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Farming & the land, 1888

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Farm and Garden. Winter Care of Cows

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 June 1888 · page 2

The arrangement of the barn and yard should be such as to reduce the labor as much as possible. Excessive warmth is not conclusive to robustness, health, or profit. If a…

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Extraordinary Disappearance of Several Farmers in South Australia. Strange Coincidences

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 June 1888 · page 25

The following facts (says the Narracoorte Herald) make a series of coincidences worth recording. Within a short time two men of the same name, both farmers, living near an…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, June 1, 1888

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 June 1888 · page 2

The weather daring the week has been changeable. At them the fronts were heavy and again light showers fell. [?] it is raining, and the temperature is such as to indicate a fairly food fall before the change clears off. Heavy…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 June 1888 · page 2

WOOL—Press and private massages confirm the intelligence we published last week as to the improvement in the market since class of the London [?]ales. There is still a fair local demand, and we continue to make sales…

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Open Column. the Usual District Ball. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 June 1888 · page 3

[?]—I am in receipt of a circular from the Hon. of the above [?] requesting to be informed would be willing to become a subscriber, &o., and [?] that the subscription was cot expected to…

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Parliamentary. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, 29Th May, 1888. Pastoral Leases: Occupation Licenses

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 June 1888 · page 4

Mr Waddell asked the Secretary for Lands—(1.) Will he, in cases where pastoral leases or occupation licenses have been fixed at the minimum and…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 June 1888 · page 2

WITH the exception of Friday evening, when there was a heavy downpour, the weather has been fine since last report. The nights and early mornings have been…

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The Wheat Market. London, June 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 June 1888 · page 18

Forward business is weak at a decline. Arrivals of foreign wheat are moderate. The off-coast cargoes from Australia have all been disposed of. For cargoes of Australian wheat…

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Wool and Station Produce Reports. Melbourne

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 June 1888 · page 4

Messrs. DALGETY and COMPANY (LIMITED) report:—Wool.—Business is still restricted to private sales of small parcels. Tallow.—We quote:—Good to prime mutton, £19 to £20;…

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Farm and Garden. Schemes

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 June 1888 · page 2

Schemes for swindling farmers are in operation constantly because they can be worked easily. They are successful not because farmers are overcredulous or lacking…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 2

Facts are [?] While I am thankful for [?] of the people have reported [?] to justify to the letter, I beg to make them [?]…

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The Usual District [?]All. (To the Editor of the Pastoral [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 2

Sir,—The above being a private [?] which the public have [?] to reply [?] necessary but for [?]…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, June 8, 1888

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 2

DURING the week the weather has been seasonable. To-day a [?] heat prevails, and although the [?] is clear it is [?] that a change to rain will soon take place. The pastures are growing splendidly, and there is a strong spring of good…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company limited). Melbourne, June [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 2

WOOL—Business is still restricted to private sales of the small parcels, chiefly of [?] which arrive from time to time. The next sales in London open this day fortnight. Up to 31st ult. exports of wool show an excess of…

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Scotch Cattle for New South Wales

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 13 June 1888 · page 3

After long and vexatious delays the ports of Australia have been re opened to cattle from Europe and America, and the colonies will no doubt soon receive…

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Farm and Garden. The Black-Faced Heath Sheep

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 June 1888 · page 2

The black-faced sheep known as the Heath breed are quite distinct from other sheep of the British Islands. They are smaller than the other breeds, except the Welsh, the…

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Profits of Keeping Sheep

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 June 1888 · page 2

If a farmer has plenty of patience, and is willing to give close attention to details in the care of stock, he can make more money for food consumed from sheep than from any…

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The Wool Sales

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 June 1888 · page 2

London, Thursday.—60,000 bales have been excluded from the wool sales, opening on the 19th inst. The cargoes of nineteen ships arrived too late…

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Automatic Wool Cleanser

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 June 1888 · page 12

The following is a description of Messrs. W. Judell and J. Singer’s machine for cleansing wool by the application of bisulphide of carbon :—The apparatus consists…

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The Wheat Market. London, June 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 June 1888 · page 18

The English market is unchanged. The Continental markets are declined with increased weakness. The American market is changing a little for the better. The spot…

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