Rust and Wheat
THE Council of the Acclimatisation Society of this colony has distributed a series of questions for the Purpose of eliciting information from practical farmers as to the cause of rust in…
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V. Sheep From Neighbouring Colonies. 1. Mode of Inspection
34. On the receipt of notice in the form of Schedule F of the regulations, from the owner, of his [?] to introduce sheep from any of the adjoining colonies, the inspector, if he has not obtained full…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Of the Pastoral [?]Riots
adopted Action has been disclosing the reasons for It will be seen [?] [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Average Rates at Hay, Corn and Cattle Market
Luncerns hay, from 8s 0d to 10s od; oats 3s to 8s 6d; straw 7s od to 10s 0d barley, 3s 6d to 4s od; maize new 5s od to 3s 3d green stuff, 10d to is per doz. bundle, bar…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Deniliquin Stock Report. (From the Pastoral Times, June 25.) Friday evening
WE have to report a great demand existing for store cattle, feed being generally good, with every prospect of improving through the late alternations between rain and sunshine. The nigths, though cold, are not at freezing point, and as long as the frost…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Meeting of Sheep Directors. (From the Armidals E[?]press, June 25.)
On the afternoon of Thursday, a public meeting of sheep directors fer the [?] district was held in the Court-house, Armidale, The directors present were Mes[?]rs. H. A. Thomas, A. A. Dangar, and Th[?]ophi[?] Cooper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Sowing After the Flood. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR —In one of your leadors of Saturday last you say-"The statement made by Mr. Robertson, at the Relief Meetirg, to the ef[?]t that in by-gone times wheat was [?]own at Singleton in the month of August, after a great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Conviction of an Attempt to Scab Sheep
AT the Madgee Quarter Seasions, held before Judge City, July 1st, Joseph Lant, senier, was indicted for wilfully communicating th soab, in March last, to 1000 sheep, the property of Mr. Orr, of Garrawilla…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Red Lammas Wheat. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Seeing that many farmers condemn the practice of sowing wheat late, I trust, however, this may not deter those in favour of late sowing from putting in all they can. In some of the colder districts of this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Meeting of Sheep Directors
On the afternoon of Thursday, a public meeting of sheep directors for the scab district was held in the Court-house, Armidale. The directors present were Messrs. H. A. Thomas, A. A. Dangar and Theophilus Cooper…
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WE observe that the floods and other disastrous consequences have induced some gentlemen in the neighbourhood of the Hunter to propose remedial measures, by which similar calamities…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Danger of Slaughtering Diseased Cattle
Professor of veterifary medicine and surgery, New Veterinary College, Edinburgh. ON the 22nd of October, 1863, a bull was taken ill on a farm which I decline to name. My…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Growing. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—As the subject of wheat growing is now occupying a good deal of public attention, and as the following system which I have seen mentioned in works of agriculture may not be known to every…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agricultural Statistics and Rust in Wheat. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—In your journal of the 11th April last, you did me the favour of inserting a letter of mine on "Rust in Wheat," in which I expressed my belief that, from the visitation being so wide spread and almost…
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May 25th.—The sales commenced on 5th May. Large attendance of buyers, both home and foreign, with spirited competition. Up to date more than half the quantity catalogued…
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May 25th.—The sales commenced on 5th May. Large attendance of buyers, both home and foreign, with spirited competition. Up to date more than half the quantity catalogued passed the hammer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Statistics of the Wool Trade. (From the Mark Lane Express.)
PERHAPS no branch of national commerce has undergone so prodigious an expansion of late years as this trade. The growth of population, the progress of comparatively luxurious tastes, the almost universal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Return for Nelson Province
A return laid before the Council shown the number of sheep returned for assessment in the Provices of Nelson for the year 1864, with the amount of the assessments received. This return gives the following figures:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm-yard Manure. (From the Age.)
AT the meeting of the Brllsrat Agricultural Society, held on the 4th instant, Mr. James M'Intosh meda the following statement with reference to the benefits to be derived from the proper mode of collecting and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool-dressing—separatig the [?] &c., From It. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Seeing by the public journals that there [?] [?] inquiry alive in the Australian colon[?]es, having [?] object the neceesity of some mode of an [?] ter being discovered to free wool from b[?]r[?], or [?]…
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