Convict Farms. Experiment in North Carolina
The North Carolina Penitentiary was self-supporting last year for the first time in its history of a quarter of a century. From 1883 to 1889 the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farming & the land, 1897
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Pastoral Intelligence. Harden
3000 fat sheep and 30 head of fat cattle were trucked from hero to-day for Flemington saleyards, being the heaviest consignment for years. Tomorrow 600 mixed cattle are being despatched from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Statistics
LONDON, April 27.—The quantity, of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 1,440,000 quarters, or 30,000 quarters less than last week, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Market. (From Our Correspondent.) London, March 26
The progress of the wool auctions at the Exchange continues without any material change from last report. The Americans still operate very extensively, and all suitable greasy fleece wools of merino…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairying Industry. Coraki
Owing to the approach of the winter and the continued dry weather the amount of grass is somewhat limited, and as a result in the supply of milk to the various creameries a slight shrinkage is perceptible…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Intelligence. Mount Victoria
The following stock was trucked here to-day for Flemington:— 612 sheep, from Kannambla Estate, consigned to Harrison, Jones, and Devliu, and 20 bullocks, from Corderoy, Bowenfels, consigned to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wool Fleet. Sydney's Exports, £7,997,772
No sales, few exports, and a few arrivals about cover the state of the Sydney wool world at present, the season just dragging along till the new clip…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy News. Corowa
The Corowa Dairy Company, Limited, has had to suspend operations for some months owing to the impossibility of getting supplies of milk, consequent on the long-continued dryness of the season. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Dairymen's Association
The Dairymen's Association of Victoria held their half-yearly meeting to-day. The principal matter under consideration was Mr. Taverner's Exported Products Bill, which was severely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c
Since our last report a great change for the better has taken place. On the evening of the 21st of April the temperature dropped several degrees, and a strong gale from the south-east brought heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 913 →Butter
The London butter market is cabled as virtually bare of supplies. Australian sorts are steadier. Danish, butter has been lowered 4 kroner (about 4s 6d) per cwt in London…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Colonial Butter
The butter market is quiet, and London is bare of colonial supplies…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Crop, 1896-7
Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Government Statistician, has virtually completed his tabulation of the agricultural returns for the year ended March, 1897, and the figures show that the increase…
Continued on Trove, page 912 →Crossbred Sheep
The following report has been forwarded by the Chief Inspector of Stock to the Minister for Agriculture :—In order to afford sheepowners reliable information as to the most suitable British sheep to put to…
Continued on Trove, page 912 →The Butter Market
LONDON, April 30.—The butter market is flat, and is bare of colonial sorts…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Cattle Stealing
At the Penrith Police Court on Tuesday, before Messrs. J. K. Claeve, P.M., and F. D. Woodriff, J.P., John Robert English, on remand, was charged with stealing a red…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Intelligence. Thargomindah (Q.)
The travelling stock routes from the north and [?]orth-east through Thargominda to Bourke are in [?] bad state for grass as far as Thargomindah, but at present they are passable from here on to Bourke,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Our Wheat Production
Public attention has recently been so engrossed with the war and possible wars, with the Federal Convention, and the drought, that anything like statistical returns—sunless,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Wool Fleet
The week's departures comprised the German mail steamer Gera, for Bremen via ports, with 786 bales; the China Navigation Company's steamer Taiyuan, for Japan, with 193 hales; the P…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bradford Wool Market
LONDON, April 30.—The Bradford wool market is slack Common tops 60's are lower at 16 3/4d ; super 60's unchanged at per lb…
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