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WARM summer weather has prevailed throughout the past month, and very little rain has fallen, either is Sydney of the country. Last Thursday a thunderstorm broke over the city in the evening, and was followed by light rain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE drought throughout the colony still continues. The metropolitan and other parts of the coast district are sharing in the calamity, the light rains and vapoury atmosphere which usually afford them a moderate supply of moisture…
Continued on Trove, page 101 →Writing a pastoral and agricultural summary in the height of a dry Australian summer is not a pleasant task. There are many things that make a drought extremely disastrous—stock suffer, bush…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE annual general meeting of the Pastoral Chamber of Riverina was held, at 44 Queen-street, Melbourne; Mr. W. A. Brodribb, the president, in the chair. After the formal business was disposed of the secretary read…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A FRENCH agricultural authority says:—Much has been written on this subject and much advice given, without having, in my opinion, resolved the question in a practical point of view. First, I cannot admit that we can determine…
Continued on Trove, page 100 →WATER is our principal want in the bush, and I am of opinion that a little care, and often a small outlay, would materially lessen this want. 1 gallon of pure water is equal to 0.16 cubic feet, and weighs 10 lbs.; 1 gallon of sea…
Continued on Trove, page 101 →Steaming at high pressure is the very best mothod of reducing bones to a mass that is easily reduced to powder. Simple heating for some time to about the temperature of melting lead renders these…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →£126,000 of the Adelaide loan has been subscribed for at 90. The Brazilian loan of 5 per cent, of 96½ has been subscribed for to seven times the amount…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ex Nineveh: Dight. S bales fle[?]es at 22d. 7 at 21d, 20 p[?]ces 18d, 5 at 14½d, 1 at 11½d, 8grease at 13d 2 at 7d; EA over Ga[?] 2 [?]ured at 23½d, 2 at 20½d, 2 at 20½d; BB conjoined (the first Breversed). 1 fle[?]ce at 30½d…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Throughout this district (say the Hay Standard) exceedingly flue weather has prevailed during the week without the slightest indication of rain, and the same will apply to the greater part of the country between the Murray…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ANOTHER week and no rain has fallen in the island districts. On the Lachlan the continued dry hot weather has parched the grass, and in some places water is very short. The same rainless and oppressive weather has been…
Continued on Trove, page 135 →The Riverina Grazier (Hay) says stock have fallen off very much from want of food, and matters are looking still more gloomy than they were. The benelit of eight and forty hours' heavy rain is wanted to do any good, and if…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THERE was every appearance in the metropolis on Sunday of a favourable change in the weather, and the aspect of affairs meteorological favoured the hope that the impending rain would not only be sufficient for local wants, but extend…
Continued on Trove, page 134 →THE annual meeting of the above society was held at the Town Hall, Mudgee, on the 20th instant, there being present the president, G Rouse, Rsq., in the chair, and Messrs. F. Cox, J. Atkinson, J. D. Cox, R, Lowe,…
Continued on Trove, page 134 →THE laws of hydraulics, though simple, are very seldom to be met with, so that any man of ordinary common sense can handle them—because they have been written in a language known only to scientific men. This is the reason…
Continued on Trove, page 133 →Refuse hops and malt from brewers are both richer in nitrogen than average stable manure, and consequently may be expected to "push" a vegetable crop faster than stable manure under the majority of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The stock movements at Jerry's Plains, for the week ending on 25th January, have been (says tho SingletonArgus), as follows: 20th January—75 [?] cattle from Pallaming to Singleton: owner, Mr. John Browne; in charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE above show, held at Cooma on the 26th January, through many adverse circumstances and a bad dry season, was not as successful as its predecessors, and must not be considered as an exhibition worthy of the great pastoral…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At Dubbo, we learn by the Dispatch, the weather still continues dry and hot. During the week the thermometer has stood in the shade of the Telegraph Office at 10[?] degrees. For years the weather has not been to continuously…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—If the hint thrown out by Mr. Garrett, viz., "That the money for the roads should be at once granted, so that they may be repaired at a proper time of the year," be a forestalment of the business…
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