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Farming & the land, 1894

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FIELD [?] Garden Manuring Land or Crops. This Question as Considered In Its Various Aspect by American Cultivators

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 July 1894 · page 4

Aa the country grows older there is always increasing, tendency to apply special manures for each crop, rather than to fertilize the soil for all purposes and…

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Relieving the Farmers !

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 July 1894 · page 29

A Sydney paper says:—Two [?] a report of the political address of ex Rev. W. H. Hall, a candidate for Albury and £300 a year : “As his political programme included…

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Improving a Dairy Herd

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 July 1894 · page 13

There are hundreds of dairymen whose means are too limited to admit, as they think, the purchase of other than cheap crossbred cows for their herds. This is especially to be…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 July 1894 · page 13

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—The present is a suitable time for gardeners to make their arrangements for [?]pping the soil during the ensuing season and [?] them down in a book,…

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Hume Farmers’ Union

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 July 1894 · page 27

The quarterly meeting of the Hume Farmers’ Union was held on 30th ult. Preheat—Messrs. Morton (chair), E. Lindner, B. Odew[?] J. George, J. Wettern, W. Schilg, W. Zweck, T…

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How Tom the Farmer Became a Convert to Single Tax. and Was Afterwards Cured of the Single Tax Mania by His Wife

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 July 1894 · page 27

“I say Tom,” called out my neighbor Pat the other night, while passing my place on his way home from Albury (of course a little fuddled, as usual). “Tom,” he said, “Did you ever hear…

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Political Empirics. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 July 1894 · page 1

SIR.—It is painfully instructive to read some of the electoral addresses with which the constituencies are being flooded. They display a woeful ignorance of the true functions of legislation and of the…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office Deniliquin, Friday Evening, July 6, 1894

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 July 1894 · page 2

DURING the past week the weather has been fine, but at times threatening and cold. Today is rained a little bat the barometer is high and [?] a sudden fall occur[?] it it probable that the clouds, will clear off. The lambs…

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Spontaneous Combustion of Wool. (From the Economist, April 21.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 July 1894 · page 1

It is dispiriting to find one of our most important articles of import apparently doing its best to earn ail evil reputation for it self. Wool, which till recently has been regarded, whether on the seas or in…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company limited). Melbourne. July 4

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 July 1894 · page 2

WOOL.—There is little news to report respecting our local market, arrivals being insignificant, and consisting entirely of inferior descriptions. These meet a ready Bale at full values, there being a decidedly better feeling in the market…

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Vine Crops in Drills

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 July 1894 · page 3

After several years experience I ain well pleased with the method of planting melons [?]quashes, and cucumbers in drills. With [?] this plan proves superior to the old system,…

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Farm and Garden. ONIONS

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 July 1894 · page 3

One of the most wholesome vegetables grown is the onion. Yet, strange to say, but, few people use it as liberally as they should. Boiled onions used frequently in…

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Late-planted Crops

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 July 1894 · page 3

The usual reason for delaying the planting of a crop is because the season is backward, a matter which men cannot control, or because the land is wet, and is slow in…

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Wool & Stock Retorts

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 11 July 1894 · page 2

Dalgety an Co., Ltd., report under date July 4th.—Wool.—There is little to report respecting our local market, arrivals being insignificant, and consisting…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 11 July 1894 · page 6

It is foolish business to plant seeds without testing their germinating power. It is so easily done that thereto is no excuse for omitting it. Place them between two cloths…

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Travelling Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 July 1894 · page 28

Mr, Wood, Under Secretary for Mines, in the absence of Mr. Slattery, received on Friday a deputation from the Pastoralists’ Union, which called attention…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 July 1894 · page 4

The Pastoral Times says: -- During the past week the weather has been fine, but at times threatening and cold. To-day it rained a little but the [?]arometer is high…

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London Wool Sales

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 13 July 1894 · page 1

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited, Melbourne, is in receipt of cable advice from its London office, under date 3rd inst., as follows :—…

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Anthrax in Sheep. Legislation Deemed Necessary

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 July 1894 · page 18

A conference of delegates from the Pastures and Stock Boards of the colony was held in Sydney last week to discuss the question of [?] in sheep, with the view of the…

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Wheat Chan in Poultry Houses

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 July 1894 · page 3

The chaff from wheat is one of the best materials for use on the floor of the poultry house. It not only permits of easy cleaning of the house, but acts as…

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