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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1892

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Dalgety & Co's. Wool Sales. Melbourne

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 7 December 1892 · page 3

We offered to-day 3,600 bales wool to a full attendance of buyers and report a brisk market at full late rates. Our catalogue comprised a varied selection of medium to good…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 7 December 1892 · page 5

The dairyman, in buying cows, must look first to the dairy type as a matter of course. But the nearer the cow [?] approach the beef type the greater will be her value when…

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Albury Butter Factory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1892 · page 25

A public meeting was held at the Council Chambers on Tuesday last to consider the proposal to establish a butter factory in Albury. Mr. A. Phillips, mayor of the borough,…

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Pastoral and Agrioul Toral Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 December 1892 · page 2

Cool weathersince Wednesday's thunder storm, when 86 points of rain fall, with high wind. Reports of fires from different directions…

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Cows and Butter Production

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1892 · page 13

Does the production of butter exhaust the vitality of the cow and render her less valuable for breeding purposes ? is a question which is now exciting a good deal of attention in…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney, December 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1892 · page 37

Messrs. GOLDSBROUGH, MORT, AND CO. LIMITED report:—We have offered 9441 bales of wool this week, our catalogue to-day comprising 7762 bales. The selection was exceptionally…

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

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1892 · page 13

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—The distance apart at which the various root crops should be left to grow depends to some extent upon the distance between the rows, for if there is…

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Berrigan Farmers’ Union. How to Break a Wheatbuyer’s . RING

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 9 December 1892 · page 2

The Berrigan Farmers’ Union met at the Federal hotel last Saturday night, Mr John Jones in the chair. The object, which was explained by…

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Farms and Homes around Berrigan the Judging- Tour [ by Our Special Reporter.] (Continued from last issue )Mr John O’ Shannessy

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 9 December 1892 · page 2

Owns 3860 acres about 10 miles N.W. of Berrigan, on which he has resided for 12 years. Latterly he has purchased 340 acres of the [?]…

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Open Column. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 December 1892 · page 3

SIR,—By your to-day’s issue I see that yon state that my son, Arthur Ashton, was charged with damaging trees. I beg to correct this statement. My son was charged with damaging part of a tree,…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Offices. Deniliquin Friday Evening, December 9,[?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 December 1892 · page 2

THE father has been [?] cool and pleasant for this time of the year. During the past two days it has been [?] with cloude of dust [?] On Wednesday two or three light showers [?] but only ten…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, December 6

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 December 1892 · page 2

WOOL—We offered to day 8600 bales of wool to a fall attendance of buyers, and report a brisk market at full late rates. Our catalogue comprised a varied selection of medium to good merlans and crossbreds. which elicited very keen…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From the Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company. Limited, Melbourne. Tuesday, December 6

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 December 1892 · page 2

We offered at auction to-day 2670 bales of wool, and sold 2530. Competition was very active and full prices obtained. Gressy sold to 10.1, scoured to 14.1, [?] to 15[?]d. Cornedale brought 101. Nichol to [?]…

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Packing Butter

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 14 December 1892 · page 5

Golden pumpkins can be turned into golden butter simply through the process of feeding them to your cows. If you are going to lay down butter for…

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Public Meeting. Proposed Pastoral and Agricultural Society

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 14 December 1892 · page 2

On Friday afternoon, in response to a notice issued by the Mayor, a public meeting was held in the Council Chambers for the purpose of, considering the advisability of…

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Dalgety & Co's. Wool Sales. Melbourne

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 14 December 1892 · page 2

We offered to-day 3,700 bales of wool, and report a most successful sale, buyers being in large attendance and competition extremely keen all round, crossbreds in particular…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 14 December 1892 · page 5

The onion in the colder latitudes becomes as rank as garlic. A Frenchman has invented an envelope which exposes part of the letter to the stamp…

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The Agriculturist. Seeding Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 December 1892 · page 1

Years ago (says John M. Stahl, Illinois, in the American Agriculturist), I noticed, that when I "back-furrowed" in ploughing, having the horses turn on the ploughed…

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New Wheat and Flour

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 December 1892 · page 2

THE present low values offering for wheat, and the possibility of still smaller prices being paid to New South Wales growers for new crop,…

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YOUNGRUSBAND & Co. Limited, report:-- WOOL

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 December 1892 · page 2

They held their usual weekly sale at the Wool Exchange on Wednesday, and the attendance of buyers was again large, and bidding spirited. A slight rise in…

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