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Farming & the land, 1896

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Butter Export. Report of the Dairy Expert. Important Suggestions

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 3

THE following report on the export trade in perishable products, and particularly butter, by Mr. D. Wilson, the Government dairy expert, was…

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Butter Export. Report of the Dairy Expert. Important Suggestions. (Concluded.) Inspection of Dairy Herds

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 4

That would help to protect the reputation of our butter in England [?] have our dairy herds inspected by veterinary surgeons needs no argument…

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The Farmers' Relief Bill. Second Reading Carried. London, May 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 26

In the House of Commons to-day the bill introduced by Mr. Henry Chaplin, the President of the Local Government Board, the object of which is to relieve the British…

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Departmental Advice to Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 35

The Department of Agriculture has issued some advice to farmers. It recommends them to sow early; to use pure seed, true to name; to (other things being…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 14

The KITCHEN GARDEN.—Now that we are entering on the first week of May, the winter can be fairly recognised as started, consequently care should b? taken of plants in need of…

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The Harvest in Spain. Crops Ruined by Drought. London, April 30

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 27

Harvest prospects in Spain are exceedingly gloomy, as the crops will be ruined by the prolonged drought which has prevailed throughout the country…

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Improve the Dairy Hero

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 14

We would recommend every dairy farmer to boy a set of spring scales and place them in the moas convenient place in the cowhouse, adjacent to a properly ruled blackboard, on…

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Some Dairy Don'ts

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 14

Don't think mongrel bulls can produce choice stock for any purpose. Don't keep calves in filthy places and expect them to thrive…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, May 8. 1896

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 May 1896 · page 2

FINE weather has ruled during the part week, and it now seems settled for some time to come. More frosts have prevailed end the nights and mornings are decidedly cold. There Is a slight spring of grass on the…

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Tubercular Disease in Cattle What It Is and What It Means

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 May 1896 · page 4

Take first the dominant question of the day, tubercular disease—the disease which is responsible for, some say, more than one sixth of all the deaths in civilised countries, which kills…

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Open Column. Re-appraisement of Land VALUES.(To the Editor of Ike Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 May 1896 · page 2

SIR,—I am happy to tell you that justice has been done to the pastoral and homestead lessees in the Western Division in granting them a new appraisement of rents and tenant right in…

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Melbourne Wool Markets. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, May 6

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 May 1896 · page 2

Wool—Locally the market is a dead letter, although a good inquiry exists by private contract, which, however, cannot be supplied. Exports from all the Australasian colonies, as on 30th April last, show a decrease of 130,203 Sales as…

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Farm and Garden Thirsty Pigs

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 May 1896 · page 5

There is no practicable remedy to produce [?] in [?] without destroying their [?] Hogs have been fed [?] boiled cod[?] the water and fish mixed with…

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Butter

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 13 May 1896 · page 6

A quart of cream is too little to put into a churn, but you can make butter by putting it into a self-sealing half-gallon fruit can. Screw the lid on, put a folded towel in the…

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A Cheap Butter Cooler

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 13 May 1896 · page 1

Most housewives know how difficult it is to keep their butter first during the hot weather, and how unpleasant it is to find the butter almost like oil. Well, here is a cooler…

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London Wool Sales.—How they are Conducted

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 13 May 1896 · page 4

London's wool trade is done in Coleman-street. The salesroom in which the a[?]tions are held is large enough to seat 520 persons, on a steep slope, at…

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Farm and Garden Feeding Bees

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 13 May 1896 · page 5

Where [?] hives ware not well-previsioned in the autumn, attention must be given to supplying food. We are entering upon one of the most trying periods of the year, when…

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Cattle Smuggling

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 May 1896 · page 29

The Customs authorities last week made a seizure of 18 head of cattle belonging to Messrs. M'Donald and Marum, of Albury and Wodonga respectively…

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Wheat Culture

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 May 1896 · page 14

At the recent exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society at Moore Park, the Department of Agriculture had a most instructive display of what our Australian soil can produce…

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The American Wool Duty

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 May 1896 · page 28

[?] windeyer was able to gather in talks with commercial men during his tour in the States, he came to the conclusion that the public…

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