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Per Damascus, for London: 2030 bls wool, 17 bls skins, 82 bls cotton, 141 bls leather, 1bl hair, 794 caks tallow, 561 pkgs tin ore, 145 blocks tin, 4360 ingts 237 cks copper, 1121 css meat, 181 hides, 12 tns horus and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A YOUNG MAN would like to know how sad where he can learn to be a farmer. Now this question is one that is often presented to us, and in part it is one easily answered. Farming is an art which can be learned only by practice…
Continued on Trove, page 743 →Professor Tyndall illustrates the value of a single, potato by supposing that every potato in the world but one was destroyed; that one would contain in itself the possibility of again stocking the world with an…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →SIR,—Much surprise has been expressed in your columns at the absence of Mudgee wools from the late Exhibition in Sydney, I am not aware what may have influenced my neighbours, but in a few words will explain why none of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Mr. Bayly (for so I interpret the well-known signature ("N. P. B., Mudgee,") has addressed you to-day on the above subject. He says he has not exhibited at the last two shows inconsequence of the use of the point system…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In a letter in your issue of to-day, headed "Mudgee Wool," and bearing the well-known initials " N. P. B.," the following paragraph appears with reference to the cup offered by us for the 10 bales of wool, each containing 100…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Magnificent stone is being raised from the Prince of Wales claim, Burnt Yards, in considerable quantities. It is expected to go l000oz gold to the ton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I SPUN you so long a yarn last week that I must not trespass too heavily now on your space; but as there are three or four little matters I want to write about in answer to some country correspondents who have…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THERE is little doubt that the late rains have reached all parts of the interier, though perhaps not in equal quantities. In Riverina, on the Murrumbidgee, and in the north-west they have been very heavy. In many quarters rain was…
Continued on Trove, page 775 →One of our small selectors between here and the Murray, says the Deniliquin Chronicle, having the gross of about 800 acres, recently sold 12 head of cattle at £12 [?], delivered at the farm, Besides the small herd from which…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE rains which commenced last week have been almost continuous in the Metropolis since that date, although not very heavy. They appear to have visited every quarter of the interior, and in some parts to have given rise to floods…
Continued on Trove, page 774 →FOLLOWING on our series of sheep descriptions given With a view to enable Australian breeders and graziers to judge for themselves of the suitability of each and every breed, for different portions of this country, and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →THE following interesting letter has been received by Mr. Woodyatt, honorary secretary to the Ballarat Farmers' Club, from the Wool Supply Committee of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce:—" Bradford Chamber of…
Continued on Trove, page 773 →WE have so often noticed the expertation of Tasmanian bred sheep to New South Wales, and the demand there for them, that we are not surprised at the fact that a large number are to be sent by the City of Hobart,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN considering the point, upon which Mr. Farrer sets so much stress, namely, that when the soil upon which any plant is fed (grown) continues a superabundance of one particular necessary (plant food) salt, such…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AMONG other useful implements which the agriculturist and grazier finds absolutely necessary for the satisfactory prosecution of his chosen pursuit, are those by which his root crops are prepared for the use of his…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Carriage to and from Macquarie Plains has been raised to-day sixty per cent., and teams can hardly be got at that advance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RICHMOND, the name given to his property by Mr. Henley (says the Leader), consists of about 320 acres, 100 of which is flat land, at one time more of a swamp than anything else, but now one of the most fertile sports in the colony,…
Continued on Trove, page 773 →EXTRACT from a report on sewage irrigation:— "It is generally admitted that farming during the past unusually wet season has been unprofitable. Sewage farming has not in our case, nor, as far as I know, in any other,…
Continued on Trove, page 773 →"J. F. G." Highland Co., Ohio, in the American Agriculturist, says;— "I want a barn for mixed farming, for storing hay and grain, and for keeping stock: I want all the labour-saving improvements, and…
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