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Farming & the land, 1893

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 5

[?] expect the land to feed you, the [?] well fed [?] To make the winter dairy profitable, you [?] by filling a good big [?]…

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The Queen As a Farmer

Riverina Recorder · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 1

IT is not generally known that the Queen is a tenant farmer, and pays rent to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, for her two Windsor Farms. Her Majesty takes…

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The Wheat Season

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 January 1893 · page 13

The estimates lately issued by the Government Statistician, Mr. T. A. Coghlan, point to there being reaped in New South Wales this season the largest harvest of wheat that…

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Preparing Land for Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 January 1893 · page 13

After ploughing thoroughly it is very important to have land intended to be sown to fall wheat, that it be prepared in as good condition as possible. The soil to the depth of three or…

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Defying the Stock Tax. Smuggling at Delegate. Seizure of 40 Head of Cattle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 January 1893 · page 27

For some time past the Victorian Customs authorities have suspected that the stock tax has been more honoured in the breach than the observance at Delegate, a crossing town…

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Barooga Estate Farms

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 6 January 1893 · page 2

Writing in last week’s Australasian “Bruni” says :—“One of the most notable features in connection with the land in Southern Riverina is the breaking up of the…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. January 6, [?] Deniliquin, Friday [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 2

[?] has been fine and warm. [?] a week or two since have [?] and no further outbreaks have [?] district is still fairly supplied with…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and company Limited). Melbourne, January 4

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 2

WOOL—Since the close of the London November series nothing of any consequence has that market; our cables however, advise [?] that the industry is well employed, And that the quo[?] of Bradford tops are…

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Dalgety & Co's. Wool Sales. Melbourne

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 2

Our wool sales were resumed today after the Christmas recess, and we had a very large attendance of buyers at our sale which comprised 3,6OO bales, mostly medium wools…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 5

It does not pay to keep surplus roostart after cold weather sots in. Dispose of them to the best advantage for they will cost all they will gain from the time they cease…

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Third Wagga Sheep Test Prize

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 January 1893 · page 12

The detailed report M to the Third Wa[?] Sheep Test Prize of £85 is given below. The prices :—let, £50 ; 2nd, £25 ; 3rd, £10 ; and the competition was:—For three ewes, 18…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney, January 10

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 January 1893 · page 4

Messrs. GOLDSBROUGH, MO[?]T, AND CO, LIMITED report:—At our first sale of the new year and 17th of the season we offered to-day 4044 bales wool to a full attendance of buyers…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Offices. Deniliquin Friday Evening, January 18, [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 2

THE weather has been hot throughout the week, and there does not [?] any immediate prospect of a change. The temperature, however is not nearly so high as the average of previous years, and the heat is [?]…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 3

SIR,—Kindly grant me apace in the columns of your valuable paper to return my [?] thanks to Lons Suey for collecting, and the Chinese residents for contributing, the handsome sum of seventeen…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, January 11

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 2

WOOL—According to our London cables the Industry keeps well employed, and although manufacturer complain of too narrow margins for profit, the consumption is going on steadily. Shipments from all the Australian colonlas…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. [?] the Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited, Melbourne. Tuesday, January 10

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 3

We offered 4000 bales of wool to-day, and sold 3690. There was a very active sale, and [?] were full but [?] generally, although pieces and bellies [?] Greasy sola to 9[?] for Carabothla, Sycamoure,…

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The Extension of the Pastoral Leases

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 2

The question of the extension of the postural lenses of the Central Division of the colony has been frequently before the Assembly lately, and on…

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 4

AUSTRALIAN MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COY., LIMITED, Melbourne, 11th January, report:—Wool.—We held our first sale since the holidays on Tuesday, 10th instant,…

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Pastoral Leases in the Central Division

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 2

ON Wednesday last Mr Gormley moved the adjournment of the House, to discuss the question of the extension of the pastoral, leases in the central division…

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A French Potato Crop

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 5

This story comes all the way from France: Some wonderful results with regard to potato culture have been obtained by a gentleman farmer in France. This farmer,…

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