At a meeting of the Geelong Farmers' Union, on Saturday, Mr. C. Sach was elected president ; Messrs. Cochrane and Henderson, vice presidents ; Mr. C. Sach, treasurer: and Mr. ...
Article : 740 wordsThe arranging of plants at our exhibitions, instead of improving with time and practice, is, on the contrary, actually deteriorating ; never before have we seen worse arrangements ...
Article : 894 wordsSANDON.--Apple: Yield, in most instances heavy crop; area, about bight acres, slowly increasing ; disease. Aphis lanigera. Apricot : Yield, failure ; area small, very few planted. ...
Article : 521 wordsSOMERVILLE, FRANKSTON.--Apple: yield, below average ; area, extensive, and very much on the increase ; disease's, new insect blight on foliage. Apricot: yield, below the average: area, not ...
Article : 369 wordsWe have received the following additional returns of this season's Fruit Crops from our correspondents :-- COUNTY OF BOURNE. ...
Article : 1,354 wordsThe trial of harvesting machines for a bonus of £1000, offered by the South Australian Government, was held to-day on the property of John Riggs, a farmer near Gawler, ...
Article : 147 wordsThe monthly meeting of the above society was held on 18th inst., at the society's hall, Victoria-street ; the president, Mr. Joseph Harris, in the chair. The judges. Messrs. Stuart. ...
Article : 271 wordsTHE KITCHEN GARDEN.--As the rainfall is gradually declining, little more than a tenth of an inch having fallen daring last Week, cultivators should be prepared to contend against the ...
Article : 1,092 wordsThe adjourned quarterly meeting was held on Tuesday at the Sir Henry Barkly Hotel; Mr. Jno. Daniels, the vice-president, in the chain Mr. E. H. Cameron, M.L.A. (secretary), stated ...
Article : 356 wordsHARCOURT.--Apple: Yield, above the average; area, large, increasing every year; insects, the: woolly aphis. Apricot : Yield, average; area, very few grown, no increase; diseases, none. ...
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Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Sat 20 Dec 1879, Page 9
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