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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1883

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How Much Seed-wheat to the

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 March 1883 · page 18

The following letter from Mr. Blackwood is published in a late number of the Pacific Rural pass:— I have never seen the question satisfactorily…

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Rural Mems. the South Australian Wheat Harvest

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 March 1883 · page 18

A summary of the South Australian wheat harvest, which has been compiled by the Adelaide Observer from returns furnished by its harvest correspondents, presents a result truly…

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Sale of Californian Sheep

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 March 1883 · page 4

On Wednesday last, at Shark Island, Messrs Brunker and Wolfe submitted to competition by auction, an interesting shipment of merino sheep. The sheep were brought here by Mr R…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 March 1883 · page 3

SIR,—As a medium of drawing" public attention to the liquor traffic in Deniliquin, premmie sir to address you briefly. It is a matter for regret that their is hardly an exception wherein…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March, 80 1888

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 March 1883 · page 2

Bain fell ag[?] during the week, and added to the best file of the refreshing [?] of the previous week In and around Deniliquin [?] a visible improvement in the [?] has taken place. The [?] is…

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Alb O My and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1883 · page 14

The annual meeting of the above society was held yesterday. Mr. J. Hayes occupied the chair. The annual report and balance-sheet was read. The report ran as follows :—…

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Agriculture. Notes on Dairy Farming

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 April 1883 · page 2

AT a meeting of the British Dairy Farmers' Association Dr. Voilcker, F.R.S. said that he had found that food given to a cow while in milk wold be converted into milk within…

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Correspondence. Protecting Sheep From Dogs.to the Editor Op the Albury Banner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1883 · page 23

SIR,—I was very much struck the other day by an account in a leading Califomian newspaper of a method which has been successfully used in the Southern States for protecting…

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The Farmer’s Horse—how to Breed Him

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1883 · page 18

How shall we breed the farmer’s horse is question which may well begin to agitate the minds of fanners, especially throughout the states, west of Pennsylvania. The tendency…

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Melbourne Wool and Produce Markets

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 7 April 1883 · page 2

The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, report:—Wool.—Offerings are now scanty and irregular, but there is ample demand to ensure the satisfactory…

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Sheep Dipping and Fleece Washing in Scot[?]and

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 April 1883 · page 4

An account of some extensive sheep dippings carried out in the Duke of Sutherland’s reclamations at Kin[?], in the north of Scotland, at the end of last season, will probably be of…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, April, 6 [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 April 1883 · page 2

The weather has been delightfully cool during the work; and we have had another refreshing downfall of rain, making the total from the beginning [?] the rear 372 [?] The pastures around are now beginning to…

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Open Column. Drink V. MEAT. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 April 1883 · page 3

Sir,—I have perused a letter in a recent issue signed [?] in which the muchly abused publicans are taken to task. Your correspondent could not have visited. many of their places of…

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Keeping Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 April 1883 · page 18

Special interest in the proper place for keeping butter is manifested by at least three classes. First, the producer, who often desires to retain the butter product…

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Prosecutions Under the Sheep Act

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 April 1883 · page 14

At the Tum[?] Police Court on the 6[?] inst., before Mr. Vyner, P.M., a number of residents of the district were charged with altering and defacing the brands and [?]marks…

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Wheat-bran for Milch Cows

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 April 1883 · page 18

It is well-known that phosphorous is an essential ingredient in the formation of bone, and indeed that bones are the principle source of our supply of phosphorous. Wheat-bran is…

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Wool, Sheepskins, Hides, &c. MELBOURNE

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 April 1883 · page 11

Messrs. R. GOLDSBROUGH and Co. report :-Wool. we catalogued [?] bales for our sale to-day, and had a full attendance of buyers and good competition. prices being fully equal to [?] rates. Inferior to fair average…

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Agriculture. Dairy Husbandry. Cutting the Curds. X. A. WILLARD

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 April 1883 · page 2

A WESTERN correspondent inquires concerning the breaking of curds in cheese-making. He asks which is the better way--to out the curds fine in the first instance, or to cut…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin Friday Evening, April 18 [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 April 1883 · page 2

THE weather has been cool during the week ; but to-day was [?] to be warm. There are no stock [?] of stock [?] to record for the week. The pastures are visibly improving, but the…

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Open Column. the Local Slaughtery [?] (To the Editor of the Pastoral [?])

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 April 1883 · page 2

Sir,—A correspondent in a recent issue [?] turn a teetotaler because the quality of [?] clog[?] his aristocratic palate and more[?] “publican” takes up the cudgels on behalf [?]…

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