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AT the annual meeting of the subscribers of the Pastoral Chamber of Riverina, Mr. Osborne, president of the chamber, occupied the chair, and the following report was submitted by the committee:—…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A CORRESPONDENT of the American Agriculturist says: —"Two or three farmers have thanked me fair publishing the weights of my sheep, and asking for further particulars. These I give. We weighed our sheep and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Rural New Yorker gives the following summary of the chief requisites for the production of good butter:— 1. Securing rich, clean, healthy milk—milk obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →MR. W. A. BRODRIBE, who has for some years past been fighting a hard battle on behalf of the Australian woolgrowers against the brokers and others who make such handsome profits by conducting the…
Continued on Trove, page 176 →IF there be any one natural product of the earth which, more than any other, may be taken as a universal symbol of civilisation and progress, that plant is certainly wheat, on whose diffusion and improved culture throughout the world…
Continued on Trove, page 166 →THE high-ranging. temperature due at midsummer prevailid an a rule in the metropolitan district during the week ended Wednesday last; but on the evening of Tuesday the weather became cooler, and a little rain fell. On…
Continued on Trove, page 164 →IT has been asserted in high places by mon who ought to know, or, who think they know, all the outs and ins of practical farming, that farming will not pay, if hired labour is employed, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →THERE is no crop that can compare, when we consider its value, pound for pound, and the enormous yield that may be obtained from an acre, with corn fodder. Whether the purpose be to make butter, cheese, or beef, or to keep young…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE CARE OF SWINE. — Pigs or hogs to be fattened should be put up now, as they will grow more in a month, at present, than in two months by and bye. Give them plenty of water and clean dry pens, or they will be unhealthy…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—Mr. Brodribb deserves well of these southern communities, whose chief wealth consists in the raw material that is manufactured, so to say, out of their grass. Through his fearless exposure of influential abuses, it has now been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE fourth and concluding series of publi[?] sales of colonial wool for the current year opened on the 23rd November, and has closed to-night. Cope produce has formed the principal feature in this series—being in the proportion of 35[?] per cent. to the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There have been some showers in most parts of the col[?]ny throughout the month; but no steady rain has fall[?]n anywhere, and from all quarters we learn that it is much wanted. And unless some falls soon the farmers and…
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE advices from the sheep and cattle country are still doleful in tone concerning the continued wait of rain. About Dubbo the lands are very dry; feed is getting remarkably scarce, and this is beginning to show its effect…
Continued on Trove, page 197 →A Correspondent of the Mailland Mercury, writing from Kunopia, Barwon River, says:—"We are all ehre in a high state of perspiration, and the glass being always at least 100 degrees in the shade, our…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A PECULLAR form of diarrhoea occurs among cattle in some districts, especially in the soils which rest on the blue lias-clays ; the animals attacked lose flesh, the skin becomes hard and dry, the coat harsh and staring, and from the…
Continued on Trove, page 198 →MESSRS, Jacomb, Son, and Co. report under date December 14:—The fourth and concluding series of public sales of colonial wool for the current year opeued on the 23rd November and closed to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE eighth meeting of this society took place at Glen Innes on Monday and Tuesday, the 31st January and 1st February. In 60 many respects was it inferior to its predecessors that much comment need hardly be devoted to it. The…
Continued on Trove, page 197 →THE advisability of exporting cattle for beef from America to England is becoming recognized by nearly all the American, journals, and some very excellent schemes have recently been set forth by which regular shipments could be…
Continued on Trove, page 199 →THE cross-bred races of sheep are the most popular breeds with those who look to the wool and mutton for their profit. The pure-bred sheep, so-called, or those which go back to a loug distant ancestry for thoir…
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