subject is one of the greatest importance to every one engaged in this industry. It being so important will be sufficient excuse for devoting an article to the proper explanation of the subject. The…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Travelling Dairy
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 12
The machinery and appliances for the travelling dairy have been rapidly got into position by the manager, Mr. Neil Harper, and for a preliminary trial were set up in the dairy pavilion oh the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Murrumbid[?]ee Pastoral Association
The Australian Star · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 6
WAGGA WAGGA, Saturday.--At the monthly meeting of the committee of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association, the secretary, Mr C. H…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Colonial Wheat
Evening News · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 6
LONDON, May 15.—The consignment of wheat ex Atalanta, from Port Augusta March. 16, sold at 43s per quarter (8 bushels)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Weather—agricultural and Pastoral
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 7
Dry cool weather is now ruling. Early in the month sharp frosts set in in nearly all districts. A severe winter is likely to ensue. Fortunately the pastures are so well clad that, even if suddenly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Interfering with Mobs of Sheep
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 5
BRISBANE, Saturday.--It is reported from Angathella that 40 unionists worried the drovers on the Angathella road. One lot went after a mob of sheep belonging to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Wheat for Export
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 5
LONDON, Saturday Night.--The quantity wheat available for export at the port of New York is reported to amount to 39,000,000 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Wheat. London, May 16
The Australian Star · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 5
The amount of wheat at the New York markets available for export is 39,000,000 bushels…
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