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ALTHOUGH no change for the better is reported of the scasen in the interior, the accounts generally representing the continuance of drought, yet only in a few localities has it produced any more serious ill effects further than…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The stock movements at Jerry's Plains for the weuk ending 20th December have been as follows:— 15th December: 200 mixed cattle (fat and stores), from Bulgarie to Abbey Green, Singleton; owner Mr. George…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Although Leicester sheep are not propagated at the present day to anything like the extent as Lincolnshire Longwools and some other modern breeds they can fairly lay claim to merits in their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT is wita pleasure we present to our readers, from the pen of an esteemed correspondent, the following description of the Bodalla Estate, which is, we believe, both aa a dairy and a country seat, the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →SOUTH COAST DISRICTS.—The News of the 25th states that at Shoalhaven on the previous evening a somewhat heavy thunderstorm passed over the district from the south-west…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →GRASSES.—The large tribe of plants I am now about to describe are found clothing the surface of the earth, in every variety of climate. Grass is a general name for plants used in feeding cattle—in a dry or green state, for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A LAP, with a good team and light double-wheeled ploughsteel-wheel coulter and mould-board—such as Riusome's will plough, in a day of ten hours, of lea land one acre, and of stubble ground, one and a quarter acre; but eight hours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As stated last week, in our remarks on farming in the Macleay district, we feel confident that a little cooperation on the part of our farmers would be productive of very goad 1 results. Towards this there are many agricultural societies…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As the time is approaching when we may naturally look for a change in the weather, after so long and severe a drought, we heg to give a report of the state nf our crops up to the present time…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Uncle and nephews went by the hack way into the house- acroma a paved yard into a clear, bright dairy, and thence along a narrow pacage, which Mr. Grace kept hid coals, lints, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →MR. BALDWIN has established a reputation in his neigh bourhood for accuracy in the election of goad milkers by the observation of the points which he desc[?]bes. He claims such accuracy for his observation that he can…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The determination arrived at by Messrs. Mort and Nicolle not to risk the chance of the failure of their experimental shipment of frozen meat to Europe by using the sheep which remained unharmed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the South the season is reported to be favourable. At Hay the weather has been changeable, and at Wagga the state of affairs, as regard stockowners, is said to be good, rains having been frequent and little hot weather having…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →The weather during the last week, according to the WILCANNIA Trans, has been exceedingly warm and dry; there is every indication of a repetition of 1868 and 1869, yet we trust that the rain they have been…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE following remarks by "A Wool-grower" relative to the heating of wool are extracted from the Toowoomba Chronicle, and deserve general attention:—"If wool is baled at all damp it will partially heat, and one can hardly…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →CULTIVATED GRASSES.—Phleum pratense—or Timothy grass, or American grass, for by each of these names is it known—is one of the best of all cultivated grasses. In Old England it is called meadow catstail, and in New…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →A high summer temperature has prevailed in the metropolitan district during the week, but the sultriness has frequently been reduced by thunderstorms which brought very welcome showers. Some of these were sufficiently heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →A LETTER from the Government Astronomer, published on Decoiuhor 21, is both interesting and useful to the graziers and farmers of this colony. Tho meteorological observations, unfortunately…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A HIGH summer temperature has prevailed in the metropolitan district during the week, but the sultriness has frequently been reduced by thunderstorms which brought very welcome showers. Some of these were sufficiently heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Principal demand for wool which has existed since the Iste auotions closed has been of the most meagre description, and, with the exception of some few parcels of snow white Capes, nothing worth reporting has changed hands. The situation in…
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