Various Field Crops
TURNIP.—Where the soil is of a light, compact, loamy nature, Swedes and other turnips win be found valuable where either sheep or cattle are…
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Farm and Garden. PEACH
THE peach belongs to the natural order of Rosac[?] Persia is considered its native habitat. The tree has been cultivated from the remotest ages in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cultivator. Farm and Garden Memoranda for September
IN our memoranda for September last year we had the satisfaction of congratulating our fellow-countrymen on the promising state of the country as regard all kindsof husbandry. The natural pastures and oultures…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Farm and Garden Calendar for September. FIELD
TOBACCO.—In cold districts this crop may be sown during the month. We advise sowing in beds and in the fields at the same time. The former will supply plants for putting out should the field sowing…
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During the past fortnight the weather has been most seasonable ; light showers have been general all over the country, and heavy ruins fell in the southern and New England districts during the early…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Weather.—pastoral and Agricultural
The winter is closing with bright prospects for pastoralists and agriculturists. Heavy rains have been fairly general throughout the colony, and, although several good districts have been troubled by floods, no serious damage…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wool Sales
LONDON, August 29.-At the wool sales prices remain without noticeable alteration. The catalogue to-day comprised 7308 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bishop of Maitland's Pastoral. Scripture Lessons in Public Schools. James, by the Grace of God and of the Apostolic See, Bishop of Maitland, to the Catholic Clergy of the Diocese of Maitland
REV. DEAR SIRS.-Allow me to call your attention to the following correspondence with the Council of Education on the subject of the Scripture lesson books, which are read in the public and provisional…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmers and the Exhibition
Numerous applications have been forwarded to this office by dairy farmers as to information about the arrangements made for the exhibition of their products. It is understood by them that their produce…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Archbishop Vaughan's Third Pastoral
The third pastoral from his Grace Archbishop Vaughan has just been issued. The new pastoral points out that to the Bishop especially belongs the supreme duty of preserving the faith in his people—"a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Sale Yards. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I quite agree with Mr. Maiden, whose letter upon this important subject appeared, in your issue of 28th instant, that it is a very good thing to see this matter stirred up again: but I regre[?] that he should have thought…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat or Wool? to the Editor Ok the Daily Telegraph
Sir--, In your issue of Saturday last I noticed a leader giving much interesting information in connection with the growth of wheat westwardly It seems to me Hint you have inadvertently made a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Archbishop Vaughan's Third Pastoral
WE extract the following from the third pastoral letter issued by his Grace Archbishop Vaughan:— "It seems to be generally admitted at the present day that ignorance and crime go hand in hand ; and that one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales
At the wool sales to-day 9500 bales were offered. The market is quiet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wheat Market
LONDON, September 1.—The wheat market is finn and prices are steady…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Archbishop Vaughan's Pastoral Letter. No. III
Wehave received a copy of the following Pastoral Letter to the elergy and laity of the Archdiocese of Sydney, by Rog[?]r Bede, Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan:— "Rog[?]r Bede, by the Grace of God and the favour of the…
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LONDON, September 1.—In the wool market, prices have slightly given way on late rates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales
LONDON, September 2.-At the close of the sales, last night, prices were very irregular, and had slightly given way…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Failure of the English Crops
IT is impossible even to read of the sad state of affairs in the mother country without being very cad at heart, and grieving for the land which, with i all its faults, we love so well. The long winter of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Introduction On. Wheat to America
It is difficult in the present day to realise, the fact that wheat was at one time" unknown in America; yesterday to the discovery of that continent by Columbus there was no cereal…
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