London Wool Sales
LONDON, Wednesday.—At the wool sales yesterday, Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Company, Messrs. Jacomb Son and Company and De Croz. Doxnt and Company submitted…
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Wheat on the Tablelands
The experiments being carried out at the Glen Innes State Farm in wheat-growing provide some practical lessons. Haynes' Blue Stem (a Manitoba wheat) is found…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Damage to Sheep Prom Maggot Fly
Mr. C. W. Phillips, of Canimbla, via Cowra, gives the following experience in preventing the maggot fly amongst bis sheep:—700 ewes and hoggets were dressed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Export Trade. London Wool Sales
Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received the following cable message from their London house dated 16th inst:—"The first series of home wool sales for this year opened…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Markets Sydney Wool Sales
Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Ltd., report:—Advices from both Melbourne and Brisbane, were auctions have been in progress this week, report a very strong market at…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Wool Sales. London, Jan. 16
The wool sales opened this afternoon. Bidding was brisk, prices being at par to 5 per cent. in advance on the closing rates of the previous series…
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Winchcombe, Carson and Company offered a fairly good selections mostly selectors' lots. They quote the market as being strong at previous rates; the best grades, when fine and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agricultural Shows. Albion Park. Pure South Coast Cattle. (From Our Special Reporter.)
ALBION PARK.—After a couple of scorching hot days, the Albion Park Agricultural Associaton was extremely fortunate, on Wednesday in having beautifully cool weather for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Soil the Sheep Fly Pest. Proposed Experiments. Pastoralists Find the Money
A prospect of practical experiment work being immediately undertaken in regard to the blow fly pest of sheep has been opened up by the offer of the committee of the Rabbit…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For the Farmer and Grazier Handy Hints Prepared by the Experts of the Agricultural Department Agriculture Scientific Cultivation and Drought
"The greatest evils of drought are due to ignorant treatment of the soil." The farmer who has been practising a haphazard system of soil cultivation—with the…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →DAIRYING. Lice on Cows
Lice on cows seem to be troublesome in many of the dairying districts, judging from the number of inquiries received by the Department regarding the post. The…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Farmer's Suicide. Perth
A horticulturist, Thomas Atkin, aged 47, owning 70 acres of land at Clover Dale, was packing tomatoes for market this morning when his brother heard a report. Going to…
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WINGHAM.—On Mr. F. Longworth's farm at Stewart's River are several experimental plots with which Mr. Marks (inspector of agriculture for the North Coast) is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the Land. Farm and Station. Danish Agriculture. More About Bacon Curing. Some Useful Data. (By Our Special Representative.) No. Xii. Bacon-curing Establishments
The basis of the bacon-curing co-operative industry is similar to that of the dairying industry. The main principles of the two are identical. The two essential points are…
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JONES' ISLAND.—The Manning River Dairy Company decided at their meeting to pay a bonus of a farthing per 1b for all first-class butter supplied for October, November,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Warwick Farm
Last Saturday's meeting of the above Club was held in fine and cool weather. Though the muster was good, it would have been far better had no meeting…
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Mr. T. J. Burbury, the well-known sheepbreeder, has purchased 223 two-tooth Shropshites in Tasmania, on be-half of Messrs, Tyson Doneley, Ltd.,…
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The yardings totalled 1724 head, from 59 owners, which was a fair supply only. The great heat was responsible also for the succumbing of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sheep on the Farm
The paper to be read at the next international conference, under the auspices of the National Sheep-breeders' Association of England, will be…
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