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Farming & the land, 1896

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How the Danes Salt Their Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1896 · page 14

As soon as the buttermilk has been removed the butter in weighed, in order to calculate the amount of salt required, and the salt worked to at this time, always on the butter-worker…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1896 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Pending the hot and dry weather now coming on fast, every precaution in the way of mulching should be seen to at once. It is especially advisable to…

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Crop Prospects

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1896 · page 27

For some time past reports of a more or less conflicting character have reached the metropolis regarding the present state of the colony's wheat crops. With the object of enabling…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, November 6,1898

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 November 1896 · page 2

The weather has again been Very warm and there in not the alight teat indication of a charge to rain. The outlook is a most departing one, and it is certain that beyond filling the tank, rain would not do a bit of good…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. (Dalgety and Co, Limited.) Monday, November 2

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 November 1896 · page 2

WOOL.—We report having held our weekly wool sale today, when we offered a moderate catalogue of about 2600 bale, several large slipe being held over till next week. The market continue buoyant, and…

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Farm and Garden. Liquid Manure for Fruit Trees

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 November 1896 · page 1

The roots of many fruit trees are excessively dry so much is the case that it is astonishing how some trees manage to remain in health. A through watering of…

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Farm and Garden. Bulbs After Flowering

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 11 November 1896 · page 1

Bulbs should be tenderly treated after they hare flowered. At Brat give plenty of water, but as the leaves decay gradually [?]n it, until they have quite dried up…

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The Sydney Wool Sales

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1896 · page 27

"Lot number one, gentlemen"—this is the text for the sermon of the day, only, unlike some texts, it is strictly relevant to the discourse. The preacher takes a swift look at the…

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The Corowa Wool Sales

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 November 1896 · page 2

THE three chief products of the Corowa district are wool, wheat, and wine. We can safely say that no other part of New South Wales can boast of producing either…

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The Wool Sales. MELBOURNE, Nov. 9

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 13 November 1896 · page 2

Dalgely & Company, Limited, report holding their weekly wool sale to-day, when they offered 4,500 bales, comprising representative clips from all parts of Victoria, the…

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"Lot Number One, Gentlemen." At the Sydney Wool Sales

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 November 1896 · page 4

"Lot number one, gentlemen"—this is the text for the sermon of the day, only, unlike some texts, it is strictly relevant to the discourse. The preacher takes a swift…

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The Effect of the American Election on the Wool Trade

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1896 · page 4

The S. M. Herald, speculating on tho result of the recent Presidential election, has the following:—"Major M'Kinley, the great apostle of protection in America…

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Farm and Garden. Bulbs After Flowering

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 13 November 1896 · page 2

Bulbs should be tenderly treated after they have flowered. At first give plenty of water, but as the leaves decay gradually lessen it, until they have quite dried up…

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Farmers' Loans

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1896 · page 29

Owing to the prospect of a bad harvest in some portions of Victoria, and particularly on the northern plans, the Minister of Lands has decided that those farmers…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1896 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Make fresh sowings of cabbages, turnips, saladings, peas, beans, and others to maintain a succession Seeds of winter greens—Brussels sprouts and…

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Riverina Pastoral [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 2

The present dry season, coming on the [?] year’s severe drought, is causing the gr[?]ness to the pastoralists, and nothing [?] judicious management will stave [?]…

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Australian Wool Industry

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 2

The wool industry of this colony commenced in 1788, when a small flock of 29 sheep were landed here from the Cape. Four years later, 1792, the flock had increased to…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, November 13. 1896

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 2

THE weather still continues dry and the best is becoming intense. Yesterday the thermometer was up to 103 degrees in the shade and today it was much higher. The [?] outlook is most unsatisfactory, but…

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Riverina P. and A. Society. Challenge Wool Prize

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 1

The secretary of the Riverina P. and A. Society, Jerilderie. has received the following list of weights and valuations of the fleeces shor[?] from the seven two-tooth ewes entered for the challenge wool prize…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. (Dalgety and Co. Limited.) Monday, November 9

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 2

WOOL.—We report holding our weekly wool sale today. when we offered 4,500 bales comprising representation clips from all [?] of Victoria, the Riverina and Darling districts of New South Wales, the South…

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