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  2. Crown Lands.

    Recently the Orange land board, sitting at Oberon and Lithgow, dealt with 48 applications for annual leases covering grazing country, 37 of which were alloted for an aggregate area of 35,456 acres, the ...

    Article : 437 words
  3. HORTICULTURAL.

    Showers of rain here and there in this State, although but very light in some places, effect much good in washing down the garden plants and in freeing them from the thick dust which during dry ...

    Article : 753 words
  4. Commercial Agents' Reports.

    From time to time Mr. C. C. Lance, the New South Wales Commercial Agent, who is seeking to develop English trade in the products of New South Wales, for wards communications to the Premier with ...

    Article : 895 words
  5. Rabbits and Other Pests.

    A number of prosecutions under the Rabbit Act were dealt with at Wagga last week. In five cases fines were inflicted. Two cases were dismissed, one on the ground that defendant having exerted ...

    Article : 54 words
  6. Weather, Pastures, and Crops.

    There seems just to be a possibility that Mr. Wragge's forecast of good rains to come is likely to be realised, since during the week under renew some useful rains have fallen in parts of the State ...

    Article : 953 words
  7. Kitchen Garden.

    It is possible that planting and sowing would be inadvisable still in very many places where it is intended to grow vegetables. However this need not prevent a good deal of useful work being done. ...

    Article : 248 words
  8. A New Chinese Vegetable, Dioscorea Fargesii.

    "Under the French title of Igname do Parges, young roots of this interesting new edible tuber, which attain their full size in about three years, are, writes Mr. Gumbleton, now being offered for the ...

    Article : 208 words
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    Advertising : 44 words
  10. Orchard.

    Before very long the evergreen fruits such as loquats, passion fruit, oranges, lemons, citrons, guavas, &c, should be planted, and unless the ground is made ready at once the chances are that ...

    Article : 74 words
  11. The Royal Show.

    The outlook for the success of the coming annual show of the Royal Agricultural Society is of a most reassuring character. Entries for the sections, which have closed, show in strong contrast against ...

    Article : 199 words
  12. Utilisation of Atmospheric Nitrogen.

    The discovery within the last few years that certain plants are capable of storing up nitrates, absorbed by the agency of bacteria from the nitrogen of the atmosphere, in their roots in the form of ...

    Article : 150 words
  13. Houses.

    Keep the houses as clean as possible, and remove all dead leaves as soon as they fall off the deciduous plants, but do not remove any from the plants until they have quite changed colour or are so defective ...

    Article : 187 words
  14. Horticultural Notes.

    A fruitgrowers' association has been initiated at Orange to combine with other associations in agitat- ing for a bill for the compulsory destruction of fruits pests, more especially the codlin moth, which is very ...

    Article : 1,178 words
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