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Farming & the land, 1894

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Farm and Garden. the Cucumber and Melon Patch

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 25 July 1894 · page 5

Both these are claimed as tender plants [?]tired [?]ginally of the East Indies and other tropical countries Neither can make growth until [?] her weather has set in for…

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Stud Sheep Sales

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 July 1894 · page 4

Important to Graziers. -- Goldsbrough, Mort & Co. Ltd,; Wool Broken. Sydney, hare handed us the following letter from the railway commissioners advising that in…

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Urana Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 July 1894 · page 5

The fourth exhibition under the auspices of the Urana Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the society's grounds on Tuesday and Wednesday…

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Cross-breeding of Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 July 1894 · page 15

At a recent meeting of the Green Ponds branch of the Tasmanian Council of Agriculture Mr. Johnson read a short paper on “Gross-breeding to produce the most profitable sheep…

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The Wool Trade

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

An occasional correspondent writes as follows from Melbourne :—The policy of fixing reserves at wool sales has been freely discussed during recent years, with the result that the…

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The Agriculturist Champion Butter and Cheese

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 July 1894 · page 1

The English farming journals have obtained from the winners of the champion prizes for butter and choose at the respective dairy shows at London and…

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Stud Sheep Sales. Important to Graziers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 July 1894 · page 25

Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. Limited, wool brokers, Sydney, have handed us the following letter from the Railway Commissioners advising that, in reply to the company’s…

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Some Prominent Breeds of Sheep. Crossbreds

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 July 1894 · page 14

It Is told in ancient history how a man named Jacob cheated his brother Esau out of his birthright and his father’s blessing. Jacob bad to leave his own country—In the dark—…

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The National Wool Company Op Australia Limited. Melbourne, July 23

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 July 1894 · page 4

Wool,—We have sold several parcels of scoured wool daring the week, and obtained very good prices, securing top quotation, viz, 14d per lb for superior merino. Our London advices…

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They Dairy the Man and the Cow. How the Cow Reward, the Man Who Treat Her Well

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 July 1894 · page 2

Take the county of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, composed of fifteen townships six miles square. That county turns out annually over a million of dollars, and…

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Farm Machinery

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 July 1894 · page 15

Even a small farm must have more or less machinery, while on a large one the investment must be heavy. Under any conditions, more machinery will be destroyed by rust than…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 July 1894 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—The tempestuous state of the weather has hindered the work of this department to some extent. It is, however, consoling to know whatever ill effect the…

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Stud Sheep Sales. Important to Graziers

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 July 1894 · page 4

Goldsbrough, Mort& Co., Ltd., Wool Brokers, Sydney, have handed us the following letter from the Railway Commissioners advising that in reply to the Company’s representations upon…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, July 27. 1894

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 July 1894 · page 2

The weather has been fine and cold during the week. On Tuesday and Wednesday there were intense hoar frosts, but on Thursday and this morning the frosts and [?] had disappeared, and there now seems a prospect of…

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Open Column. After the Battle. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 July 1894 · page 2

SIR,—The elections are over and the way is being prepared for the reassembling of Parliament, this time with a considerable proportion of fresh men, but whether we shall have better legislation…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety, and Company limited). Melbourne. July 25

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 July 1894 · page 2

WOOL—Our London cable as follows, under date of the 28[?]d inst.:— “Fur the bulk of wools the sales continues firm, without further change, but prices of inferior and faulty des[?]rlotions are scarcely maintained. There will…

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Farm and Garden. Lessening the Cost

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 July 1894 · page 1

With all products of the farm one of the host ways of increasing the profits is by lessening the cost of production, keeping in view the last this should never be…

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The Hay Pastoral Association. The Smoke Concert

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 July 1894 · page 2

The smoke concert held under the auspices of the Hay Pastoral Association took place at Tattersall's Hotel on Friday night and was attended by about sixty gentlemen…

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Gathering Butter

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 1 August 1894 · page 6

Oftentimes both the farmer's wife and professional dairymen experience considerable trouble in gathering the butter into a solid mass, even after it appears in…

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Farm and Garden. Cultivation and Value of Clover

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 1 August 1894 · page 6

At the recent spring Valley Farmers' Institute an address on clover was given by G. D. Brill which, an reported for the Country Gentio[?]an, is as follows:…

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