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Farming & the land, 1894

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The Grain Crop

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 28

The Government statistical, with the advantage of later and fuller data, has prepared a further estimate of the grain crops of this season. He states that the area under wheat…

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Farms and Homes around Berrigan. (By our Special Reporter.)

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 2

It was getting late in the afternoon when the inspection of Mr Gorman’s [?] was completed, and we had a long drive, to face before coming to Mr. W. O’Dwyer’s farm in…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 2

On Monday last the weather was extremely hot, the them [?] registering [?], in the official shade, Since [?] it has been more moderate and rain has [?] but is passed off and although it he still…

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Open Column. the Progressive Candidate. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times )

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 2

SIR,—In your last issue, your reference to my proposition for old age provision as being funny to the mind of the youth, does not surprise me. It is in the nature of things for youth to view in the right…

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Melbourne Wool Markets. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, February 7

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 2

WOOL—Our market is quiet, pending the actions sales on the 9th instant, when we shall [?] a catalogue of some 800 bales comprised [?] wools from Tasmania and Gippsland, and [?] wools from the Darling District…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From the New Zealand Land Association Limited, Friday, February 9

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 3

The New Zealand Land Association Limited, acting on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, Melbourne, held a wool sale to-day, submitting a catalogue of 1416 bales to a Urge attendance…

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Farm and Garden

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 2

We have never yet found a farmer who had a good windmill, who would part with It for the price it cost. There are so many ways in which it can [?] that a man…

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The Farmers and Freetrade

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 2

LONG ago when discussing the, effects of a policy of protection in connection with the wheat yield of the colony, it was pointed out that so long as the farmers did not produce more than was…

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The Housekeeper. Bread From Whole Wheat Flour

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 14 February 1894 · page 6

Take four pounds of whole wheat flour, one ounce yeast, one ounce pulverized sugar, one ounce lard, one half ounce salt.Mix the salt with the flour and rub in the lard…

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A Small Farm

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

H. W. Andrew gives the following plan for utilizing a forty-acre farm to the best advantage: The question is often asked; Can a living…

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Farm and Garden. Garden Notes

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

The proper watering of house plants is the essential point in keeping them in a thriving condition. Too much water is as injuries as not enough. One must study the wants…

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The Berlin Sewage Farms

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

The city of Berlin is absolutely cholera proof, writes Mr. Poultry Bigelow in the Co[?]politan, Beside that, the disposes of all the sewage within her borders at a…

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Who Will Pay the Land Value Tax? a Word to the Farmer

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 February 1894 · page 4

The subjoined figures, which have been kindly furnished to me by Mr Coghlan, will, I think, prove interesting. They completely dispose of the…

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A Valuable Crop

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 February 1894 · page 1

No plant raised is used in so many different ways on the peanut. The Chinese say that the cocanut palm has as man useful properties as there are days in the…

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Woollen Garments for Farmers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 February 1894 · page 1

There is, perhaps, no other vocation calling for, and actually compelling, a man to endure as great a variety of weather and…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

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

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Cabbage plants and winter sheens that hare been raised by means of abundant waterlog and mulching most be lifted with care, if they have not…

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The Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 February 1894 · page 38

The executive council of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association met at Young on Friday afternoon, those present being Mr G.F. Plunkett, president; Mr. J. J. Miller,…

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Farmers and Poult Y.

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

The farmer should not attempt to handle pure bred fowls only, unless be has a distinct taste and capacity for that business, If the of j[?]t is eggs and fowls for market he should…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, February 16. 1894

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 February 1894 · page 2

During the past week the weather has been mild for this time of the year, and as this is looked upon as an indication of a continued absence of rain, it is hardly considered [?] On Wednesday clouds gathered…

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Melbourne Wool Markets (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne. February 14

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 February 1894 · page 2

Wool—The first series of London wool sales for this year closed on 7th inst., and our office there advice [?] by cable that [?] alteration in the [?] of [?] was [?] The Home [?] are now quiet. pending the…

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