Experiences of an English Farmer
ONE of the effect of deep steam-ploughing in the summer months on our stiff clays is a great drying of the soil and subsoil by evaporation; so much so indeed that during…
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Farming & the land, 1877
97 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 5
Pastoral and Agricultural
The following selections were made at the Tumut land office on the 5th instant:-- S. Kershaw, 40 acres, Mundarlo; John Calloway, 40 acres, Gilmore; G. J. Jarner, 40 acres,…
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The movement for a Model Farm at Glen Innes is making favourable progress. £110 has already bean contributed, leaving about £80 to make up the estimated sum…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(From the S. M. Herald.) Fat Cattle
Taking into consideration the peat dry season, the show of fat catte which is to be seen on the western side of the park, must not be regarded as aught but creditable. There are some very excellent pens of…
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Experience in the mother country has proved that three inches was the best depth at which to sow wheat. Before the sprouts appeared above the ground there was abundant growth of roots…
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The Warrnambrol Examiner states that in 1875 Mr. A. J. Bromfield sold a bay colt named Prophet, by Panic, out of Flying Roe, for the sum of seventy-four guineas. The colt was sent…
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The New England country is now well watered and fairly grassed. We gather from our contemporary the Hay Standard that "heavy rains have fallen towards…
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The Alice Springs station, South Australia, which belonged to the estate of Mr. G. M. Bagot, has been sold to Mr. Andrew Tenant, at £5 17s. 6d. per head…
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SIR, -- In last Saturday's issue of the Southern Argus, the following piece of intelligence is given, under the heading of Yass news: -- "The new mill in Cooma-street has been opened by…
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Daring a debate on the adjournment of the House, on Friday last, Mr. John Macintosh, one of the members for East Sydney, said that the land law was manifestly defective, or we should not…
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IT has sometime been made a matter of reproach to settlers in New South Wales that they are backward in adopting the use of machinery, and it is frequently assumed…
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The application of Mr. Richard Jordon, of Gininderra, for an undefined pre-emptive lease of 480 acres, in the parish of Bedulluck, county of Murray, has been approved, subject to the…
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We (Tamworth News) are informed that large numbers of cattle are dying on Breeza; as many as 190 died in one week, it is alleged, from eating a yellow-flowered herb, which looks…
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A reserve containing an area of about eight square miles has been proclaimed for travelling stock on the Crown lands within forty chains on each side of the track from Lobb's Hole on the…
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The Coonamble correspondent of the Western Post writes: -- I understand there is a peculiar and very fatal disease attacking the fat sheep in the neighbourhood. It is supposed to be caused…
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A MEETING of the committee of this association was held at the court-house, [?] last Tuesday afternoon. There were [?] Dr. Campbell (president) in [?] Mesrs [?]…
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Messrs. Mort and Co., in their lest report to hand, give the following particulars of late sales of station properties:--New South Wales.-- "Retreat" station, in the New England district…
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THE annual meeting of the NEW York State Dairymen's Association was held during the first week in December. Among the topics presented was a showing of the Jerseys as…
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Mr. G. P. Wilson, of Pomingolarne, has, on the recommendation of the chief inspector of sheep, been appointed a sheep director for the district of Wagga Wagga, in room of Mr. John…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Bill to Regulate the Travelling of Horses and Cattle
THE following measure has been introduced to the Assembly by Mr. Thomas Dangar, and was read a first time on June 1. As the question of regulating the travelling of horses and cattle is of wide-spread…
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