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Farming & the land, 1897

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Of Interest to Farmers. Highly satisfactory reports from experienced people

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 21

To Mr. W. SCHILG. General Agent, Burrumbuttock.—Dear Sir,—I am [?]ding my cheque for amount. My Machines could not have worked better that they did, All three of them were…

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Progressive Dairying

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 14

The great difficulty is not in the soil, climate, or water but the lack of intelligent ideas of what modern dairying demands. First, the kind of cow that is needed; second, the…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Celery will require earthing up, and in doing this it is best to remove some of the bottom leaves. The soil should be well worked, and great care…

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Butter

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 1

One of the best ways to keep up a good colour in butter during tho winter and spring is by feeding the cows during the winter and spring months on well-cured hay, with the…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, January 2[?] 1897

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 2

THE weather has been very warm during the week, and there are no indications of a change up to the time of writing. The river at Deniliquin was not [?]oted to [?]y great extent by the rain o[?] two or three weeks ago,…

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Open Column. the Indian Famine. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 3

SIR,—The extreme need of our fellow creatures in India should now, and at once cause each one of us to [?]k what we can do in urgent a case of necessity. It [?]o happens that almost every one is so short of c[?]h, or…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. [From Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.] Thursday, January 28

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 3

We resumed out wool sales to-day, and offered 1450 bales, comprising principally, clips from the Gippsland District of Victoria, and from Tasmania and the south-east of South Australia. There was a large attendance…

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The Riverina Farmers

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 4

A correspondent at Corowa sends the following notes to a Sydney, paper on the situation of agriculturists in that portion of Riverina:— The first of the land tax assessments have been…

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Farm and Garden. the Narcissus

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 1

This is nothing more than a daffodil. It is an excellent bulb, however, to grow in the window of a [?]ool room and when the flowers are in full beauty they exhale a powerful…

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The Wheat Market

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 February 1897 · page 2

The Sydney Morning Herald says:—Locally no change occurred. Wheat moves off steadily at 4s 9d Darling Harbour delivery, where good samples are offered…

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Railway Wheat Rates

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 February 1897 · page 2

GREAT dissatisfaction exists because of the discovery by local wheat buyers that Albury has undue advantage over Corowa on the Culcairn line. It has been pointed…

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Corowa and Wahgunyah Dairy Co., Ltd

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 February 1897 · page 3

THE ordinary half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the above company was held at the offices on Friday afternoon, 29th inst. There were nine shareholders…

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Farm and Garden. a Useful Farm Recipe

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 3 February 1897 · page 1

The following recipes for a very common, but neve[?] a very useful, farms commodity—namely, cart gr[?] may be of service to many readers: 1. To twenty per…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 37

A meeting of the committee was held yesterday, Dc. Andrews in the chair. The minuses of the previous meeting were road over…

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Kiewa Butter Factory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 15

A good deal of disappointment was felt by many of those Interested in the butter factory company because at the late meeting of shareholders nothing was said relative…

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Wheat at Junee

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 29

There are 40,000 bags of wheat stacked at Old Junee railway station. In some places in the district the ground is already being turned up for the next…

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Combination of Wool and Carcase

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 14

I have received a statement drawn up by Mr. Morrison, manager of the Widgiewa flock, which may be taken as an illustration of what can be done in the improvement of a flock…

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Farm and Garden. a Useful Farm Recipe

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 1

The following recipes for a very common, but nevertheless a very useful, farm commodity—namely, cart grease—may be of service to many readers: 1. To twenty per…

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Albury Farmers' Market

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 4

F. W. TRUE, EXCHANGE Auction Rooms, Dean-street, reports sales last Saturday as follows :—Butter (290lb cleared)—Separator 9 1/2d, prime dairy 7d, others 4 1/2d to 6 1/2d, dairy (lump) 4d per…

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Of Interest to Farmers Highly satisfactory reports from experienced people

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 23

To MR. W. SCHILG. General Agent, Burrnm-buttock —Dear Sir,—I forwarding my cheque for amount. My Machines could not have worked better than they did, All three of them were…

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