Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Irrigation for Australia
The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 2
A MOVEMENT, with truly national features, has been commenced in New Wales, and the necessities of the case are of such characters as make it certain the movement…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1882 · page 2
IT is nothing short of an anomaly that while horses, young, apparently sound, and each with all its limbs, can be purchased for £1 a log, and for less at times, really…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 3
A MEETING of the sheep direction was held at Cooma Court House on Thursday last. Mr. David Ryire, of Coolringdon,…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 2
AN occasional accomplishment of Cumberland sheep dogs is that of finding sheep buried in the snow. John Scott has possessed dogs, which by their peculiar…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 3
A MEETING, attended by five members, viz., Messrs. F.J. McAuliffe, John Feilen, Henry Dawson, Hugh McKinnon, and George Spring, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Australian Experiences with Wool and Grain
The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 2
THE colonial wool sales of 181-2 are remarkable for two features—the decided increases of business done, and the very fair prices paid, leave not a doubt that the…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 2
THE manner and extent to which the South Australian Stripper has come into favour as a tarvesting machine during the last season or two is nothing short of…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 2
A CORRESPONDENT on board the s.s. Gerwin sends to the San Francisco Bulletin, from River Bay, Siberia, the interesting account of reinde[?] farming:—…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 5 April 1882 · page 4
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co. report:—We offered to-day at auction 800 bales of wool. Prices were…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 8 April 1882 · page 2
IT is in no spirit of antagonism to the Champagne Wine Company recently set in motion an Melbourne that we state that scores of locations could be found in all…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 19 April 1882 · page 2
Professor Law says that the great majority of ringbone in young horses comes from the failure to shorten the [?] To this may be added that [?] is apt to…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1882 · page 2
IN a sentence it might be said that though Australia is the very youngest of sugar-producing countries, she stands already in the first rank in the all…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 10 May 1882 · page 2
Serub sheep are dear even for no price at all. On a good farm they are as bad as rusty nails on a new house…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 10 May 1882 · page 2
In gathering apple from the trees to store away for winter use, provide yourself with a strong, light ladder, some two feet wide at the bottom and tapering to a point at top…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1882 · page 4
THERE'S vigour and health in the air on a farm, From conventional letters free. There's good food and drink that can do no…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1882 · page 2
IN a preceding paper reference was made to the benefits which accompany gardening from the outset of settlement. The subject was not opened in any mere speculative or…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 21 June 1882 · page 3
A WAGER of £5 between Mr. Hugh McKinnon, butcher of Cooma, and Mr. C. West, grazier, of Gabramatta, up towards Ki[?]ndra, was recently…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Station, Farm & Garden. Crops That Could Be Increased, Tobacco.—first Paper
The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1882 · page 2
This is an old colonial product, but, from various causes which we shall endeavour to investigate in this paper, it has not made the headway that might be expected. Yet the…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 19 July 1882 · page 4
LARGE numbers of persons attended the auction sales of stud sheep, yesterday, by Messrs. Maiden, Hill, and Clarke, and Messrs. Brukor, Welle, and Co. The…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 2
SOME years since it looked as thou[?] cotton were to become one of the great exports of the colonies. Since then there has been a woeful falling off. Now there is a revival, and more…
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