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THE intelligence from pastoral districts this week is very meagre. It seems, however, from the few reports to hand that the season continues very dry, and stock owners are beginning to feel anxious about the future means of feeding…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Curnella, sold by the executors of the late Mr. Robert M'Laurin to Mr. Henry Ricketson, has been delivered to the purchaser (says the Riverine Advertiser) with a little over 2000 head of cattle, horses, &c,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →THE dry, hot weather which for the last month we have bad to report as prevailing in the metropolitan district continued np to Tuesday last, when a change seemed impending, and during the night a thunderstorm brought a few…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A PLAN for a cheap and simple wool-press will be useful to a large class of our readers, and the following one requires only a few iron bolts and straps, besides the timber, and may be easily constructed by any bush…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →SURFACE drainage may be designated the first improvement for all flooded or inundated lands, as the surface water must be got rid of before the more thorough underground drains can be properly…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →PREPARING wheat for market was at one time a serious undertaking. For hundreds of years this was done by treading it out with bullocks or horses. Then came the fail, often heard of by the present generation, but seld to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →American blight on apple trees is undoubtedly curable, says a correspondent of the Armidale Telegraph by a very simple process, namely, by boiling bullock's feet to a jelly, and after well baring the roots, pour a…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →ACCORDING to a statement in the Bradford Observer on the subject of the 1874 clip of home grown wool the wool ot this season is universally reported to be somewhat superior in quality, and consequently to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE continued dryness of the season is beginning to tell on the hopes of stockowners. In no part of the pastoral country has there been any rain for six weeks or two months, if we except the Murrumbidgee district, about…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →The Hay Standard reports: Hot, dry, weather has been the rule in this district since our last report, and the accounts from all quarters vary very little in this respect. The apperances of a probable change have been frequent, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →ANOTHER week of dry, hot weather has passed, and after an interval, dating which there was a comparatively cool temperature, the days have again become sultry and oppressive. In the metropolitan district, although the effects…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →WORMS IN THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS OF SHEEP.— Thread-worms are often found in the true digestive stomach of sheep and lambs, where the effect of their presence is as deadly as that of the similar parasite in the…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →THE great number of deaths among farm cattle from what is everywhere known as horan, or blowen, makes a knowledge of the prevention and cure of this disease highly important to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →EVERY disease has two classes of symptoms—a class peculiar to each disease, and a class common to all diseases. Thus in common cold, glanders, and inflammation of the lungs you…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →BEFORE closing my remarks on steam-driven thrashing-machines 1 must not omit to mention the part the Royal Agricultural Society have taken in bringing them to their present very perfect state. The first portable steam-driven…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →No fact is more evident among farming communities than that the boys almost universally grow up with a distaste for farm pursuits. No sooner are they of age than they turn to seek for…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Salt is said to destroy the white ant. Put a few handfuls of it on their nests, and they will disappear at once. Salt is poison to them. The nut grass, which is such a pest to some…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →In the local market transactions have been remarkably few. The continued dry weather renders [?] all run owners more anxious to sell than to buy, and any outside demand is paralysed from the same cause. Messrs Wilkinson, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No fact is more evident among farming communities than that the boys almost universally grow up with a distaste for farm pursuits. No sooner are they of age than they turn to seek, for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The fourth and last series of public wool sales for the year commenced on the 17th November, on which day Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. reported "A [?] of wool has been going on since last public sales:…
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