As agriculture is not carried on in this district to any extent, owing to the went of access be market, I have set aside the usual agricultural form this year with a view to supply more fully ...
Article : 768 wordsNORTHCOTE AND SOUTH PRESTON.—Wheat: None grown for grain. Rye: Many farmers grow a little of this grain for sake of the straw for thatch, for which purpose it is very suitable: ...
Article : 623 wordsCOROP.—Wheat: Greatest yield 40, smallest 4, average 16 bushels per acre; equal to last year; quality, good; fit for harvest, 10th December; area, about equal to last year. Barley—English ...
Article : 350 wordsA correspondent signing "Bee" asks us for information upon "the best made of robbing bees without destroying them." We assume from the nature of our correspondent's questions, and the ...
Article : 949 wordsUNDERA FARMERS' UNION.—A meeting of this union was held at Doidge's hotel, on Saturday 4th February, Mr. John Rowe, president, in the chair, and about forty members were present, ...
Article : 507 wordsDRYSDALE.—Wheat: Greatest yield 40, smallest 20, average 25 bushels per acre; 5 bushels over last year; quality good; fit for harvest, 1st January; area, 33 per cent. less than last year. ...
Article : 588 wordsGross live weight may not be the most important factor in determining the economical merits of fattened animals, but if applied to averages of whole classes in the case of such refined and ...
Article : 455 wordsFrequent application in small doses in strongly to be recommended for nitrate of soda. Owing to its own groat solubility and to the rapidity with which it is decomposed by lime and carried ...
Article : 555 wordsThe value of ammonia will in a great degree depend upon the treatment it has received. In order to retain the liquid and the volatile gases from being wasted, it is advisable to mix sand or ...
Article : 447 wordsThe following additional Harvest Returns are to hand from our correspondents:— BORUNG. CANNUM.—I do not think the average of the ...
Article : 320 wordsKATANDRA.—Wheat: Greatest yield 20, smallest 6, average 12 bushels per acre; 2 bushels under last year; quality good; fit for harvest on 10th December; area, 5 per cent. greater than ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 308 wordsThere are few, comparatively speaking, who lake thought or care as to the cost of their daily diet. Meats, flour, potatoes, corn-meal, and milk, are the main articles of sustenance for the ...
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Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Sat 25 Feb 1882, Page 8
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