Farm and Garden. Operations for December. Orchard and Vineyard
REMOVE suckers. Pinch off too luxuriant shoots from pear and apple trees. Remove growing fruit where too abundant. Keep strawberries well…
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989 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 50
How the Farmer Missed It
If I had told her in the Spring The old, old story briefly, When sparrow and robin began to sing, And the ploughing was over, chiefly !…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden Memoranda for December
ExCEPT where country has been permanently deteriorated by the practiceof overstocking, the pastures are every where abundant. At no former period can we remember to have seen the country generally in better condition. stock of all…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →English Trade Circulars. Wool. [Helmuth Schwartze and Co.] London, Oct. 7
The third series of London sales of colonial wool commenced on the 20th August and closed on the 4th instant, the following quantities having been catalogued:—Port Phillip, 76,671 bales against 77,174 bales in the corresponding series of last year; Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne Wool Market
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Messrs. J. H. Clough and Co. report that at their wool sale, on Monday, there was a brisk competition at [?]ghtly reduced prices, and both the decline in [?]ce and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral
The temperature of the past fortnight has been several degrees lower than that noticed in former reports. The weather in the metropolis has been most agreeable, and the country districts seem to have been similarly favoured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Adelaide Wheat
Messrs. Nipper and See have favoured as with a fine sample of the first shipment of the new crop of South Australian wheat. It is not large in the grain, but of fine bright and even appearance. Considered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unsettled Districts. Pastoral Leases Act of 1809
Department of Public Lands, Pastoral Occupation Branch, Brisbane, 19th October, 1878. The attention of Pastoral Lessees in the Unsettled Districts, and others, is directed to the List of Runs, situated in the Unsettled…
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Regarding pastoral prospects, the graziers of nearly all districts would be benefited by rain, but there are few localities which are yet languishing for moisture. The pasture generally is excellent, and the water supply fair…
Continued on Trove, page 897 →Humane Cattle Trucks
In September we furnished particulars of an exhibition, held in London, of models of cattle trucks for railways, of which there were 55 competing models in response to offers of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals…
Continued on Trove, page 894 →Wheat Culture
THE trials of Self-Binding Harvesters which are being made during the present harvest in the various agricultural districts should make every farmer in the country thoroughly acquainted with the great…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. HOMEBUSH
Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report.—Stations: We have no fresh information to report under this heading sines our last weekly circular. Fat Cattle: 1109 yarded for the week's supply, being far below the average for some…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Rust in Wheat
Under the head " Intercolonial Topics" in our last issue we announced that Mr. R. W. E. Maclvor, the well-knotra agricultural chemist of Victoria, had issued circulars to the agricultural societies of Victoria requesting information…
Continued on Trove, page 894 →Melbourne Wool Market
MELBOURNE, Saturday. — Messrs. Hastings, Cunningham, and Co., report having offered yesterday 2100 bales wool, and sold 1400 bales greasy, which met with active competition at full rates…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shorthorns v. Polled Angus Cattle
IT seems that the supremacy of the Durhams stands a fair chance of being wrested from them in quite an unexpected quarter. Hitherto the Durham or shorthorn has been generally regarded as without a rival,…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →New Guard for Sheep-Shears
Our friends in America are again in the breach, in this instance with a guard for sheep-shears, by which inexperienced persons can shear sheep without gashing them. For that matter, with sheep-shears of the ordinary form, the…
Continued on Trove, page 895 →Butter. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
Sir,—Can any of your readers inform me if there is anything deleterious in butter when it adheres so closely to tho knife as ?with difficulty to be removed therefrom I have noticed this in what is called roll butter, and…
Continued on Trove, page 895 →The Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association Grand November Show. (From Our Special Correspondent.)
THE people of Auckland and the province are certainly to be congratulated upon their Bhow. which was held on the 13th November. It was altogether a splendid affair, reflecting considerable credit, both…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Farm Notes
[We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of lands, crops, or stock as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Weather and the Crops
The temperature of the past fortnight has been several degrees lower than that noticed in former reports. The weather in the metropolis has been most agreeable, and tho country districts seem to have been similarly favoured…
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