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  2. A VISIT TO SUMMER HILL THE ESTATE OF DR. WILSON.

    The whole of the crops grown on Summer Hill farm are consumed on the place was, the concluding sentence of our remarks on the subject of our visit last week. These ...

    Article : 2,165 words
  3. CROPS IN THE MALMSBURY DISTRICT.

    SIR,—After taking a tour round this district I have never seen the crops so generally poor. In fact I have not seen what may be called a good crop; there are many acres that will not be ...

    Article : 101 words
  4. AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

    The corn trade has, generally speaking, ruled very dull all through the week, and we have but a limited amount of business to record. Breadstuffs have been in slack ...

    Article : 2,062 words
  5. YIELD OF RHUBARB.

    SIR,—I perceive a correspondent signing himself. J. M. South Brighton, expresses surprise about the quantity of rhubarb grown by me, and reported in The Leader of Saturday, 19th ...

    Article : 134 words
  6. CURING BUTTER.

    SIR,—Can you inform me if butter ought to be worked over again after having been once potted? The way I pot is this:—After working the milk out of the butter, I work in about two ounce to ...

    Article : 189 words
  7. THE DYING OF CALVES.

    SIR,—I have had a number of claves [?] the cause I do not; know: the symptoms are bleeding at the nose and passing of blood, the caul much blooded the lungs and liver healthy, the eye ...

    Article : 83 words
  8. POTASH.

    SIR,—I have seen two letters in The Leader about potashes in answer to "Constant Subscriber." Let me inform him that the manu[?] of potash cannot be carried on with profit ...

    Article : 165 words
  9. POISONING OPOSSUMS.

    SIR,—A few weeks since appeared in The Leader a request that some of your readers would inform one of your correspondents how to poison opossums. As I have poisoned oppossums and ...

    Article : 236 words
  10. IRRIGATION NEAR SANDHURST.

    The first farm on which irrigation was tried in the Bendigo district was Adelaide Vale, on the River Campaspe; about eighteen miles from Sandhurst, a short notice of which ...

    Article : 1,621 words
  11. LESSONS OF THE DROUGHT OF 1870 IN ENGLAND.

    Thank God! a nice rain at last, was the joyful exclamation of a parched-up farmer on Friday last, when ho had seen a plentiful 10-hours' rain soak into his fields. There had not been such a ...

    Article : 1,183 words
  12. CORRESPONDENCE.

    SIR,—Having from time to time observed with very much pleasure and profit many good and practical receipts in your valuable paper, I therefore take the liberty of asking your opinion ...

    Article : 305 words
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