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IN the country round the metropolitan district there has been another week of bright, cool, and dry weather, well suited to all outdoor work on the farm lands. There were some appearances on Wednesday that an early change was…
Continued on Trove, page 679 →IT is by no means easy to find good description's of methods actually used by good farmers in prepariug their cattle for the butcher. It would, indeed, seem to be a hap-hazard business after all, if we are to be guided by the meagre…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A private London telegram states that wools of all kinds are stronger; and crossbreds higher…
Continued on Trove, page 690 →THE economical feeding of cattle continues to be the order of the day in France. M. Niviere has obtained surprising results by the use of chopped hay and straw, moistened with cold water, in which was a little…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A FEW of the residents in and around Goulburn assembled in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute, on Wednesday, 19th instant, for the purpose of considering as to the desirability of forming a society, with a view to advance…
Continued on Trove, page 678 →OUR report of the Dubbo Show, which appeared last week, was abridged from the Dubbo Advertiser. Some errors which were in that journal's report are corrected as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 678 →A REPORT has been sent in to Mr. Curr, the chief inspector of stock (the MELBOURNE AYGUS states) by Mr Graham Mitchell, veterinary surgeon, on the experiments conducted by Mr. Joseph Sullivan for the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →WHITING from Bradford, a correspondent says:—" In this town, which, as you are aware, is the head quarters of the worsted trade, the first process after the 'sorting' of the wool, is to wash it with soft soap, made mostly…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →IN scouring wool, the operator has to insure that a constant supply of the washing fluid be continuously and intimately brought into contact with the material, and that a plentiful supply of rinsing water be at hand…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →DEARLY BELOVED BRETHREN AND CHILDREN IN CHRIST,— I bog to remind yon that the Novena, in honour of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, will commence this year on the 27th May, and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →MR. JAMES BAIRD'S farm, situated eleven miles from Ballarat on the Mount Blowhard Road to Learmonth, is notable for the excellent system of cultivation carried on from an early period, and the praiseworthy improvements…
Continued on Trove, page 678 →WATER for the purposes of irrigation, no matter in what climate, is a matter of great importance, and in all young countries, or thinly-peopled ones, it is essential that it must be had, not alone in abundance, but at a trifling outlay…
Continued on Trove, page 676 →THIS favourable autumn weather and the fair prospects of a comfortable winter for stock, recorded in our last month's memoranda, have not altered during the interval; and agricultural matters…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →HAVING, in a previous article, shown that the want of cheap, effective, and durable fences for enclosing cultivated areas, against small stock, was a great drawback to the adoption and growth of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →THE developments in improved farm implements during the last ten years have been truly wonderful, and the man who has not kept himself posted up in regard to the new inventions of hand tools…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The fallowing product telegram has been received by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company — "London, May 27.—Up to date 130,000 bales of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I notice in your paper of the 11th instant a short letter, signed "A Colonist," asking you to publish the account sales of some wools he had received from a London firm for general information, with the view of refuting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RICHADRSON AND WEENCH.—Wool: The wool seasson of 18741875 is now virtuslly over, and, taking it from firet last, the prices in this market have renged with tolerable evenness (since the departure of the ships to catoh the London Febraary sales),…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The winter season has fairly set in. Frost and snow are reported in the country cistricts, and though the weather in not to severe on the ocast, thole has been a marked lowetirg of the temperature. THe month has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE late rains seemed to have reached far into the interior, if not to the very remote districts. By the latest accounts from Narrabri, the weather is reported to have continues fair in that quarter. The feed is growing, and stook…
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