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YOUR correspondent of last week on this subject does not, I fancy, bring any argument to bear in favour of keeping our ports closed; neither has he shown me anything to displace my assumption that the cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A VERY interesting return, which shows the progress of South Australia during the past ten years, has been issued by Mr. Boothby, the statist of that colony. It shows that in the year 1867-8 the population of the colony was 162,250;…
Continued on Trove, page 70 →The Queensland Pastoral Leases Act of 1369 is a very dear, simple measure which cannot possibly be misunderstood. Yet, according to recent statements made by the Q[?], there are some "gentlemen" in the…
Continued on Trove, page 70 →AT Homebush on Thusday there was a very fair muster of cattle for sale. There was a good show of cows, which in some instances brought far above ordinary rates, the top price being £8 5s. Some there or four yards brought over £7 per head; several…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It will be observed by the telegram from Adelaide that the ship Inchgroen was loading at Calcutta with fifteen thousand bushels of wheat far Melbourne. The export surplus of wheat at Calcutta is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:—Fat cattle— 1311 Head were yarded, being a full supply. The attendance at tha yards throughout the week has been good and prices were firm, more special yat the closing of the sales to-day. We…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →[We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers ouch suggestions aa to the treatment of land, crops, or stock as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →To keep several kinds of poultry in one building, but in different yards, is sometimes troublesome to the inexperienced fancier. It is necessary to be done, however, if each variety is to be kept pure. A method of arranging a poultry…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →DOES PRICKLEY COMFREY GROW TOO FAST.— C. and I were discussing Prickly Comfrey the other day, when I told him that I thought it quite likely that if he could manure it as he does rhubarb, he…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A German journal recommends for the preservation of cut flowers almost indefinitely, either singly or in bouquets, that they be dipped in a solution of pure albumen, and after allowing them to become perfectly…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →On the authority of the Narrabri Herald, it is stated that Mr. John Lye, who lately returned from the Herbert River, 300 miles from the Diomantins, and 1500 from the Namoi, reports having found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to the trying season, the lambing [?] Rivsrinn, has been on the whole a failure. Thousands of sheep have died on the plains, but in the timbered county they have fared somewhat better, owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Dairymaid still remains in the critical and disabled state and position in which she was placed by the late storm Shellharbour. The Shellharbour correspondent of the ILLAWARRA MERCURY in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been informed on creditable authority that a fearful state of things is resulting from the want of rain up the country at Merri Merri. There has teen no rain for the last ten months. On one station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Board of Directors for the Albury Sheep District met recently in compliance with a request from the Chief Inspector of Stuck, to consider the application made by Victoria to the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FOR a number of years past Mr. Bruco, the Chief Inspector of Stock for New South Wales, has been a persistent [?]ocate of inoculation; and although the ba[?] in the practice las now become general, the time was not far distant when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the metropolitan district, the change to rain, which after so many weeks of fairweather was to be expected this month, came the other day. On the 11th instant rain began to fall lightly and intermittently, and the following,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →We are informed that on one station alone, about 50 miles from Albury, 60,000 sleep have died since summer, and another that used to carry 80,000 sheep comfortably, can now scarcely find grass and water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RICHARDSON AND WRENCH.—Wool: For the four weeks ending to-day the quantity of this staple catalogued for public sale has only amounted to 727 bales, of which 566 sold under the hammer at prices showing a slight improvement on the closing rates of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN Monaro a liberal supply of rain has brought up the grass, and now horned stock will get a chance for continued existence. Mild weather has previaled at Hay, with o[?]sional showers; a heavier fall has been experienced around…
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