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Farming & the land, 1898

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Berger's Sheep-marking Composition

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 October 1898 · page 4

Messrs. A. A. Piggin and Co., of Corowa, auctioneers, announce that they have been appointed agents for Berger's Sheep Marking Composition. This composition is free from…

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The Wheat Export Trade

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 October 1898 · page 12

According to present appearances the wheat yield of Australia this year will be beyond all precedent, and in several quarters attention is being directed to the means of disposing of it…

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The Crops

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 October 1898 · page 35

From the Sydney Morning Herald we clip the following description of the wheat country and of the outlook of the present season :- At this time of the year the prospects of…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 October 1898 · page 12

KITCHEN GARDEN.-The separegus beds have in many gardens become weedy, and as the hoe cannot be used on them at present on account of the young shoots coming through…

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Weeding the Crops

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 October 1898 · page 12

The predominance of weeds is remarkable. So is their pertnacity, Even at this early season there are few districts where the pastures as well as the arable fields are not more of less…

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Orchard Crops

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 October 1898 · page 13

As a rule it is nowise to attempt to raise crops of any kind in the orchard, but those who engage in the fruit-growing industry have sometimes a difficulty to exist until the trees…

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The Pastoral and Agricultural Outlook Unsatisfactory Prospects

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 October 1898 · page 2

The continued dry weather accompanied as it has been during the last week or two by great heat, is exercising a most depressing effect upon the pastoral and agricultural industries. A month back the…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin Friday Evening, October, 14 1898

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 October 1898 · page 2

DURING the past week the weather has been very hot. yesterday the thermometer stood at 98.5deg in the [?] that being the highest registration since the 11th of March last. This morning there was a heavy…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 October 1898 · page 1

No. 56;—THE MANGO (continued}— THE MANGO DODUL — VARIETIES — THE MANGOSTAN — WHERE A NATIVES —DESCRIPTION OF TREE FRUIT, FLOWERS,…

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Small Sheep

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 19 October 1898 · page 1

The very smallest all kinds of sheep is the tiny Breton sheep. It takes its name from the particular part at France when it is most raised. It is too email to be very…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 19 October 1898 · page 2

No. 54.—THE GUAVA—EIGHT SPECIES- THE WHITE—WILD AND CULTIVATED—WOOD, LEAVES, FLOWERS, FRUIT, AND PULP—THE RED GUAVA—CHARACTER…

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Butter Preservatives

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 October 1898 · page 12

The question whether butter and meat preservatives-of which there are a great number of brands in the market-are injurious or otherwise is meanwhile a topic of discussion…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 October 1898 · page 29

Says the Mudgee Post:-Some very barefaced cases of sheepstealing have been perpetrated out Sandy Creek way, whereby quite a number of residents have…

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London Wheat Market. London, October 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 October 1898 · page 4

The English market is firm, with an upward tendency. The Continental markets are steady. The American markets are advancing, Russian (Ghirks) cargoes per steamer are quoted at 31s…

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Slaughtering Cattle Without a License. a Defective Intimation

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 October 1898 · page 2

Edward Naughton and William Naughton were charged, on summons, at the police court, this morning, before the P.M., that they did, on the 12th October, slaughter one…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 October 1898 · page 12

ORCHARD.-Where it is necessary to protect early cherries from birds, the nets should be put on without any delay, as if delayed until the fruit is nearly ripe much remains unduly…

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Housekeeper. to Keep Butter Sweet

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 October 1898 · page 2

A farmer’s wife writes that after an experiences of many years she finds no plan nearly so good as the simple one she always adopts, viz., to wrap the butter in…

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Stock Report. Pastoral. Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, October, 21, 1898

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 October 1898 · page 2

THE absence of any serviceable rain is causing much anxiety throughout the district, which the hot weather of a week ago did a great deil of damage to the grass which [?] presents a very withered appearance On…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 October 1898 · page 2

No. 56—The Bread Fruit—Species—Distribution —Description of Tree—of Bark— Branches—Leaves—Flowers—The Fruit— The Jaca—Compared with Bread Fruit—…

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