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  2. HARVEST PROSPECTS.

    According to the well- established custom of the proprietors of The Leader to afford the earliest reliable information concerning the prospects of the harvest, proceeded last week ...

    Article : 2,340 words
  3. HORSE SHOEING.

    SIR,--Reading your report of the Sandhurst Agricultural Show I find that one James Coyle, of Sandhurst, shoed a draught horse in I min. 22 sec. I wish to know did he put on four shoes by ...

    Article : 104 words
  4. KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS.

    SIR,--Having noticed in The Lea[?]e some ar[?]cles on the best kind of grasses for sheep, 1 talc is the liberty of suggesting an American variety called "Kentucky blue grass." It is a natural grass on ...

    Article : 130 words
  5. CHEESE VATS.

    SIR.--In answer to "Investigator," who says he is making cheese in galvanism iron vats, I may say that galvanised iron in reality is zinced,iron, and that all acids dissolve zine more or less ...

    Article : 163 words
  6. CASTOR GIL CULTURE.

    SIR,--In your issue of the 22nd, there is a letter on "castor oil culture," by Messrs. J. Stone and Co. In that letter it has been omitted to tell your readers that the castor oil bean grows [?] bunches, ...

    Article : 230 words
  7. STACK BUILDING.

    SIR,--I will, with your permission, describe my method of stack-building for years, and have never known it to fail in its object. I build the stack as you recommended in The Leader, of last ...

    Article : 221 words
  8. RUST.

    SIR,--I have been anxiously waiting to see it any of your correspondents had anything to say concerning rust now that the time for rust is fully come. Having read all the ideas of your ...

    Article : 272 words
  9. CORRESPONDENCE.

    SIR,--I bet a friend that the quantity of oats grown in Victoria last season was more than either of the previous two years ; we have agreed to leave it to you to decide.--Yours. &c. ...

    Article : 71 words
  10. SEASONABLE FARMING. NOTES FOR DECEMBER.

    This month the work will be devoted entirely to that of the field and stackyard, with regard to details of which we particularly referred in a special article last week. As ...

    Article : 1,260 words
  11. PREPARING FOR STEAM THRESHER.

    SIR,--Would you please to inform me through your paper what is the distance required between stacks, so as to admit a steam threshing machine, also length of elevators? By so doing ...

    Article : 80 words
  12. THE PROPOSED DUTY ON OATS.

    SIR,--Allow me tomato a few remarks on the refusal by Mr. Berry to put the shilling a bushel duty on oats as asked by the fanners of this colony. Up till the last year or two this colony ...

    Article : 407 words
  13. THE PRODUCE MARKET.

    The general accounts of the crops are good, but the recent showery weather has thrown the wheat harvest back a week or so even in the usually early districts, and this will ...

    Article : 1,071 words
  14. HAND THRESHER HANDMILL.

    SIR,--Some time last year I noticed a machine advertised in The Leader called the tiny hand thresher. Be kind enough to give me some information about it if you can. Who is the maker ...

    Article : 163 words
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