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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1893

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Wodonga Butter Factory Company

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 December 1893 · page 25

A meeting of the suppliers of milk and of the shareholders in the company was held in the shire ball on Monday evening, to consider the advisab[?]ness of adding a refrigerator to the…

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New Wool Stores

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 December 1893 · page 4

In the weekly article on the wool trade the S. M. Herald of November 23 remarks:—Several new wool stores have been opened during the current…

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British and American Wheat Growing

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 December 1893 · page 6

The Quarterly Review, in a recent issue, treats at length off "Competition in Wheat Growing," and says that "after three years of unremunerative prices, many…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney, November 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 December 1893 · page 37

Messrs GOLDSBROUGH, MORT, and Co. report: —For our first sale of the week we offered yesterday 2090 bales of wool, reserving 5000 bales for our auction this afternoon. Buyers…

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Care For Crop Bound Fowls

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 December 1893 · page 4

Considerable complaint is heard about crop bound fowls. Here is a cure for this complaint from The Fanciers' Monthly, which is very simple and, it is claimed,…

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Dairying Near Numurkah

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 December 1893 · page 27

Mr. C. T. Bunnett, farmer, Katanga East, has lately gone into the dairying industry largely, which he finds to be more profitable than cereal growing. From a milking herd of 30…

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The Lismore Experimental Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 December 1893 · page 29

Mr. W. S. Campbell, chief clerk in the Department of Agriculture, has returned from his visit to the experimental farm near Lismore. Mr. Campbell states that there is a…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 December 1893 · page 13

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—It is rare that leeks are grown in length Proportional to their thickness ; they should be either planted in trenches. Successional…

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The Wheat Crop of New South Wales. the Official Report

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 December 1893 · page 4

The New South Wales Government [?] having taken [?] from the Department of [?] the duty of reporting on the growing crops, bus now issued his report on the wheat…

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[?] Pastoral Times Offices. Deniliquin Friday Evening, December 1,1893

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 December 1893 · page 2

THE [?] has been cool during the week, and [?] was [?] low for this [?] of the year. The days are [?] and there [?] out teem any signs of an [?] change. The…

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Land Law Reform. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 December 1893 · page 3

SIR,—The leading features jot the manifesto submitted to the Minister for Lands by the representatives of the country party in the Legislative Assembly embody [?] which are undoubtedly…

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Open Column. What Is the Contingent Vote? (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 December 1893 · page 3

SIR,—The possible mischievous and unlocked for result of the recent change in our electoral system, by enabling parliamentary representation to become monopolised by a minority, instead of being enjoyed…

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Melbourne Wool Markets. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, November 27

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 December 1893 · page 2

WOOL—At our wool sale on Monday we offered 3100 hales. which attracted very keen competition, neatly the whole catalane being sold at equal to the heel rates of the season. Our market continues extremely firm, and is [?]…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From the Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited, Melbourne. Tuesday, November 28

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 December 1893 · page 3

We had excellent competition at our wool was sale to-day [?] 4730 bales, and sold about 4400 bales. Good [?] merinos were firm, and [?] for other sorts were [?] at about late rates. Sales were effected to…

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Farm and Garden

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 December 1893 · page 1

One of the best tonics for chickens is to keep a few rusty nails in every vessel in which they have water. In hot weather there is nothing that will…

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Hornless Cattle Again

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 6 December 1893 · page 5

Horns are not only dangerous to persons, but to property, as horned cattle use the weapons freely on seen other, often to their permanent injury. Especially when crowded…

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Dalgety's Weekly Wool Sale. MELBOURNE, Dec. 4th

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 6 December 1893 · page 3

At our wool sale today we offered 3400 bales comprising an excellent selection of gond to superior merinos and crossbreds chiefly from Western Victoria, Gippsland…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 6 December 1893 · page 5

Potash is solubla, and manures that are exposed to rains lose this element very quickly. It is not of much use to bed with absorbents, to save the liquids, and then…

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Helps for the Dairy Woman

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 6 December 1893 · page 6

The value of washing gods for cleaning the various dairy atensils cannot be overrated. It is most important to guard against acidity in any vessels need about…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 December 1893 · page 2

YESTERDAY was the sixteenth day without a drop of rain, and the continued heat is telling much on the pasture. On Tuesday the thermometer registered…

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