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TECHNICAL EXAMINATION OF HORSES.
In a recent article we laid before our readers some practical hints regarding the examination of horses as to soundness, and enumerated the more prominent points which ...
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MARKS AND FOALS.
SIR,—Would you be so kind as to let me know whether it is right to work a mare whon she is in foal, and if, when a mare slips a foal, would it be any use to send her to the horse this season or ...
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DISEASED TURKEYS.
SIR,—From the apparently inexhaustible supply of useful information of which you seem to be possessed, perhaps you can prescribe a cure for an eruptive disease which has attacked my ...
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BASKET WILLOW CULTURE.
SIR,—In the columns of last week's Leader I see a piece on basket willows (Osiers), and as I have had a notion for some years past to plant a few, it has again renewed it in my mind. Will ...
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THE YOWEN-HILLS DISTRICT.
The Yowen-hills are situate about fourteen miles from St. Arnaud, and in the the midst of a large agricultural ares. The road from St. Arnaud to Yowen-hill is lined on one side by bona ...
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LUCERNE FOR COWS.
SIR,—Seeing in last issue of The Leader an inquiry regarding feeding cows on lucerne, I beg to give you our experience. Our cows have the run of a largo paddock of lucerne, and the ...
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THE PRODUCE MARKET.
A moderate amount of business has been transacted in the grain markets during the week. Breadstuffs have ruled quiet, and wheat has Buffered a slight decline. In the ...
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MR. W. J. CLARKE ON AGRICULTURE.
At a public dinner recently given by the Kyneton Agricultural Society to Mr. W. J. Clarke, of Sunbury, in recognition of that gentleman's public-spirited exertions in the cause of ...
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MANURING.
SIR,—I read in last week's Leader the correspondence on sowing rape as green manure for potatoes, which is interesting to all farmers, as they cannot always have maiden soil to raise that ...
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CORRESPONDENCE.
SIR,—One of my plough horses is suffering from a nasty running at the nose, as if from a cold, but he very seldom coughs. When getting green feed the running is not so great. I fancy ...
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ANGORA GOATS.
SIR,—Will you be kind enough to inform me through your journal what month the Acclimatisation Society holds its annual sale of Angora goats, and about what average they generally ...
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FARMING AT BACCHUS MARSH.
Bacchus Marsh, which is one of the oldest-settled agricultural districts in the colony, lies thirty-three miles north-west from Melbourne on the direct route to Ballarat, and ...
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TRESPASSING STOCK.
SIR,—As your paper has the largest circulation in this district, I should like to be informed by some of your numerous correspondents, in an early number, the best thing to do with cattle straying ...
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RINGING TIMBER.
SIR.—Has "R. S., St. Arnand," not read in your valuble paper that a tree barked by a black-fellow always dies? Why then not does a black-fellow does? He takes the bark off and never ...
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