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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1866

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Twenty Years’ Farming Experience Is N. S. WALES. (From the S. M. Herald.)

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 28 April 1866 · page 1

AMONG the witnesses examined before the select committee on the state of the colony, only one was a practical agriculturist. But as he has farmed continuously for twenty years,…

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ANNEXATION. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 5 May 1866 · page 1

SIR,—At the annual public meeting of the Riverine Association on the 28th ult., the whole time was taken up in reading an elaborate report, couched in fine language, of their…

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Hard Times. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 5 May 1866 · page 3

SIR,—You would oblige by allowing the following. few remarks to appear in your journal, hoping it may meet the eye of some enterprising man who is upon the lookout out for an opening to commence business, and if he should…

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Open Column. the Magistracy. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 5 May 1866 · page 1

SIR,—Democratic Australia establishes all her institutions with a stroke ; particulars are neither investigated nor troubled about ; she takes the materials at hand, and makes the…

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Goveenment Wells. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 12 May 1866 · page 3

SIR,—It is with pleasure I read your remarks, in your issue of the 6th instant, in reference to the necessity that the Government should be urged-to commence well-sinking between the Darling and the Lachlan rivers. It is…

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Open Column. Hay Book-club. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 12 May 1866 · page 1

SIR,—With your permission I will avail myself of your columns to make a suggestion to my fellow-townsmen; it is that we should start a book-club at Hay. I am told such a…

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The “Northern Farmer’s ” Brother in Deniliquin

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 12 May 1866 · page 2

“Git [?] my [?] for I beant a [?] to break my rule; A sayal mowt burn it now; but I beant a fool. Philanders a known nowt, for a says what’s naw ways true:…

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Weight of Cattle by Measurement

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 19 May 1866 · page 3

—Take the girth, just behind the shoulder blade; measure from the bone of the tail which plumbs the line from the hinder part of the buttock along the line of the back to…

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Open Column Buers To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 May 1866 · page 3

SIR,—It there any Aut of the Legislative escapelling owners or occupies of land in this colony to destroy the Bathurst [?] If there is not the [?] drop Apparant in various [?] of the country this year surely calls for such…

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London Wool Report. (From the Home News.) March 24

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 May 1866 · page 2

The sales which commenced on the 1st instant, terminated this day. The quantities catalogued comprised 7395 bales, Sydney; 44,428 bales, Port Phillip; 202 bales, Van Dieman’s Land; 649 bales, New Zealand; 11,492 bales, Adelaide; 817…

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Open Column. Postal Irregularities. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 May 1866 · page 3

SIR,—I wish to call your attention to, the constant uncertainty and irregularity of the arrival of all letters and paper coming from Melbourne to Tocumwal Mulwala, and Corowa, via Deniliquin. I am a subscriber to…

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Deniliquin Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Friday Evening, June 15

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 June 1866 · page 2

MANY of the Settlers in Queensland are [?] at their prospects—they congratulate themselves on the prospects of a rich harvest in consequence of the drought having damaged the flocks and herds in…

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Sheep [?]Ding. Selection of [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 June 1866 · page 4

[?] is not [?] paid by those [?] who breed your flock [?] of a better class of [?] very much upon the farmers [?] If…

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Deniliquin Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Friday Evening, June 22

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 June 1866 · page 2

WE have again had rains; on Saturday and Wednesday a considerable quantity has fallen, and We hear that it has been general. The moist anxious stockholder in Southern Riverina must now have…

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Accounts From Tirana. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 June 1866 · page 3

SIR,—Your Urana correspondent, writing, for your issue of the 2nd instant, teems to have been misinformed or had taken much too hasty a glance at Tirana to arrive at a truthful [?], so much so that I think it a…

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Woolgrowing in Riverina. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 June 1866 · page 3

SIR—I have expected that in some of your late issues you would have taken some prominent notice of the high position some of our wools have attained at the late sales in England, showing, by ordinary care and attention,…

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Open Colu[?] the Bazaar. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 June 1866 · page 3

SIR.—Once more I [?] from my [?] into broad daylight (that [?] make my appearance in your illuminating and [?] You will per[?] be surprised when I tell you what wonderful…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 July 1866 · page 3

SIR,—As my horse is quite done for this day, and I am about to stop here for the night take an opportunity of just dropping you a few jottings about Urana, and the road thereto, as perhaps it will be acceptable to…

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Deniliquin Stock Report. Pastoral. Times Office, Friday Evening, July 6

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 July 1866 · page 2

THE news from all the outlying districts in regard to stock continues to be cheering. From the northern part of Queensland down to the Murray, almost without exception, the rainfall has been…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 July 1866 · page 3

SIR,—I notice in your issue of 30th June that you adduce by way of reply to my letter of 19th June to the Argus impugning the accuracy of a paragraph which appeared in the paper of that date, extracted…

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