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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1861

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Wool, Tallow, and Hide Market

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 29 November 1861 · page 2

Messrs [?] and Co report (November [?] Wool—By the arrival of the [?] are placed in [?] of [?] the home market to the [?] correspondent’s letters are not…

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The Price of Bread To the Editor of the Pastoral Times and Southern Courier

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 29 November 1861 · page 3

SIR—As I am ratter interested in the price of provisions, and painfully aware of the fact that— “there’s little to earn and many to keep” I crave permission to occupy a portion of your space…

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Route to the Lachlan Diggings To the Editor of the Pastoral Times and Southern Courier

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 29 November 1861 · page 3

Sir.—I- consider it the duty of one man to another to prevent any deception being practised upon him, and as such I hope you will allow the following to appear in the columns of the Pastoral…

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Correspondence the Rev. R. BARKER & Mr. Johnson To the Editor of the Pastoral Times and Southern Courier

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 29 November 1861 · page 3

DEAR SIR—I am somewhat wounded by the very unmerited lashing which a Mr. Johnson has publicly inflicted on me in the columns of your paper. The more so because, .when I parted with him on the plains, he…

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Birds the Farmers’ Friend. (From the Times.)

The Border Post · Saturday 30 November 1861 · page 8

The tourists who are now taking flight from these islands to all parts of the would will, if they are but commonly observant, notice one peculiar feature in continental scenery, and…

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“Beasts, and All Cattle, and Flying Fowl”. To the Editor of the Yeoman

The Border Post · Wednesday 4 December 1861 · page 8

SIR.—Is there anything. [?] of it may be said, This is new? ‘There id nothing new under the sun,’ answered the splendid Hebrew monarch to his own question. And verily…

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The Light Horse Stocks of the Colony. (From the Farmer’s Journal.)

The Border Post · Wednesday 4 December 1861 · page 8

Whether the Clydesdale, the Lincoln, or the Suffolk be most fancied by farmers from different parts of the country, we have all these good of their kind, and the improvement in the…

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Wool Tallow and Hide Market

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 6 December 1861 · page 2

Messrs. J. H. CLOUGH and Co (November 30) report:— WOOL ,— This week above 6000 hakes have been brought forward for public competition. At the sale on Wednesday [?]…

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Correspondence the Rote to the Lachlan. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times and Southern Courier. Billabong , December 2, 1861

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 6 December 1861 · page 3

SIR, — Having observed Mr. Willoughbys truly philanthropic letter in your last issue headed “Route to the Lachlan” I beg to be permitted to put out what I consider the most direct route from Deniliquin; and though…

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Wool, Tallow, and Hide Market

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 13 December 1861 · page 2

Messrs. [?] and Co. report (December 7):—WOOL—The Melbourne sales have been well attended this week and [?]…

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Correspondence. Route to the Lachlan Diggings. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times and Southern Courier

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 13 December 1861 · page 3

SIR,—I consider it the duty of one man to another to prevent any deception being practised upon him, and as such I hope you will allow the following to appear in the columns of the Pastoral Times (vide letter of James…

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Farming at Lake Learmonth. (From the Argus.)

The Border Post · Saturday 14 December 1861 · page 4

The following memorial to Parliament is being extensively circulated throughout the agricultural districts adjacent to Ballarat :—“The memorial of the undersigned farmers resident…

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Value of Cattle in California

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 20 December 1861 · page 4

The cattle trade in California is stated to be in a very depressed condition. According to the Herald an opinion [?] that production has vastly [?] consumption, though…

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Farming in Australia: From the Yeoman

The Border Post · Saturday 21 December 1861 · page 8

Every one who is interested in the pursuits of farming knows, or ought to know, that if he drains and works his land properly, keeps it clean and manures it sufficiently it will…

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The Cattle Raid. (From the Wagga Wagga Express.)

The Border Post · Wednesday 25 December 1861 · page 5

The four gentlemen who in consideration of the sum of £2 10s. per diem each, with travelling expenses, are devoting, according to Mr. Cowper’s statement in the House o…

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Correspondence. Judicial Punctilio To the Editor of the Pastoral Times and Southern Courier

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 27 December 1861 · page 3

SIR — I have no doubt that you are aware, as well as every one else Daiquiri that his Honor Judge Blake has been a guest of the police Magistrate, Mr. Kelly doing the term of his judicuial…

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Charge of Manslaughter Against a Medical Practitioner. (From the Pastoral Times.)

The Border Post · Saturday 28 December 1861 · page 5

ON Thursday afternoon the Police Magistrate hold an enquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Joseph Clarkson, who died in the Deniliquin Hospital, of secondary…

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