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Farming & the land, 1885

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Salting Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1885 · page 8

A practical butter-maker recommends the following method of salting butter. Doubtless many readers will find the suggestion valuable:—The butter, first freed from…

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The Wine Industry. (From the Pastoral Times.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1885 · page 8

Whatever may be the ultimate fate of the wine industry in Australia, it is certain that it is just now passing through a critical stage of its existence. Its progress has…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1885 · page 11

At the wool sales to-day 11,200 bales were offered. Market steady ; demand inactive. LONDON, March 20. To-day were offered, making a…

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The Farmer. Educational Tour of a Model Dairy in Scotland

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 April 1885 · page 2

IN 1881, the Irish Agricultural Society, vin[?]ing with concern the depression and visible dimination of the butter trade in Ireland, decided, at the suggestion of Canon Bagot, [?]…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Denili[?] Friday Evening, April 3, 1885

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 April 1885 · page 2

The rain of last week was succ[?] by [?] days and cold nights, [?] indicating another [?] The rainfall at [?] last week [?] The record [?]…

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The farmer. Breeding of Horses

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 4 April 1885 · page 2

THE supply of both hunting and carriage horses of a good class has become very scarce in England. It has for years been unequal to the demand, and is year by year becoming…

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Archbishop M'cabe's Last Lenten Pastoral

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 April 1885 · page 3

COPIES of the late Cardinal M'Cabe's last Lenten Pastoral have been received by the R.M.S. Khedive. The document has a melancholy interest from the circumstance…

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Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1885 · page 20

The annual meeting of subscribers was held yesterday. Mr. W. Turner, president, occupied the chair. The annual report was read, as follows :—…

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The Farmer. Take care of Farm Implements

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 April 1885 · page 2

SOME one once drew a graphics pen picture of a mortal foe of the farmer--one who labored for his destruction by night as by day, on Sundays, holidays, and work days alike…

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Swine Farming. (From the American Agriculturist.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1885 · page 8

We are more and more impressed with the value of hogs on the farm. Many farmers make their cows the main feature; the buildings are constructed with…

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The Farmer. Ayrshire Cattle in America

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 11 April 1885 · page 2

IN the course of a paper read before the Washington Institute, Mr. William Fairweather, M'Lane, Pennsylvania, gave some information as to American experience with…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 April 1885 · page 2

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal Hotel yesterday. The president of the society, Mr P. MacFarland, occupied the chair ; and…

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London Wool Sales. Thursday, April 9

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 April 1885 · page 2

Helmu[?]h Sehwartzs and Co. telegraph us under date, London, 8th April:—“Wool Sales:—The sales opened with moderate attendance of both home and foreign buyers, the tops is quiet and prices are scarcely…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 April 1885 · page 2

At last the rain has come, and although the unwanted fall of Tuesday and Wednesday will play havoc amongst the early lambs, pastoralists are quite willing to…

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How to Make Good Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 April 1885 · page 8

In the first place good butter cannot be made from cream that has any foreign flavor in it. Cream, in common with all delicate oily substances, possesses a strong…

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The Wool Sales. London, April 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 April 1885 · page 11

The colonial wool auctions were resumed to-day, 7,700 bales being offered, making a total of 168,100 bales for the present series. The tone of the market is flat…

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Monetary and Commercial. Rise in Wheat. London, April 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 April 1885 · page 11

Tin, best Straits and Australian, is quoted at £79 5S. per ton. LONDON, April 9. The shipments of frozen meat per the…

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The Wodonga Cattle Sale Yards.' to the Editor of the Albury Banner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 April 1885 · page 13

SIR,—I was present at the last meeting of Wodonga Shire Council with a hope that the president’s motion at the previous meeting, re the construction of municipal sale-yards at…

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The Farmer. Breeding of Horses

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 April 1885 · page 2

The supply of both hunting and carriage horses of a good class has become very [?] in England. It has for been unequal to the demand, and is year by year becoming…

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The Farm in April

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 April 1885 · page 7

Dirty land is unprofitable to raise grain crops upon, but there is never any use in a bare fallow, which does not enrich, but only allows time to dissolve some of the…

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