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FROM the Lachlan we hear that about Forbes the country still looks fair and that water ia plentiful. The shearing in that quarter is finished. The continued dry weather is beginning to produce upon pastures in the unusually…
Continued on Trove, page 678 →Messrs. Mort and Co. report having sold 47 Tasmanian merino rams, at prices ranging up to £50 per head. The COLAC HERALD states that Mr. John Tilly,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A pastoral address from the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland, assembled in National Synod at Maynooth, to their flocks, has been published. Consisting as it does…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No one—who sees the space devoted weekly by the agricultural papers to shorthorns and their fortunes—can doubt that a real interest is taken in the subject by a wide circle of readers; yet it may fairly be questioned if the Press has,…
Continued on Trove, page 678 →FLAX is another plant that claims a passing notice—not that I expect ever to live long enough to see it cultivated, as it most assuredly will be here for the value of its fibre; but for its many other…
Continued on Trove, page 677 →No rain appreciable in quantity or of a character, suited to meet the requirements of vegetation, after three months of what might, without much impropriety, be called a drought, has fallen in the metropolitan district during…
Continued on Trove, page 677 →THE month of August in England and the latter part of December with us give very similar work. Both are a busy time—the hay harvest over, the hayricks thatched, the mowing—machine, hay-maker, and horse-rake oiled and put…
Continued on Trove, page 677 →On Friday evening (says the EXPRESS), there was a little Scotch mi[?]t at Armidale, and on Sunday evening there were some thundershowers. The temperature remains excedingly variable. Yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →SIR,—The writer of a letter signing himself "R," in last Saturday's Herald, evidently considers that my remarks in reply to statements and opinions contained in Mr. Mort's paper, with which I disngrecd, should not have been made;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The FORBES TIMES reports:—Another slight shower daring the week the freshened up the feed, and the country all round still continues to look first class, with abundance of water everywhere. Now that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WEST COUNTRY.—From Carcoar it is reported by the Chronicle of Saturday, that during the week some welcome showers of rain fell in and round about Carcoar. The weather during the previous few weeks had been very dry…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Friday, the 25th November, an attempt was made by a young woman to steal a number of sheep from a flock of about 1500 belonging to Mr. E. L. Brewer, of the Weddin Mountains. It…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the latest advices from the sheep and cattle districts there are almost uniform complaints of the dryness of the season. About Dubbo the grass is getting discoloured, and the supply of water decreasing rapidly. This is also the…
Continued on Trove, page 709 →About 680 head of cattle, purchased from the herds of Messrs. O[?]borne and Broughton, by Mr. Swift, of Tumut, passed (says the TIMES) through Gundagai during the past week., Mr. C M'Evoy is…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →OUR Central Agricultural Society has received from the Chamber of Commerce, of Hudderefield, a report upon the quality of the 33 samples of prise wools which were forwarded home for examination after the Exhibition of 1874…
Continued on Trove, page 708 →The following telegram was posted on Thursday morning at the Sydney Exchange:— "Brisbane, December 2. "The Pekina, loading for London, is now…
Continued on Trove, page 721 →IN a recent issue of the Agricultural Gazette tho following letter and sketch, from Herr Tormay, appeared illustrative of the method of souring hay followed in Hungary where His almost generally used for cattle feeding, and is…
Continued on Trove, page 710 →SIR,—The writer of a letter signing himself " R." in last Saturday's Herald, evidently considers that my remarks in reply to statements and opinions contained in Mr. Mort'e paper, with which I disagreed, should not have been made;…
Continued on Trove, page 711 →SIR — The writer of a lotter signing himself "R." in last Saturday's HERALD, evidently considera that my remarks in reply to statements and opinions contained in Mr. Mort's paper, with which I disagreed, should not…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →SIR,— have a selection. My wheat is attacked with rust. It does not touch the root apparently, but attacks the stem an inch or so out of the ground, One paddock destroyed; another, 500 yards away, all right…
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