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Farming & the land, 1883

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Cull the Herd to Make the Dairy Pay

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 February 1883 · page 2

THE value of close comparison, good judgment and selection, in connection with many farm matters, is beginning to be properly appreciated. There was a time when one potato…

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Rural Mems. a Greater Variety of Crops

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 February 1883 · page 18

While the majority of Australian farmers are content to depend almost exclusively upon wheat crops their condition, as a class, will necessarily be unsatisfactory. The experience…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 February 1883 · page 3

Dear Sir,—Will you kindly give your valuable [?]tance on behalf of a very excellent society that [?] its benefits over the entire colony. The old Colonists Association is for the relief of…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin Friday Evening, February 2,1883

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 February 1883 · page 2

Another mild week has passed, and the rain, although occasionally threatening seems to be as far off as ever. There is, however, a plentiful supply of water in the district to meet any reasonable emergency ; hot the…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 3

A general meeting of the members of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held yesterday at the Royal Hotel, to consider the advisability of revising the rules [?] the direction notified i Mr W. R. Virgoe in…

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Melbourne Wool and Produce Markets

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 2

THE AUSTRALASIAN MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY, Limited, report:—Wool.—The market shows no alternation since our last report, and all offerings of fairly good quality…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, February 9,188[?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 2

THE weather still continues dry ; but rain has threatened for the last two or three days. The sun has been more than ordinarily hot, and dust storms have been very prevalent. The pastures are looking [?] and…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 February 1883 · page 3

—In your report of the meeting of the share[?] in the Deniliquin and Moama Railway, l am [?] to have said when Mr Collier spoke of an [?]lion of the line; to “ Hay,” that such a line…

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The Deniliquin Fire Brigade. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 February 1883 · page 3

[?]—Be kind enough to contradict a rumour [?] the local Fire Brigade intend defraying the [?] of their visit to Sandhurst next month [?] the finds of the Brigad[?] At a meeting…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, February 16,1883

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 February 1883 · page 2

There is no change to report on the dullness which voles in the local stook market, transactions and movements. The weather has not changed except for the [?] To-day it was excessively hot and [?] and…

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Wheat–growing Experiments

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 February 1883 · page 18

Mr. J. H. Watson, of the Botanic Gardens, Toowoomba, has sent a communication to the Queenslander, dated January 16, giving the results of experiments with several varieties…

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Flood and Loss of Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 February 1883 · page 15

Owing to the rapid rise in Pudman Creek on Sunday, 11th inst. (says the Burroica Times), several hundred sheep, the property of Mr. James Poplin, of Springfield, were drowned…

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United States Wheat Returns

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 February 1883 · page 18

The San Francisco Weekly Chronicle, speaking of the wheat yield of the United States, says :—From the September report of the Department of Agriculture it appears that the…

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The Farmer Wife

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 February 1883 · page 2

There are several leading departments which, by common consent, are relegated to the sphere of the wife, says a writer in the Cultivator. Embraced in her special…

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Elgriculture. Farming in Germany

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 February 1883 · page 2

A VERY Interesting article from the pen of President Welch (Iowa Agricultural College) appears in the columns of the N. Y. Tribune. He is travelling in Germany and writes of…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 24 February 1883 · page 3

DEAR SIR,—By a paragraph in your Wednesday’s [?] attention is called to the necessity of making an additional justice in the person of Mr D. Tennant an employe in the D. M. R. Company [?] are the publis…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin Friday Evening February 23, 1883

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 24 February 1883 · page 2

The monotonous quietude of the local stock market[?] re[?] unkroken. There is scarcely any business doing, and no great prospect of any improvement un[?] the auto[?] rains set in. Owners are average to…

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Goldsbrough’s Monthly Circular Melbourne, February 14, 1883. Annual Wool Review

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 24 February 1883 · page 4

The arrivals a during the month have been considerably under the average, consequently the business transacted bus been unimportant, 13.030 bales having been sold out of 14,184 bales…

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Election of Sheep and Large Stock Directors at Corowa

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 March 1883 · page 14

More tha[?] usual excitement existed in Corowa on Wednesday last, the day of the election, and the pastoral interest was never better represented, as the names submitted…

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The Profits of Dairy Farm- Ing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 March 1883 · page 15

The Bega Gazette vouches for the following : —" Into our office came the trusted and valued employe on one of our Bega cheese dairies, a dairy that made market-top-price cheese before…

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