With the Camera About Warwick. The Work of a Wheat Farmer
WARWICK lies 166 miles south-west from Brisbane on the railway line between that city and Sydney. It is indelibly impressed on the mind of the "over-lander"…
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The Falling Off in Butter Production
There are many opinions expressed, in the papers as well as by word of mouth, on the question of the almost appalling fall away in the butter production of Victoria during the past season,…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →WOOL. Weekly Review
What is known as the busy part of the wool season, which is embraced in the series of weekly sales commencing in October, was brought to a conclusion on Thursday last, and while lt is generally considered…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Wool Trade. Friday Evening
Although no auctions have been held during the past week a very fair business has been done privately, principally in lots passed in from the previous sales. Bids made publicly have as a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Timber for Butter Boxes. Queensland Pine. Melbourne
A meeting of Queensland members was held this morning to consider how best to secure the imposition of the duty on New Zealand, white pine. Mr. Page was the only absentee. It was decided…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sales of Fat Stock. HOMEBUSH YARDS.—February 13. SHEEP
About 37,550 sheep and iambs penned at to-day's sales, from 92 consignors, 11 of whom consigned lots of from 1000 to 2000 head. Tim sheep included all qualities, generally useful trade sorts, with a fair sprinkling of prime, both…
Continued on Trove, page 463 →Wheat Sales in Brisbane. Comments by a Miller
BRISBANE, Friday.--Dalgety and Co. held a sale of wheat by auction to-day. There was a large attendance of the public, including the Premier and several other members of Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Our Note Book. Turf Talk and Tips Selections for Warwick Farm. Moorefield Notes—Blue Cap II. and Bonnle Boy—Wakeful and Aurous at Caulfield —The Plate Win of Drawbridge — Newmarket and Cup Items. Caulfield Anticipations
WITH no special local attraction in opposition to-day, Warwick Farm should draw a large crowd of racing folks. The usual service of trains from Redfern has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Points of a Dairy Cow
Every practical dairyman who selects a cow for dairy work has a more or less defined notion of what her form must be, and how she shall be built and finished, and while…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Warwick Farm Racing Club
The February reunion of the Warwick Farm Racing Club takes place this afternoon on the well-appointed convincing ground adjacent to George's River, and a nicely arranged bill of fare promises…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Farmer. the Royal Show
Mr. Fred Webster, secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society, has sent me the supplementary schedule and list of Government prizes for the [?]thcoming Easter show on Moore Park. Mo[?] the…
Continued on Trove, page 457 →Crop Forecasts. to the Editor of the " SYDNEY [?]
Sir,—Your contributor, " Sylvan, Farmer " column writes :—"The folly[?] [?]ing to forecast the wheat harvest at the[?] the crops are looking their best has be[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 459 →Weather, Pastures, and Crops
Patchy rains, confined principally to the eastern half of the State, have fallen since our last date, the 11th instant. In many parts, however, the conditions are getting so serious, and the outlook for…
Continued on Trove, page 460 →South Coast Dairy Shorthorns
The success of some new dairy Shorthorn blood at the South Coast shows this year is a very satisfactory circumstance. The adaptability of the Shorthorn to this celebrated district was long since proved by the…
Continued on Trove, page 487 →The Deterioration of Dairy Stock
"There has been," says Mr. James M'Phail, stock salesman of Melbourne, "as much [?]ete[?]ioration in the breeds of dairy cattle during the past twenty years, as among horses, and this is due to the…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Yesterday's Sport News: Turf, &c Starting Prices of Yesterday's Winners. Warwick Farm
Flying Stakes.—Nickel, 5 to 4 against. Stewards' Mile.—Lady Buller, 2 to 1 against. Two-Year-Old Handicap.—Bubble, 3 to 1 on. Warwick Handicap.—Glenore, 2 to 1…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agricultural and Pastoral
BOWRAL, Monday.—The fruit crops are very poor this year on account of the hot and dry season we have had, while the fruit pests have done much damage to the orchards about here…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Price of Butter
This morning, the wholesale butter-sellers in Sydney raised the quotation for creamery butter by one penny to a shilling per lb, and other grades proportionately. This is owing to effects of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Export
The steamer Riverdale sailed hence on Saturday evening for St. Vincent's for orders, with a shipment of 47,954 bags of wheat, forwarded by Messrs. John Darling and Son…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural and Pastoral. Bathurst
Mr. P. Hastings, of Esrom, near Bathurst, has reaped off 10 acres this year an average yield of 42½ bushels of Manitoba wheat. On the same farm ordinary wheat realised about 30 bushels per…
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