Grains of Wheat
A maid should steer clear of vanity, but a vain man no decent follow would lay out with a brick. Tell us when work is to b found, saith…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farming & the land, 1891
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Rust in Wheat
The Intercolonial Conference on rust in wheat, the opening of which was recorded in our last [?]sue, met again on June 4, all the delegates being present, in the boardroom at the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →London Wool Sales
The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, has received the following telegram from its London agents :--"Prices have declined to the extent of 5 per…
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APPENDED we publish the Exports of Wool for the six months ending 31st December, 1890, and hope they will be found of interest to our many friends in the shipping and mereantile community. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Pastoral Association Secretary and the Orange "Leader."
The following, by "Saladin" of the Orange LEADER, concerning Mr. Whiteley King, the versatile secretary of the N.S.W. Pastoralists' Union, is altogether too rich…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Carcoar
Stock movements:—3400 wethers, Lang and West owners, from Galley Swamp to Orange, J. Nesbit in charge; 197 cattle from St. George (Queensland) to Carcoar, T. Fitzpatrick owner, Readford in charge…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Our Queensland Letter. Society and Politics. Trades and Labor. Agricultural and Pastoral. General News. Brisbane, June 8. POLITICS
The Parliament of Queensland has been summoned to meet for the dispatch of business on Tuesday, June 30. Mr. John Annear, M.L.A., recently delivered a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wool Trade with Japan. Efforts Foe Further Development. Peobable Market for Australian Fur Skins
Taking advantage of the presence in Sydney of Mr. W. H. Gill, a merchant from Osaka, in Japan, Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, and Co. have forwarded by him for exhibition at the Industrial Museum there,…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Important to Farmers. the Benefit of an Agricultural Department
SOME time since one of our readers forwarded us a specimen of a plant, growing rather plentifully on his land, and tasked for information as to its name and also as to whether it was worth…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →A Prosperous Farming District
THE press this week (writes a Queensland correspondent) have published some of the census returns from the outside districts. Some have obtained the normal standard of population,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Coal Crops near Coraki
A report has lately been furnished to Mr. Sydney Smith, the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, upon the coal-measures of the Clarence and Hicmond districts, by Mr. T. W. S. David, a geological surveyor…
Continued on Trove, page 1342 →Dairy Notes
The latest novelties in dairying are Laval's Alpha cream separator, and the pasteurising and cooling apparatus formilk, both of which, through the courtesy of Messrs. Waugh and Josephson, Laval's agents in…
Continued on Trove, page 1304 →The European Crops
Our London correspondent telegraphs on the 6th instant:—The crop prospects in Great Britain are favourable, and on the continent they have slightly improved. The English wheat market is depressed,…
Continued on Trove, page 1302 →A Poultry Farm, and Its Remarkable Proprietor
Noticing in a recent issue of the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL that one of the valued certificates of merit for poultry farms had been bestowed on a blind man in this neighborhood, it occurred to me…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Our Dairying Industry. (Written for the " Town and Country Journal.") Xv.—factory Book-keeping
The subject of book-keeping may appear to all except those who are individually interested outside the question. It may seem to the general public to be an act of sacrilege for an outsider to dare enter the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Grazier. The Grasses of New South Wales. No. Xviii.—agropyrum Scabrum, Beauv "Wheat Grass." Flora Austr., Vol. Vii, P.665. (See illustration on this page.)
Very variable as to stature, sometimes under one foot high, slender, with short filiform leaves, and from that to three to four feet, with narrow spreading flat or convolute leaves. Spike usually six…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Agricultural and Pastoral
BATHURST, Saturday. -- Seventeen points rain fell yesterday; more rain fell to-day. COWRA, Saturday. -- The weather continues wet. The River Lachlan is still rising…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral
The weather from the 6th to the 12th instant was boisterous and moist in many parts of Australia. This colony received more than an ordinary share of the rainfall, and to such an extent that some of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Sales
Dalgety and Co., Limited, report having held a sale on Saturday, when they submitted a small lot of oddments. There was a full attendance of buyers, and biddings…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle Wool Exports
NEWCASTLE, Sunday. -- The Newcastle wool arivals for this season to date amount to 58,557 bales, which shows a falling off of 2738 bales as compared with the…
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