Mr. M. L, Sullivant—the Great Farmer
THE gentleman whose name beads this notice, is reputed, and we believe truly, to be the most extensive cultivator of the soil the world has ever seen. There may perhaps be some who…
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Mr. M. L. Sullivant—the Great Farmer
THE gentleman whose name heads this notice, is reputed and we believe truly, to be the most extensive cultivator of the soil the world has ever seen. There may perhaps be some who…
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SIR,—Some eighteen or twenty months ago I had the pleasure of a familiar chat with you on the all importtant topic of Australian argiculture; since then I have had ample opportunity of seeing and learning the true…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A steamer blown up on the Darling River. Telegrams This Day. Five Lives Lost and 200 Bales Wool Destroyed. Two Boys Fall Down a Shaft 200 Feet Deep. Horrible Depravity in Victoria. Seamen's Wages in Melbourne £6 Per Month. Meeting of Miners at Hill End. Shock of Earthquake at Queanbeyan. Fire at Prahran. Latest Commercial, c. &c., &c. Cable Message
A private telegram from Ireland announces the death of Mr. John Francis Maguire, M.P. of Cork. HILL END…
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A Massachusetts cultivator says in Secretary Flint's report that he has noticed in his garden "that that portion which is hoed or cultivated with the dew upon the ground prduces better crops than that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cable Messages. Telegrams This Day. News from England to Nov. 20. Another Rise in Wool. Copper Firmer—quoted at £88 TO £89. Money Market Rising. Rumoured Resignation of M. Thiers. Proposed Military Trium-virate in France. Marshal M'mahon, General L'admirault, and General Changarnier. Fire in Boston Extinguished. Terrific Hurricane in Denmark. Righty Vessels Lost and Many Lives. [Lodged, in London, November 19, at 7.50 p.m. Received in Sydney, November 21, at 9.57 p.m.]
At sales of East Indian wool in Liverpool to-day, prices advanced 15 per cent, on previous quotations. The tin market is still in a depressed state…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Later Mail News. Guns and Ammunition for Port Jackson. Large Supplies of Wheat and Cotton From America. Great Discoveries of Coal in Ireland. France Supplies England with Coal. the Sydney Barque, Guiding Star, Burned at Sea. Wagga Wagga Races. the Carl Outrage. Intended Prosecution of Dr. Murray. Sale of Webb's Line of Steamers a Man Stabbed at Invercargill Plague of Locusts in Adelaide Crushings at Charters Towers Admiral Rous and the Australian Jockey Club. Latest Commercial, &c., &c., &c., Later English Mail News. Melbourne, Thursday night
A special English telegram per R.M.S. Beha states that Sir Charles Cowper has despatched the whole of the guns and ammunition necessary for the defences of Port Jackson…
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THE season continues favourable for sheep farmers, and in only a few localities the shearing remains to be completed. On the Murrumbidgee and Darling there hare been some rains that keep up the supply of…
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The Hay correspondent of the Deniliquin Chronicle writes under date of Monday: The weather here has been alternate rain and sun shine for the last fortnight; line, seasonable weather, no doubt, but still not the kind to…
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IT is with the greatest pleasure that we regard this prosperous season for the farmer and grazier. Possibly never in the history of this colony have the cattle and sheep been…
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THE latest intelligence from Tenterfield by the Star of the 14th states that during the past week the state of the weather has been very variable. Several thunderstorms have occurred, and a fair amount of rain has fallen…
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A FEW miles from Preston, on the southern side of the river Ribble, there is an excellent farm known by the name of "Hutton Grange." It is about 230 acres in extent, and is farmed under the superintendence of Mr. R. Willacy, of…
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MR. Louis Dueroz has kindly favoured us with the following notes of his recent visits to several sheep stations in the above district. No doubt they will be acceptable to our numerous readers who take an interest in pastoral…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wagga Pastoral Show. (From the Advertiser, November 20.)
THE eighth annual Exhibition of Stock in connection with the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association took place on Monday, in the yards adjoining the racecourse. The even had been looked forward to for a considerable time with…
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A MEETING of gentlemen interested in the above was held on 21st August, at the Haymarket, Auckland, when Mr. John Mason, who is agent for the patentees, read the following paper:—…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →San Francisco Mail. at Auckland. Arrival of the Agrarian Violence in Ireland Collision of an Edinburgh Train. the Station-master Arrested. Deficiency of the Wheat Crop in England. Collision of a Train at Kertle Bridge. Terrific Explosion at Hanley. Forty Miners Killed. Disastrous Fire at Montreal, Canada. Railroad War Impending. a Railway Seized by the Government. Laura Fair Acquitted. Intense Excitement in San Francisco. Threats Made of Lynching Her. Auckland, November 8
The Nebraska left Honolulu on October 23. Passengers—For Port Chalmers: Mr. and Mrs. Van. Blaxcom, Barrows, and Mrs. Firney. For Lyttelton Messrs. Todhunter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cable Message. Telegrams This Day. News from England to Nov. 22. Another Advance in Wool. the Monarchists Support Thiers. Republicans Demand a Dissolution
Lodged in London, November 22, at 2.45 p.m. Secured in Sydney, November 23, at 1.37 p.m. London, November 22nd, 2.45 p.m. At the wool sales, which commenced here…
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THERE in a greater difficulty in dealing successfully with this branch of the subject than with the other classes of animals I have referred to, for two reasons:—I. Almost every person professes to be a judge of a horse; in my…
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OUR promised plans for the homestead occupy too much space to afford them justice in this issue, owing to press of other matter; but we present our readers with a…
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THE expense per acre of raising carrots will depend upon the method followed while the plants are small and weak. The cost of preparing the ground, manuring, sowing the seed, in fact everything up to the time when…
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