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KOHL RABI, named by botanists Brassica caulo-rape, is one of the root crops that artificial manure and potato disease have brought into notice since 1862, when the Journal of Agriculture published a very able article on its…
Continued on Trove, page 421 →IN the Metropolitan district the month of September has proved as dry as usual, though both crops and pastures are in much better condition than they were at the same season last year. This is attributable to…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →THE Yass Sheep Show was held in Sampon's Paddock on Tuesday and Wednesday, and was very successful. There were some sixty entries altogether, and valuable sheep were brought from the Queanbeyan,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →supplied with 990 head for the week, a fair proportion being [?]od and prime, the best coming from the bull[?] Queensland. The market was much duller than last week, and prices showed a decline of fully 15[?] per head. We…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. WILLARD, the President of the New York State Dairymen's Association and editor of the dairy department of Moore's RURAL NEW YORKER has concerned a practical benefit on he world by writing his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the invitation of Dr. Alfred Carpenter, chairman of the Committee of Management of the Croydon Local Board of Health, a considerable number of gentlemen interested in such matters visited the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT Dubbo rain has fallen and was very welcome. To-gether with the warmth, it has brought up the grass, which at present is in fair supply. The Liverpool Plains district has not been so fortunate; there feed is getting short for…
Continued on Trove, page 455 →Our Thackaringa correspondent reports:—Stock passings: 7th instant, 4900 fat ewes, Bagot's likewise 10th instant, 4000 wethers, both lots purchased from Mount Gipps…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE fourth annual exhibition of the Hexham Long-woolled Sheep Association, was open to the public on the 30th, ultimo. There was a large attendance of stockowners from all parts of the country. Early in the day the yards were…
Continued on Trove, page 453 →FOR many years to come the prosperity, of agriculture in South Australia must depend upon the ability of the fanners to produce wheat at a sufficiently low cost to allow of its profitable exportation to other countries. The time…
Continued on Trove, page 452 →SIR,—Mr. Victor Nissen, in your issue of 18th inst., says, in respect to crossing the a[?]gora goat with sheep, that to him it "seems to indicate a piece of gross mo[?]trosity." This sentiment [?]peaks a refined taste…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The season in the metropolitan district, if not altogether so moist as agriculturists would desire, yet is not so unfavourable as to be a cause of much grumbling. The rising crops might have been benefited by more rain, the change to spring having…
Continued on Trove, page 454 →THE next plants we have to consider are those cultivated for their leaves, and of especial interest to a large stock—raising land. First among them we find cabbage, of which there are two that the farmer cultivates, and that in a…
Continued on Trove, page 452 →At a recent meeting of the Moruya Agricultural Society the following short but instructive paper was read by Mr. Harpur:—"Gentlemen,—At our last meeting I promised to give something "On farming," as this is principally an…
Continued on Trove, page 453 →IN the formation of a national education, as of a national character, the country more than the city must control. The city becomes cosmopolitan; its people blending all nationalities, lose…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →That great authority on fa[?]ing, Mr. Mechi, of Tiptree Hill, writes in reference to advertising:— "It is sin[?]ular fact that one rarely sees a farmer's advertisement of wh[?]t he has to sell or what he wants…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →On August 12, at Mi. Greenaway, a fanner, refilling near Haslemere, Surrey, was driving home, when at a dark port of the road, he beard the report of a pistol, asd distinctly a bullet whizz…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SALES of 1554 bales, by Charles Balme and Co., on Thursday, the 17th of August. Ex-Toowoomba (Queensland): Taylor, 5 [?] scoured at 26d, 3 at [?] 1 at 24d, 1 sorts ditto at 20[?] d, 2 pieces ditto at 28d, 1…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Zealand wheat is quoted at 51s. to 54s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE sheep country generally is much in want of rain, and in particular the New England districts, where the lands are patched, and feed extremely scant. About Wagga, Hay, and even in some parts of Manaro, the season is also…
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