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THE second show of the above society, held on the 20th instant, verified the warmest predictions its most ardent supporters have indulged in as to its success. Not only from our own but from adjacent districts stockowners sent their choicest…
Continued on Trove, page 392 →Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report that on Monday there was a fair supply of cattle and sheep the prices or the former advanced 10s and for the latter is, with every prospect of a further advance…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →ONE of the effects of deep steam ploughing in the summer months on our stiff clays is a great drying of the soil and subsoil by evaporation; so much so indeed, that during last winter water passed into the furrows, although the field,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE fifth annual show of the Liverpool Plains Agricultural Association opened on the 20th instant. Before entering on details a few lines may be devoted to the show ground which some short time back was granted to the Association…
Continued on Trove, page 390 →[We shall be happy to receive from practical formers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, or stools as thier experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →IN many districts April is selected for wheat-sowing, and for good reasons, as it is known that the average of April compares very favourably with any other month in the year. Assuming that the land has long since been prepared, that…
Continued on Trove, page 389 →THE season for general sowing is now close upon us, and during the past month the rains have been sufficient throughout the coast districts to put the land in good condition for receiving the seed…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The state of the weather at Broughton Creek, according to the Shoalhaven News, has been showery and close, so that considerable improvement has been effected. The late maize is looking well, and provided…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →By a supplement to the London Gazette, notice is given that further cases of cattle plague have been reported to the Privy Council as having occurred in a cow-shed and yard situated at Limehouse, in the metropolis, since the notice…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Since our last report the country generally has been visited with abundant rain, and the drought is spoken of in all parts as having terminated. This change has come in time for the grass to spring up befare the setting in of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral matters wear a more cheering aspect this week, but sufficient rain has not yet fallen to remove all the fears of the stockowners. Dubbo and the large district around it are about the worst off, and stations there which up to the…
Continued on Trove, page 421 →It commenced raining at Cookardinia on the evening of 25th ultimo, and continued a good steady downpour throughout the whole night. A large quantity of rain has fallen over an immense area of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →THE Queensland Board of Inquiry touching diseases in plants and animals are about to cuter on another important task. Under their direction and supervision, wheat will be sown fortnightly from the present time until the middle of…
Continued on Trove, page 421 →THERE were no cattle for sale at Homebush on Thursday, it being understood by the buyers that owing to this being the race week none would be offered on that day; but on the previous Tuesday there was a tolerably good supply. At Thursday's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON "Wednesday, the 28th ultimo, the annual show in connection with the above-named association was held on the show-ground, racecourse reserve. The weather being fine, a large number of the townspeople visited…
Continued on Trove, page 422 →THE first exhibition of the Pastoral, Agricultural, and Mining Association of Central New England is now among the things that were, and the many hopes and fears to which it gave rise have as a natural consequence passed…
Continued on Trove, page 422 →Messrs. Harrison, Jones and Devin — Falcattic— 973 were yarded. Owing to the Easter holidays and the Randwick races following, only one sale of catle was held during he week, and notwithstanding there were fewer…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →THE second annual exhibition of the Tumut Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held at the show grounds, on Tuesday, the 20th March The success of the exhibition may be judged from the lact that the number of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The returns of agriculture published by the Board of Trade show that the nation is rapidly becoming dependent upon foreign countries for corn and cattle. The Echo says:— "It is a matter of concern to see what our colonies…
Continued on Trove, page 427 →THE Bill to amend the Diseases in Sheep Act of 1866, which was read for the first time by its mover, Mr. J. S. Smith, on the 13th February, and the second reading of which was deferred through the adjournment of the Assembly,…
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