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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1893

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Farm and Garden

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 2

Smutty [?] are not a whole[?] food, and by feeding them, you prepare for another crop of [?] as the [?] go back to the land in the [?]…

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The Collieries at a Standstill. Four Thousand Men Idle. Great Destruction of Stock and Crops. Railway Lines Washed Away. A Scene of Great Desolation

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 4

The steamer Federal has been driven further ashore at Newcastle. The latest news from the Hunter River districts is of the most appalling nature…

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Step by Step in the Dairy

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 15 March 1893 · page 5

Everything has a tendency to grow in this world to start from a small beginning and grow larger. The little tiny plant sprouting from an acorn must first learn to grow…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 15 March 1893 · page 5

Stake the large gladiolus early. They are worth the trouble. A strange custom is followed by Mexican farmers. They use oxen of one color in the…

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Pastoral Prospects on the Macquarie

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 29

The Nyagan Observer says :—“The Mac[?] beds are standing well to the sheep [?] of [?] the grass and [?] are things of the past, and not a sign of fodder is…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney, March 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 4

Messrs. GOLDSBROUGH, MORT, AND CO. LIMITED report :—We offered 514 bales of wool at our usual fortnightly sale held yesterday, and found the market very active, greasy…

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The Antwerp Wool Sales. a Rise of a Halfpenny Per Penny. London, March 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 24

The second series of Antwerp wool sales for the present year opened to-day. There was a large attendance of buyers and animation in the biddings…

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Keeping Farm Accounts

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 1

Farmers are often careless about keeping accounts. But every one who tries it funds that he saves both money and time by so doing. Every farm account should start…

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The Agriculturist. Success in Dairying

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 1

Every dairyman should at all times class himself as a student of the industry, and, more than this, he should net confine his studies to books and papers, for, at the…

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Walla Wall Farmers Union

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 2

THE quarterly meeting of this body was held in the assembly-hall in the 11th inst., Mr. F. Wonke (president) in the chair. After the minutes of the previous meeting…

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Horse and Dairy Stock. Melbourne, March 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 4

Messrs. CAMPBELL and SONS, Kirk’s Bazaar, report: —Horses.—The market for the week has been fairly well supplied with fresh country horses, but as is generally noticeable, the quality…

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Walla Farmers’ Union

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 15

The quarterly meeting of this body was held at the assembly on the 11th Inst., the president (Mr. J, Wenk[?]) in the chair. After the confirmation of minutes of the…

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A Big Coose Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 13

“Poultry” tells the biggest goose story of the age. Out in the Western States a goons farm has been started with 1,000 geese. If these produce sir a year each, at the end of…

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Take-all and Dry Blight in Cereal Crops

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 12

An article under this head appearing in the Agricultural Gazette, Vol. Ill, part 12, by Dr. N. A. Cobb, Pathologist to the Department of Agriculture, deals with a subject of such vast…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 2

THE weather has been [?] during the week, and to-day there is [?] show of a change. Only 16[?] of rain have fallen in Deniliquin during the past three months. The tanks are getting [?]…

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Open Column. Playing at POLITICS.(To the Editor of the. Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 4

Sir,—Judging from the systematic way in which the work of parliament has been neglected and the affairs the country become plunged into wild confi[?] it is clear that the majority…

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Melbourne Wool Market (Dalgety and Company Limited).Melbourne, March 15

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 2

WOOL— The local sales have been fixed to take place on 22nd and 23rd instant, when it is expected that only moderate catalogues will be brought forward. Our cables from Europe report the continuous of a good inquiry by private…

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Curing Meat on the Farm

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 1

Here are two good ones for curing pork and beef: After your meat is thoroughly cooled and free from animal heat, rub with salt and let be for 24 hours, so as to draw…

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Farm and Garden

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 1

In planting fruit upon the farm, plant first an abundant and diverse supply for house use. That will pay just as well as to plant for sale…

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Pastoral Leases and Fences. Important Judgment by the Land Court

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 4

An important decision was given by the Land Court at Darlinghurst on Wednesday in an appeal case concerning the payment of cost of fencing…

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