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785 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 40
A VERY interesting paper was lately read before the London Farmers' Club, concerning vegetable and fruit farming; and though it relates to the practice in England there will be found matter in it worthy of the attention of New…
Continued on Trove, page 708 →AT the monthly meeting of the Ballarat farmers, Mr. John Philips read tho following paper on the rotation of crops and application of manures:—It seems startling to assert that all good soils, all plants, and all animals, consist of…
Continued on Trove, page 709 →Col. Waring thinks the best way "To keep the boys on the farm " would be to have husbandmen conduct their operations in such a manner as to show that well-regulated and skillfully managed farming…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →PASSENGERS PER NUBIA.—For Sydney: Sir Hercules and Lady Robinson, 2 Misses Robinson, Mr. Robinson, and 8 servants, Captain and Mrs. St. John, infant and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Dick, Mr. and Mrs. Verges,…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →THE second wool sales are now on, with a slight droop in prices from those of February, although within two days of the commencement of the sales wools were being disposed of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE demand for rain has now been met in all the pastoral regions, and what benefit it could afford at this season is seen by a spring in the grass. If frosts do not come too soon there will be a good…
Continued on Trove, page 741 →THIS week we have been visited by a heavy fall of rain, says the Forbes Times of the 8th, which has sufficed to put water in the various dams and creeks. On Sunday night and Monday it rained heavily and continuously,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →AT Armidale (according to the Express of Saturday) there was a fall of rain on Monday, which benefited the farmers, and on Tuesday night there was a little more. The weather then took up, and there have been frosts since. Yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 741 →SOME beneficial rains have fallen throughout the colony during the past month, and the prospects of the agriculturist have in consequence, materially brightened. Th farmers generally have been able to complete their sowing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE estated in our last summary that some inconvenience [?] being felt in several districts on account of the dry [?]er then prevailing; but we have now io chron[?]cls [?] pretty general rainfall, and consequently the existence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following are the awards made by the judges in the Wool section of the Intercolonial Exhibition. The judges were Messrs. F. Ebsworth and T. Thorps for washed wool; and Messrs. J. Vicars and L. Haigh for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE inward mail per Nubia has this month put us in possession of intelligence of the home market for our chief staple five days in advance of contract time. Our advices direct are up to the 19th of April, and give us the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ENGLAND has made mutton-producing sheep the pivot upon which her agriculture revolves, and the moans of making her fields more productive in wheat than oven the prairies of America. The possession of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The first public sales subsequent to the departure of the [?] mail were held by the associated autioneers, under the above date. The united catalogues afforded only a very poor show of wools for sale, but we ought not to expect much at such a [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Per British Commodore, for London: 1817 bls wool, 1333 csks tallow, 211 bls leather, 893 bgs copra, 64 bls cotton, 27 bgs cotton seed, 140 csks cocoanut oil, 4383 ingots 2532 cks copper, 1237 bgs copper ore, 900 csks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following is a continuation of a paper read before the London Farmers' Club, the first portion of which appeared June 8. Here I would remark how much the unsettled and…
Continued on Trove, page 740 →IN the lately published part of the Royal Agricultural Society's Journal, " The Report of some Features of Scottish Agriculture" contains a comparatively brief account of Mr. George Hope's well known…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →ENGLAND has made mutton-producing sheep the pivot upon which her agriculture revolves, and the means of making her fields more productive in wheat than even the prairies of America. The possession of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE weather in and around Cooma has been fine and warm throughout the day, says the Monaro Mercury, but the night exceedings cold, and the frosts are unusually severe the sharpest experienced for several winters past…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE winter season is now being felt in all our pastoral regions, though some have up to the present escaped the frosts. The Bligh and Wellington districts have in this way been fortunate, and in that part of the…
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