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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1893

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Dairy Straws

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 1

Filled cheese ape as great an abomination and curse to legitimate dairying as is oleo. margarine. It is a sad reflection on good dairying that many creameries are now…

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Farm and Garden

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 1

The business of manufacturing starch from potatoes has been confined to comparatively few localities. Where it has been carried on it has proven a profitable…

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The Melbourne Baby Farming Cases. Melbourne. Friday, December 15

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 3

[?] for the baby murders, has been sentenced to [?]. The accused fainted and had to be carried out of court. LONDON…

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Kerosene Emulsion for Sheep Ticks

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 5

Six lively sheep ticks will make the existence of a lamb perfectly miserable, and a doses will rain all hope of profit in lamb tesding, however generous the ration. From…

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Dalgety's Weekly Wool Sale. MELBOURNE, Dec. 18th

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 3

At our wool sale today we offered 4900 bales, comprising a very good selection chiefly Victorian, New South Wales and Tasmanian clips. The vigorous demand for…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 5

An authority on Praning says: 'A tree on which the fruit is borne chiefly on the cude of limbs has not been properly pruned. Judiclously trimmed, the fruit buds will be…

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Russian Farmers

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 6

To change Russia will be the work of generations rather than years, and it is necessary to look into the condition of the people in order to understand the…

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Tallangatta Butter Factory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 19

The second annual meeting of shareholders in the Tallangatta Butter Factory and Creamery Company Limited was held in the old courthouse, Tallangatta, on Saturday last. There…

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Romney Marsh Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 14

There has just arrived from New Zialand per Wakatipu a shipment of 20 pure bred Romney Marsh rams, selected by the New Zealand Land Association, acting for the New…

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Prize Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 28

At the Technological Museum, Ultimo, are on view samples of wool from the fourth (1893) Wagga sheep-test for ecoured wool. The conditions for the test are that three ewes be…

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Peculiar Disease in Cattle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 28

For some days past Mr. John Crawford, of Echuca, has been losing a number of cattle from a mysterious epidemic, and the opinion became general that his cattle were affected with…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 2

THE progress report of the Government Statistician, issued a few days ago, bears the cheerful intelligence that the wheat crop of New South…

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Experiments with Wheat

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 3

In respect of some samples of wheat sent by the Department of Agriculture, and sown on the farm of Mr A. Lapthorne on Momalong, the following report is furnished :—…

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Junee Wheat Growers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 27

A largely attended meeting of farmers was held at Junee on Saturday night, under the auspices of the Junee Farmers and Producers’ Association, to consider a manifesto issued by…

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Store Cattle Sales at Wodonga

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 4

Messrs. EDWARD TRENCHARD and Co. report having yarded at their yards, Wodonga, on Friday last, 16th inst., 1000 bullocks for Messrs. Whittingham Bros., from their Tilberoo Station…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney, December 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 4

Messrs GOLDSBROUGH, MORT, and Co, report:—We off[?]red 2550 bales of wool to-day, reserving catalogue of 4500 for to-morrows sale. The bidding, from an unusually large…

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Wool Sales. (By Wire. )Sydney, Thursday, 21 ST

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 3

Dalgety and Coy., Sydney, report: At yesterday afternoon’s sale we submitted an important catalogue of 6,476 bales, this quintic bringing up our total offering for the [?] to…

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Mundawaddera Farmers’ Association

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 27

At a meeting of the Mundawaddera Farmers’ Association on the 9th inst,, it was resolved— “That the thanks of this union be given to Mr. J. Gormly, M.L.A., for his persistent efforts in…

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Almond Culture As a Profitable Crop. (From “The Scientific American.”)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 14

Almond culture on the Pacific coast of the United Slates, America, has not been a profitable industry for the reason that the Landguedoc, an old French variety, has been…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN .—English gardeners, in a dry time, apply a mulch of cow shed manure 4 itches thick to the pea crop. In the case of the most tender or valuable…

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