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Farming & the land, 1897

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

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

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Where shallow digging has been practised the crops compare most unfavorably with those in more carefully cultivated plots. In working soil deeply a…

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Farm and Garden. Hints for Beekeepers

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 1

In wintry weather been leave their hives but very rarely —in fact, nothing short of two or three hours of bright sunshine will tempt them from their [?]…

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The Wheat Market

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 9 February 1897 · page 2

At Sydney, prices are unchanged. The associated millers' price being 4s. 9d. Darlling Harbour delivery. At Melbourne, the Argus says:—The…

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Butter

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 10 February 1897 · page 1

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

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Wool and Stock Reports. Sydney

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 10 February 1897 · page 3

Messrs Wilkinson and Lavender telegraph as follows:—Cattle—1200 cattle were yarded; market firm, and prices much better. We sold for Messrs Horton…

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Farm and Garden. the [?]

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 10 February 1897 · page 1

This is [?] more [?] is an excellent club, however to grow in the window of a cool room and when the flowers are in [?] they e[?] a powerful…

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Butter

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 2

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

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New Swedish Butter Machine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 14

Mr. J. M. Sinclair, the superintendent of Victorian exports in London, has furnished to the Department of Agriculture in that colony a report on the new Swedish radiator butter…

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Artesian Water for Wool-washing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 29

Some doubts having been expressed about the suitability of artesian water for the purposes of wool scouring, several reports have been forwarded to the…

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Important Sale of Farming Property

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 2

MESSRS. A. A. PIDGIN & Co. report having effected the sale by private contract of a portion of the Hillside Estate, within seven miles of Corowa, comprising…

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Farm and Garden. the [?]

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 2

This is nothing more than a [?] is an excellent [?] to grow in the window of a cool room and when the flowers are in full beauty they [?] a powerful…

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A Model Farm. Novel and Useful Suggestion

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 14

Dr. A. A. Cobb, of the New South Wales Agricultural Department, has made in a recently published article the following suggestion, which is wall worth tho serious…

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How Shall Small Farmers Make Ends Meet?

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 14

The following, which was read before a Farmer' Institute on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, might as well have been written for Australia, and shows how much…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Few vegetable crops require so much water as celery, and as it is one of the moat important it should have the largest supply both of water and liquid…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society of Deniliquin

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 2

A meeting of the Council of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal Hotel on Thursday last. The President (Mr W. R. Raleigh) occupied the chair, and the…

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The Indian Famine. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 3

SIR,—The reports that have reached me from our officers in India concerning the terrible famine which is now desolating the Indian Empire ; and affecting as it does from seventy to one hundred millions of…

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Federal Convention—a Suggestion (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 3

SIR.—If your can spare a little space I would like to suggest a way out of the difficulties that have been made very prominent since the discussion began on this subject. The first is how to deal with…

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Open Column. Deniliquin Gasworks. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 3

SIR,—Will you kindly insert the enclosed letter, which I received from the Town Clerk of Wagga Wagga. It is a plain statement of business facts that fully shows what has been done at Wagga, and…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, February 12, 1897

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 2

THERE has been no change in the weather since last report. It has been uniformly warm with a comparatively [?] breeze in the early part of each day, and comfortable nights. Although the temperature is…

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The Wheat Market

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 16 February 1897 · page 2

At Sydney, the price continue unaltered at 4s. 10d. for local wheat, and 4s 9d. per bushel Associated Miller's price. At Melbourne the market is quiet but…

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