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Farming & the land, 1885

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A Sheep Station Swallowed by an Earthquake and Tidal Wave

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 May 1885 · page 12

A most remarkable claim has been made by a resident of Sydney against a wealthy but eccentric Wellingtonian, The claimant asserts that in the very early days of the colony his…

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The Farmer. Hints on Breeding Hunters

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 May 1885 · page 2

OUR columns, says the Live Stock Journal, recently have shown the great desire that exists for reliable information and advice on the subject of breeding hunters, and no one is more…

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Killed by a Meteor. Horrible Death of a Farmer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 May 1885 · page 21

A despatch from Knoxville, Tenn., reports the death of a farmer at Somerset, Kentucky, by an aerolite falling on his head from a cloudless sky. The farmer, it…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin. Friday Evening, May 15, 1885

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 2

[?] the creator part of the week the weather has been cold, but the frosts have only been [?] and [?] [?] [?] [?] for the last three or four-day, and to-day it looks as if a downfall was [?]…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 2

Another return of the showery weather which seems such a characteristic feature of the season marked the opening of the current week. On Friday the weather…

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Butter Fifty Years Old

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 24

The New York Times says :— “Fifty years ago the Jupp family, famous Hudson Valley butter-makers of that day, occupied the farm now belonging to C. M’Chesney…

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Rural Notes. the Advantages of Sheep-farming to Small Settlers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 9

The annual report on “Agriculture” of Professor Custance, of tho recently-established College of Agriculture in South Australia, revives interest in a question…

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The Farmer

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 2

FRENCH economist are urging upon their countrymen the importance of a greater interest in growing well-bred cattle but meat with discouraging apathy. Some good hers…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 May 1885 · page 2

The week opened with a recurrence of the cold, gloomy weather which has marked the previous fortnight-- the nights perhaps a shade colder and the frosts…

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Making Butter by Electricity

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 May 1885 · page 2

IF the announcement made by a French contemporary remains true in practice, butter churn-makes will, perhaps, have to turn their attention to the construction of other…

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Watering Sheep Outside Public Tanks

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1885 · page 4

A case of some importance to the travelling public has just been decided at the police court at Mossgiel. It shows the determination of the Department of Mines to punish all…

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Rural Notes. Fruit v. WHEAT

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1885 · page 10

In California it is beginning to be felt that there are other sources of profit for the agriculturist than wheat-growing. Tho following facts are from a late issue of the…

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The Farmer

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 May 1885 · page 2

LORD VERNON has given a fresh proof of his interest in the progress of dairy farming by offering a prize of 100 guineas for dairy cows. The conditions are now under the…

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Sheep Breeding in Riverina

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 May 1885 · page 2

Warbreccan is the property of the late Mr John Shanahan and Sir Patrick Jennings. It is situated about three miles from Deniliquin on the Edwards river to which it has a frontage of six or seven…

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Revised Railway Rates for Wool

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 May 1885 · page 3

The Victorian Railway Commissioners have had under consideration the question of revising the rates charged for the carriage of wool on the Victorian lines. The following are the new rates: —…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Den[?]Houin, Friday evening, May 29, 1885

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 May 1885 · page 2

Another slight fall of rain occurred during the week. the register showing 25 points. Other returns to hand show that the rainfall in this district amounted to from 10 points at Euston to 25 at Moulamein. A slight…

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The Farmer. Butter Factories

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 June 1885 · page 2

THE factory system of making butter and cheese has wrought a revolution in American dairying. The chance make a great advance both on the farm and in the market. The…

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Better Outlook for Wheat-growers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 June 1885 · page 11

The Jeremiahs of Australia—and, unfortunately, their name is legion—have for some time past bewailed the collapse of our principal industries in a strain so…

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Rural Notes. Revised Railway Rates for Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 June 1885 · page 10

The Railway Commissioners have had under consideration the question of revising the rates charged for the carriage of wool on the Victorian lines, and the new scale…

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Opening of the Wool Sales. London, June 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 June 1885 · page 14

The colonial wool sales were opened to-day by Messrs. Charles Balme and Co., and Jacomb, Son, and Co., who offered nearly 10,000 bales, two-fifths being from New Zealand. There…

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