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  2. Station, Farm, and Garden.

    We look for front with July. The month seldom passes without it, and an settlement increases its effects are felt a long distance within the tropic and along our northern shores. Cold of moderate quantity are ...

    Article : 1,204 words
  3. The Vineyard.

    AS our readers are aware, a terrible disease known as the "Phylloxera," is making fearful ravages in the choicest and most valuable vineyards of Europe at the present time. The ...

    Article : 556 words
  4. Show of the Agricultural Society of Southern Queensland.

    THIS event—long looked for in the Southern district, and by not a few in other parts—came off on Tuesday at Beenleigh. The weather was delightful. The land placed at the disposal of the ...

    Article : 2,828 words
  5. Stock, Station, and Produce Reports.

    FROM the S. M. Herald we make the following extracts:— Messrs. Stubbs and Co.'s auction sale passed off with more animation than has been perceptible ...

    Article : 2,600 words
  6. THE SWEET POTATO.

    This is the root crop of the semi-tropical farmer. With care, and certainly at less expense for seed, it yields from 10 to 20 tons of roots per acre, and fully as much green feed. ...

    Article : 871 words
  7. Semi-Tropical Agriculture.-XVII.

    IN this family we recognise the potato proper; the "English potato," as it is misnamed to a certainty: the Americans term it the "Irish potato," and have much better reason for ...

    Article : 1,472 words
  8. FLORAL TRIUMPHS.

    Many of our bedding plants with variegated leaves are averse to the hot rays of the sun, and florists of late have been testing many things for this purpose. The summer of '73, from its ...

    Article : 1,094 words
  9. YAMS.

    Various sorts of this tuber are grown in the colonies; the best are those obtained from the South Sea Islands and from China. They are rough-coated potato-like tubers, that in ...

    Article : 193 words
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