Pitt Town Labour Farm. Windsor
Conditions at the Pitt Town Casual Labour Farm are much the same as in all other parts of the district. The early crops have proved a fallure, and a copious rainfall is needed…
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Crops
CASINO.—The recent rains have done much good to crops. INVERELL.—The harvest is later than usual. The wheat yields in many cases are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Farmer Injured. Junee
A young farmer, Mr. W. W. Harris, was at Junee Reefs engaged stripping this morning, and while adjusting a machine the team ot horses started. His right hand was caught…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Soil Settlement and Production. Milking Herds. to Start the Recording System. Work for the Dairy Department
That dairying under anything like fair conditions is one of our most profitable industries there is no one to question; but with the prices of dairy cattle standing at what they are and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm Products Sussex-street Markets Butter Export Trade
Considerable activity was displayed in both the produce and dairying departments of the Sussex-street markets yesterday morning. A brisk demand was made for chaff…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle Struck by Lightning
LISMORE, Friday. -- Thirteen head of dairy cattle, principally milking cows, were struck dead by lightning during a thunderstorm at Dorroughby, near Lismore, last night. The cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fat Sheep for Export
Pitt, Son, and Badgery, Ltd., report having Bold the following export lines:—For Edgeroi Estate, 40,000 wethers, 18,000 lambs, and 11,000 ewes; for Wingadee Estate, 17,500 wethers; for Wirrah Estate, 12,000 ewes,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Australian Wool Exports
Wool shipments from Australian during the past month also for the period from July 1 last to December 31, compared with those for the corresponding six months in the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Steamers at London
A cabiegram was yesteway received by Messrs, Gilchrist,, Watt, and Sanderson, Ltd., managing agents for the Ocean Steamship Company, Ltd., advising the arrival of the steamer Agamemnon on the 1st last,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Cattle Killed by Lightning. Lismore
This morning 13 head of cattle were found Iying dead in an agistment paddock belonging to Mr. Arthur at Duroby, near Dunoon. A heavy thunderstorm passed over the district at midnight, and as…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wool and Other Markets. the Wool Trade. the Season Reopens
On Monday next the wool-solling season in Sydney enters upon what may be well regarded as the second halt. The vagaries of our climatic conditions have this time exercised a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →London Market Cables. Wheat Quiet. London, Jan. 4
The wheat markets are quiet ana [?]. Colder weather and lighter shipments to Europe are counteracting the effect of free and cheaper offers from Argentina. There…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Raising Incubator Chicks
POULTRY breeders generally experience a greater loss in raising incubator hatched chicks than from those hatched and cared for by hens. A larger mortality is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Trade. at the Close of the Recess
This week closes the Christmas-New Year recess, and on Monday next the weekly series of auctions will be resumed in the Sydney market. Up to December 18 last 368,837 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Potato and Maize Crops. Failure on the Hawkesbury
WINDSOR., Saturday.—The district of the Hawkesbury is passing through a very severe ordeal, and it is many years since such a disastrous season was experienced. Mr. John…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the Land. Farm and Station. the Illawarra Shows
The history of the charming and fruitful strip of country known as Illawarra is full of incidents which indicate that the agricultural shows have been prominent in the social…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm Laborers From England
A number of capable farm hands are now reaching Sydney weekly, as a result of the Government assisted immigration operations. Some hundreds of these men have already been placed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Money for Settlers. Advances Through the State Bank. Conditions Governing Them. Assistance to Purchase Farms
The State Land Bank -- for such the advance department of the Government Savings Bank as now established by the new Act really is -- becomes operative from January 1 of this year. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wool and Wheat
The amount of wool received at Darling Harbor, &c, during the week was 16,252 bales, representing an increase of 10,248 bales as compared with the corresponding…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool on Show Sheep
A few years back the R.A S.E. passed [?]a resolution that the excessive coloring of [?] sheep was objectionable. The council [?] of the Lincoln Society objected to the…
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