Why Kill Scabby Sheep ? To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—A movements now on foot among the squatters to demand from the Government a law enabling them to kill all infected, or even suspected, sheep in New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Illawarra · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1863
9 stories in Illawarra's papers
Wool Report
Sales opened April 30, closed June 3rd. A fall of 1d, to 1½d, was established at the outset, but soon recovered. Sales continued to the end at an advanced price…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers
THIS is the farmer, "pure and simple"—may he forgive us for coupling his honest name with any such outlandish phrase; who rents his two, three, or five hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Crops in the Hunter River District
From all We can learn nearly the whole of the wheat crop in this district has been blighted by rust. One remarkable feature of this disease is that it allows the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Breeding in Australia
THERE is an impression, which is too general amongst those who embark in pastoral pursuits, that the breeding of sheep in Australia requires very little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rust in Wheat. an Infallible Specific Remedy to Prevent Rust in Wheat. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—I am a native of Milan, in Italy, where wheat is grown to a great extent. I remember twenty-five or thirty years ago, when rust got into the wheat, and people…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Crops in the Orange Dislrict
Up to Thursday evening serious apprehension were beginning to be entertained about the maize and potato crops on account of the prevalence of hot dry weather. A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Cutting wheat before it is Ripe
An old and practical farmer gives the following on cutting wheat:—The assertions which I have found most prevalent are, that wheat may be cut some time before it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rust in Wheat : Its Nature and Supposed Cause. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—As a large portion of the wheat crops on the east coast of this colony, embracing a tract of country from Shoalhaven on the south, and extending as far…
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