Profits in Sheep Deals
ORANGE.—Last February Messrs. Bedford, Taylor, and Weston sold 5000 comeback wethers on account of a local station at 7s, and resold them in the following month…
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Great Loss of Sheep
Out of a flock of 5600 sheep bound from Lucknow to Avon. Downs (Q.), only 863 were saved, the others perishing en route. After they had travelled about 30 miles out of 35 miles of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Interesting Wheat Experiments
Mr. Hugh Ross, inspector of the southern section of the State under the Department of Agriculture, has been supervising experiments; in the Goulburn district, which have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sheep on the North Coast. Experiments at the Grafton Farm
Up to the present, sheep have not been kept with very satisfactory results in North Coast districts. The climate is moist, and the soils rather too heavy, which, together with the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rate of Progress. Conservatism Amongst Farmers. Value of Romney Marsh Sheep
It takes time for industrial fashions to spread in Australia. It would be a bad lookout for the millinery world if the ladies were as slow in taking to the wearing of,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Melbourne Wool Sales
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., held their usual weekly sale to-day, and submitted a catalogue of some 3340 bales. Considering the lateness of the season the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →London Wool Sales
LONDON, Tuesday Evening.—At the wool [?] were firm, with increased competition [?] are still weak American buyers are operating for best New…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Carriage of Butter. Contract Renewed
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--During the past few weeks the butter exporters and the mail shipping companies hive been considering the question of the new contract for the carriage of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Loading and Stacks
During—the week ended January 14 the quantity of wheat despatched from all country stations was 341,095 bags, as compared with 340,996 bags the previous week.- The stacks at the same date contained 957,091 bags,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wheat Values. Liverpool
Current quotations for wheat to arrive are, for March delivery 7s 1 34d, for May. 7s 1 34…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Agricultural and Pastoral the State of the Country
It is many years since the coastal areas, particularly the south coast of New South Wales, received so much rain as has fallen during the past fortnight. As mentioned in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Payment for Government Seed Wheat
There is at present between £13,000 and £14,000 owing to the Government of New South Wales for seed wheat supplied. The hon. Minister for Agriculture, on being spoken to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Worms in Sheep. Tests at Glen Innes
The New South Wales Stock Department has been carrying out experiments at the Glen Innes State Farm to demonstrate the practicability and efficiency of varying methods of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Australian Wool. an Attractive Exhibit
In April next at Roubaix the Exposition du Nord de la France will be opened. This exhibition has world-wide renown, as having the greatest display of woollen exhibits. Under…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Damaged by Rain on Railways
Farmers and shippers of wheat are loud in their complaints against the inadequacy of the protection given to wheat put on the railways for transport. During all the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Uncovered Wheat Trucks in Wet Weather
"Thousands of bags of wheat have been damaged on the New South Wales railways owing to shortage of tarpaulins."—News Item. The above is a fancy picture of a farmer trying to keep…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Western Australia. Wheat Pest. Perth
Mr. R. Storard, who was recently appointed Government Botanical and Vegetable Pathologist, will shortly be engaged investigating the fungoid pest to which the disease known as…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hints to Producers. Wheat Sprouting in the Bag
The heavy rains over the wheat areas have delayed deliveries of wheat, and in many places the roads are impassable. The Shippers and millers are up in arms about large quantities…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairymen and the R.w. Union. the Claims to Be Resisted. Child-labor of Farms
CASINO, Tuesday.--At the quarterly meeting of the Casino District Council of the Farmers and Settlers Association, the claims of the Rural Workers' Union in respect to the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Frozen Meat Trade. Beef Nodules. Improvement of Cattle Wanted. London, Dec. 23
Various articles have appeared of late in the "On the Land" columus concerning problems of the industry of exporting frozen meat to this market from Australia. Too great…
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