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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1882

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. the Merino, the Farmer's Sheep

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 4 January 1882 · page 2

RENEWING the subject dealt with in a previous paper, we are desirous of seeing how the merino compares as a carcass-yielding animal with the courser wools, cross-bred…

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Experimental Farming

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 4 January 1882 · page 2

THE experimental farmer, we are informed, is disappearing from the ranks of those who till the soil and develope the grand, cattle, horses, and sheep of the mother country…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. the Merino the Farmer's Sheep

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 January 1882 · page 2

RENEWING the subject dealt with in a previous paper, we are desirous of seeing how the merino compares as a carcass-yielding animal with the coarser wools, cross-bred,…

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Experimental Farming

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 January 1882 · page 2

THE experimental farmer, wears informed, is disappearing from the ranks of those who till the soil and develops the grand cattle, horses, and sheep of the mother country…

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Open Column: (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 January 1882 · page 2

SIR,—I have read your comments on the case recently decided against Mr Vagg. in the Deniliquin Police Court. If the decision then given is law the statute is a most dangerous and iniquitous one…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin Friday Evening, January 6, 1882

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 January 1882 · page 2

WE have had another week of fine weather, and [?] the whole much cooler than is usually experienced at this season of the year. Rain still holds off, and there are at present no signs of any change…

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Melbourne Wool and Produce Market Report

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 11 January 1882 · page 2

The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited report:—Wool.—Since our last report Bales have been entirely suspended until yesterday, when business was…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Milk-making and Egg-making

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 11 January 1882 · page 2

IT stands declared by Act of Parliament is England that milk cannot be made by artificial means; and assurances. it is not for…

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Keeping Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 January 1882 · page 18

The plan described below is a very old one and it enjoys the reputation of being good :—To three gallons of brine strong enough to bear au egg, and a quarter of a pound of flue white sugar,…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Milk-making and Egg-making

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 January 1882 · page 2

IT stands declared by Act of Parliament in England that milk cannot be made by artificial means: and there is much comfort to humanity in the assurance. Is is not for…

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Hints for Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 January 1882 · page 18

GRIPES.—In carthorse stables gripes are often caused by horses being fed and filled with chaff then allowed to go to water, which washes the chaff into the water passage and stomach, causing…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricul[?] Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 January 1882 · page 2

A meeting of the committee of the above [?] held at the Royal Hotel on Friday afternoon last [?] There were present :—Messrs L. Kiddle, president [?] chair). Won[?]dridge, Seetey Br[?]n, Cheriton, Evans [?]…

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[?] Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening. January 13, 1882

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 January 1882 · page 2

THE weather continues dry, and another week has passed without sny rain worthy of mention. Extreme best [?] at the [?] on Sunday regis[?] 107 in the shade. On Tuesday…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Water in Waterless Country

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 18 January 1882 · page 2

WE published recently the opinions and experiences of a valued contributor' who had proved by actual results that, under certain circumstances, pigs gained…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Water in Waterless Country

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 January 1882 · page 2

WE published recently the opinions and experiences of a valued contributor who had proved by actual results that, under certain circumstances, pigs gained…

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Field Experiments by Farmers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 January 1882 · page 3

PROFESSOR Custance, the agricultural [?] who has recently been engaged by the south Australian Government to give Instruction to farmers upon a scientific…

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Hints for Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 January 1882 · page 18

SLUGS.—An effectual way of catching slugs is simply to butter cabbage-leaves with rancid butter, and lay them about the beds; they will catch thousands of slugs, and even the very…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 January 1882 · page 2

Deniliquin. Friday Kvening , January 20,1882 The weather during the pad week has been characterised by intense heat, ranging on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday from 102 to 113[?] in…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 21 January 1882 · page 2

The Australian Mortgage and Agency Company, limited, report, yesterday:—We offered to-day 1460 bales wool; biddings were very brisk and full values were realised…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Chemistry in Farming Economy

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 25 January 1882 · page 2

WHILE a firm believer in the value of chemical knowledge as an aid to agricultural practice, I do riot subscribe blindly to all the chemistry books teach. For, and…

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