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IN these illustrations the mauner in which the wheat crop is harvested in South Australia is shown. The first engraving represents the strippers at work. These machines are adapted only for localities where extreme heat prevalis…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SOUTHERN DISTRICTS.—The weather at Goulburn, a c[?]rding to the Herald of the 8th, continues somew[?] cool for this advanced season of the year; and this morning there was a frost—a most unusual thing for the mon[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOR split rails only straight grained timber should be chosen. It is better to have knotty twisted timber sawn into posts and rails, or boards, than to waste it by working it up into poor weak splintered rails. The logs being chosen,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SINCE the last mail left, we have had two or three heavy thunder showers, yielding us rather more than two inches of rain. In cooler weather this would be a supply which would make the country green for some time; but the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RICHARDSON AND WRENCH.—Wool: Up to this date the quantity of wool of this season's clip offered at public auction has amounted to 37,883 bales, of which only 16,348 found buyers under the hammer, the past month's purchases at auction out of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN general, the news from the pastoral districts in not satisfactory, the drought still continuing in the North and West. The South enjoys a fine season, and there is no complaint from the Lochlan. Heavy thunderstorms have…
Continued on Trove, page 69 →Wo (MAITLAND MERCURY) are informed [?] Mr, Jan. F. Doyle received a telegram from the Mcssrs. Doyle, of Bokira station, stating that tile homestead had taken fire and had been burned to the ground in…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THIS great Victorian Sale of Shorthorn and other cattle took place last week, and the results were thus telegraphed to the Argus of the 6th instant. Visitors from Queensland, New Zealand, New South Wales, South Australia, and…
Continued on Trove, page 70 →THE next annual meeting of sheep owners competent to vote for directors of the several proclaimed sheep districts, is appointed by Gazette notice of the 4th January instant, in terms of section 7 of the Diseases in Sheep Act of 1866, to…
Continued on Trove, page 68 →THERE was a very fair muster of country and metropolitan cattlE buyers and breeders at Carapbelltown on. last Wednesday, where Mr. E. B. Woodhouse had about 100 head of cattle yarded within easy distance of the railway station…
Continued on Trove, page 77 →The following particulars are given by the Bendigo Advertiser respecting a destrcssing calamity at the Sheopwash. A farmer named Patrick Land, living at the Upper Sheepwash…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE cultivation of odoriferous flowers on a large scale for the manufacture of perfumes in South Australia has been strongly advocated by Mr. S. Davenport, a gentleman who lias resided for many years in that colony, and who has…
Continued on Trove, page 71 →IN the metropolitan district the week ended Wednesday was marked by some strong variations of temperature; several days were chilly as compared with others preceding and following them. Notwithstanding this disturbance…
Continued on Trove, page 69 →THE means at our command of increasing the fertility of the soil may be comprehended under three general heads First, supplying to the soil those organic and mineral substances which may be required. Second…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →VERY few dairymen have any idea of how greatly the yield of cows may be increased by better feed and care. "We…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →THE fourth series of wool sales for the current year commenced on the 23rd November, with a more numerous attendance of buyers than the unsatisfactory condition of trade had given reason to anticipate. The arrivals…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs Brunker and Sparke, Maitland, report having sold, on account of James Withycombe, Esq., the "Gnoolooma" station, in the Maranea district, with 3800 head, more or less, of cattle, without muster, for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE tone of the reports from the pastoral districts has not yet undergone any improvement; in all parts, except the valleys of the Murray and Murrumbidgee, the drought continues; feed is scorched or altogether absent, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 102 →The passings of stock at Deniliquin (according to the Chronicle) during the week hus been confined to ono large flock of fat sheep, 6000 of Peter Tyson's, which passed yesterday (Tuesday) in charge of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →SINCE, the last mail left, we have had two or three heavy thunder showers, yielding us rather [?] than two inches of rain. In cooler weather this would be a supply which would make the country green in for some time; but the…
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