New Works on Farming, Botany, Etc
We subjoin from the .London “Bookseller” (June 5th) the names of the principal works on the above subjects published during month ending above date:—…
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1,140 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 57
Farm and Garden. Operations for August
KITCHEN GARDEN.—Sow peas and beans for lite drop: also cabbage, lettuoe, onion, cauliflowers, leeks, eachalots, rhubarb, and herbs, Clear and loosen soil Sow as last month…
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LONDON, July 27.—The accounts of the hop crop are less promising, bright dry weather being required…
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THE Swan River Flame Tree' (Nuytsia floribunda) is not now known to be in cultivation. The only specimen that ever existed out of its native habitation is now dead. It had been an object of almost unexampled…
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LONDON, August 6.—The "Times" states that the wheat harvest will be below the average…
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The Times states that the wheat harvest will be below the average…
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Great complaints have lately been made regarding stenches arising from certain portions of the water channels in Cleveland-street, Darlington, and at the meeting of the local council, held on Thursday, a…
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The Walgett Mail of the 3rd instant says:—"The weather curing the past week has been fine and warm, with cold nights, We have no appearance of rain to chronicle, though it is badly wanted. The general opinion is that we are in…
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THE wheat crops on the Darling Downs are said to be languishing for lack of rain, and a poor harvest is expested to be the result. The crops about Camden need rain, though they…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Pneumonia in Sheep
THE following description of this disease will perhaps be useful to many of our readers. It is by Professor Woodroffe Hill, and we commend it to the special attention of those numerous subscribers who…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Merino Sheep from America
With regard to the merino sheep of America, which of late have found so many friends in Australia, "the cry is still they come." Shark Island is fairly well covered by them; but nearly all those in quarantine…
Continued on Trove, page 258 →Very Original Wheat
Evolution claims at length to have solved the problem of the origin of wheat. The noted botanist, Grant Allen, says:—"Wheat ranks by origin as a degenerate and degraded lily. The primitive ancestor…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Bourke Pastoral Society. Bourke, July 21
The Bourke Pastoral Show, which was held last was, as many expected, more to be noted for the quality that the quantity of its exhibits. There can surely be no doubt now in the minds of those enthusiasts who were in favour…
Continued on Trove, page 258 →The English Wheat Harvest
LONDON, August 6.—The " Times " states that the wheat harvest will be below the average…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Late Agriculture. the Weather—agricultural and Pastoral
The weather of the past week has been of the average wintry character. The mornings have been foggy, the forenoons and afternoons fine, and darkness has brought in several districts light frosts. A few light stovers have…
Continued on Trove, page 271 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. (By Telegraph.) Melbourne
Messrs. King and Co. report:—Cattle: 1650 yarded, the great proportion only medium; prices easier for these; prime unaltered; best pens £13 10s, good £10 10s: cows to £8 12s 6d. Our sales are 140 head from Gippslnnd and…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →New Cattle Disease. To the Editor
SIR,—Some young cattle on a hill farm near here are affected with a strange disease. A few oalves have already died, but the steers of 12 months and over have so farnot succumbed. The symptoms are:…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Grazier. The Talgai Stud Sheep
WE are glad that the figures in our last issue, dealing with the Talgai stud flocks. are below rather than above the business actually done. In 1832 Mr. Clark sold £6000 worth of flock rams in…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Treasury, Queensland, 13th July, 1883. Annual Pastoral Rent List for 1883
The attention of Crown Lessees and others is directed to the Queensland Government Gazette of 13th July, 1883, containing a List of all Pastoral Rents due and payable at the Treasury on or before the 30th September, 1883…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Facts for Farmers
Grafting deciduous fruit, three should be commenced in August. Oranges are so abundan this season that they are hardly worth sending to market…
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