The Land Tax and the Farmers
THE imposition of this tax as it is proposed to levy it will fall on almost every farmer of our district. It would appear that tho agricultural classes are to get no encouragement…
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Farming & the land, 1888
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On the Farms
A MORE suitable season for ingathering the maize crop could not be desired, and the late maize is now hurried in with all possible despatch. By the end of the month there…
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IN round numbers the amount of maize shipped from the northern rivers to Sydney is 150,000 bags from the beginning of March to the end of the present month. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Expiration of Pastoral Leases
A Gazette notification, states that in pursuance of the provisions of section 78, sub-section IV of the Lands Act, no extension of the pastoral leases named will be permitted, and such leases will…
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VICTORIA last year added 158,823 acres to her cultivated lands, as against 69,204 acres similarly added in New South Wales. Surely farming in Victoria cannot be the road to…
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THE rain of this week will enable the plough to go to work in earnest for turning over the land for the coming crop of maize. For the early sowing it should have been turned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →W. H. Traill among our Pioneer Farmers
THE residents of the Upper Orara, Cuff's Harbour Bucca Creek, and Tallawagga Creek, took advantage of Mr. Traill's visit to their neighbourhood to give that gentleman a complimentary picnic at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "Boom" in Company Promoting. A Year's Crop of Limited Liability Ventures
SPECULATION has developed to an extraordinary extent in Victoria during the past 18 months. Even prior to this period the land fever commenced and proceeded at a merry…
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SOME months ago, while in New Zealand, Mr. Henry Barnes, of Dyraaba, executed commissions for two gentlemen in this colony by purchasing a small lot of Aberdeen-Angus cattle. Of this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Now for a big Crop of Corn
The American Agriculturist says, practical farmers may well laugh at those who talk about corn being deficient in protein and phosphates. It is the grandest crop in the…
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A FARMER on the Macleay produced two crops of 90-day maize last season. We have have known the same practice on the Clarence, but it proved very detrimental to the…
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"MELBOURNE has asserted herself as the metropolis of the Southern Hemisphere." These were the words of the Minister of Lands in the Legislative Assembly of…
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J. W. SANBORN, Professor of Agriculture in the Missouri Agricultural College, United States, gives the following conclusions concerning the philosophy of rotation of crops:…
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A WRITER in the Planter and Farmer (Q.) says: "At present our farmers rotate with maize, oats, lucerne and potatoes. A bad season they are nowhere; and a good one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society. The Annual Report. Annual Report of the Committee to be presented to the members at the twenty-second annual meeting to be held at the Society's office, Grafton, on Tuesday, the 31st July, 1888
GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETINGS.—The General Committee has held five meetings, at which the attendance has been as follows:—T. G. Hewitt, president, 1; S. See, vice-president, 5; E. L…
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THE tenth half-yearly meeting of this Association was held on Tuesday in the Theatre Royal. Mr. G. Bailey, chairman of the Board of directors presided, and on the platform were the other members of the…
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FROM the following interesting record it will be seen that fungi and blight are not new to Australian soils, and the reasons given for those dealt with in the annexed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Agriculturist & Grazier. [We shall be glad to publish the results of experiments made by agriculturists, and will find space for any communications in this column, re-writing the contributions when desired. Questions relating to agricultural and pastoral subjects will also be answered as far as practicable. Maize and Potato Planting
WE are informed that some maize was planted as early as the middle of last month on one or two farms above Grafton. This is unusually early, but the frost bids fair to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Echoes Far and Near. Encouragement to Farmers
THERE is a strong impression that although the Victorian Ministry do not propose to grant the farmers an export bounty upon cereals, there is some probability, under their encouragement to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Market for Farm Produce
SIR.—As a farmer I have a few words to say in support of your suggestion re a local market for farm produce, conducted on the same principle as that of Newcastle and Maitland. Had we been of…
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