Farm and Garden. a Remedy Fob the Phylloxera
The [?]hylloxera has proved more destructive to vines in Europe than on the Pacific Coast, There the ravages, of the insect, have been confined to…
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The Wheat Market
LONDON, December 15.-The corn market is firm and steady. Australian wheat is selling, ex store, at 60s 6d per 4961b, according to quality. Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Joint Pastoral and the Public Schools Act. (Continued From the Sydney Daily Telegraph, December 1.) by a Tree Catholic. Vii
1. From all this it is evident that the question of primary education in our Public schools, or, as they are caded, mixed schools, is still a question sub judice; a question on which theologians, jurists,…
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BURROWA, Thursday.-A large number of sheep have lately been somewhat mysteriously shorn in this district, and a few days ago about 100 sheep were stolen from Mrs. Corcoran's place…
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No rain, sufficient to register, has fallen since our last, and we are glad to observe from what we here can notice, that the grasshoppers are disappearing. From Boggabri we learn that shearing will be…
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Kiama Agricultural Association, at Kiama, 4th and 5th February, 1880. Parkas Agricultural Society, at Parkes, 19th February, 1880…
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A CURIOUS fact is recorded in connection with some experiments lately made by direction of the Paris Acclimation Society with some grains of wheat received from Japan. Very little spring sowing of…
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The table of rainfall for the past week, published elsewhere in this issue, indicates that light showers have fallen in nearly all districts, and that in a few instances the fall has been rather heavy. Summer commences on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1089 →The International Cattle Show
THE show of pure bred cattle, one of the series of stock shows included in the programme of the International Exhibition, opened last week, and, as regards the weather and arrangements, under…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Melbourne Wool Sales
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Messrs. Hastings, Cunningham and Co., offered yesterday 1600 bales of wool, and we sold 1100 at firm mates. Greasy brought from sixpence to twelvepence, scoured…
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The satisfactory prices ruling in Sydney for wool this season, combined with increased means of transit, have attracted a large quantity of new wool to the Sydney market, and severely taxed the resources of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Grazier. The Late Cattle Show
IN giving last week a list of the awards made by the judges of cattle, I explained that in consequence of having had no catalogue before the day of judging, I was unable to make more than a…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Farming on a large Scale
According to a Californian journal, "Dr. Glenn, named by the party of the New Constitution as their candidate for the post of Governor of California, is a farmer on a very large scale. He tills his broad acres himself, and acquired every…
Continued on Trove, page 1083 →Flower Farming. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
Sir,—I have read with much pleasure the treatise on flower-farming in your issue of the 13th instant. The information regarding the manner of extracting the scent from orange flowers may induce some to try the experiment,…
Continued on Trove, page 1089 →The Farm & STATION Agriculture in England. [From Our Special Correspondent.]
SINCE my last letter the miserable harvest of 1879 has been dragging its slow and tedious length along. Anything more disastrous than the season throughout has been, in every department of agriculture, it would be…
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Horses and cattle in Japan are shod with shoes made simply of rice straw. They are said to answer an excellent purpose for a single day. It is said, on the authority of those who have…
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The season has, on the whole, been one of the best that farmers have ever had in this colony. The rains have fallen at intervals suitable for the crops of almost every description, and the result…
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COWRA, Monday.—The wheat crop at Cowra is now being cut, and notwithstanding some slight patches of rust the wheat crop is good, and will average from 18 to 20 bushels per acre. It is…
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Yesterday was the first day of summer, but it may be said that for weeks this colony has experienced the temperature which usually falls to the lot of that season. The table of rainfall for the past fortnight indicates that light…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Joint Pastoral and the Public Schools Act. (Continued From the Sydney Daily Telegraph December 17.) Viii
Having brought the subject to such a prominent phase, an hypothesis is to be made, which will represent the question in a brighter light, and reveal to the clerical world discoveries as new and amazing as…
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