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    PERSEVERANCE is about to be rewarded by the safe passage of Mr. Dangar's Diseases in Sheep Act Amendment Bill through this session. The energy which about twenty-six members displayed last Friday week ...

    Article : 4,589 words
  3. PROHIBITION OF CATTLE IMPORTATION INTO AUSTRALIA.

    IN the "Veterinary Journal" for January, 1877, when alluding to the proposal to establish a Veterinary school in Melbourne, we urged the necessity for this step, in view of the great benefits it might be made to confer on the colony, ...

    Article : 740 words
  4. MR. DANGAR'S BILL.

    SIR,—In looking over Mr. Dangar's Diseases in Sheep Amendment Act, if not too late, I wish to call attention to parts of it which I think might be altered with advantage to its efficiency: ...

    Article : 443 words
  5. STEAM TREE-FELLER.

    OUR old friends the axe and the crosscut saw are about to be displaced by the tyrant steam, who now promises to clear land as well as plough and cultivate it. The busy brains of inventors have long been racked to produce a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 887 words
  6. HORTICULTURE.

    EDIBLE BEANS.—One great peculiarity with our horticulturists is their proneness in clinging to old association. We are not prepared to dispute the fact that, in nine cases out of ten, these old-fashioned proclivities are preferable, but there ...

    Article : 1,758 words
  7. ABYSSINIAN OR TUBE WELLS.

    IT is now some ten years since these ingenious portable wells first came into anything like notice, and they have since been gradually but surely acquiring public favour. Tried first upon an extensive scale in the war with the late ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 447 words
  8. AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

    AUSTRALIAN BUTTER.—At a public sale held on January 18, at the Baltic Salerooms, by Messrs. Egan, Hall, and Co., a consignment of Australian butter, ex Cuzco, from Sydney, was offered, being the first shipment, we are ...

    Article : 988 words
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