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  2. Stock, Station and Produce Reports.

    W. H. KENT, of Tattersall's Horse Bazaar, reports the horse market to have been inactive during the past week. Several drafts came to hand, but very little demand existed. Draught ...

    Article : 3,257 words
  3. Semi-Tropical Agriculture.-IV.

    OF rice, like maize, the varieties are few, but the plant changes considerably, according to the soil, location, &c., in which it is grown, and the treatment given to it. The rice of commerce is ...

    Article : 1,590 words
  4. Station, Farm, and Garden.

    THIS is a special department of the QUEENSLANDER, and contributions are invited from all quarters upon Stock and Station affairs, the Management of Cattle, general Farming and Gardening pursuits. A large number of ...

    Article : 45 words
  5. Correspondents' Conference.

    ALLOW me to add a few remarks on the plant Sesa[?], or oily grain, referred to by Mr. Peter M'Lean. The vulgar name he calls Bené is of Carolina origin, where it is called Benny, or ...

    Article : 354 words
  6. MILLET—SORGHUM.

    UNDER the names of millet and sorghum a great variety of grain-bearing plants are cultivated. They all require hot weather, and are decided summer crops—sown, in the cooler ...

    Article : 379 words
  7. Field and Garden Memoranda for April.

    The foregoing table of the rainfall for seven years shows that April is usually a wet month. Floods have frequently occurred during April. It may be that after the recent heavy rains the month may prove dryer than ...

    Article : 1,522 words
  8. Australian Botany for Beginners.

    IT will be as well to give, in the first place the essential characters of the order. The flowers are irregular; calyx more or less deeply divided into five lobes, segment or distinct ...

    Article : 1,279 words
  9. COFFEE GROWING.

    SIR,—Observing in your issue of the 25th some enquiries relative to coffee growing, I may state that I have over 200 trees, bearing for the first time this season. The land is mountain ...

    Article : 125 words
  10. Notes on Sheep and Wool.—I.

    "THAT which is everyone's business," it is well said, "is nobody's business." And the maxim holds, apparently, with tenfold certainty in the case of the business of the Australian ...

    Article : 1,379 words
  11. A PLOUGH FOR DIGGING SWEET POTATOES.

    SIR,—I am informed that there is a plough for digging sweet potatoes. Would you describe it; the price, name of maker, &c.?—Yours, &c., Bandanba, March 23. S. N. N. ...

    Article : 74 words
  12. BUCKWHEAT.

    SIR,—I read the article on Buckwheat in l[?] Queenslander with a touch of an old feeling that used to come over me years ago, in Canada, when hot buckwheat cakes formed the basis of ...

    Article : 831 words
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