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  2. ON THE LAND. FARM AND STATION.

    Despite the kindly feeling towards the fox in some quarters, most people with lengthy experience of the animal will waste no efforts in exterminating it. In recent years the ...

    Article : 418 words
  3. PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

    A discussion took place at the Presbyterian Assembly when the matter of immigration came up. It was stated that though the Presbyterian Church extended the ...

    Article : 981 words
  4. ELANDS FOR AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. C. A. Benbow writes:"By the courteous assistance of your valuable paper, and with the help of the Agricultural Department, who printed my essays upon the above subject in ...

    Article : 131 words
  5. CLOSER SETTLEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.).—The Government has purchased for closer settlement Hillersden Estate, Marlborough,, of 78,000 acres freehold, 88,000 acres Crown leases; and Ardlussa ...

    Article : 42 words
  6. WHEAT OUTPUT IN THE WEST.

    The wheat output of Western Australia, judged from railway traffic, shows a very big increase. The bags handled total 1,174,000, as compared with 290,000 last year. The ...

    Article : 49 words
  7. PRODUCE IN TRANSIT.

    MELBOURNE.—In future consignors of produce sent to London in the cool chambers of the Orient mail steamers may rest assured that if the temperature of the ship's hold is ...

    Article : 125 words
  8. OUR FRUIT IN LONDON.

    The late Victorian Agent-General, Sir John Taverner, calls attention to the need of some improved system of handling Australian fruit and other perishable produce in London. His ...

    Article : 260 words
  9. AUSTRALASIAN PRODUCE ABROAD.

    As anticipated, the first shipment this season of Australian apples arrived on a market that was still well supplied with American fruit. This had a good deal to do with the lowness of the prices realised, ...

    Article : 1,187 words
  10. ITEMS.

    A successful mixed farmer in Victoria has his 640-acre farm in the Wimmera divided into four 160-acre paddocks. By his system of rotation there is each year 160 acres under ...

    Article : 312 words
  11. COTTON CULTURE.

    One of the exhibits at the last Wingham show (writes our correspondent) was cotton and cotton pods, produced on The Bight, near Wingham, by Miss Macdonald. On the ...

    Article : 337 words
  12. SONS OF TEMPERANCE.

    The forty-fifth annual session of the Order of the Sons of Temperance Friendly Benefit Society was commenced in the schoolroom of the Baptist Church, Bathurst-street, yesterday. ...

    Article : 317 words
  13. IRRIGATION FARMS.

    Up to the present the Murrumbidgee irrigation scheme has provided for farms containing a maximum irrigable area of 50 acres. The majority of the farms are of this size, but ...

    Article : 272 words
  14. ORGANIC MATTER.

    In order to be successful a farmer must endeavour to be forward at all times with his work. He is then in the position to take advantages of the season—advantages he might ...

    Article : 1,321 words
  15. COMPULSORY TRAINING.

    Sir,—Without desiring to rush into a discussion upon the pros and cons of this important subject, will you permit me to say how much there seems to be of good, sound ...

    Article : 308 words
  16. FOWLS AND PIGS.

    The Commissioner for Water Conservation and irrigation wishes to encourage on the irrigation areas the breeding of the best class of pigs and fowls, and in order ...

    Article : 300 words
  17. DISTRICT ITEMS.

    WEE WAA.—The following officers of the Pilliga Farmers and Settlers' Association have been elected: Mr. Phelps, president; Mr. Wilson, treasurer; Mr. Meyer, secretary. The ...

    Article : 55 words
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