Facts for Farmers
Wine growers should burn their grape cuttings, and apply the ashes to the bearing vines. This is the most ready way to get rid of the useless wood, and turn all that is valuable of it to good account…
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881 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 45
Dairy.—june 23
Now that the people of Victoria are holding their heads aloft, and looking down from their postal vantage ground on the neighbouring colonies, it may not be amiss to point out…
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SIR,—With reference to my letter that appeared in your paper of 16th instant, I wish, in justice to Messrs. Mort and Co., to explain that, in speaking of the very liberal prize they offered to be competed for by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegrams This Day the South Melbourne Gas Co. and the Corporation. Lunatic Drowned Inthe Yarra, Melbourne. Demand for Maize. the Stawell Claim Holders. the Charge Against De Courcy Browne. Heavy Bail. Burglary at Bathurst. Fresh in the Clarence. the Pontoon at Echuca. the Adelaide Wheat Market. Latest Mining and Commercial &c., &c., &c., GULGONG. Tuesday, 12.33 p.m
De Courcy Browne was brough before the Bench, this morning, charged with embezzlement. The accused was remanded until Friday; bail given, self in L500 and two…
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THE following case tried before Mr. District Court Judge Meymott, at Grafton, has created some sensation in that district:— Thomas Hutchings was indicted for that he did, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegrams This Day. Proposed New National Art Gallery at Melbourne. More Cattle Poisoned in Victoria. the Bathurst Suicide. Want of Confidence Motion in the Victorian Assembly. False Declarations at Geelong. Death of Mrs. Lewis, at Lambton. Anticipated Dissolution Op the Queensland Parliament. Lady Bowen's Visit to Europe. Melbourne Stock Market. Latest From Tasmania, New Zealand, (&c., &c., &c BATHURST
The name of the man who hung himself in the lock-up on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning was Hosie. He was about the town during the day saying he had murdered…
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THE late rains have been very heavy in the west and north-west, as well ns in the country between the mountains and the coast. No excess is reported from the south-western districts. In the country watered by the northern…
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The Deniliquin Chronicle informs us that in some of the paddocks on Boomanoomana and the Tappal it is expected that an increase of over 90 per cent, of lambs will berealised. The ensuing clip of wool is also expected to be…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops
THE late heavy rains which have done a good deal of deal of damage to low lying lands in close vicinity to rivers and creeks fell short, however, of being so disastrous as was at one period anticipated. They have impeded farm work to…
Continued on Trove, page 806 →The Grazier. Grass and Sheep Farming. No. 6
QUALITY OF GRASSES DEPENDENT ON THE SOIL. HAVING now explained ourselves touching the view we held in reference to the wide range, contended for in Mr. Farrer's pamphlet, that exists between the various…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Temperance. Archbishop Manning's Pastoral on Intemperance
The following extract from the Pastoral Letter from Archbishop Manning is pertinent and worthy of notice:— "You will sanctify this day, the eve of St. Patrick, and tomorrow, so far as is in your power, by the devotion and…
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About the year 1540 the following incident occurred in Scotland: It is worthy of being remembered, as showing the amazing effrontery and lying wonders with which the Roman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gardening and Farming Memoranda for July
THOUGH the calendrical winter is to-day a week old, the residents or rather gardeners in the countyr of Cumberland have not yet shaken hands with winter weather. It is true that the last weeks of autumn have deluged us…
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A certain amount of fermentation is good for farmyard manure, because it renders the fertilizing ingredients more soluble, and their effect more immediate. For the establishment and continuance of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →London Wool Sales
THE second series of the London wool sales of 1873, which commenced, as you were apprised by telegram, on the 24th April, are now approaching conclusion, and will probably terminate on the 31st May. From the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool. [Windeler and Bowes.] May 16
The improved tone named in our report by last mail has since become further developed, the slight advance in prices has somewhat extended, although not without exception. At the auctions of Australian wools here, now midway through, the spirit in the…
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Since our last (says the Hay Standard) the weather has continued mild, and has been all that we could have desired: old Sol bursting forth in all his glory, lighting up the wide-spread plains, and sending forth that…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Agriculture, Pastoral. The Weather and Crops
FROM intelligence received from the count districts [?] would appear that, with few exceptions, fine [?] again set in. The Queanbeyan Age of the that the heavy rains of last week have been succeeded in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Good and Cheap Sheep-Salt
As it has been shown in a former chapter that in order to be able to depend on salt to keep sheep free from disease arising from parasitic entozoa end from fluke in particular, it is necessary that they should be kept constantly supplied…
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