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Farming & the land, 1893

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Sheep Breeding in Riverina [?] Station

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 October 1893 · page 4

Moroco station [?] about the same re[?] to the majority of the pastoral holdings in Riverina [?] does the oldest representative in [?] a district to the community generally…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin Friday Evening, October 6, 1893

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 October 1893 · page 2

THE weather has been decidedly not during the week A very heavy thunderstorm passed over the district last Saturday night and was [?] by heavy rain in [?] About Deniliquin 80 points fall, but down…

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Open Column, Preaching the Impossible. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 October 1893 · page 3

[?]—There is every certainty that the impending [?] of the Legislative Assembly will be im[?] followed by a rush of parliamentary [?] professing opinions of the most…

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Melbourne Wool Markets (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, October 4

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 October 1893 · page 2

WOOL—Our London fables advise a firm market and values well maintained for all descriptions. The, opening sales of the present season in Australia took plane in Adelaide on 26th and 27th September, when, out of 8800 bales offered…

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Farm and Garden. Boarding the Strawberry Bed

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 October 1893 · page 3

Mulching or covering strawberry beds with boards, and boring large holes in which to insert the plants, might prove a good system, but at the same time, a rather…

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The Farmers of the Chinese Empire

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 October 1893 · page 2

The farmer of America has his ideas about farming and so has the farmer of the Orient. The difference in culture is great and so is the [?]ifference in yield, the balance…

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Wheat

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

Clean seed wheat can be gotten most easily by a little work before harvest. I have found that I can run over a few acres of standing wheat rapidly, taking out all…

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The Effort of Machine-shearing on the Production of Wool

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 11 October 1893 · page 2

MR. GEORGE CURRIE, of puckawidgee, has been experimenting during the last three shearing seasons with machine and hand shearing, so that the merits of each system…

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Farm and Garden

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

A good authority claims that in a hundred pounds of corn, eight pounds go to make mascle and bone and seventy-five pounds to make fat. In a hundred pounds of oats…

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Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 October 1893 · page 27

A meeting of the committee of this society was held on Wednesday. Mr. G- A. Thompson occupied the chair, the other members present being Messrs Chauncy, Bowyer-Smith, E. J…

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The Agriculturist. Sheltebing Cattle and Horses

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 October 1893 · page 1

The housing or stabling of stock in the colonies has been wonderously neglected by the dairyman, teamster, farmer and worker of horses. It is right and proper…

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The Farm Amd Garden. Calendar of Operations for October

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

Owing to the large quantity of rain that fell during September many seeds that could have been sown then have been held back waiting for finer weather, and should now be put in…

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Horse and Dairy Stock. Melbourne, October 11

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

Messrs. CAMPBELL and SONS, Kirk’s Bazaar, report :— Horses.—A fair week’s business has been transacted. The supply of horses for the week has been fairly good, and the quality an…

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The Dairy Business

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 October 1893 · page 29

The Queenslander says: — “All who have recently visited New Zealand have been greatly struck with the number of dairy factories planted all along the east coast of the…

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Concerning Cream and Butter

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 October 1893 · page 2

It has generally been believed that milk to yield cream most perfectly in cold weather, must be kept in a warm atmosphere. Some experiments that I have made…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin Friday Evening, October 13 1893

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 October 1893 · page 2

A LITTLE over a quarter of an inch of rain fell since last report [?] of the district it was very much [?]. At [?] points were [?], but out at [?] there was [?] than a quarter of that…

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Open Column Union HONOUR,(To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 October 1893 · page 3

SIR—During the last shearer’s strike numbers of their sympat[?] helped them extensively. One this district, housed no less than 80, and supplied them with wood and water for three weeks, the…

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Melbourne Wool Markets (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, October 11

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 October 1893 · page 2

WOOL—The fourth series of London sales was brought to a [?] on 7th inst, comp[?] being brisk to the last and prices [?]. The [?] in these sales was [?] bales as against [?] bales in the [?] series…

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Messrs F. L. Barker and Co. S New Wool Store

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 14 October 1893 · page 3

THE opening of Messrs F. L. Barker and Company a new wool store and sale rooms Prymonnd to or place list Friday, there being a large attendance of those…

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Farm and Garden

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 October 1893 · page 2

The grower should understand at once that choice berries are always in demand, at good prices, and the market is never overstocked…

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