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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1890

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Farm and Garden. Live Stock Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 2

Shelter in Pasture.--We have often urged the need, in a treeless pasture, of some shelter to afford the animals protection from the excesaive heat of the sun. If this shelter…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March 21, [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 2

A SATISFACTORY break in the drought which has been almost continuous in t his district [?] the middle of December last, occurred on Tuesday. Rain fell heavily for an hour or two, and then steadily for the greater portion of the day, the…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne. March 19

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 2

Wool.—Local Sales—The Melbourne wool sales are in the resumed to-morrow (Thursday), and will be continued on Friday and also on Monday, the 24th Instant, in which latter date we shall hold a small sale. London wool…

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A Vermont Merino Wool Test. (To the Editor of the Argus)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 4

SIR,—We have received a copy of your paper Commenting on our proposition in the American Wool Grower of May last ; for same please accept our thanks…

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A Vermont Merino Wool Test

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 25 March 1890 · page 4

Sir,—We have received a copy of your paper commenting on our proposition in the American Wool Grower of May last; for same please accept our…

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Rust in Wheat

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 26 March 1890 · page 2

The intercolonial conference which has been discussing the prevalence of rust in wheat has been able to do little more than point out in what direction…

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Why Salt is Good for Cattle

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 26 March 1890 · page 4

In an article on Why Cattle are Salted," the "american Dairyman says:—" As soon as the food enters the stomach the natural tendency is…

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Butter Factories of New South Wales. Gratifying Evidence of Progress Under Freetrade

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 26 March 1890 · page 2

On Tuesday llth March, the first consignment of butter from the Mudgee Co-operative Factory arrived in Sydney, and sold at the South Coast and…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 March 1890 · page 2

SINCE last report we have had 46 points of rain, which fell on Monday afternoon last, and since then the weather has turned quite cold. Young grass has begun to…

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Vetermary. Diseases in Cattle

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 March 1890 · page 2

Dadd says the pathology, or doctrine of diseases is little understood. Many different causes have been assigned for diseases, and as many different modes of cure have been…

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The Farm, Station, and Garden. Victorian Agriculture

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 March 1890 · page 12

There has of late years been a decided improvement in the methods followed in dealing with the soil. In far too many cases culitvators still persist in the ruinous…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March 28, 1890

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 2

SINCE the rain last week the weather has been agreeably cool and pleasant. The [?] have wonderfully improved, and the grass, consequent on the late rain has [?] up two or [?] inches in the week. The stock [?] between here…

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The United States Wool and Woollen Duties

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 4

The Republican Committees of Ways and Means (the committee of taxation) of the United States Congress propose several alterations in the import duties upon wool. They recommended…

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Open Column. “What Price the Handicapping?” (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 2

SIR,—If the promoters of the Easter athletic sports at Deniliquin had plainly intimated their intention of only offering pri[?]es for local residents, they would have been perfectly justified in so…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, March [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 2

WOOL—We held our fourteenth sale of the present season on Monday afternoon, [?] we offered 186 bales to a good attendance of buyers. Although, in consequence of the lateness of the season, the selection of wool was…

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Determa[?]. Diseases in Cattle

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 2 April 1890 · page 2

Dadd says she pathology, or doctrine of diseases is little understood. Many different causes have been assigned for disease, and as many different modes of cure have been…

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Farming in America

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 2 April 1890 · page 1

IN America the farming problem occurs; and an analysis of it contributed by Mr. George Cary Eggleston to the New York World is…

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That Dog and Sheep

The Riverine Grazier · Thursday 3 April 1890 · page 2

We know one flock of tea pure-bred sheep which produced in one season twenty-three lamb?, the proceeds of which, when sold, netted £6 for each ewe. The profits on the…

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Farmer. The Old Methods of Farming

The Riverine Grazier · Thursday 3 April 1890 · page 2

How awfully hard were the old ways of farming. As sad reconnection presents them to light, The old iron plough that was drawn by the…

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The Farmers' Movement in Victoria

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Thursday 3 April 1890 · page 2

WHAT vitality there is in the farmers' movement for fiscal relief, which has been commenced in the Numurkah district, remains to be seen; but the…

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