500-Year-old Ring. Found by Farmer in a Ploughed Field
Mr. St. George Gray, secretary of the Somerset Archaelogical Society, announces the discovery of a fifteenth century gold ring in a ploughed field at Beercrocombe,…
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Cousin to the King. American Farmer Related to King George Through an Ancestress
Have you ever heard of Isabel de Vermandois? Probably not, but the chances are five to one that her blood runs in your veins. She is the ancestress of nearly 90 in every…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Closer Settlement. Mixed Farming. Meat Industry Essential
Further consideration having been given to the functions of the Australian Meat Council, [?]t [?]s, suggested that unless this organisation is able to place the export meat trade on a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Produce. Dairy
In every department of the dairy produce trade prices were unchanged, except in the case of eggs, where some of the houses reported that supplies barely balanced deliveries. Up to…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Casualties. Farm Labourer Drowned
A message was received at police headquarters last night, stating that Cecil Gibbs, 23. who resided with his parents in Lane Coveroad, Gore Hill, was drowned in a dam eight…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Farmer and Company, Ltd
The final call by Farmer and Company. Ltd., of 5 per share in respect to both the company's 7 per cent. second preference and its ordinary [?] to 15…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →London Wool Sales
LONDON, Saturday.—There was a moderate attendance at the Hull wool sales. Both the home and Continental competition was keen, and practically…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shot a Cow Tasmanian Cattle Quarrel
HOBART, Saturday—At an early hour this morning William Nisi, aged about 35, was admitted to Hobart Public Hospital in an unconscious condition. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Humans or Cattle? Immigrants All at Sea the Berrima and the Borda a Position That Must be Sifted
"The Sun" learns that a report on the Borda scandal of last August is resting somewhere, unhonored, in the Melbourne waste. That report contained serious allegations against those responsible for the transport of immigrants to Australia, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Markets. Sydney
The market is unaltered at 196/ per cwt. At the beginning of the week good rain was experienced on the extreme north-east coast, the best falls…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Produce. the Butter Markets
In Sydney the market is unaltered at 196/ per cwt. At the beginning of last week god rain was experienced on the extreme north-east coast, the best falls being at Tweed Heads…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Iguana Attacks Sheep Warren
Mr. George Gordon, of "Glen Idol." near Trangle, during the last six months, has lost at least 100 sheep. The direct cause of the mortality…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Sales. This Week's Roster
Monday, February 26.—F. & G. Co-op. Co., Ltd., 5485 bales. Dalgety & Co., Ltd., 5034 bales. Tuesday, February 27—C.P.S. CO…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shot Fired Man in Wheat Yards
Whilst on duty at the wheat-yards at Homebush at 1 a.m. to-day. Nightwatchman Butcher saw a man moving about near one of the wheat stacks…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →London Markets Hull Wool Sales LONDON
Twenty thousand bales of Australian, and 40,000 bales of New Zealand wool will be offered at the London auction on March 6…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oversea Market Cables. Hull Wool Sales. London, Feb. 23
The Hull wool sales opened to a moderate attendance, with good home and continental competition. Practically everything was sold without quotable change from the prices…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Maize Crop Spoilt Result of Heat Wave Maryborough (Q.)
Early in January in the Kingaroy district the maize crop for the coming season promised a record yield, especially at Crawford, Boole…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sale of Farm Lands West Maitland
The sale is reported of Mrs. F. Richards' farm at Bolwarra, comprising 23 acres, to Mr. Cousins, for £2650, equal to £115 an acre. In the estate of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cattle Tick a Texan Experiment. Zebu Cattle Introduced
Mr. J. Clunes Ross, B.V.Sc., of Sydney University, who has returned to Sydney from a trip abroad, tells of an interesting experiment in Texas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hull Wool Sales
Dalgety and Company, Limited, is in receipt of the following cable from its London office, under date of February 24:—"Bawra offered a catalogue of 30,000 bales of Australasian crossbred, nearly all of which…
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