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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

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The Sydney Sheep Show. Final of the Dog Trials

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1905 · page 3

The sheep dog trials, which were commenced on Thursday last, in connection with the annual sheep show, were concluded on the…

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The World's Crops

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 7 July 1905 · page 4

France.—After a turn of very wet and altogether unseasonable weather, there is a decided change for the better, and higher temperatures with…

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Cattle steamship looted

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 10 July 1905 · page 2

The Kniaz potemkine Tavritchesky captured and looted the Russian cattle steamer Grand Duke Alexis, off Theodosia…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Societies Union

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 10 July 1905 · page 2

At the council meeting of the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union, held last Tuesday afternoon, Mr. R.T.Kays, of the Maswellbrock…

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The Australian Wool Clip. Dalgety & Co's Annual Report

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 10 July 1905 · page 2

Wool growers are perhaps more interested in the prospects for the sale of the growing clip than in a [?] of the past…

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Special Sale of Dairy Cattle

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 2

Messrs A. McLean & Co. report, under date June 26:—We had a special sale of dairy cows at Bairnsdale on Monday, and yarded 150 head, mostly good sorts…

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Short Story The Family Black Sheep

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 4

I met him in South Africa. I know him as Roland Sterne, trooper in one of the beet of the irregular regiments. But I didn't know his story then…

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Spray a Practical Farmer

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 4

Some years ago, before the bicycle was in such favour as it is now, a farmer went into an ironmonger's shop to buy a scythe. After serving him the shopman…

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Hindoos in the Dairy

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 8

AT the half-yearly meeting of the North Coast Co-operative Dairy, Company at Byron Bay (reports the Lismore "Chronicle") Mr…

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Crop failures in Russia

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 17 July 1905 · page 2

Crops have failed is many districts of Central, Eastern, and Northern Russia…

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Stud Sheep

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 22 July 1905 · page 6

ON Friday last, Mr. A. H. Wright, of Tombong, returned to Delegate from the Sydney Sheep Show, bringing with him his recent purchases of Shropshires at…

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A Scotch Farmer's Grace

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 22 July 1905 · page 4

An old Ayrshire farmer used regularly to deliver himself of the following quaint as a grace before meat: "Takeoff yer boanets, honest men! Are they…

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Commercial. the Wool Clip. Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wool and Produce Brokers, Sydney, Report:—

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 18 August 1905 · page 3

The present position of the wool market is a satisfactory one from the wool growers' standpoint, there being every' prospect at time of writing, that when the…

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Prime N.S.W. Sheep

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 25 August 1905 · page 2

Prime sheep, showing the good season generally, continue to be offered at Homebush, selling up to 23s 1d…

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Grievous Sodily Farm

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 28 August 1905 · page 2

William Williams, caretaker of the Soda-water springs, Rovk Flat, on bail, was charged on remand, with having on 17th August inflicted…

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Orbost Cattle Market. Saturday, August 26

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 3

Cattle.—A small yarding, including a fair number of fats. Fat cows, £4 10s to £7; and a line of 403yr-old steers, inferior quality, £4. There is a strong demand for…

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The Wool Clip. Prospects of an American Demand. Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wool and Produce Brokers, Sydney, Report:—

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 3

The question of an American demand for portion of the present Australian wool clip is one of considerable interest at the present time. It will be remembered that…

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Greater Corn Yields. Ways in Which the Farmer May Increase the Productiveness of His Fields

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 1

It is commonly conceded that the average yield of corn upon the best adapted lands of the corn belt, proper might be grestly increased. It is also…

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Outdoor Feed-rack. Simple Frame Which Will Prove valuable in Feeding the Cattle

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1905 · page 1

A barnyard feed rack that fills every requirement is shown in the cut, and is sent by a Michigan farmer to the…

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The World's Crops

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1905 · page 4

France.—There can be no doubt that the wheat, and to some extent the barley, crops must have suffered damage from the violent storms and…

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