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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1886

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 February 1886 · page 3

DEAR SIR,—Allow me to thank the subscribera who so kindly contributed to the fund raised for roe by Dr Noyes. I am now apprenticed to Mr Tredrea. the saddler. 1 hope my conduct will allow that I am really…

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River Plate Wool and Australian Competition

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 27 February 1886 · page 4

The figures relating to the supplies of River Plate wool for the 1884-5 season are now to hand, and show, as had been anticipated, a large increase over those for the previous season. The imports into Europe and…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 March 1886 · page 2

The weather during the week has been close and warm. Water supply holds out and pastures are for the present, in fair condition. Farmers are looking anxiously…

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Wool, Sheepskins, Hid[?]s, &c. SYDNEY

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 March 1886 · page 24

Messrs. MORT and Co. (Limited) report :— Wool.—There was a good attendance at our sale this week, but unfavourable telegrams from London have had their effect upon this market. At…

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Rural Notes. a Retrospect of the London Wool Sales, 1885

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 March 1886 · page 10

The following extracts respecting the progress of the London wool sales of 1885, with indications as to the cause of the serious decline in prices which has…

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Farm Yard Poultry. Failures in Poultry-keeping

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 March 1886 · page 2

Chiefly due to mistaken idea that poultry can be made profitable and a source of wealth or income without my outlay, everything being expected from whilst nothing is…

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(To the Editor of the Pastoral Times )

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 3

Sir, —A paragraph in your issue of 27th inst. [?] to complaints by solicitors of delays, losses, &o., caused by [?] of magistrates, [?] on Saturday 20 inst., that occasion having been…

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Open Column. the Royal Hotel Water Supply. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 3

SIR,—In your last issue or the Riverina Advertiser there in a report of the Deniliquin Municipal Council meeting, at which a letter from me was read upon the above subject, and Mr: Greenwell. the Waterworks…

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Artificial Feeding of Sheep

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 10 March 1886 · page 2

The following letter appeared some time ago in the Australasian:— Sir.—I am glad to see that this subject is being taken up by some of your correspondents. It is fit…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 March 1886 · page 2

37 points of rain fell at Howlong on Saturday evening, 50 points at Urana. The following a stock crossings are reported locally: -- Urana, March 2, 1700…

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Rural Notes. the Position of the Colonial Wheat Trade

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 March 1886 · page 10

The position and prospects of the wheat market have recently been attracting considerable attention, and it is the general impression that the production of all the…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 March 1886 · page 2

The ordinary monthly meeting of the committee of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Ag[?]entrust Society was held at the Royal Horely yesterday. Mr R. W. Franks vice-president, occudied the chair and the…

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Si'l'nOKKEPOW.1'. Pastoral Times Office. Dealia[?]in, Friday Venin, March 12. 1886

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 March 1886 · page 2

A dieh[?] post last Friday night, and rain [?] extent of twe[?]n . Sune then the weatu[?] be been cool and retesting but rain is today wanted and round the [?]riet to te[?]hen up the gr[?]. There in p[?]enly…

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Farmer. Preserving Eggs

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 13 March 1886 · page 1

EGGS packed and treated as follows can be kept three months, and seem and look like fresh eggs: Take a common box, such as is used for…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 March 1886 · page 2

The weather remains cool and dry with a slight chill at nights. Grass is beginning to show signs of withering and farmers are anxiously looking for a good downpour of…

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Farmer. Climbing Plants in Trees

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 March 1886 · page 2

[?] give an appearance of robust luxu[?] and unrestrained vigour reminding the spectator of those tropical ans semi-tropical climes where nature, under the…

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Practical Hints on Dairying

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 March 1886 · page 11

Mr. Horace Walpole, of Mount Gambier, S.A., contributes the following interesting article to the Border Watch :— “If the importance of cheese and milk as the most…

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Co-operative Farming in New South Wales

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 March 1886 · page 11

The results of co-operation by farmers in the business of marketing their own products are not always satisfactory, but the principle being sound, it is gratifying to…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin. Friday Evening, March 19, 1886

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 March 1886 · page 2

The week has been temperate and try. A few clouds [?] that through the [?] but there has [?] and while it remains as comparatively [?] it is unlikely that any rain will fall. The [as[?]ures…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 2

The weather during the week has been fine warm towards mid-day, but increasingly cool at nights. Pasturage is beginning to show the effects of want of rain…

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