OPENING THE CHRISTCHURCH EXHIBITION. [BY TELEGRAPH .— OWN CORRESPONDENTS.! CHRISTCHURCH, Yesterday.
Sheepfarming is making good progress is West Australia, and large tracts of country, are, being 'rapidly stocked, while atthe saWtimtfgreafc 'efforts are being .made^tf improve the flo,cks. .';?- . Astonishing fertility' is claimed for the , soil in Colorado/; A vegetable gardener who- owns twenty acres of land near .Canon City, is, reported by the Denver Journal to have raised 80,000 head of cabbages of the largest, size upon his small .tract. f He snipped "'the' greater part ' 'of this crop to 'Kansas City, and estimates his profits at over 10,000 dollars. Says the Prairie Farmer : — "Mitchell's {horse liriame'nt; I irf t composed'" of Gum camphor, two ounces j oil originum, oil sassafras, oil wormwood/ each one-half > ounce ;■ spirit of turpentine,* -two 'fffioces. v alcohol, one^pint— inixl'.'The besfjfiiiiic - for strains, bruises, lamenjssjfP&^y* kind,:wner6a good liiutment^s w^f^B The dependence of thetfartaeriis to be .•mofe'and: ( more r '6n" stdbk?«. Stock itself and'dtS'producte' are.'mpre^and'Tnore in demand, while the,mamtf6»'must'be had to make farming sucwssful.' Success withis'tbclc; thehV'iiicludeß^ahriost everything'else. —■- '■ \\ -v - fo&rf iffilW* % Marh Lane <Expre*t say«| the averagejofithe^crdps in Englandlwere:£ 28,t,bttsheia f ssla&:ley, 40 ]bushels ;K oata, $eas and r -3^ ,bjMheM <^B^t J fth.ese would'be mjuch.jliOQ higlffQrjtheCpaat ten years;- '- - .■>'''*'*:■• + »v» v
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Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1524, 11 April 1882, Page 2
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204OPENING THE CHRISTCHURCH EXHIBITION. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENTS.! CHRISTCHURCH, Yesterday. Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1524, 11 April 1882, Page 2
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