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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1886

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 2

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Society was bald yesterday at the Royal Hotel. Mr J. Dickeo[?] occupied the chair; and the following were also portent : [?] Parker, Falkiner, Carrie, Froom, J McMeekin,…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 3

Slit,—With your permission I desire to correct one remark imputed to me by your reporter at the dinner given to the Trades United Cricket Club by Mr and Mrs Sinclair of the [?] Hotel on .Saturday last. Your reporter would…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Offices. Deniliquin. Friday Evening. April 9. 1886

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 2

THERE has been mother week of [?] walker [?] why [?] were [?] but [?] fell. Can [?] that we have [?] on rain worth speaking about…

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The Wool Market

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 14 April 1886 · page 2

Goldsbrough and Co. in their monthly circular, issued on the 1st April, says:—The arrivals during the month of March amount to 5900 bales, and the quantities offered and sold are represented by 5048…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 April 1886 · page 2

On the 12th and 13th a series of heavy showers visited the northern portions of the colony. The rain cycle appears to have been confined to the district lying between…

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Rural Notes. Artificial Fertilisation of Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 April 1886 · page 9

Recent experiments in the artificial fertilisation of tho wheat plant, carried out for the purpose of crossing different varieties of hybridising wheat with another cereal,…

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The Wool Sales. London, April 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 April 1886 · page 18

At the wool sales to-day 10,400 bales were catalogued, making a total of 160,300 since the opening of the sales. Crossbreds are weaker, merinoes steady but not in active demand, and…

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An Irrigated Farm on the Murray

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 April 1886 · page 4

The following description of Mr A. Commack's farm, at Port Dunbar, on the River Murray, fourteen miles from Kerang, is taken from the Melbourne Leader:—The visitor's attention is first attracted by the…

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Farmer. Milk Registers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 April 1886 · page 2

At the dairy conference a paper, on "Milk Register" was read by Professor Fream, College of Agriculture, Downton, as follows: --…

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Farming in Holland

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 April 1886 · page 9

An American writer gives the following glowing description of Dutch farming :— “The Dutch farmer is continually fertilising his farm of 80 or 40 acres, and this…

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Petition From Ruined Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 April 1886 · page 17

In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday Mr. Stokes, one of the members for Forbes, presented the following petition from 16 farmers in the Eugowra and surrounding…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office. Dealia[?]in, Friday Evening 1886. April 16, 1886

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 April 1886 · page 2

The weather hat been moderately cool during, the week with strong winds daring the last coopted of days accompanied by clouded of dour. The loot; expected rain still. seems sod the prospects are correspondingly depressed…

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"Sheep 6D. Per Head," And—

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 April 1886 · page 4

Such is the pith of an item from one of our country correspondents; and, absorbing though many of the other current news items are, not one of them is of more consequence than this. The fact of sheep being…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 April 1886 · page 2

The storm whish seemed gathering no we closed our last report, broke on Friday and Saturday when fiteen points of rain were registered at Corowa, 30 at…

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New Method of Packing Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 April 1886 · page 11

We learn from the Now Zealand papers that a new way of packing butter has been brought into notice by two Auckland gentlemen which possesses great advantages…

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The Wool Sales. London, April 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 April 1886 · page 18

At the wool sales to-day 9,000 bales were offered, making a total of 225,600 hales daring the series. The tone of the market is quiet, The total withdrawals to date amount to…

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Rural Notes. Cost of Wheat-growing in Missouri

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 April 1886 · page 11

Mr. Sanborn, of Columbia, Missouri, has contributed the following thoughtful letter to the St. Louis Journal of Agriculture :— Among recent enquiries sent to…

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The Farmer. Horse-training in South America

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 April 1886 · page 2

In various parts of the world there are some curious methods of breaking in horses and rendering them obedient to the will of man. Amongst the several methods employed…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin. Friday Evening. April 28, 1886

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 24 April 1886 · page 2

RAIN has threatened during the week, and on Thursday a few drops fell after a blastering dusty day. The clouds, however, cleared off during the night. To-day is cold, and the sky is cloudy, but with a southerly wind blowing rain…

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Meeting of Ivanhoe Pastoral Protection Association, at Ivanhoe

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 27 April 1886 · page 3

It will be remembered that on the 29th January last at a meeting of those interested in pastoral matters, it was resolved to form an association for the manual protection of those concerned. Although…

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