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Farming & the land, 1893

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 July 1893 · page 1

SIR,—Events are progressing rapidly. The other day Australian federation was an abstract question. Now it has been brought within the range of practical politics. For years it has been the favourite…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, June 27

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 July 1893 · page 2

WOOL.—Our London office cable as under date of 24th inst. as follows :—“ Wool sales continue firm, the lately reported rates fully maintained. Activity prevails, and competition is brisk. English and French buyers are the…

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Care of Dairy Utensils

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 July 1893 · page 3

In no other work is there as great a demand for cleanliness as in the three parts of the dairy business, milk, butter and cheese. The most attention is needed to…

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Clean Crops

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 July 1893 · page 3

To secure the best thrift during growth, to secure the best yield and to be able to harvest under the most favorable conditions, it is very necessary to give clean…

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Farm and Garden. Seasonable Planting

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 July 1893 · page 3

Work may be out of season because early’ as well as because too late. It is bad policy to plant or sow before the ground is ready. Corn planted in cold, wet, cloddy ground…

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The Farmers' Conference and the Central Division Leases

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 4 July 1893 · page 2

THE annual conference of delegates of the various farmers and selectors' associations of the colony was held last week ast Cootamundra, and the…

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Pastoral

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 5 July 1893 · page 2

Heavy frosts have been prevalent since last issue, and these have in a measure retarded the growth of the gross, but for all that the young feed…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 5 July 1893 · page 1

If you have no strawberry bed upon the in [?] better one. While about if you had better make it a quarter or had an acts in extent and so have a surplus of fruit for…

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Bosh Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 29

The hill, of which Mr. Graham gave notice in the Assembly, to regulate the sale of margerine is to contain very stringent provisions. It will be drawn so as to protect both the…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 2

HEAVY frosts have occurred during the past week, the most severe being that of last Sunday night, when the thermometer registered 5 degrees below freezing point…

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No Sheep for Chicago

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 29

It was originally intended to send exhibits of well-selected sheep to Chicago as representing the flocks of the colonies, and a few months ago the committee having charge of…

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Smoking Seed Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 12

“When you are ready to plant,” says a correspondent of the Practical Farmer, U.S.A., put your corn in a sack, hang it in a smokehouse or any close place, and give it a thorough…

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Batio of Butter From Jerseys

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 1

In a paper which Mr J. F. Hall contributed to the journal of the Bath and West of England Society, he writes:--"If the cows are Jerseys do not be content with a ratio of less…

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Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 19

A meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. E. Kernan occupied the chair, and the other members present were Messrs. Bowyer-Smith, Grieve,…

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A Wrinkle for Graziers. 1100 Sheep to 21 Acres

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 12

Says the Lyttelton (N.Z) Times:—In the course of a case in the Wellington court against a dairyman, Mr. J. C. Martin, B.M., told a rather amusing story. “I remember,”…

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A Famous Dairy and Poultry Farm. An American Vice-President's Property. The Virtues of Ensilage. Some Extraordinary Records

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 4

The New York Tribune contains a long and exhaustive description of Ellerslie, the model farm owned and occupied by Mr Levi Parsons Morton…

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Co-operation in Farming

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 12

The following letter appeared in the Argus : — “Sir,—I have just read with great interest and pleasure your able and sensible articles in your issue of even date. There can be no…

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The Farmers’ Annual Conference

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 25

The annual conference of the farmers from the different unions throughout the colony was opened in the Assembly Hall, Coolamundra, on Tuesday, 27th June…

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The Farmers’ Conference

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 2

The second conference of representatives of the farmers’ unions of New South Wales has just concluded satisfactorily, and the gain to the farming…

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History and Development of Sheep Farming

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 July 1893 · page 2

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a new book on “The History and Development of Sheep Farming” by Mr C. McIvor. In a colony largely devoted to the growth of sheep and the exportation of wool,…

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