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AGRICULTURE IN ENGLAND.
Our English files are up to the 9th June. At the end of May the long prevalence of a north-eaat wind was described as having produced a most serious effect upon ...
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SHEPPARTON AND PINE LODGE.
The continuous dry weather is beginning to tell seriously on the young crops of cereals throughout the whole of these districts. The nights being so very cold, with sovere frosts, is making ...
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RAPE.
SIR,—In reading your farming memoranda, 8th July, I notice yon recommend rape as a crop. I shall feel obliged if you will answer the following questions:—1. The proper season to sow. 2. ...
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THE SHEEP DISEASE IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT.
SIR,—Touching the so-called now disease which has caused so large a mortality among the sheep in the Western districts, Mr. Graham Mitchell, late Government veterinary surgeon, has given the ...
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THE PRODUCE MARKET.
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BEESWAX.
SIR,—As I am a reader of The Leader and in the bush, please could you inform me how to purify beeswax, and oblige yours, &c, A SUBSCRIBER. ...
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NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The adjourned monthly meeting of the National Agricultural Society of Victoria was held in the society's rooms, Kirk's, Bazaar, on Monday afternoon; Mr. M'Caw, ...
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AGRICULTURE IN AMERICA.
The Californian papers by the late mail, which are up to 21st June, report harvest as having set in under the most favorable auspices. The winter rains have been ...
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CORRESPONDENCE.
SIR.—I enclose the following, thinking it may be of interest to the reader of your valuable paper:—To-day Mr. Denby, butcher has on view at his shop, North Deniliquin, a carcase of beef, ...
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MANAGEMENT OF MAIN ROADS.
SIR,—I see by your contemporary, The Age, that bill has been introduced into the Assembly by Messrs. Kerferd and Ramsay, "to make better provision for the management of main ...
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IMPROVEMENTS UNDER THE LAND ACT.
SIR,—Will you kindly inform a regular subscriber what amount per acre will be allowed a selector as value (for improvement) if instead of cultivating for crop, he put in half an acre of ...
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ENTIRE HORSE.
SIR,—Is an entire horse, whose testicles are not visible, nor to be felt, capable of stinting a mare? An answer to the above will greatly oblige, as I am much interested in the subject, an entire of ...
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A NEW MANURE.
From a number of experiments I have tried, over a course of years, I am satisfied that paraffin oil is something more than a substitute for the best guano. My garden is overrun with rats and ...
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CASTRATION.
SIR,—I have some colts that I will have to castrate as soon as the warm weather sets in, and I believe it is very hard to get a good practical mun here to do, it, be that I may have to do it ...
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FLUKE IN SHEEP.
SIR,—The following remedy for fluke, if you think worth while to publish it is by an old colonist of thirty-six years' experience:—He says that tho fluke comes in the shape of a fish, principally ...
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RINGING TIMBER.
SIR,—Being a reader of The Leader, I have watched carefully the different experience of your correspondents on the ringing to timber, and as none of them agree with my way, with ...
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SQUATTERS AND SELECTORS.
SIR,—Seeing that your journal has always been ready to expose existing evils, when by doing so the community may be benefited-, emboldens me to write the following—At the ...
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