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Farming & the land, 1892

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Dalgety & Co's Wool Sales. MELBOURNE

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 2 November 1892 · page 3

Our wool sale today comprised 2600 bales, chiefly medium to good Riverina clips with some from the Darling districts, and a number of smaller Victorian clips. We had a…

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Farmer. Arrangement of Grounds

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 2 November 1892 · page 2

If any class of people should have pleasant grounds and surroundings, is the farmer class, yet it is a lamentable fact that few farmers do have their farms ornamented…

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An Optimist Farmer

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 2 November 1892 · page 1

"Isn't it odd," says Spatts, "that one never meets an optimist farmer?" "I met one while I was spending a few weeks in the western part of the country,…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 2 November 1892 · page 5

Foul air does not conduce to the health of stock any more than to human beings. It does not pay to wash sheep sand then handle the fiec[?] so carelessly that it…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 November 1892 · page 2

EVERYTHING is in favour of a splendid harvest. Warm days succeed copious showers and it is grand growing weather. In orchards [?]light on peach trees is…

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London Wheat Market

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1892 · page 4

THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO. LIMITED are in receipt of a cable message from London, dated November 1 : —“The wheat market is inactive, and has a…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney, October 27

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1892 · page 37

GOLDSBROUGH, MORT, and Co. LIMITED report:—We offered 2649 bales of wool to-day to a full representative attendance of buyers, who competed with the greatest animation for…

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Cow Peas. Liberal Offer to Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1892 · page 13

The Department of Agriculture has received liberal offer from the general manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company with regard to growing the above valuable plant for…

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

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1892 · page 13

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Where the ground intended for celery is vacant, it is best to prepare the trenches beforehand. It appears to be generally considered that a single row in a…

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Ostrich Farming in South Africa

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1892 · page 25

Ostrich farming is one of the important industries of South Africa, which as yet furnishes the bulk of the ostrich plumes for the markets of the world. There are probably…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, November [?] 1892

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 November 1892 · page 2

Over quarter of an inch of rain fell on Tuesday last and [?] then the weather has been fine. The temperature is beginning to get up to summer [?] but so far it has been an exceedingly mild season…

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Mr. Walker’s Lecture. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 November 1892 · page 2

Sir,—Admitting that Mr. Walker is a fluent speaker and that he has the power of making his addresses interesting, it is to be regretted that the same cannot be said of the accuracy of his historical…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 November 1892 · page 2

WOOL—Our wool tale to-day comprised [?] bales, chiefly medium to good Riverina clips, [?] some from the [?] district, and a number of smaller Victorian clips. We had a crowded attendance of buyers, who [?] for…

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 November 1892 · page 4

THE AUSTRALIAN MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY, Limited, Melbourne, 2nd November, report:—Wool: An active market, and strong competition up to previously quoted…

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The Mundawaddera Farmers Association on Mr Copeland

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 November 1892 · page 4

The Mundawaddera Farmers' Association at a meeting the other day adopted the following resolution:—"That this Association has no…

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Wool & Stock Reports

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 9 November 1892 · page 2

BRADE STEVENSON AND CO. of Deniliquin and Hay, report having sold for week ending 5th November; 238 head mixed cattle on acc[?]ount James and Gard,…

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The Duties on Sheep Dips

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 9 November 1892 · page 2

IT would be difficult to over estimate the importance of the sheep and wool industry to these colonies, Yet, prodigious as this industry has now become it is only in…

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Dalgety & Co's: Wool Sales. MELBOURNE

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 9 November 1892 · page 2

Owing to the arrivals of wool being delayed through the wet weather we offered a moderate catalogue of 1800 bales at our sale today, and experienced a continuance of the strong demaznd previously reported…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 9 November 1892 · page 5

The period of moulting in fowls is a trying one and they should have extra care during the time. Give them plenty of grain, and two or three times a week, a feed…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Tural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 November 1892 · page 2

IT is to be feared that wide-spread loss will be the result of the past few days' rain. From nearly all quarters comes the sorry intelligence that the crops are down,…

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