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Farming & the land, 1893

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, May 12, 1893

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 May 1893 · page 2

ANOTHER grand fall of rain was experienced on Wednesday last the local registration being 63 points. This together with last week fall of 54 points has done a large amount of good. There is a distinct improvement…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 May 1893 · page 2

Sir.—The return of Mr McCredie for Central Cumberland is a convincing proof that the country is rapidly becoming sick of the payment of members system, which instead of proving a means of…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety, and Company limited). Melbourne. May 10

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 May 1893 · page 2

WOOL—Our last London cables advise the closing of the second series of wool sales, without any farther chance in prices. There was an available total for the series of 856,000 bales, which included Cape wools and old stock, and of…

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Farm and Garden

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 May 1893 · page 1

The lazy dog is pestered most by the flies. A calf is not valued by the loudness of its bawl…

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WOOL & Stock Reports Sydney

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 17 May 1893 · page 2

Warden Harry Graves telegraph as follows:—At the Homebush market to-day there were 1300 cattle yarded, marked firm for best quality. Sheep—20,000…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 17 May 1893 · page 5

Kaffir corn is deserving of wider cultivation than it has yet attained. It seems well adapted to a large section of the country and is valuable both for forage and grain…

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Pastoral Prospects

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1893 · page 29

The Dispatch says :—“The season In the Dubbo, Bogan, and Castlereagh districts is the heat experienced for years. There is abundance of grass and water. Stock are looking…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 May 1893 · page 2

The Mulwala district will be a phenomenally large contributor to the New South Wales wheat supply of next season, if we take the cultivation of the Murray stations…

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The Victorian Butter Bonuses

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1893 · page 29

The Minister of Agriculture has not by any means disposed of the butter bonus trouble yet. On Friday, for instance, a deputation of butter merchants saw him and asked that…

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Sheep Killed by Dogs

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1893 · page 29

Complaints have (says a Deniliquin paper) been frequent recently about valuable sheep having been killed on various stations about Deniliquin by wandering dogs, and the matter…

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The Agriculturist. Dairy Skimmings

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 May 1893 · page 1

Franco has 7,000,000 head of cattle, which yield daily 2,000,000 gallons of milk, worth 216,000,000 annually. The Flemish, Norman, and Breton breeds of cattle give…

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The Farmers’ Conference

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1893 · page 24

The farming districts ate collecting their forces in many places, and selecting delegates to represent them at the coming Cootamundra Land Conference. Athough the work of the…

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The Largest English Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1893 · page 13

The honour of possessing the largest farm in England must be given to the owner of With[?] Farm, near Louth, in Lincolnshire. The farm consists of the whole parish of Withcall,…

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The Victorian Dairy Expert in England. Mr. D. Wilson’s Proceedings. London, May 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1893 · page 18

Mr. D. Wilson, the Victorian dairy expert, has paid a visit inspection to the Earl of Hope[?]oun’s farms at Bathgate, Linlithgowshire. He highly approves of…

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Farmers’ Conference. (To the Editor Berrigan Advocate.)

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 19 May 1893 · page 2

SIR,—Noting the apathy of the local farmers re the “Farmers’ Conference” about to be held at Cootamundra, and being of the opinion that the conference will do good, I…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin Friday Evening May 19, 1893

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 May 1893 · page 2

FINE weather has ruled throughout the week. The [?] have been [?] cold and [?] re frequent The bright and [?] weather during [?] ever is developing the [?] but it is [?]…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, May 17

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 May 1893 · page 2

WOOL—Our markets are quiet, and there is nothing doing. SHEEPSKINS—This market greatly recovered its tone last week, and we found little difficulty in disposing of all forward. Prices, though firm, were unchanged. We quote as…

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Farm and Garden

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 May 1893 · page 1

There seems to be some sort of a connection between the warmth of spring, and the fertility of the eggs. The wild fowl, from which the domestic is supposed to be…

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Meeting of Sheep Directors

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 24 May 1893 · page 2

A MEETING of the Board of Sheep Directors was held on Friday afternoon, Mr. Dill in the chair, and Messrs. D. Grant, G. Malrose, and I. Anderson were present…

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Wheat Culture in India

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 24 May 1893 · page 5

Before sowing his wheat, the Hindoo, farmer consults a Brahmin, to fix the suspicious time. This being determined, he appoints a man to do the first towing, after…

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