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Farming & the land, 1890

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Farming for Olive Oil

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 January 1890 · page 12

Olive culture has attained enormous proportions in Italy. It is computed that the amount of oil produced annually in the entire kingdom is 33,000,000 gallons…

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The Farm, Station, and Garden. Fruit Blights and Their Remedy

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 January 1890 · page 11

From a work published by the New Zealand Government we extract the following:— THE CHIEF DISEASES OP FRUIT TREES, ALSO…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, January 24, [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 2

The weather has again been extremely hot and there does not seem the [?] appearance of a [?] change. It is now over nine weeks since there was any rain of consequence in Riverina, the fall on the 18th and 17th November of about…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne. January 32

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 2

WOOL—We held oat eleventh wool sale of the present season on Friday last, when we offered 2201 bales to the usual master of buyers. For all good wools competition was brisk and prices were well maintained, but faulty wools of…

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Farmer. Remedies For Cattle Lice

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 29 January 1890 · page 2

Kerosene and lard, kerosene emulsion, potato water and pyrethum were experimented with upon the following results:—…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 2

NOTWITHSTANDING the numerous fires which have destroyed so much grass in the district, the country continues to carry the stock fairly well, although the outlook for…

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Wodonga Cattle Sales

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 4

Messrs. EDWARD TRENCHARD and Co. report having conducted a most satisfactory sale by auction last Friday at our yards, Wodonga, of 1000 Corella bullocks, the property of John…

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Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society. Annual Meeting

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 24

The annual meeting of the above society took place on Wednesday at the Albury Hotel. Mr. Grieve occupied the chair. The Chairman having read a telegram from…

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Benambra Agricultural and Pastoral Society. First Annual Show. Tallangatta

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 19

The inaugural show of the B[?]nambre Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held in the sale yards of Messrs. Griffith and Co. a Tallangatta, on Thursday, 23rd inst. The…

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Wool and Station Produce Reports. Melbourne, January 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 4

Messrs. GOLDSBROUGH, MORT, and Co LIMITED offered 2683 bales of wool, of which 1887 bales were sold. In addition to these some 342 bales have been sold privately during the…

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Commercial Intelligence. the Antwerp Wool Sales. London, January 23

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 18

The Antwerp wool sales opened yesterday. The attendance of buyers was only moderately good, and the competition was not very animated. The quantity of Australian wool…

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Farmer. Protection Against Flies. Some Suggestions for Protecting Dumb Animals from These Pests

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 2

The plague of flies touches a very tender spot—the pocket-book—for it causes animals to lose flesh, or at least to make less gain than they would otherwise. By…

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Farmer. Evidences of History

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 2

We do well at times to peep into the past with a view to ascertaining whence our stock came, how it was made, and why we have managed to permit it to degenerate into…

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The Farm, Station, and Garden. Fruit Blights and Their Remedy

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 12

From a work published by the New Zealand Government we extract the following:— THE CHIEF DISEASES OF FRUIT TREES, ALSO…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Denillquln, Friday Evening, January 31,1890

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 2

THE weather has been a little more endurable this week, but the temperature continues to range a little over a hundred degrees in the official shade. Once or twice during the week a change threatened, and on one occasion a few drops of…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, January 28

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 2

WOOL—Local Sales—After about a fortnight’s suspension our local wool sales were resumed to-day, when about 3000 bales of wool were offered to the usual master of buyers. Our next sale [?] held on Friday next, the 31st inst.,…

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London Wool Sales. From the Australian Mortgage Land and [?] Company, Melbourne

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 2

We have received the following telegram from Messrs Helmuth, Schwar[?] and Co., dated London, [?] January :.—“ Wool sales— The sales opened with a large attendance of both Home and foreign buyers…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. Melbourne, January 30

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 2

We continued our wool sales to-day, when a catalogue of 4000 bales was offered to a full attendance of the trade. The bulk of the wool offered was either oddments or else late [?] wools, and taking this into…

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Farmer. Evidences of History

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 5 February 1890 · page 2

We do well at times to peep into the past with a view to ascertaining whence our stook came, how it was made, and why we have managed to permit it to degenerate into…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 February 1890 · page 2

WITH the terribly prolonged beat and drought we live in a state of continual dread of bad news from the back country, and although we hear of bush fires and…

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