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Farming & the land, 1898

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Wheat Market

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 7 December 1898 · page 2

New wheat is quoted to-day at 3s, to 3s. 2d per bushel…

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 7 December 1898 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers Association reports as follows under date of December 3:— Wool— 35,80 bales offered, the sales amounting to 32,353…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 7 December 1898 · page 2

No. 61. The Walnut (continued) The Kornel—Fruit and Oil—Leave- and Husks—Varieties of Walnuts—Propsgation—soft—Trees intended for Timber…

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Sound Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1898 · page 12

The value of sound sheep is about equal nowadays to the difficulty of obtaining them. Overstocking, some say, want of change, keeping the same stock year after year in the…

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London Wheat Market. London, December 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1898 · page 4

The English market is quiet, but steady. The Continental markets are steady. The American markets are tending downward. The New York spot quotation for No. 2 Red Winter wheat is 76…

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A Good Crop

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1898 · page 29

Mr. J. A. Kennedy has a particularly fine wheat crop in a small paddock on the Albury flat. There is unfortunately only 20 acres of it, but it is estimated to go 60 bushels to the…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1898 · page 12

KITCHEN GARDEN.—Another crop of marrows and encumbers may be sown. No pains should be spared in the raising of lettuce, which are in great demand at this season, but…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, December 9, 1898

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 December 1898 · page 2

VERY warm weather was experienced in the early part [?] this week the thermometer going up to 110 deg in the official shade on Monday last. A cool change however set in next morning and the days have been…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 December 1898 · page 2

No. 63. The Pistacia Nut—Description of Tree—Leaves and Flowers—Fruit—Soil—Plantations The Turpentine Tree—Gum Mastic—General Remarks on Stimulants…

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Wool Sale

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 14 December 1898 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., held their usual weekly wool sale on Thursday last, when they brought forward a catalogue embracing…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 14 December 1898 · page 2

No. 62. The Hotel Nut (continued)— Various clasess— Propagation—Grafting—The Dwarf Prod[?]tive Nut—The filbert—Mode of C[?]tion—Keeping…

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Profitable Wheat Crops

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 December 1898 · page 12

The line of demarcation which Separates the profitable wheat crops from the unprofitable cannot be drawn on paper or set down in figures. Circumstances and conditions vary so…

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The Wheat Crop. Only Nine Million Bushels

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 December 1898 · page 35

The Government Statistician on Tuesday afternoon completed his estimate of the wheat harvest of the colony for this year, and the results of the official investigation…

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The Wheat Yield

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 December 1898 · page 2

THE wheat producers of New Smith Wales have grave cause for dissatisfaction with the Sydney Daily Telegraph; Two or three weeks ago our metropolitan…

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Kiewa Valley Butter Factory Co

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 December 1898 · page 24

A meeting of the directors of this company was held at Kiewa on the 10th inst. Those who attended it were Mr. M'Leod (the chairman), and Messrs. Gowling…

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The Selecting of Seed Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 December 1898 · page 12

A writer in the Agricultural Gazette gives some practical hints on the sowing of seed wheat. He says:—"The sowing of good plump grain also cannot be too strongly urged…

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Wool Sales. Melbourne, December 12

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 16 December 1898 · page 2

Dalgety & Company, Limited, sold to-day 2,800 bales wool, including representative clips from all the colonies, find the first appreciable quantity of Tasmanian wools…

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Good Prices for Local Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 December 1898 · page 21

Sales of Yarra Yarra, Brae Springs, and Annandayle wool are reported. These three clipps topped the record for Riverina greasy wool this season at Goldsbrough, Mort, and…

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The American Harvest. Prosperity of the Farmers. London. December 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 December 1898 · page 21

The value of the crops of maize and oats in the United States this year is 83,000,000 dollars more than in 1897. The prosperity of the American farmers…

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Farm and Garden. Drainage Made Easy

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 December 1898 · page 12

One of the greatest drawbacks to successful operations on hundreds of farms is the absence of a thorough system of till drainage; consequently the early preparation of ground and…

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