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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

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Farm and Garden. Butter

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 2

Mr. H. H. Dean, of the Ontario Agricultural College, remarks :—‘Where a highly flavoured short keeping butter is wanted, do not wash at all. For prints to be eaten in a…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, June 25, 1897

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 2

THE total rainfall last week was over an inch and a half, and there was a further fall on Thursday night, the registration at nine o’clock this morning being exactly an inch. The rain was [?] over Riverina,…

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Proposed Scheme for Age-marking Sheep in New South Wales

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 June 1897 · page 2

AT the last meeting of the Corowa Pastures and Stock Board it will be remembered -- as reported in these columns at the time -- that the above important…

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Farm and Garden. Topping

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 30 June 1897 · page 2

The tobacco plant generally begins to develop flower branches when it is about two feet in height, at which period the operation of topping must be performed. This is done…

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Kiewa Butter Factory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 35

The balance-sheet of this company, presented to the shareholders at the meeting held on the 19th inst., shows a very satisfactory amount of progress during the six…

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Singleton Butter Factory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 28

At the opening of Messrs. Moore's butter factory at Singleton last week, in proposing the toast of "Ministry and Parliament of New South Wales," Mr…

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Merino and Crossbred Sheep. to the Editor Op the Albury Banner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 35

SIR,—Your Corowa correspondent says that he is informed that tho crossbred sheep have stood the drought better than the merino. An examination into the facts…

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Albury Police Court. Friday, 25Th June. (Before Messrs. W. Edmondson and Gibson, J's.P.) Alleged Wool Stealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 25

Harry Schultz, a farmer on the shares system, living at Mundawaddera, was charged with killing 29 sheep, the property of E. E'dershaw, and stealing the wool therefrom…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 12

KITCHEN GARDEN.—The effects of the rain during the past week will necessitate discretion with regard to the work in the kitchen garden. Heavy soils, or those…

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Dairy Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 12

The Weekly Press, New Zealand, considers that the efforts made in Wellington and Christchurch to put in force the present dairy regulations show that some further legislation…

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Model Farm for Cogma

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 13

The Minister of Mines and Agriculture on Thursday received a deputation from Cooma consisting of Messrs. Goodman, Davereux, Margoschis, and H. Dawson, and introduced…

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Careless Wool Packing

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 3 July 1897 · page 4

At the meeting of the council of the Chamber of Commerce, held a few days ago in Melbourne, a letter was read from the Bradford Chamber of…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, July 2, 1897

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 July 1897 · page 2

THE weather has been all that could be desired during [?] The temperature has been remarkably [?] in the weather and ranges from forty of a minimum. It was expected that heavy frosts…

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Farm and Garden the Garden

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 July 1897 · page 2

It pays to have a garden, if you will take care of it; if you can’t or won’t, do not attempt it. If you make a garden, it pays to enrich the ground liberally. Nothing…

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Corowa Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Association

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 2

A MEETING of the council of the above was held at Rankin's Royal Hotel on Friday morning. There were present -- Messrs. H. Hay (chair), T. Bray, C…

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Farm and Garden. Butter

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 2

Mr. E. H. Dean, of the Ontario Agricultural collage, remarks:—'Where a highly, flavoured short keeping butter is wanted, do not wash at all. For prints to be eaten in, a…

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Sydney Sheep Show

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 2

The sheep dog trials at the New South Wales Sheepbreeders Show were concluded on Saturday last. The test consisted of rounding up three sheep…

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Dairying in Tasmania. The Tasmanian Dairy Co.'s Butter Factory

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 1

The salubrity of its climate, richness of soil, and general succulence and verdancy of the pastures, preeminently adapt Tasmania for the production, of…

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The Farmer's Dooryard and Garden

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 1

It must certainly be a great pleasure for the farmer as he stands in his doorway viewing with satisfaction his acres of waving crops, his rich pastures, and his…

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Sheep Stealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 July 1897 · page 29

At Walgett on the 185 inst., before the Police Magistrate, seven men pleaded not guilty to a charge of being found in possession of part of a carcase of a sheep…

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