Wheat-growing at Parkes
A LARGE area of ground in the Parkes district in being cleared for wheat cultivation. The wheat crops in the Alectown district stripped an average of 25 bushels and the oats 50 bushels to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farming & the land, 1893
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Pastoral Intelligence. (From Our Correspondents.) Carcoar
Stock passings through by train:—300 sheep, trucked at Carcoar, from Erowenbang to Flemington, Wilson and Hopkins to A. Gibson and Co.; 3 trucks sheep, to Flemington, W. F. Whitney to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Australian Butter and Cheese in England
LONDON— April 8.—Mr. Wilson, the Victorian expert who is in London inquiring into the conditions and prospects of the market for Australian butter and fruit, has made extensive inquiries…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Bradford Wool Market
LONDON, Friday. -- In the Bradford wool market 60's are quoted at from 21d to 21½d…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bradford Wool Market. London, April 7
In the Bradford wool market sixties are quoted at from 21d to 21½d per lb…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Sales. London, April 5
The arrivals of wool to date amount to 451,574 bales. The quantity sent forward direct is 120,000 bales, and the total quantity available for the next sales is…
Continued on Trove, page 702 →COMMERCIAL. The Wool Trade. APRIL 5
Owing to the incidence of the Easter holidays, business in this market has been practically at a standstill during the past week. The general conditions that have been governing the market for the…
Continued on Trove, page 704 →Liver Rot in Sheep. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The increase of fluke in sheep has spread to such an alarming extent in New South Wales and elsewhere that it is high time some proper attempt was made to obtain a drastic remedy. If not, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sheep Stealing in High Places. Father Versus Son. a Light Sentence
At the Mudgee Police Court on Tuesday, March 28th, Herbert Charles Tindale, Herbert Whittaker, and George Henry Frederick Cox appeared to answer the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cliffdale, the Kingdom Ponds Valley. Pure Lincoln Stud Sheep. Stock to Get "Freezers." (See illustrations on page 27.)
In response to an invitation from Mr. Solomon Wiseman to see his Lincoln sheep at Cliffdale, I was met at Scone last week by Mr. Harry Wiseman; Mr. Wiseman was also in town…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Seasonable Farm Notes. Potato Culture
IN my last I explained .this subject as briefly as possible, to the important point of cutting the sets for planting. Many farmers merely cut the potato in any form, so long as it has an "eye"…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The " Baby Farm " Horror. the Makins Sentenced to Death
THE Full Court on Thursday of last week unanimously upheld the verdict of the jury in the case of John and Sara Makin, found guilty on a charge of murder. The two prisoners were convicted at…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Victorian Dairy Produce. the Experts' Experiments. London, April 6
Mr. D. Wilson, the dairy expert sent to London by the Victorian Government, in order to study the conditions of the butter and cheese trade, to-day opened, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm Topics
There never was a year in which there was not something faulty with the weather, but in the present case it must be confessed even by the most captious of grumblers that 1893, so far as it has…
Continued on Trove, page 694 →The Baby-farming Case The Makins Sentenced to Death
On Thursday, March 30, the Full Court (Messrs. Justice Windeyer, Justice Innes, and Justice Foster) delivered judgment in the appeal on behalf of Makin and his wife. It will be recollected that the accused…
Continued on Trove, page 709 →Farm Produce
The following awards were made:— Beat collection of wheat of not less than three varieties: J. Hatley, special prize. Beat exhibit of wheat: J. Hatley, special prize. Two bushels of wheat (only one entry): J…
Continued on Trove, page 696 →Dairy Notes
Mr. Grierson, manager of the Bodalla Estate, informs as that a shipment of Murchland Improved Milking machines are on the way to this colony. A Murchland machine has been on trial at Bodalla for…
Continued on Trove, page 697 →Stock and Crops
MUNDOORAN, Friday. -- Grass and water are everywhere in evidence, and stuck of all kinds look splendid…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Section 8—Farm Produce
The late season being a suitable one for producing good specimens of farm produce, there was more competition in the various classes under this section than on previous occasions,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Retreat for Inebriates. a Visit to Echo Farm Home
FIFTY or sixty years ago, in the Mother Country, it was deemed not only gentlemanly, but essential to the recognition of hospitality and the exercise of good…
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