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THE advisableness of substituting roofing iron for thatch in covering haystacks has been urged by many agriculturists. Mr. Thomas Hardy, a South Australian fanner, has tried the iron, and gives his experience in the last…
Continued on Trove, page 774 →UNDER date the 5th December instant, it is proclaimed by official notice in the Gazette that the disease called "scab in sheep" not being known to exist in the colony of South Australia, the Governor, with the advice of the Executive…
Continued on Trove, page 773 →Messrs. Harrison. Jones and Devlin report— The supply of cattle, which has been heavy, has chiefly been of good quality the week, but no improvement in prices could be noticed. Beef is worth 16s for medium, and 17s 6d per 10 lb for prime,…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →AT no previous time has the state of the wool market occasioned so much anxiety to sheep owners as the present, and as the inevitable results of the rapidly increasing production of wool must be the lessening in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE Victorian Medical Record remarks— There is very considerable difference between the opinions of the Government Inspectors of Stock and Mr. Graham Mitchell as to the nature of the disease which has been…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →[We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, or stock, as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →We have often reiterated the truism that grazing is essential to successful farming, but grazing and dairying are two very different matters. In the former case the grazier farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →IN the metropolitan district no change has taken place in the weather further than the progressively higher temperature due on the approach towards midsummer. No rain has fallen during the last fortnight. Still the paddocks,…
Continued on Trove, page 774 →IN England, Cardinal Manning has made several efforts to get control of the destitute baby children who are usually thrown upon the public charity. As a large…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SIR— I have on many occasions noted the spirited contention as regards the quality of the Knickerbocker and Mr. Udolpho Wolfe's Schnapps, both claiming the preference as well to purity as to excellence. There is no doubt they both…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE firmer tone noticed in our last circular of the 98th ultime has continued to prevail, and on this market a fair amount of business by private contract has resulted, when importers have been found willing to sell. As a rule, however, merchants have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—For many years past, and until the last twelve months, a disease, called sc[?]b in sheep, has infected a great many of the districts of Victo [?] but owing to the active measures taken by the Victorian Government the disease…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle stealing or "lifting" on a scale outrivalling the efforts of [?] and other reivers of the last century has recently [?] place at the Upper Murray district. Information a reliable nature has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE late weather in the squatting districts has been excessively hot, and has revived the idea that we are about to hare another drought Certainly the temperature has been high enough to justify a fear that vegetation will soon…
Continued on Trove, page 806 →The Murrurundi Times learns that, at Quirindi " the grass cracks up like sticks,'' and that water is drying up very fast. We have, says the Narrabri Herald, to report…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →About the time the last mail left our shores cop[?] rains fell throughout the greater part of the colony, and greatly revived the prospects of both pastoral and agricultural settlers. The drought had everywhere begun to cause…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A REPORT of the first meeting held in response to the request of the Central Agricultural Society to country societies, to consider the Importation of Stock Prohibition question, appears in another column. From it our readers will…
Continued on Trove, page 805 →The weather is cloudy; rain is badly wanted. On the 12th 225 head cattle left R chards's Yaraldool, Williams in charge; and on the 13th 200 left Rundle's. Milehorni Station, Player in charge…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →A SPECIAL general meeting of the members of the above association was held in the rooms (Royal Hotel) on the 9th instant, to consider a circular from the Secretary of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, regarding…
Continued on Trove, page 807 →IT was scarcely to be expected (says Bell's Messenger of October 28) that an exhibition in its infancy, although in its general features somewhat similar, could hope to realize the same amount of patronage and favour which attends…
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