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Farming & the land, 1887

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited Thursday. January 13

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 January 1887 · page 2

We offered a catalogue of 1453 Dales at our wool sales to-day to a full attendance of buyers. The competition was very spirited the market shows an advance of £1 to a 11 per lb in sympathy with the…

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Pastoral

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 January 1887 · page 2

A valuable polled Angus bull, 13 months old, arrived by train last Saturday night, imported at great cost by Messrs Bedford, Armstrong and Co, of Kajuligah, from the well-known stud of Mr H…

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Children at This Cattle Train

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 January 1887 · page 4

Somewhere about Fitchburg, as we stopped for twenty minutes at a station, I amused myself by looking out of a window at a waterfall which came tumbling over the rocks…

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The Farmer. Poultry on a Farm

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 19 January 1887 · page 4

We have quite as often advocated the extended use of poultry on tho farm as we have suggested the perfect impracticability of poultry farina. On a given…

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Pastoral

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 January 1887 · page 3

The following was the Lands office business this week:—William Murphy, C.P., Maude, county and parish Waradgery and Yang Yang, 116 acres, Toogimbie; also, C.L. 104 acres…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 January 1887 · page 2

THE week opened with sultry weather which culminated on Tuesday in a slight dust storm during which a few drops of rain fell. Since then the weather has…

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Keep Butter in Kegs

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 January 1887 · page 11

It will do for the dairymen who has private customers to whom the butter is sent each week, or oftener, to make it into “ pats,” but for the general market butter should be…

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Rural Notes. Scab and Tick in Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 January 1887 · page 11

Scab in sheep is caused by a parasite known as the “ Acarus ” or scab insect. It is possessed of great vitality, and infection is almost certain if sound sheep get mixed…

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The Wool Market. London, January 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 January 1887 · page 18

In consequence of the improvement in trade which has taken place in France, there is a brisk demand for wool, and 3,000 bales have been sold privately at an advance of…

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Farmer. Grape Economy. Chapter Iii. Dry Grape

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 January 1887 · page 2

IN Oriental countries, the economic value of the dry grape, from which even wine is sometimes made -- by simply sleeping the craps in water -- far exceeds in importance the…

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[?] Pastoral Times Office, [Deniliquin Friday Evening, January 21, 1887

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 January 1887 · page 2

THE weather [?] week One [?] and the [?] [?] after [?] but [?] good [?] On the…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 January 1887 · page 2

SIR,—Will you kindly take charge of the enclosed cheque for £2 2s, in favour of the fund “Adams Family,” brought under the notice of the public by Mr A. W. F. Noyes in your edition of the…

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Pastoral

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 25 January 1887 · page 2

As all the rents for the Crown [?]holds had not been fixed, the Land Board postponed the sitting of the Board until Friday, the 28th, at 4 p.m., when the rents will all be read…

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PASTORAL. Balranald Riverina Recorder Office, Tuesday Evening

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 26 January 1887 · page 2

The weather for the last week has been mostly of a close and muggy nature. On Monday the sky for the greater part of the day was quite overcast with signs of rain, but…

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The Farmer. [?]tected Horses

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 26 January 1887 · page 4

Mr. P. H. Fabin, a furniture and piano mover at Mchlen gives his experience in the Boston Transcript with barefooted horses, He has driven three horses two…

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Sheep Farming in the Argentine Republic

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 January 1887 · page 3

AN old Australian, who recounts his impressions during a recent visit to the Argentine Republic, in the Age, describes the system of management…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 January 1887 · page 2

WARM weather prevailed at the commencement of the week, and continued until Monday, when a duststorm set in, and 26 points of rain were registered. Since then…

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Rural Notes. Pig Mouth in Dairy Cattle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 January 1887 · page 10

The attention of the Chief Inspector of Stock having some months ago been directed by Mr. John Stuart, of Broughton Creek, to a serious evil to the dairy farmers…

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The Wheat Market. London, January 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 January 1887 · page 4

Any further decline in wheat was arrested in Monday’s market. Mr. Sains Jackson, a leading authority on crops, gives twelve reasons for expecting that still higher prices will…

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The Wool Sales. London, January 19

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 January 1887 · page 18

The tone of the wool market is firm. New arrivals to date for next sales amount to 180,000 bales…

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