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Farming & the land, 1889

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, September 27, 1889

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1889 · page 2

STOCK [?] almost been at a standa[?] in Deniliquin this week [?] to the floods, The Ca[?] sheep, 2800 in number, which attempted to cross yesterday week, and had to [?] back after having lost several [?] by drowning…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne. September 25

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1889 · page 2

WOOL—A quiet week has been passed, no public Bales having taken place, while arrivals of the new clip are still backward, owing to detentions In the Interior. Foreign buyers are now arriving, and competitions seems likely to…

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Annual Show of Champion Sheep. (Sydney Mail.)

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 October 1889 · page 4

The discussion which took place at the Wagga Wagga show dinner last week regarding the proposal to hold a grand show of champion sheep, was…

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Small Corn Crops

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 2 October 1889 · page 2

Poor crops of almost anything else may be laid off upon the season or some other excuse: but a poor corn crop means poverty of soil and poor cultivation,…

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Making Farms Valuable

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 2 October 1889 · page 2

To increase the value of his land is for the great majority of farmers the readiest and most obvious means of making money. This is commonly attempted by securing the…

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Farmer. Fancy Prices for Stock

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 2 October 1889 · page 2

If any farmers neglect their own interests through prejudice, They will not pay what they call "fancy prices" for better animals then their own. But what if this so-called…

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Failure in Butter Making

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1889 · page 12

Mrs. Kate M. Buswick, in the Jersey Bulletin, explains why some women fail in their butter making. We frequently hear (she writes) the complaint, "My…

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Green Food Eor Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1889 · page 12

Green feed for sheep is thus written of Professor Sanborn, of the Missouri Agricultural College :—" It has been shown that sheep are more responsive to…

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The Farm, Station, and Garden. the Cost of a Butter Factory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1889 · page 12

The manager of the Tungamah butter factory, in Victoria, writes:—For a butter factory all you need at first are two large rooms, ?n engine room, and a cool…

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Wool and Station Produce Reports. Melbourne, October 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1889 · page 4

Messrs. DALGETY and COMPANY (LIMITED) report:—Wool.—The local selling season opens to-day, and brisk competition and satisfactory prices are expected. Tallow.—Quotations are…

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Miscellaneous. My Daniel. the Farmer Speaks

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 October 1889 · page 1

You don't know Daniel, I reckon; well Daniel's my oldest son; He's a reg'lar bloomin' cerus with nary a fault but one…

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Farmer. Education Among Farmers. How shall Farmers Retain and Make Practical their School Learning?

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 October 1889 · page 2

No class in the community is more anxious to provide good schools than are our farmers, and none so ready to sustain them at great cost, and often at great personal…

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Hume Farmers' Union

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1889 · page 17

The postponed annual meeting of the Hume Farmers' Union was held at skinner's hotel, Burrumbuttock, on Saturday, September 28. Mr. D. Reid occupied the chair…

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Melbourne Wool Bales. From [?] MORT [?] Wednesday. [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 2

The opening wool sales of the season [?] warehouses to-day, and passed off with [?] The saleroom was crowded with [?] was keen for every lot. Inferior to good [?]…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne October 2

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 2

WOOL—The local [?] season opens to-day, and brisk competition and [?] priced are expected. It is hardly likely that the [?] will be in fall swing for a week or a [?] yet, as [?] operations are protracted…

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 October 1889 · page 4

MESSRS DALGETY AND Co. Limited, Melbourne reports under date October 2:—Wool—The local selling season opens to-day, and brisk competition and satisfactory prices are…

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Dairy Hints

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 9 October 1889 · page 2

The testimony accumulates that it is better to feed milch cown but twice per day, as it is alleged that well-fed cows can put in their time resting and remasticating their…

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Farmer The Care of Milk

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 9 October 1889 · page 2

The practical dairyman should know the composition of milk and what he wants to get out of it. In 100 pounds of milk there is about four pounds of butter. 3½ pounds…

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Disease From Work. Ills That Afflict Farmers, Bakers and Day-Laborers. Maladies of Glass-Blowers Boiler-Makers, El[?] and Stokers on Railroads—Blacksmiths and Teamsters also Suffer from Serious Afflictions

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 9 October 1889 · page 1

Those persons who are engaged in out-of-door occupations, as a rule, breathe a purse air and have plenty of muscular exercise. They are usually robust and brawny, and…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 October 1889 · page 2

SINCE last report the weather has been cold and wintry, and again very hot for the time of year. On the 4th, 5th, and 6th slight showers fell--7 points in all--and on the…

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