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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1870

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Fine Flavour in Butter and Cheese. (From the Ontario Farmer.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 1 January 1870 · page 1

AT the meeting of the Canadian Dairyman’s Association, held in Ingersoll last, month, Mr. X. A. Willard spoke on the important question, how to secure flavour in cheese…

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[?] Report. Pastoral Times [?], Deniliquin, Friday Evening, January 1

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 January 1870 · page 2

The Dubbo stock news is not very import int. Owing to the Christmas holidays, few mobs have been started ; Oakes’s mob of fat cattle from Mullah for Sydney, passed Dubbo on Friday…

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Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 1

[The following most excellent report on sheep comes from Marthaa Vineyard, Massachussets, and is published in the agricultural reports of that state As it contains so much that is practically valuable,…

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Shipping Damp Wool. the Burning of Wool Ships

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 4

The Darling Downs Gazette of December 29th has an article throwing some light on the singular fact that several Queensland wool ships have been burnt at sea :—…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, [?] Friday Evening, January 14

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 2

FROM the north stock news is still cheering. [?] rain fell at Dubbo on Monday last week, [?] late in the afternoon a heavy rain set in, which poured down for several hours next day…

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On the Early and Late Cutting of Grain Crops. (From the Australasian)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 2

THIS is a subject of annually .recurring interest, and just now is the time for its discussion, Owing to the general scarcity of labour for harvest work, most of the farmers…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening. January 12

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 January 1870 · page 2

FROM Toowooba, Queensland—during the past month there has been greater activity [?] by buyers of store sheep, and several parties were front the south endeavouring to [?] store…

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Mr. Catton’s Success in Wool Scouring

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 January 1870 · page 2

We congratulate Mr. Catton on his great success at Sydney. It is something to be remembered that Mr. Catton, situated in the heart of the [?] country. should be thus spoken of…

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The Rise in the Price of Wool

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 January 1870 · page 1

The news brought by the mail of the rise in the price of wool is undoubtedly pleasant. It will have added flavour to many a Christmas dinner, and additional excitement to the…

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Butter and Butter-making. (From the Town and Country Journal.) Causes of Bad Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 1

THE causes of bad butter are numerous. Carelessness and ignorance of the true principles of butter-making; depasturing on poor land, or new land; bad water for the…

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London Wool, Sales. December 3

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 2

By the Overl[?] Mail of 3rd December, 1869. Willians , Overbury. & Co. report that. The fourth and last series of Colonial wool sales for the current year commenced on the 11th ultimate, and will…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Denili[?], Friday Evening, January 28

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 2

[?]owners of the north are becoming [?] active in trying to meet the demands for [?] stock in the southern districts. In Queens[?] [?] and New England mustering cattle is gong…

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Police Court. Wednesday January 26. Disease in Sheep Act

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 5 February 1870 · page 2

H. G. Fon [?] was charged by the Sheep Inspector with failing to brand as required by the Act, and also with failing to register his brand in the registry of the inspector of the district. Adjourned to…

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Vineyards on Farms

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 5 February 1870 · page 2

“WILL small vineyards pay?” This very important question has lately cropped up at [?] and has there occasioned some little controversy, one view of the case being…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times OFFICE. [?] Friday Evening, February 11

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 February 1870 · page 2

WE have very little change in the weather since our last report ; heat still [?] but on the whole the season has been favourable, and accounts are pleasing from all directions. At…

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French Farms

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 February 1870 · page 4

An intelligent English observer has recently thrown a great deal of light upon the state of agriculture on the Continent of Europe, and the state of the people who follow rural…

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Farmers’ Allminax

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 February 1870 · page 4

Josh Billings has just prepared a bur[?] upon the old—fashioned Farmer’s Almanac, full of weather prognostications, family receipts and moral advice to farmers. Carleton, of…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniquin, Friday Evening, February 18

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 February 1870 · page 2

THE calamitous fire at the Blackwall stores has retarded the wool gales, otherwise the news from Sydney is encouraging. The cattle sales generally show an advance in price, competition being…

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Ostrich Farming. (From the Australasian.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 19 February 1870 · page 1

THE letter addressed by Mr. Samuel Wilson to the secretary of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, and published in the Argus of Wednesday, December 15, shows that…

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Open Column Pastoral Association. To the Editor

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 2

SIR,—From the [?] of the meeting of gentlemen interested in [?] an [?] of stock at Deniliquin, it [?] appear that they desire to join the Hay Pastoral [?]…

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