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Farming & the land, 1882

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Hints on Wool

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 April 1882 · page 4

From a circular issued by Messrs Charles Balme and Co., woolbrokers, London, we extract the following interesting items:— In connection with the subject of washing, we…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, April 28, 1882

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 April 1882 · page 2

We have [?]ad [?] many false alarms about the [?]breaking up of the drought ” that each succeeding report has been viewed with suspicion. This time, however, there in no mistaking the matter, a., reports have been…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm and Garden. Leather As a Product of Colonial Cattle

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 3 May 1882 · page 2

THERE is no joke intended. The leather product referred to is the hide, not the carcass of colonial cattle. And, in times of low prices, all who have to sell know well that the…

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Melbourne Wool and Produce Market Report

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 3 May 1882 · page 2

THE AUSTRALASIAN MORTGAGE & AGENCY COMPANY LIMITED.—Report:—WOOL: We offered a small catalogue at auction on Friday last, and disposed of almost every lot at full prices, quality…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm and Garden. by Old Colonist. Leather As a Product of Colonial Cattle

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 May 1882 · page 2

THERE is no joke intended. The leather product referred to is the hide, not the carcass of colonial cattle. And, in times of low prices, all who have to sell know well that the…

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Rural Mems. Red Versus White Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 May 1882 · page 18

A correspondent of the American Country Gentleman makes the following sound practical remarks upon this subject:— “A noteworthy change in the popular fashion of wheat…

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The Garden. Cropping the Kitchen Garden

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 May 1882 · page 18

Upon the plains the mistake is often made of sowing or planting too late in the season. Cabbages and plants of that kind require to be ready for planting out upon the plains about…

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Hints for Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 May 1882 · page 18

FEEDING BRAN TO HORSES.—An excess of bran feeding to horses is apt (says the Philadelphia Weekly Times) to generate stony secretions in the bowels. Post-mortem…

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An American Lecture on the Dairy Cow

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 May 1882 · page 18

A lecture on “The Dairy Cow” has been delivered at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by the Hon. G. B. Loring, United States Commissioner of Agriculture, from which, as reported in the…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times [?] Deniliquin, Friday Evening, May 6,1882

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 May 1882 · page 2

THE weather since our last report has continued mild, but occasionally threatening, and times showery. The nights are cold, hut fortunately the frost has not yet mads its appearance to any appreciable extent,…

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Open Column. the D. AND M. RAILWAY [?] (To the Editor of the Pastoral [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 May 1882 · page 2

DEAR SIR,— In justice to a [?] which I consider has been much [?] Rev. Mr Moss in his remarks at the [?] in aid of the Victorian Bind [?]…

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Pastoral—past and Prospective

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 May 1882 · page 2

THE increasing prevalence of droughts and the disastrous consequences which follow such visitations naturally compel attention to their direct as well as indirect causes and effects;…

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Melbourne Wool and Produce Market Report

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 13 May 1882 · page 2

THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY Co., Limited report—Wool: The transactions in this market since the date of our last summary (the 12th ult.) have been…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, May 12, 1882

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 May 1882 · page 2

THERE is little alteration to report in the state of the weather. The nights have been cold, and the days warm and seasonable. On Thursday night light showers of rain fell, and during yesterday the…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm and Garden. Gardening on the Farm

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 17 May 1882 · page 2

IN a preceding paper reference was made to the benefits which accompany gardening from the outset of settlement. The subject was not opened in any mere speculative or…

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The Bethanga Sheep-stealing Case

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1882 · page 9

At the County Court, Melbourne, on the 12th instant, before his Honor Judge Cope, Michael Monaghan, of Emerald Hill, laborer, proceeded against Alex. Stewart, a squatter of…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm and Garden. Gardening on the Farm

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 May 1882 · page 2

IN a preceding paper reference was made to the benefits which accompany gardening from the outset of settlement. The subject was not opened in any more speculative or…

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Hints for Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1882 · page 18

“MUCK’S THE MOTHER OF MONEY.”—A correspondent of the East Anglian Daily Times writes as follows :—“ The tenant of the beautiful farm in East Lothian, where I…

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Melbourne Wool and Produce Markets

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 24 May 1882 · page 2

THE AUSTRALASIAN MORTGAGE & AGENCY COMPANY LIMITED Report:—WOOL: There is no alteration of importance to note in regard to this market, but reports of the opening of sales in…

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Corowa Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horlicultural Society. Annual Meeting

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 May 1882 · page 3

THE sixth annual meeting of this society was held at the Royal Hotel last evening, J. G. Gray, Esq., vice-president, in the chair. There was a fairly large attendance…

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