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MR. P. G. King, in the current issue of the Agricultural Society's Journal, in a very interesting manner, reviews and comments upon the numerous exhibits in the wool section of 1875. Unfortunately the communication is too…
Continued on Trove, page 741 →CONTINUING our description of a vertical windmill, welcome to No. 2, the wings. These consist of sail-frames, with sails stretched upon them. They are usually four in number, and fixed in position at right angles to each other,…
Continued on Trove, page 740 →The following cable message was received by a mercantile firm in the city to-day:— London, June 14th. At wool sales, prices have improved about one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The recond series of London sales of colonial wool will commence on Tuesday, the 4th May, Up to date the arrivals comprise 162,631 bales, and there are afloat 218,542 bales. The market during the past three weeks has been quiet, as far as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE rains of the previous week were felt in nearly all quarters of the colony, and some of the interior districts have had a little too much water. Advices from Dubbo speak of the heavy downfall, which, however, was not of…
Continued on Trove, page 775 →COLD dewy nights and bright sunny middays have been the chief characteristics of the weather in the metropolitan district during the week ended Wednesday last; no rain had fallen, and there was a prospect of its holding off for…
Continued on Trove, page 775 →The following telegram, dated London, June 16, has been forwarded to us by the A. M. L. and Finance Company:— "Mr. H. Sehwartze says the market is rather…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE report of Mr. Gordon, Chief-Inspector of Stock for Queensland, for the year 1874, dated the 25th March last, which we published in extenso in a late issue, is not only most lucidly, briefly, and tersely written…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The following telegram has been received by the Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Com Company:— London, June 16th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following cable message was received by a mercantile firm in the city:— London, June 14 At wool sales, prices have improved about one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MESSRS. COATES BROS., Wool Merohants, report as follows: " Philadelphia, April 1. "There has been very little change in values of the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →IT may not be out of place here to mention that Hugh Miller, in his "Old Red Sandstone," page 187, speaks of the good service rendered by some ministure windmills in draining a quarry stretching along a mossy hillside for…
Continued on Trove, page 773 →AT a recent meeting of the Warrnambool Farmers' Club Mr. Alexander Lumsden read the following paper on "A. Farmer—what should he be? Gentlemen,—In attempting to describe a farmer, and…
Continued on Trove, page 774 →THE following notes and comments of improvement on farms, are from a travailing contributor to the Leader:— While there are some farmers to be found in this, as in other districts, who have not given that attention to the…
Continued on Trove, page 774 →Sawdust piled in large heaps and burned to ashes is useful as a fertilizer for grass crops. If not burned, it may be turned to good account as an absorbent of the liquid manure from stables, in which case…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The wool sales, after a course of remarkable steadiness, closed slightly weaker. 271,272 bales were catalogued; 130,000 of which were taken for export on an advance on March rates as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following firms have suspended payment:— Borthwick and Co., bill brokers. John Strachan and Co., Bishopsgate-street. J. C. Fawlie, Leadenhall-street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following telegram has been received by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company:— London, June 18th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Committee on Animal Produets, to whom was referred the business, of arranging for the Exhibition of New South Wales wool at Philadelphia, have considered the question at two or three meetings. Final arrangements were mude on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SHOWERY weather, with but little rain, has prevailed on the Murrumbidgee, in the neighbourhood of Wagga. Owing to the lengthy drought in the late part of the summer, it is not expected that the clip will be up to the…
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