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THE Queenslander makes the following remarks on the Statistical Returns:—As we have done with regard to the other industrial pursuits of the colony, we commence with a comparative statement showing the increase of pastoral…
Continued on Trove, page 1286 →The following letter, published by a contemporary, from a correspondent at Mayence, relates to the revival in the woollen manufacture of France and its probable influence on the Australian trade:—"An Autumn tour through the…
Continued on Trove, page 1302 →SIR,—I see in your issue of the 18th instant a letter signed 'A. Ross, Molong,' speaking of rust, its cause and probable prevention. Now, Mr. Editor, I am an agriculturist of fourteen years practice in this district,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →AMONG the horsey men of Australia, no household word carries with it a larger amount of importance than Maribyrnong; for, since Mr. Hurtle Fisher transferred thither his stud from South Australia, this…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →THE way to improve your corn crop is by a careful choice of seed. It is not sufficient to pick out the long, well-filled cobs. The best seed-corn is that taken from the middle of a choice cob growing on a stalk with…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SIR,—Will you kindly inform me if there is any way to prevent butchers slaughtering in the suburbs? There is at Paddington an establishment in possession of pre[?]ses in a back street, where sheep are killed every day, and on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE way to improve your corn crop is by a careful choice of seed. It is not sufficient to pick out the long, well-filled cobs. The best seed-corn is that taken from the middle of a choice cob growing on a stalk with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE way to improve your com crop is by a careful choice of seed. It U not sufficient to pick out the long, well-filled cobs. The best seed-corn ii that taken from the middle of a choice cob growing on a stalk with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FROM all quarters, we have this week received news of extensive bush fires, which have done a large amount of damage. Mere would have been done had it not been for the occurrence of thunderstorms,…
Continued on Trove, page 1318 →THE Dubbo Dispatch of the 7th, says:—The weather at Dubbo, during the past week has been very warm. The sun has been as hot as possible, and the atmosPhere close and uncomfortable. Bush fires have been…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →THE weather in the Metropolitan district has been oppressively hot during the past week, and we have had several showers of rain, accompanied by heavy thunder and lightning. On Sunday last, it seemed…
Continued on Trove, page 1318 →WE regret to learn that the cattle recently imported into the colony by the ship Parramatta have been suffering from a mild fora of what in England is known as the foot and mouth disease. The cattle were perfectly healthy…
Continued on Trove, page 1316 →THE wheat crop is now being gathered in, and the time is highly favourable for selecting seed. It is in this way that some of the boat varieties of wheat ever grown in the mother country were obtained, and many of the North of England…
Continued on Trove, page 1318 →MR. E. M. Bowman, botanist, who is in Northern Queensland collecting for the "Flora of Australia," a botanical work in course of preparation in London, writes to the Peak Downs Telegram concerning the poison plant. Mr…
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →WOOL.—During the past month a large and satisfactory business has been transacted, upwards of 35,000 bales having been offered, and about 25,46[?] bales sold. This quantity, added to previous sales, makes an aggregate of 44,658 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →'WHY don't you thatch your haystack?' asked an old West of England man of a colonial farmer. 'Because I have no one that knows how to do it, and because our machine breaks the straw so short. 'What…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE wool-washing establishment of the Hon. S. Samuel, at Collingwood, has recently been rendered more complete, by the addition of some very fine wool-washing machinery, part of which is made by M'Naught and Sons, and part by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a meeting of wool importers in London the Wool Association was reconstituted. The wool sales opened at one penny a pound better…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The branch mail steamer Rangatira arrived here with the English mails about 8 o'clock this morning. The P. and O. Company's steamer Nubia arrived…
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