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  2. The Arundel Shorthorns.

    There are few estates connected with the history of Victorian shorthorns calculated to give a New South Welshman a better insight into a thorough practical and plucky system of breeding pedigree stock, than a visit to ...

    Article : 2,428 words
  3. Agricultural Items.

    Land sales will be held at Bega, on February 14; and at Delegate, en February 17. The San Francisco journal of Commerce estimates the fruit packing this season in California at 14,000,000 cans, ...

    Article : 365 words
  4. Pickling Seed Wheat.

    For many years I followed the usual practice of steeping my seed in a strong solution of brine or urine, and afterwards mixing it with quicklime. On some soils this a preventative of smut; on others, with the same treatment, no such result ...

    Article : 284 words
  5. How to Protect Grain from Weevils.

    Sir,—Your article in the Mail, " How to protect grain from weevils." I have read, (as no doubt many others of your readers) with much pleasure, and I trust to some profit. Mr. J. Inglis deserves much credit and thanks from ...

    Article : 239 words
  6. HORTICULTURAL

    The new varieties of roses placed before the public by our French raisers are fairly numerous, and if they in colour have not much novelty to recommend them, they have at least, so description goes, the very good qualification, of ...

    Article : 489 words
  7. Official Stock and Weather Reports.

    ALBURY.—Fine, cool, windy, Pasture abundant. Water supply plentiful. Condition of stock good. Movements of Stock: 2000 wethers from Hound Hill, 400 sheep from Corowa. ...

    Article : 644 words
  8. Butter Making in Italy.

    The United States Consul at Milan, in reporting on the dairy interests of Italy, says:—Butter, when made in families who have little milk, is made in cylindrical churns, in which the cream is shaken by movement of the churn ...

    Article : 483 words
  9. Australian Wine at the Bordeaux Exhibition.

    By the last mail (says the Leader of the 3rd instant) the Hon. L. L. Smith, M.L.A., received from Mr. A. Faber, the secretary of the Victorian Court at the Bordeaux Exhibition, a full statement of the disposal of the different ...

    Article : 496 words
  10. Failure of Large Poultry Farms.

    Being anxious to investigate, as far aB practicable, the conditions which have led to the failure of those poultry farms that have hitherto been established, writes B. B. Tegetmeir in the Field, I embraced the opportunity of ...

    Article : 792 words
  11. Proliferous Ferns.

    Such is the text of an article in the Gardeners' Chronicle. Where monstrosities will end with this genera of vegetation is hard to say. Every year brings forth its new ones, and in many genera it will in future times be somewhat difficult ...

    Article : 529 words
  12. The Wine Trade in Bordeaux.

    [?]J. Smith's spirited pictures of travel through Europe, written specially for the Australasian, there are the folowing interesting details of the appearance of Bordeaux:— ...

    Article : 1,019 words
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