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Farming & the land, 1868

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, February 21

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 2

WE have received accounts of beneficial rains and of consequent general improvement in the pastoral districts, In some parts the fall of rain has been unusually heavy, accompanied by…

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Open Column. Hospital Reform. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 2

SIR,—Will you allow me to put before your readers a few thoughts which the report of the Deniliquin Hospital Committee have suggested to me…

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The Future of Pastoral Industry. (From the Tamworth Examiner.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 4

It sometimes happens in the Australian colonies, that the real “poor man” is the squatter. In truth there is a shadowy side to the story of pastoral pursuits in Australia,…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 3

SIR,—In your issue of the 15th instant, a letter appears, signed “Fair Play,” calling your Wentworth correspondent to account for not giving due prominence to the fact that a rival boiling-down…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, February 21

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 2

THE stock news from the interior still continues cheering; so much grass and water at this season of the year have not been known for many years. It is somewhat novel to see the great Riverine…

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Parasites of the Sheep, and the Best Way of Destroying Them. (From the Maek-lane Express

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 4

Dr. Somerville read a paper at the Galashiels Farmers’ Club on the “Parasites of the Sheep, and the best way of destroying them,” of which we give the following…

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The Farmer and the [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 4

A farmer, whose poultry yard [?] severely from the foxes, succeeded [?] catching one in a trap. “Ah! [?] said he, as he saw him struggling, [?]…

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Melbourne Wool Market

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 March 1868 · page 2

MESSRS. GOLDSBROUGH AND Co. report:—Our reports from the various up-country districts continue to be of a favourable character, feed being abundant, and the season better than we have had for several…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March 6

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 March 1868 · page 2

WE have just had information from a party who has ridden recently many hundreds of miles through the interior, and he reports that this is the best season for grass and water that has…

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Cheese and Butter Factories. (From the Mount Alexander Mail.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 March 1868 · page 4

The graphic account transferred to our columns of the Bodalla Dairy Farm, in New South Wales, will doubtless interest many of our country readers, and it ought to furnish…

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Good News for Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 7 March 1868 · page 2

WE observe on referring to our “Prices Current” that wheat has suddenly risen from 3s. 9d. to 5s. per bushel; silk dressed flour from £13 to £15 per ton; and second from…

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To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 3

SIR,—I notice in your issue of the 22nd ultimo, an article, copied from the Hobart Town. Mercury, on the “Causes of Fluke.” I am directly interested in the subject, as our firm have recently purchased…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March, 13

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 2

THE news from the interior, as far as grass and water are concerned, is most hopeful For the next twelve months fat cattle and sheep promise to be abundant, and unless there should be…

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Crime in Riverina. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 3

SIR,—In a recent number of your paper I read with considerable interest an article entitled as above, and as there are many important reflections affecting this community shewn in the…

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Open Column. Deniliquin Post Office. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 3

SIR,—I have on many occasions noticed paragraphs in your paper, extolling the postmaster and his assistant as Deniliquin, for their diligent discharge of their duties, their civility their…

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Melbourne Wool Market

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 March 1868 · page 2

The London and Australian Agency Corporation (limited) report:—Wool.—We held our usual sale of wool and other station produce on 12th March. Of wool our catalogue comprised a total of 846 bales,…

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Buying and Selling Store Cattle

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 March 1868 · page 4

Mr. Wm. M’Combie, who is well-known as the most successful of the breeders and exhibitors of polled cattle in the north of Scotland, as a feeder he has not been excelled by…

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To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 March 1868 · page 6

SIR,—By your last issue we have the appalling intelligence of the murderous and brutal attempt on the life of the Duke of Edinburgh—the illustrious son of our beloved and venerated Queen;…

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To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 March 1868 · page 4

SIR,— I was forwarded with two other prisoners from Wentworth, in charge of two troopers (namely, Kerridge and Baily); Kerridge was in charge of the vehicle and he…

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Committal of a Squatter for Cattle Stealing

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 March 1868 · page 6

BURROWA, March 16.—A special meeting of magistrates was held in the Court-house on Thursday last, to investigate the alleged charges of cattle stealing preferred against…

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