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  2. Richmond Agricultural Exhibition.

    As anticipated, the high character of the draught stock exhibited proved to be one of the most striking and attractive features at the Richmond Show; the fine horse stock on the grounds of every kind being ...

    Article : 2,324 words
  3. New Enemy to the Potato.

    I WISH to say a few words about an enemy which threatens to lay waste one of Europe's most valued esculents, the potato. For a long time North America has had to contend against two foes which devoured the early shoots ...

    Article : 781 words
  4. Agriculture on Peak Downs.

    THE editor of the Peak Downs Telegram has been travelling of late over the country surrounding Clermont He has been a good deal, apparently, to surprise him in the was of agricultural settlement, and as he is a careful and ...

    Article : 896 words
  5. Useful Information about Fences.

    OF the cheaper kinds of fences in use, Mr. P. R. Gordon, the Queensland Chief Inspector of Sheep, says:— A gentleman has kindly supplied me with cost of construction of a number of miles of fencing, which he has ...

    Article : 1,228 words
  6. Agriculture, Pastoral.

    ALTHOUGH the atmosphere has been occasionally somewhat clearer in the metropolitan, district than during the preceding week, the weather has been scarcely more settled. Light showers have fallen at intervals, and the warm ...

    Article : 2,140 words
  7. Reasons for Under-Draining.

    THE following ten reasons are worthy of being committed to memory:— 1. It prevents water which, falls from resting on or near the surface, and renders the soil dry enough to be worked ...

    Article : 268 words
  8. The Yering District.

    SINCE the greater portion of the old Yering station was cut up and sold by the Victorian Government a marked change has come over the appearance of that part of the Yarra ranges. The first work, and the one that has been chiefly ...

    Article : 1,179 words
  9. Grasses.

    THE Economist says:—The usual mixture of grasses most generally adopted in this colony consists of perennial ryegrass for a basis, and to this are added such others most suitable to the district, and the character of the stock to be ...

    Article : 1,122 words
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