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  2. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL AND LIVE STOCK STATISTICS.

    THE complete agricultural and live stock statistics for 1874-5, which were recently laid before Parliament, are as replete as the returns for former years with valuable information respecting two of the leading industries in South ...

    Article : 1,445 words
  3. AUSTRALIAN WINES FOR CEYLON AND INDIA.

    Now that Australian wines are coming into very general use on the Indian continent, it is rather surprising that no attempt is being made to introduce them into Ceylon. The high prices at which European wines of a very average ...

    Article : 692 words
  4. WEATHER AND CROPS.

    DURING the week ended Wednesday last, the fine cool weather in the metropolitan district was interrupted on Sunday and Monday by continued rains, the fall being at some periods heavy. Although land cultivator could have ...

    Article : 862 words
  5. BEGA AND ITS HERDS OF SWINE.

    WARRAGUBBRA has held its original name and was purchased many years ago by Mr. James Manning, and is now owned by that gentleman and its present energetic manager, Mr. W. Allen. The estate comprises nearly 1000 acres, a ...

    Article : 548 words
  6. CORRESPONDENCE.

    SIR,—An answer somewhat peculiar was given on Friday night last by the Colonial Treasurer to a question respecting silk culture in this colony. It was to the effect that, under the pressure of other matters ...

    Article : 574 words
  7. AGRICULTURAL STALLIONS.

    JUST at this time, each succeeding market day will see almost every county town paraded by entire horses of every description, good, bad, and indifferent, led by grooms, who, with very smooth and slippery tongues, always have a great ...

    Article : 955 words
  8. WHOLE OR CUT POTATOES FOR SEED.

    NEARLY fifty years ago Thomas Andrew Knight, President of the London Horticultural Society, wrote a very exhaustive essay upon the above-named subject, proving conclusively, to many, that whole potatoes were far ...

    Article : 318 words
  9. PASTORAL.

    NEWS from the Namoi speaks of the continued favourable state of the season, as far as all kinds of Stock are concerned. Feed there is in full supply. The advices from the north-west are also satisfactory: the weather remaining fine, ...

    Article : 1,171 words
  10. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN VINTAGE OF 1875.

    THE vintage for the year 1874-5 being concluded, we present some particulars, showing the results in the principal wine-growing districts. The yield of well-established vineyards near Adelaide has been generally good. In the ...

    Article : 418 words
  11. HORSES FOR INDIA.

    SIR,—Mr. Thacker in his report stated that he thought "steam was not likely to be employed." "Old Stick-to-Him" sees no reason why steamers should not be fitted out specially for carrying horses. It strikes ...

    Article : 809 words
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