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Farming & the land, 1891

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Offices. Deniliquin Friday Evening, October 23,1891

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 24 October 1891 · page 2

THE weather during the early put of the week was remarkably cool, bat to-day it is warm, giving indications of the approaching summer. The week has been without rain, and an inch now would be of much service. Shearing is now…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, October 21

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 24 October 1891 · page 2

WOOL—Our opening wool sale to-day attracted a crowded attendance of English, Continental, American, and local buyers, who competed briskly up to the full equivalent of London and Colonial values, recent prices being well…

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Pastoral

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 28 October 1891 · page 2

Shearing finished at Till Till on the 16th inst. Oakdene cut out at the end of last week. Kilfera will not finish for five weeks yet. Clare, Marfield, Buden Park, and Mt…

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Hay Pastoral Association

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 30 October 1891 · page 2

The annual meeting of the above association was held on Wednesday afternoon at the office of Messrs Wilkinson, Lavender, and Chapman. There were present:—The…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 October 1891 · page 2

IN addition to the widespread devastation caused by "take all" amongst the crops at one end of the district, we have it on the most reliable authority that "rust" has…

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Berrigan Agricultural and Pastoral Society

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 30 October 1891 · page 2

A meeting of the committee of the above society was held on Saturday last at the Federal Hotel. Present : Mr C. Drummond…

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Wodonga Store Cattle Sales

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 October 1891 · page 4

Messrs. RYAN and HAMMOND report about 5000 cattle being yarded at Wodonga on Friday last to a good attendance of buyers, chiefly local, Competition was without animation, and no…

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Wheat. London, October 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 October 1891 · page 18

The cargo of wheat per Faust, 5113 quarters, which sailed from Melbourne on 9th June, and arrived in London on 5th inst, has been sold at 43s, 6d. per 480lb. c.f.i…

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Commercial Intelligence. the Wheat Yield of the United Kingdom. London, October 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 October 1891 · page 18

Sir John B. Lawes estimates that the wheat crop of the United Kingdom averages 30 bushels an acre, and that the total yield is 9,000 000 quarters. This will render necessary…

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Farmer. Care of Farm Horses

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 October 1891 · page 2

THE general appearance of the farm horses throughout the country furnishes convincing proof that the great fundamental principle that feed and work are to one another in…

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Poetry. The Farmer's Wife

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 October 1891 · page 1

Farmer Hayseed talked to a friend. Of the ways of country life; And he said nine tenths of success Depends on a farmer's wife…

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The Farm, Station, and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 October 1891 · page 11

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Though planting double rows of celery in trenches is not much practised, it is a method to be recommended, as more plants may be obtained…

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Hay Pastoral Association

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 2

The annual meeting of this society was held on Wednesday afternoon at the offices of Messrs Wilkinson, Lavender and Chapman. The president, Mr…

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Ideniliquin and Ballarat Sheep Challenge Prizes

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 4

The scoured [?] competing (says the Argus) for the seventh challenge prize of £100 of the Deniliquin Pastoral Society and in the first challenge prize of £25 in the Ballarat Pastoral…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, [?] Friday Evening. October 30, [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 2

On hundred and seventy points of rain have fallen during the past month, of which thirty-eight points fell during the past week. The total [?] the beginning of the year is now over [?] inches. The weather during the last week…

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Open Column. Up in a Balloon. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Time)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 2

SIR.—The Deniliquin Half Holiday Association consistently take the initiative in making rain [?] It should be a matter of policy and pride to [?] Australia. to compress the [?] at once, and [?]…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 2

WOOL—At our wool sale to-day we submitted a choice catalogue of over [?] bales, the best selection offered up to the present, including several of the leading clips from Southern Riverina besides some high class Victorian wools…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From the Australian Mortgage and [?] Company Limited, Melbourne. Tuesday, October 27

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 2

We held a wool sale [?] afternoon before a very full attendance of buyers, when as [?] 2000 hates and sold [?] Competition was very keen, and all [?] brought full [?] on the range established at…

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Wool Scouring Contests

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 November 1891 · page 2

The Deniliquin scouring contest this year (says the Argus) has resulted in a great triumph for Messrs Austin and Millear's celebrated Wanganella flock, who, out of a total…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 November 1891 · page 2

COOL days and nights have been the rule since last writing, but more rain is needed. On Sunday we had 12 points and on Tuesday 5. Grass is plentiful but water is…

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