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785 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 40
THE promise of a few days' rain which was given at the end of last week has all ended in sunshine. A drizzling fall favoured the coast districts on Friday and Saturday, but cleared away on Sunday, since…
Continued on Trove, page 358 →THE settlement of a new country such as ours causes the pressure among the population of very many struggler—small agriculturists to whom it is of vital importance that everything in the shape of stock on their…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →THE following description of diseases I nave received from a gentleman residing on the western slopes of Victoria:—" My sheep, especially the young rams and ewes, began to look unhealthy about the mouth of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE tremendous spread and developement of sheep diseases in these colonies has, and is creating, considerable alarm. Sruatters and agriculturists know not where to turn for sound and safe advice; naturally they…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AT Oak Hill, New York, in 1868, a parallelogram of land was set off, measuring twenty rods in length by eight in breadth, thus containing one acre. The soil was a slaty loam, had been mowed for 18 years, and was broken up and…
Continued on Trove, page 358 →PROFESSOR G. H. Cook, a scientific American farmer, has been over in England, and in an address to the members of the New York Farmers' Club, gives his ideas of the system of working in England:—…
Continued on Trove, page 358 →The Western Farmer call attention to the patent but agreeable fact that every weed seed thatcommences growth and is then killed helps along the work of clearing the land. So long as the seed remains in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The rain noticed in our last (says the Forbes Times of Saturday last) lasted all Friday night and fully an inch of rain must have fallen. The country is thoroughly soaked, and the river is in many places over its [?]. Crops…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our third serles for the year, consisting of 198,525 bales colonial, commerced 20th ultimo, and terminated this day. Prices opened at a decline of 1d to 1½d per 1b. upon the average of April May sales. This being some what expected, nearly all the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A CHEERFUL tone characterises all the reports from the pastoral regions, the only untoward matter mentioned being unfavourable lambing in a few localities. Rain has again fallen in such quantities as to preclude all…
Continued on Trove, page 389 →The Tenterfield Star hears that large numbers of cattle and sheep are dying in the district, and on the Mo[?] Tableland, through the shortness of feed, Several teamsters in travelling down the Lawrence and Ten[?]erfield road…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →IN the metropolitan district, as in the coast districts generally, as well as for a considerable distance inland, there have been seasonable soaking rains. This fall is likely to prove very beneficial, coining as it…
Continued on Trove, page 389 →A CORRESPONDENT of the Melbourne Leader, writes as follows, under the signature of "a Sheep Farmer in the Goulburn District":— The sheep pest known as fluke is very much on the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE Statistics for last year show, that the customs value of the coal, gold, and silver, gold-bar, dust, sweepings, antimony, and shale exported, amounted to £2,445,160…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →LONDON, July 30.—At the third series of sales, which opened on the 20th ultimo, and closed this evening, 198,525 bales were catalogued, viz.:—Sydney, 46,610; Victoria, 56,596; Tasmania, 8959; Adelaide, 21,030; Swan River, 2628; New…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Our last circular was dated 15th May, and we still record prosperous times and high prices. Indications are not, however, wanting to show that there is some tendency towards a reaction, and that if the signs of the times, thus manifest are…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →TWO experiments were made in feeding corn to five half-blood Berkshire pigs of the same litter, the first experiment being with old corn shelled and fed in three different forms, viz.: fed whole; ground sad made into a slop with cold…
Continued on Trove, page 388 →IN our last number, we spoke of the mode of clearing off timber, and its increasing value throughout the country. Every day we have to deplore the wanton waste of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Length of furrow bed adapted for the strength of horses in ploughing—706 feet. Extent of Land Ploughed by Fowler's Steam Plough.—Two acres per day, of tea working hours, for each furrow; and,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Agricultural papers of late dates speak highly of Hungarian grass as being good in general, but especially after a hard winter followed by a dry spring. The Ploughman says:—"Its growth is rapid; if helped…
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