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Farming & the land, 1893

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How to Get Good Butter

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 1

If butter is any object at all cither for the supply of the farmer's table or the market, let him provide himself in the first place with good cows, and if he has any that are…

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Marketing the Wool Clip

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 12

There is some force in the annexed comments upon the 1892 3 wool clip as it is being developed in order to meet the eyes of buyers at the Sydney wool stores. But the writer is…

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Albury Wool, Hide, Skin, and Tallow Market. Thursday, March 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 4

THE RIVERINA WOOL, HIDE, AND PRODUCE COMPANY LIMITED report:—Our regular fortnightly sale of wool, hides, skins, tallow, &c, held today. The attendance of buyers was…

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The Agriculturist. Care in Dairying

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 1

A large cheese manufacturing company publishes the following hints to the milk producers it deals with: -- (1). Only healthy cows produce good milk. They must never…

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The Value of Petroleum on the Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 12

One of the most useful things a farmer can have, writes the New York Times, is a barrel of crude petroleum. It is Valuable for many purposes. It is a specific against all kinds of…

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The Wheat Crop of 1892-93

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 4

An analysis of the returns published by the Government statistician respecting the wheat crop of the colony during the last harvest, shows that in the southern division the-best results have…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin Friday Evening March 3, 1893

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 2

THE weather has been intensely but during the week, and the re-motion after the comparatively cool early part of the summer is most trying. The thermometer has ranged from 1010 dog. to 111 dog every day this…

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Melbourne Wool Market. Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne March 1

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 2

WOOL—There is absolutely [?] to say as regards this article in the colonies, hat our Home services state that [?] fairly satisfactory, with a steady consumption going on…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 8 March 1893 · page 5

The mignonette is the national flower of Spain. The potato was taken to Spain and Italy by the Spaniards about 1525…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 March 1893 · page 2

The following stock movements are reported locally :--Wahgunyah, March 1,805 fat ewes from Goonambil for freezing works, Turnbull, Hotson and Co.,…

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New Zealand Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 March 1893 · page 28

The New Zealand Government is anxious to secure the removal of the existing prohibition against the importation of sheep from that country into Australia. For some time the…

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The Value of Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 March 1893 · page 12

Keep a few sheep. Many people conclude, without going into a calculation, that it will not pay. It costs so much, and the prices of sheep and wool are so low. They forget that…

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High Prices for Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 March 1893 · page 29

Messrs. F[?], Valentine, and Co. have received advice from their Lodon agents that at the wool sales held on 26 January last, 240 bales of Sir Samuel Wilson’s Mount Bute…

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Horse and Dairy Stock. Melbourne

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 March 1893 · page 4

Messrs. CAMPBELL and SONS, Kirk’s Bazaar, report :—Horses —The demand for Indian remounts, [?] horses and upstanding sorts, for carriage work, has been fairly good…

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A New Crop Wanted

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 March 1893 · page 28

The Director of Agriculture states, in reference to the proposed visit of the tobacco experts, that the Clarence was selected as one of the districts likely to be taken up for the…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 3

The first meeting of the Council of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society since the adjournment in October last, was held at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday last. Mr C. C. McCulloch occupied the…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March 10, 1893

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 2

AFTER the intense [?] which prevailed on the first [?] days of last week, there was a slight change on Saturday last, which was made more marked on Sunday when two points of rain fell. [?] winds prevailed for…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 2

SIR,—It will no doubt be within your knowledge that a league has been formed in this part of Riverina to promote the Federation of the Australian colonies, and to further the cause in every way…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, March 8

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 2

WOOL.—Our local market is quiet, and it has not yet been decided [?] to when the next sales will be held. Supplies are coming to slowly, but we will have a fair quantity [?] offer when the sales do take place. From London we have…

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Make the Farm Buildings Comfortable

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 2

A farmer should never attempt to winter more stock than he can furnish with comfortable shelter. M[?] farmers have large farm buildings but they soon got out of…

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