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Farming & the land, 1870

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Cheese and Butter. (From the Town and Country Journal.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 1

WE see no reason why our dairymen should not manufacture a quality of cheese which should command the highest price, both in our own and in the foreign markets. As we…

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Price of Wheat. [To the Editor of the “Albury Banner.”

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 3

SIR,—In your last issue you call the attention of your readers to the failure in the price of wheat in this district, and you state as a fact that many of the new selectors would be only too willing to sell their…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, April 22

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 2

THE Island City took 170 fat cattle from Cleveland Bay for Auckland. The heavy rains in the northern country greatly impede the movements in stock, hence mustering cannot take place…

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Open Column. To the Editor. Amalgamation of Pastoral Societies in Riverina

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 3

SIR,—It will be a mailer of regret in many quarters if the above is not accomplished. Of the desirability of such, there can hardly be two opinions in the minds of stockowners. Difficulties…

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Pastoral Show for Riverina

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 April 1870 · page 2

On Monday last [?] to notice a meeting was held at [?] Highlander [?] Deniliquin, of the members of the association recently formed here in aid of a yearly pastoral exhibition…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, April 29

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 April 1870 · page 2

RAIN has fallen everywhere in the pastoral districts of New South Wales and Queensland, until at length we are crying out for a little sunshine. The immense rainfall in the New England…

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Farmers’ Clubs

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 30 April 1870 · page 4

The following, which we extract from The Weekly Times, is upon a subject interesting to all agriculturist's in the country.:— “The Kyneton farmers have taken the…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 2

AT Sydney, business in station properties presents a marked improvement, a demand setting in which gives every reason to believe that they will gradually assume a value, and importance…

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Cheese and Butter. (From the Town and Country Journal.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 1

As we have said, there are numerous methods of cheese-making practiced in the old country; but the methods differ rather in minor than in important particulars. The…

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Fancy Farmers. (From the Town and Country Journal.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 1

MODERN agriculture owes much if not most of its comparative perfection to the experiments of a class of men who are peculiar to the present century, and who are sometimes…

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By Electric Telegraph. (From William Hay, Esq.. President of the. Riverine Pastoral Society, to the [?] of the Pastoral Times.) Friday Night

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 2

At a meeting of the above Society, held at Wahgunyah on the 12th last it resolution to hold their annual show at [?] was passed [?] [?]…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 2

THE storms and floods in the northern parts of New South Wales and throughout Queensland have so far passed away as to make stockowners a little more active in their pursuits, though to…

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Self Help Among Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 2

NONE of the political questions lately raised in Parliament are just now of so much general interest in this part of the colony as the more practical matter of new industries…

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Riverina Pastoral Association

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 2

There was a special general meeting of the members of the Riverina Pastoral [?] at the Royal Hotel, Corowa, on Thursday, 12th May, 1870. W. Hay, Esq., J.P., President, in…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin Friday Evening, May 20

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 2

THE continued heavy rains and floods consequent upon them have prevented any transactions in stock. Thousands of cattle store and fat, and tens of thousands of sheep, store and fat, are on…

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The Warehousing of Wool in London

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 2

ONE of the foremost questions which has lately been discussed in London in connection with the wool trade relates to the charges made for the warehousing of wool, and for its…

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Riverina Pastoral Association

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 2

There was a special general meeting of the members of the Riverina Pastoral Society, held at the Royal Hotel, Corowa, on Thursday, 12th May 1870. W. Hay, Esq., J.P., President, in the chair…

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Classification of Sheep. (From the Queenslander.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 2

WHEN the [?] has to deal with a stock of very mixed [?] classification of both rams and ewes becomes necessary, in order to level the extremities by…

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Stock Refort. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, June 7

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 2

IN the stock market, good heavy wethers find ready sale, inferior and mediums plentiful. There has been a good supply of fat cattle, but prices are without change. Store cattle are in…

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STOCK [?] Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin Friday Evening June 10

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 2

THE floods still prevail, and the winter season of 1870 will he memorable in these parts for a supply of rain, the like of which the white man never before saw here. On the plains of Hive…

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