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  2. THE AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK.

    The following particulars are supplied by our country correspondents: ...

    Article : 9 words
  3. DOOKIE.

    The agricultural outlook in this district is far from promising, owing to the exceptionally day weather experieneed fro the last five weeks. The value of fallowing has ...

    Article : 308 words
  4. ARARAT.

    Although the long, dry autumn delayed the work of breaking up ground, such good progress has bee since the rain set in that the area under crop will about equal ...

    Article : 148 words
  5. NATHALIA.

    Up to the present ploughing and seeding operations have been considerably retarded owing to the continued dry weather, and a rather smaller area will be under crop than ...

    Article : 213 words
  6. TRARALGON.

    Prospects of the dairying industry are very good. The autumn rains came rather late, but as the weather has been mild since grass is still growing, and the indications are ...

    Article : 135 words
  7. WARRACKNABEAL.

    The continued dry weather is causing some little anxiety in this district, chiefly on account of the lambing flocks. Feed is not very searee, but what is required to ...

    Article : 137 words
  8. BALLARAT.

    The croppings of wheat and oats are at [?]t as extensive as those of last year. Not [?]ch barley has been put in, and there will be less land fallowed. Seeding is in full ...

    Article : 77 words
  9. PYRAMID HILL.

    Complaints are frequent conceraing the want of rain in this district, the fall to the end of April being only 2in. 18 points, against 3in. 63 points during the same period ...

    Article : 136 words
  10. GERMANTON.

    For the last two months the weather has been very dry, with warm clear days and frosts at night. All herbage is fast disappearing, and the outlook for the winter ...

    Article : 116 words
  11. WARRNAMBOOL.

    An ideal autumn is being experienced, with every prospect of another successful seasn. The sowing down of pastures and crops is in full swing. There will be a much ...

    Article : 237 words
  12. RAYWOOD.

    Farmrs are anxiusly looking for rain, as most of them have [?]own all their fallowed land, and in many instances their stubble paddock as well. The young crops ...

    Article : 223 words
  13. BAIRNSDALE.

    There is very little wheat grown in this E[?]t, but the area under oats and barley, e[?]cally the former, is each year being [?]dily increased, a farmers are learning ...

    Article : 329 words
  14. HAMILTON.

    "The best for many years" is the description generally applied to the agricultural outlook of this district. The recent rains were very opportune and great ...

    Article : 364 words
  15. SEA LAKE.

    Owing to the want of rain the outlook is not promising for either agriculture or grazing. The rains of last month gave the crops that were then sown a fair start, but ...

    Article : 251 words
  16. WILLAURA.

    Eeverything augurs well for an excellent season. During April about 2½in. of rain fell. This fall was most opportune, as moisture was urgently needed to enable ...

    Article : 513 words
  17. HOPETO[?]N.

    The absence of rain is ca[?]ing a good deal of un[?]-iness amongst the farmers in this part of the Mallee. The continued dry weather is the reason for a much smaller ...

    Article : 150 words
  18. BOORT.

    The area under crop is somewhat less than last year. This is due to greater attration being given to sheep and early lambs. To balance this better methods of ...

    Article : 246 words
  19. SEYMO[?]R.

    Not with standing the dry weather farmers are proceeding with their ploughing and sowing operations, but in places the work is more difficult than in other year. About ...

    Article : 233 words
  20. KERANG.

    So far this year only 1.98in. rain has fallen here, as against 4.16in. for the corresponding period for 1906. Cropping operations, both in the Mallee and the [?]rrigated ...

    Article : 212 words
  21. BRIDGEWATER.

    The weather for the past month or more his been catremely dry, in consequence of [?] farming operations are almost at a [?], the ground being too hard for ...

    Article : 199 words
  22. SHEPPARTON.

    "We want rain badly, everything depends upon it" is the ve[?] at the farmrs throughtout for Goul[?]urn Valley. So far, except in rare instamers, the ploughing is ...

    Article : 229 words
  23. KILMORE.

    Sowing has been completed in the district, and a much [?]areer area is under cultivation than last year. The main crop is that of oats, very little whea[?] and harley ...

    Article : 233 words
  24. WODONGA.

    Although the agricultural outlook is not very bright owing to the exceptionally light rainfall, farmers declare that it is remark able how well the ground is turning up ...

    Article : 218 words
  25. STAWELL.

    The prospects for a good season all round are at present bright. Although there was very little rain for the first three months of this year, the two and a half inches that ...

    Article : 272 words
  26. CHARL'TON.

    [?] agricultural prosp[?] throughout the [?] would be considerably brightened [?] fall of [?]in. sawing is general, [?] in many cares in [?]hed. The area ...

    Article : 176 words
  27. KYNETON.

    The season has been a must favourable one for plouging and [?]awing. The ra[?]n for the four month[?] of the year has averaged over the district about [?]. The splendid ...

    Article : 300 words
  28. WYCHEPROOF.

    A general practice is coming into [?] amoungst graziers of winter feeding sheep, and those who have been doing this express themselves highly [?]stied with resulsts. ...

    Article : 158 words
  29. SWAN HILL.

    The agricultural outlook is anything but encouraging. The long spell of dry weather is [?]ding seeding operations in the Mal[?]. The area cropped this season will ...

    Article : 274 words
  30. COLAC.

    The [?],ers are om [?]llent heart at the [?] a g[?] season. The recent general [?] have put the ground in splen[?]d [?] for the reception of seed. A[?] to ...

    Article : 150 words
  31. YARRAWONGA.

    The dryness of the weather and the hardness of the ground have greatly militated against sthe agriculturist, and the general opinion is that the area of the crops ...

    Article : 149 words
  32. KYA[?]RAM.

    A cold summer, with only light showers from time to time, and [?]ugthy stay of hordes of grasshop[?]rs has left the ground hard for ploughing, and pastures in a ...

    Article : 243 words
  33. WINTER'S FUEL.

    Sir,—It has often strnck me as sinful to see thousands of tons of mallee roots burnt every year close to the railway. Why cannot the Government run up a special once or ...

    Article : 166 words
  34. DIM[?]OOLA.

    Oats have [?]ll been [?]own in this district, and wheat until the last day or two was being drilled in whth the expectation of an early fall of rain. But whi[?]t the sky ...

    Article : 124 words
  35. TATURA.

    The absence of rain has caused many farmers to discontinue sowing, while if rain does not come this month many will have to [?]t to sowing. About the same area of ...

    Article : 360 words
  36. LUBECK.

    Farmers are beginning to feel anxious about the prospects for this season, owing to the long spell of dry weather. Rain is very hadly wanted in some cases, as the ...

    Article : 82 words
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  38. NAGAMIHE.

    Ploughing and sowing operations on the farms are delayed by the continued dry weather. The soil is hard, and it needs working to fit it for the drill. Farmers have ...

    Article : 131 words
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