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Farming & the land, 1894

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New South Wales Dairy Farmers Export Association

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 November 1894 · page 2

The Grater reports.--I have to report for the week ending Saturday, 3rd inst., very large consignments of butter came forward, and packing for export was very…

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The Farm and Garden. Correspondence.to the Editor of the Albury Banner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 November 1894 · page 14

SIR,—I have some poultry, particularly chickens, which are infested with small vermin. Can you or any of your readers kindly give me a remedy to destroy them ? A. B…

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Hay Pastoral Association

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 10 November 1894 · page 3

A MEETING of the committee was held on Thursday. Present—Mr L. Robertson (in the chair), and Messrs. C. Hidgcock, H. B. Broughton, R. Chambers and Dr…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, November 9, 1894

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 November 1894 · page 2

ABOUT twenty points of rain fell on Sunday last and the weather is [?] even and [?]. The total rainfall in [?] the beginning of the year is about…

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Melbourne Wool Markets. (Dalgrety and Company Limited). Melbourne. November 7

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 November 1894 · page 2

WOOL—For [?] third sale of the season we brought forward a catalogue of [?] which [?] were sold, making with [?] bales, a total of [?] bales disposed of during the last week. Competition was again…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Melbourne. Monday. November 5

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 November 1894 · page 2

Our wool sale to-day comprised 3300 bales, mostly large Riverina clips, which attracted a full attendance of buyers, and practically the whole catalogue was sold. Competition for all good and well got up wools was very…

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Farm and Garden. Irrigation

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 November 1894 · page 2

The art of litigation, and especially the proper stages of different fruits to apply the water, can be learned best at the places of those who thoroughly understand it. But…

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Rations for Cattle

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 14 November 1894 · page 5

The practical calculation of rations for cattle and horses by a person who knows no thing of the animals or the quality of the feeds used, is nearly impossible. Certain…

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The Care of Dairy Utensils

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 14 November 1894 · page 5

If dairy utensils are rightly cared for, they need never become grease-roaked. I have had a twenty-gallon churn in use for nearly seven years, and it is as sweet and…

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Farm and Garden. It Pays to Take Care of Tools

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 14 November 1894 · page 5

Good tools accomplish twice the work in half the time that poor ones do, and now that all kinds of tools and implements are so cheap, a farmer cannot afford to use old and…

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Butter Making

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 November 1894 · page 14

There is no part of the process involved in making an extra quality of batter that is of equal importance with properly working it. That the buttermilk and water must be taken…

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Wheat and War

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 November 1894 · page 8

FARMERS as a rule are not speculative men. The great profits which are occasionally made through what may be called accidental circumstances…

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How the Danes Salt Their Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 November 1894 · page 14

As soon as the buttermilk has been removed the butter is weighed, in order to calculate the amount of salt required, and the salt Is worked in at this time, always on the butter worker,…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne, November 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 November 1894 · page 37

THE NATIONAL WOOL COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED report:—Wool.—The market continu[?] active for sound, well-grown crossbred a[?]d merino clips; but for faulty and badly…

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Wool Sale. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 November 1894 · page 6

THE National Wool Company of Australia Limited held their usual weekly sale, and offered 1,000 bales to a large attendance of buyers…

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Australian Wool at the Chicago Exhibition

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 November 1894 · page 15

A Riverina stud that gained a first award for merino wool at the Chicago Exhibition la that of Mr. Alexander Sloane, of Mulwala. Mr. Sloane sent three ewes’ fleeces, and the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne, November 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 November 1894 · page 4

Messrs. DALGETY and Co. LIMITED offered 3000 bales of wool at their sale to day. There was a large attendance of buyers and good general competition, especially for medium to…

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The Butter Market. Advance in Price. London, November 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 November 1894 · page 18

The butter committee at Copenhagen has fixed the price of Danish butter at 130 s. per cwt . This rise has entirely stopped trade in Danish butter in…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 November 1894 · page 13

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Weeds are growing as rapidly as any kind of crop, and much hoeing is requisite, which is, however, not labor lost, for keeping the surface of the soil…

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Advice to Victorian Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 November 1894 · page 13

In view of the present low prices [?] it is urgently imperative that our farmers should look at the prospects of wheat-growing in other countries [?]airly in the face…

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