The Loss of the Wheat Crop From Rust
Though opinions differ as to the actual extent of mischief done to the wheat crop this season by the visitation of rust, there can be no question that it has been very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1864
7 stories in Riverina's papers
Rust in Wheat
SIR,--Rust appears to be a subject upon which all writers agree to differ. This attempt to elucidate the question is begun with considerable diffidence, and with the wholesome…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Diseases
THE following letter to the Editor of the " Times," lately appeared in the " Yeoman:" SIR,--Permit me to premise the following observations by disclaiming any desire to trade…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming
On most soils the recent rains would cause the sowing of wheat, oats, barley, and grass seeds to he deferred; the first favourable opportunity must be taken to push on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rust-wheat for Seed
The shrivelled grain of rusted wheat is admitted, by both practical and scientific men, to answer well for seed; so that the farmer who has suffered from this plague need not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Important to Farmers
HAVING regard to the immense loss suffered last season by the rust, and the great importance of using every precaution to guard against its reappearance in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Diseases of Cattle
FORTUNATELY, this is not a subject of such immediate importance with us as it was a year or two since, for one of the worst diseases to which cattle are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →