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Sir,—Amidst all the discussion relating to rust in wheat, I think I ought to say a word or two, as I have been a grower in the Hunter district for some thirty-five years. I have to say that ever since…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN its weekly stock report, the Dubbo Dispatch says:—"Since our last the weather has continued dry, and the complaints of the want of rain are becoming general. On the Bogan no rain has fallen, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE fact that rusty and shrivelled wheat will germinate and produce well-matured grain may be regarded as generally established; but there is another weighty consideration for the fanner, namely, what…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →MAY 2.—Winter weather has again set in mest boisterously. The hot weather ended on Wednesday last in Southern Riverina; and on Thursday heavy drifting clouds and strong winds, with rain, set in. The country looks uncommonly well. A correspondent,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FROM all parts of the country there come in the most desponding accounts of the state both of the agricultural and pastoral lands of the interior. From the Paterson, a correspondent of the Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE feeding of sheep upon English grasses on our dry plain land has not hitherto been a very profitable employment, because the small number which can be kept to the acre does not afford a sufficient return to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Australian wool market there was a good attendance, and brisk competition. The sales opened at an advance of a halfpenny to a penny. The market closed at an average…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS event came off on Tuesday and Wednesday last, as announced in the advertisements of past weeks. During the two days the weather was very fine—a Riverine sun shone upon the pleasure-seekers; the sky was almost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[The following telegram reached our office yesterday morning at half-past 5 o'clock—too late for publication in that day's paper. The wires were occupied by the long message of our daily contemporary until most of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN its weekly stock report, the Dubbo Dispatch of the 8th says:—There has been no rain since our last, and, consequently, pastoral matters do not bear the most promising aspect. There is now a general…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE feeding of sheep upon English grasses on our dry plain land has not hitherto been a very profitable employment, because the email number which can be kept, to the acre does not afford a sufficient return to…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →SIR,—If the old axiom that the man who makes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, then it must be true that the man who makes one pound of meat for export worth as much as two…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE Maitland Mercury of the 9th says:—"For the last fortnight or more the hopes of farmers have been tantalised in this neighbourhood by occasional promises of rain, sometimes indeed by the falling of a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE long continued drought has inflicted no small share of its mischiefs upon the squatters, who have now to complain of a scarcity both of water and feed for their flocks and herds. It is long since any rain sufficient to be of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →RICHARDSON AND WRENCH.— Since our last circular, there has been no perceptible improvement in the price of wools in this market, although the news from England by the February mail, gave reason to hope that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WITH reference to the Silver Mining Company about to be formed work the silver lead mine at the head of the Isis, River, a careful survey has been made of the land on which the mine is situated, and a prospectus for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—I see by a paragraph in your paper that Mr. J. B. Bettington, of Brindley Park, has been suggesting to the woolgrowers of the Western district the advisability of having an exhibition of wool in Sydney during the present…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In consequence of the conti[?]ued drought which is common to all parts of the colony, farming operations are at a complete stand-still, From all quarters the news received is of anything but a cheerful nature, and this present season…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IN its weekly stock report the Dubbo Dispatch of the 15th says:—"Since our last the weather has taken do decided change, though as we write the appearances of rain, are very great. The clouds are Heavy and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE following letter was read at a late meeting of the Fermanagh Farmers' Club:—In the large dairy farms in Holstein—having in many cases 100 to 200 cows, sometimes more—the greatest…
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