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Farming & the land, 1895

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, October 18, 1895

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 2

LAS[?] Saturday was the b[?]ttest day of the season, the thermometer registering 97.5 degrees in the shade. On Sunday rain was threatening all day, and in the afternoon a heavy wind storm bl[?] from north-west but…

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Melbourne Wool Markets (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, October 16

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 2

WOOL—Since our last circular we have received cables from our London office advising the continuance of the fifth series of colonial sales, and the closing on 12th instant, at fully maintained prices, though fanity and inferior sorts…

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The National Wool Company of Australia Limited. Melbourne, October 11

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 2

WOOL — During the week several sales have been held in Sydney. The bulk of the offerings were seedy, burry and fanity wools. These thawed a decided weakness upon opening prices, but for all en[?]d parcels full rates were…

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The New Land Act. Withdrawal of an Area From Pastoral Lea[?]e. Settling This People on the Soil

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 4

The Land Court at Urana presented an animated appearance last week, when 50 of those who had signed the petition praying that 200,000 acres of laud at Brookong, now held under…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Limited. Thursday, October 17

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 3

We held our opening wool sale of the season to-day, submitting a catalogue of 4500 bales, comprising Queensland, New South Wales and Victorian wools, the bulk coming from the first-named colonies. As showing the…

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Farm and Garden. Poultry Replies

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 1

Eggs must remain covered by the limewater as long as it is desired to preserve them. Wheat is an excellent feed for poultry, and one kind of wheat is as good as…

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 October 1895 · page 4

THE SYDNEY WOOL SELLING BROKERS' ASSOCIATION (The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co., J. C. Young and Co., John Bridge and Co., Campbell, Nimmo and Co.,…

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Farm and Garden Winter Butter Making

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 23 October 1895 · page 5

Only within the lest 15' years have dairymen learned how to make good butter in winter. There are two things especially lacking [?] old-fashioned winter butter—color…

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New Wool Sales. a Large Attendance

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 23 October 1895 · page 2

Messrs. Dalgetty and Co, wire as follows —For our opening wool sales of this season we offered to day (Monday) 3300 bales, mostly from Riverina and the Lower Darling…

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Farm and Garden Winter Butter Making

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 1

Only within the last 15 years have dairymen learned how to make good butter in winter. There are two things especially lacking in old fashioned winter butter—color…

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A Knowing Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 29

There has been a sheep on the Market Wharf, Sydney, for the last nine or ten years living on trusses of inerne sent there for sale; and, not only that, but…

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The Sheep Market

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 2

As previously stated in these columns, several district graziers thought it advisable, in view of the improved state of the Sydney sheep market, to give it a trial, and to this…

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Naphtha in Wool Scouring

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 14

The employment of naptha as a cleanser in the scouring of wool Is a new method favorably commented upon by the scientific journals. By the use of a pump, the naphtha is forced…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. a Butcher the Accused

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 2

At the police cours this morning, before Messrs. Lakeman, Witcombe, and Trevena, J.'sP., William Horne was charged with stealing a cow the property of Henry B…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne, October 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 21

DALGETY AND Co. report:—For our opening wool sale of this season we offered to-day 3800 hales, mostly from Riverina and the Lower Darling districts of New South Wales. The…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. (By Wire.) Thursday Night

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 3

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, report :— We resumed our wool sales to-day, bringing forward another large and representative…

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Melbourne Markets. Dalgety & Company Limited, report:--WOOL

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 2

Wool.--For our opening wool sale of this season we offered 3,800 bales, mostly from Riverina and the Lower Darling districts of New South Wales. The attendance of…

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Farmers' Fortnightly Market

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 2

A. A. Piggin and Coy. report holding their ordinary fortnightly sale of farm produce on Saturday, 19th October, when they sold as follows:-- Fowls, from 1s, 3d,…

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What Freetrade Does for the Farmer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 14

Free trade writers are always endeavouring to show that the farmer, above all, benefits by freetrade. Let us Bee what freetrade has done for the English farmer. The Quarterly…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN —Asparagus is very plentiful this season. Care must be taken to cut only the strongest shoots, leaving the others to grow and strengthen the plant. If…

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