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RESPECTING the quarantine station for stock on the border, the Moama local journal states that the contractors, Messrs. Hughes and Cawsey, have finished their contract, and Landed the building over to the Government inspector…
Continued on Trove, page 261 →SIR,—Seing unable this week to remark in the proper place, on the argument taken up in the last Australasian, on the subject of re-opening our ports to English cattle. I cannot help writing just a few lines—first by way of calling attention…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE question whether new or old wheat is best for seed is one that has caused some discussion among farmers, and we are not aware that any practical experiments with a view to testing the point have been made in the colony: There is a…
Continued on Trove, page 263 →No wheat should be sown without being steeped, as a preventive of rust and smut. These are supposed, with good reason, to be different developments of the same fungoid plant which preys upon the wheat plant, and the spores of…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →THE first show of the Inverell Pastoral and Agricultural Association since its separation from the Glen Innes society was held most successfully on the 21st and 23rd instant on the association's ground, a well-fenced narrow strip of land…
Continued on Trove, page 262 →IN entering on a tour towards the north, I have already had forced on my attention a subject on which I have frequently treated in the columns of the Town and Country, namely, the necessity of "mixed husbandry,"…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →[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 17 →THERE is very little change to report as to the weather in the neighbourhood of Sydney. Towards the end of last week a southerly wind brought thunder and rain, and the fall continued on Friday and Saturday. The quantity was…
Continued on Trove, page 261 →Is it not a desirable investment? that is, if the outlets and watercourses are always periodically looked to and kept in proper order. But now in this important matter, shameful neglect is too often seen or permitted. A map of the drains…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Montgomery, of Brown's Creek, informed us (Carcoar Chronicle) during the week, that twenty-four acres of land has yielded the splendid return of 750 bushels, or a little over thirty-one bushels to the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →DURING the past year the colonial wool market has witnessed a remarkable fall in values (fully [?]0 per cent.) and an equally remarkable recovery—prices at the close of the season being about on a par with those current at its commencement. This…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There is hardly any variation to record in the weather sinco the report by the last Californian mail. The same complaints of excessive heat and dryness have continued to arrive in the metropolis from nearly all parts of the colony;…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE market during the past three or four weeks has been [?] There is but little demand, and the general tone is dull, From abroad, and especially from France, the reports speak of a [?] confident feeling and advise lower prices for tops and noils…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THIS week's intelligence, from the pastoral districts repeats but the doleful report which now for months has been current as to the deplorable state of the country—its burnt up grass, dried up water, and the consequent hardships upon…
Continued on Trove, page 293 →THE flavour of butter which has been washed is different from that which has not been washed. The difference between washed and unwished butter is analogous to the difference between clarified and unclarified sugar. The…
Continued on Trove, page 296 →An incredible number of sheep, cattle, and horses (according to the Border Post), have been driven across the border lately, in searon of grass, and the country in the neighbourhood of the Mitta Mitta seems to be their…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →FOR the fourth time the Uralla Pastoral and Agricultural Association has held a successful show. In 1873, when the residents of the district took the initiatory steps to form an agricultural society for southern New England, grave doubts…
Continued on Trove, page 294 →THE show this year was held under disadvantageous circumstances, yet notwithstanding the society is to be congratulated on the out-turn—unaided as they were by even a single exhibit from any of the surrounding districts. The…
Continued on Trove, page 295 →THE first exhibition of the Inverell Pastoral and A gricultural Association opened on Wednesday and Thursday, 21st and 22nd February. The weather was fine, but intensely hot. The attendance was large, there being…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A SALE of pure shorthorn cattle, sheep, and horses was held on the 22nd February (reports the Melbourne Leader), at the Broadland's estate, Bacchus Marsh. There was a good attendance of local buyers. The draught horses commanded…
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