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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1895

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

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 2

No sales have been held last week, but the periodical fortnightly sales are being held this week, the market showing no chance. We shall submit, on 31st inst.,…

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The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited. Wool

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 2

We submitted our third catalogue for this month on Tuesday 29th January containing about 1720 bales. There was a full attendance of buyers and excellent…

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The Dairying Industry. Advice to British Farmers. London, January 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 24

Mr. James Bryce, President of the Board of Trade, in the course of an address at Salisbury, urged British farmers not to allow the dairying industries to fall into the…

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Co-operation for the Farmer. to the Editor of the Albury Banner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 26

SIR,—Obviously something must be done, and the sooner the better, to enable our pastoral and agricultural industries to withstand the present acute depression in…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN —It IS advisable, in the ca[?] of vegetables that require to be [?]own now, that the seed should be sprouted by immersion in warm water before being put into…

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Dairying at Mudgee

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 29

When the Mudgee milk cheques were paid over the other day one of the large suppliers could not understand his figures. He had supplied 25 gallons less, and yet his cheque…

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How to Run a Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 14

The following suggestions on how to make farming pay were written on a postal card by a dairy farmer In a competition for a year’s subscription to his local paper:—“My experience…

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Farm and Garden to Root Cuttings

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 1

The amatour gardener or fruit grower often meats with difficulty in getting cuttings to root. Professor Saunders gives a plan [?] if followed carefully, he…

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Open Column. Increase Farmers’ Profits. (To the editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 3

SIR.—A great deal of discussion has taken place during the past twelve months, on the question of Low increase the producers’ profits but nothing [?] has been actually done so far to effect this…

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Prevention of Foot Rot - in Sheep

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 4

Foot-rot is a contagious disease of the foot of the sheep communicated to healthy sheep by as with diseased sheep and also by feeding on grounds contaminated with the virus of the…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office Deniliquin, Friday Evening, February 1, 1895

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 2

THE weather had been fine during the week, and the temperature although [?] at times, has not been remarkably high for this reason of the year. The beat in a [?] but the summer us now well advanced…

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Melbourne Wool Markets. (Dalgety and Company Limited).Melbourne, January 30

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 2

WOOL.—After an interr[?] of all our cahie lines for up[?] at a week, communication was restored on 25th inst. The London wool market shows signs of an improvement, but only for good wool, there being a better tone and…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Limited. Thursday, January 31

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 3

At our wool tale to-day we submitted a catalogue comprising 4050 bales to a full attendance of buyers. Competitions was very [?] and the market unchanged. The catalogue embraced a few choice lines of greasy…

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Farm and Garden

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 3

A writer claims that a thin coat of axle grease applied to the apple tree in the into fall, with a stiff brush, will keep off nice and rabbits…

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Imitation Butter in France

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 6 February 1895 · page 6

M. Viger, the French Minister of Agriculture, has formulated a scheme for dealing with the adulteration of better with [?]lsomargarine. It is recognized that science does not…

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Caution About Feeding Wheat

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 6 February 1895 · page 6

A contributor to the Country Gentleman writes as follows regarding the feeding of wheat to horses. For many weeks I have seen articles in English and American papers…

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End of the Wool Season

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 6 February 1895 · page 2

The wool scouring season was [?] a close this week, and the [?] A number of them left [?] Friday morning for Melbourne [?]…

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Farm and Garden

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 6 February 1895 · page 6

The safest bank in which a farmer can invest his money is the land. Not necessarily more land, but in making richer and deeper and better in every way that which he now…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 4

The following offerings and sales of the various woolbrokers for the season now over should be interesting, vis.:— SUMMARY OF WOOL SALES HELD IN MELBOURNE…

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Wheat As a Fodder

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 14

The methods and results of feeding with wheat are being inquired into in America. The Kansas State Board of Agriculture made inquiries from 1000 farmers, and received 400…

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