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SETTLEMENT IN THE ST. ARNAUD DISTRICT.
Leaving the prosperous Avon Plains settlement mentioned in the last paper, and steering northwards, the track to Donald (distant about fifteen miles) runs along the ...
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MICE IN HAYSTACKS.
SIR,—I have a stack of hay of last year's growth composed of two-thirds potato and ones third Tartarian oats. I opened it for the first time on the 28th of September, and found the ...
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THE MOWING MACHINE TRIALS.
SIR,—T. Robinson and Co. are responsible for a letter in your issue of the 16th inst., containing numerous evasions and misstatements, Although they unwittingly acknowledge being in ...
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THE HEREFORD BULL HORACE.
Five hundred guineas is a remarkable figure as the price of a Hereford bull. For a shorthorn of a very fashionable tribe it is, of course, a more begatelie, the regular marketable price of a ...
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ABSORBING CLOSED ROADS.
SIR,—A squatting firm whose station is near the Serpentine should be exposed relative to their leasing of public roads in the locality, the area amounting in the aggregate to 2700 acres. ...
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TAKING HONEY FROM BEES.
SIR,—I see in The Leader of the 16th inst. "Bob" wishes to hear of the best method of taking honey. Let him get a large tea chest or other box, cut a hole in the lid corresponding to the ...
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THE PRODUCE MARKET.
Business in the flour and grain market has been of a most unsatisfactory nature for holders, the tendency of prices generally having been altogether in ...
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NAGAMBIE DISTRICT.
Harvest operations were carried on vigorously during last week, the weather being very hot, especially on Friday, when the thermometer stood at 110 deg. in the shade, and the men ...
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THE BEST COW-FOOD FOR BUTTER.
Mr. M. lives in one of the Western Counties of Central New York, and makes a butter of long keeping quality and of such flavor that for the last twelve years—the time I have had knowledge ...
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DUMMYISM.
SIR,— I beg to call your attention to the sale of a number of selected allotments, which you will find advertised in the Government Gazette of 13th and 27th October respectively, situated in ...
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CORRESPONDENCE.
SIR,—We have a strange disease among our fowls in tins district. The symptoms are the comb turns black and a sort of dysentery sets in, and they die in a couple of days; upon dissection, ...
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SMEATON PRIZE FARMS.
The judges, Messrs, James Troup and Richard Elwood, appointed by the Smeaton, Spring-hill and Bullarook Agricultural Association to award the Hepburn prize for tenant farms, have ...
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POULTRY BREEDING.
SIR,—I have read with considerable interest the articles appearing in your paper under the hood of "Poultry Breeding," and quite agree with several suggestions which have appeared ...
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