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Farming & the land, 1895

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The Travelling Sheep Act

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 December 1895 · page 2

A RATHER curious-decision was-given by the Police Magistrate at Bay last Monday, in respect to the requirements of the Travelling Stock Act. A drover was proceeded against for not proceeding a…

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The Wheat Market

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 December 1895 · page 4

The future of the wheat market, as far as this colony is concerned is one of great uncertainty. According to the metropolitan papers some of the city buyers are turning their attention to Sin…

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Cutting Up the Commons. Closing the Cattle Crossing

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 December 1895 · page 2

The agitation against the cutting [?] commons and the sale of the newly [?] has long since passed the acute stage, [?] there is still a difference of opinion as [?]…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, [?], Friday Evening, December 6,1895

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 December 1895 · page 2

The weather has been variable during the week. On Monday afternoon [?] an extremely hot day, there was a heavy storm of wind and fourteen points of rain fell. The air was cooled a little on Tuesday, but on…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 December 1895 · page 2

WOOL.—At our wool sale to-day we offered forty-seven hundred (4700) [?] drawn from all the Australian [?] Queensland, Tasmania and the [?] district at Victoria [?] particularly well represented. The selection was a…

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London Wool Sales. From the Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company, Melbourne.) Friday, December 6

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 December 1895 · page 3

We have received the following telegram from [?] Helmuth, Schwarise and Co., London, dated 5th inst:— “Wool Sales.—The lately telegraphed improvement has become still more marked. For good wools prices are…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Limited. Thursday, December 5

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 December 1895 · page 3

At our wool sales to-day we submitted one of the finest catalogues of the Season. The offerings amounted is 5800 sales. There was a full muster of buyers and the keenest competition prevailed As a result, almost…

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 December 1895 · page 4

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

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Travelling Sheep

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 11 December 1895 · page 4

One clause in the law relating to travelling sheep reads as follows:—"Where an owner in conformity with the law is provided with a…

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Profits in Farm Poultry

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 11 December 1895 · page 5

Profits in farm poultry depend more upon the care it receives than most people think. For the average farmer there is probably more profit in selling eggs than raising…

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Farm and Garden Fodder for Stock

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 11 December 1895 · page 5

Fodder is an [?]ontial article of dict for stock. It helps in the assimilation of the other foods, and should be fed with rich foods, as clover and timothy. Most farmers…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 December 1895 · page 2

A meeting of the Farmers and Producers Association was held at Junee on Monday when it was decided not to sell wheat under 4s. 6d. per bushel for one month, or…

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The Wheat Season

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 December 1895 · page 5

As stated before in these columns, the wheat season will be productive of most desirable results ; and as operations prove, this fact becomes more and more…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Wednesday, December 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 December 1895 · page 37

Messrs. YOUNGHUSBAND and Co. LIMITED held their usual weekly sale of wool to day, when they submitted a catalogue of 1548 bales. The better tone observable in the market during the…

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How to Collect Farm Statistics. Beckoning by Bags, Not Bushels

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 December 1895 · page 14

The assistant Government statist of Victoria has issued a new schedule for the collection of agricultural statistics for 1895 6, the main feature of which is that cereal crops are to be…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 December 1895 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN. —Tomatos are making rapid growth, and requite constant attention with regard to thinning of shoots and leaves to admit air and sunlight in order to…

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[?] in Farm Poultry

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 13 December 1895 · page 2

Profits in farm poultry [?] upon [?] people think. For th[?] probably [?]…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural, Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 December 1895 · page 2

A special general meeting of the members of a [?] Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society [?] held at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday [?] the purpose of receiving the report from [?]…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 December 1895 · page 4

The following information concerning the condition of the crops, the area sown and the probable yield at the places named, is extracted from the Sydney Telegraph :—…

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