Wool
A large quantity of wool has been offered at local auction during the week. The attendance of buyers at all the sales have been large, and many representative wool men from the other colonies are now…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Farming & the land, 1891
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Grains of Wheat
A compositor is a gift of God, and so is a child with a red head and a wall eye. A sucking pig hath, more refinement than some of those who wore at Jersey's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Wool Clip
THE following letter from Mr, P. Proctor, of Sydney, dealing with the Australasian wool trade for 1889-90. appeared in the London Economist on November 22 last:—"In the 'Annual Statement…
Continued on Trove, page 142 →Butter Ratio of Various Breeds
We have been so often asked to state the usual yield of butter to a given quantity of milk from the different kinds of cows—the same query being repeated again and again by different correspondents—that we deem it…
Continued on Trove, page 120 →Experiments in Rust in Wheat
The sub-committee of the Albury Pastoral and Agricultural Society, appointed to Supervise and report upon certain experiments in regard to rust in wheat, have not yet formally reported the result of their investigations;…
Continued on Trove, page 118 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Gundagai
Stock movements to-day: 6431 sheep, from Y[?]beale Station, destination Y[?]s, L. Thompson owner, W. He[?] is charge. RYLSTONE, FRIDAY…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rust in Wheat. Experiments at Albury
Our Albury correspondent sends the following under date January 12: A sub-committee, appointed By the Albury Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society, have been inspecting certain…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →COMMERCIAL. The Wool Trade. JANUARY 14
During the week the sales have been very well attended, and notwithstanding the large catalogues submitted competition has been markedly active. The animation in the bidding remarked upon…
Continued on Trove, page 129 →Dairy Farming. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Your leader of this morning anent dairy-farming, more especially with reference to the production of so necessary an article for consumption as butter, can but have a marked influence upon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Experiments in Regard to Rust in Wheat. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Wagga Wagga
Mr. Alfred Naptholi, of Lake Albert, who was one of the three persons in the district who planted five samples of wheat supplied by the Department of Agriculture in Sydney, to make experiments in regard to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Our Queensland Letter. Politics and Society. Pastoral and Agricultural. Exports and Imports. Trades and Labor. the Week's Doings. Brisbane, January 13. POLITICS
At the meeting of the Central Separation League held on Wednesday at Rockhampton, it was announced that Sir Charles Nicholson, chairman of the London committee, had cabled as…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An Ocean Race. Between Three Wool Clippers. The Patriarch in First. Seventy-five Days Sydney to London
OWING to the maritime difficulty only three of the fleet of wool clippers could be loaded and got away in time to catch the January sales in London. The clippers selected were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Oyster Crop. To the Editor
Sir,—At last the N.S.W. oyster fisheries are about to resume their old state. There are 'grand young crops at the Richmond, Clarence, Port Macquarie, and Camden Haven. Great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes
Our Mudgee correspondent writes on January 10:— Mr. Henry Crossing, who has been the largest supplier of milk to the local butter factory, is said to be making arrangements to run a separator of his own. Another…
Continued on Trove, page 118 →Tips. Warwick Farm Races
The meeting at Warwick Farm to-day should be, a success in every way, unless rain falls. That is the only contingency which stands in its way so far as I can see, as there…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Home, the Farm, and The Orchard. Directions for Dealing with “Pests” Specimens
WE give below a continuation of the directions compiled for the purpose of ensuring the safe transmission to the Department of Agriculture of Insects,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our dairying Industry. (Written for the "Town and Country Journal.") No. Iv.—separators and Factory Building. (See illustration on this page.)
Under the setting system the natural separation of the cream from the milk was slow and tedious. It occupied from 12 to 48 hours, according to the condition of the milk at the time of setting, and by…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Farm Machinery
Even a small farm must have more or less machinery, while on a large one the investment must be heavy. Under any conditions, more machinery will be destroyed by rust than wear. A little care will…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Points about Dairying
1. In making butter, good sound, wholesome food is indispensable. To make a good article from poor material is as impossible in dairying as in any manufactoring industry…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The Grazier. Parasitic Diseases of Farm Animals
Nematode worms are not so common in the digestive organs of cattle and sheep as they are in the lungs. In calves there is found, especially in France, a large nematode, which infests the fourth stomach,…
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