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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1867

153 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 8

Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, August 23

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 24 August 1867 · page 2

THE propitious Reason in the salt-bush country is beginning to develop itself in a very marked manner. Beef and mutton are materially improved—fat sheep and fat cattle are the rule throughout the…

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A Cheap Mode of Constructing Farm Buildings

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 24 August 1867 · page 4

Some three years ago a description was given in our columns of an adobe house, cellar, &.c., constructed at the vineyard of Mr Andrew Murray, at Boroondara, and on a…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, August 30

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 August 1867 · page 2

NEWS of preparations for boiling-down and preserving meat by various methods are coming in from all quarters. The example of South America in this matter seems worthy of being followed; there the…

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Open Column. Mechanics’ Institute. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 August 1867 · page 2

SIR,—What about this institution ? Do you know if there are any measures being taken to occupy the land given for the purposes of the institute. At present it would appear to exist only in name. Great things…

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The New Land Bill. Part 1.—Pastoral Tenants. Pastoral Leases which expire on 31st December, 1867, extended on same term to 31st December, 1868

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 31 August 1867 · page 4

2. Every pastoral lease the period of which will expire on the thirty-first day of December next shall be and the same is hereby extended on the existing terms [?] to rent and otherwise until the thirty-first day or…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 September 1867 · page 2

SIR,—Doubtless the public are not aware of the vast devastation of wood that is being committed in the vicinity of Hay. I am a licensed bushman of four years’ standing on the Murray and here—we are taught by the…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 September 1867 · page 2

QUEENSLAND politician are still meddling with the land question, materially interfering with [?] in stock and stations, and transaction were chiefly confined to sales of store wethers of good…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 September 1867 · page 2

[?] process of extracting the essence from the meat is not fulfilling the desired of its [?] it is objectionable on the score that its [?] too stimulating that, in fact, its effects [?]…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, September 20

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 September 1867 · page 2

THE extension of pastoral settlement to the Gulf of Carpentaria, and the rapid occupation of a vast area of land there for sheep and cattle [?] matters for congratulation. The question [?]…

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Stock Report Pastoral, Times Office. D[?] Friday Evening, September 27

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1867 · page 2

NOTWITH[?] the political [?] through Which the law relating to the Crown [?] of the colony is passing, there still exists a healthy [?] for station property and very [?]…

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Judicious Farming

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 September 1867 · page 4

If [?] is to be carried on with profit, there must be the continual outlay of capital in permanent improvements, or in manure?, &c. The practical farmers must, like the…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, [?], Friday Evening [?] 4

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 October 1867 · page 2

REPORTS from Queensland inform [?] period in the history of Australia was the quantity of rolling-fat stock so abundant at [?] beef sent from thence, cured by…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, October 11

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 October 1867 · page 2

THE great prevalent of .floods—extending, as they do over the whole of the Riverina territory—has to a great extent put a stop to the movements Retook; and shearing operations are necessarily Held in…

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Experimental Farms

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 12 October 1867 · page 4

It is time that an .Albury Agricultural Society was organised—the benefits to the district would be incalculable. At the last meeting of the New South Wales…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 October 1867 · page 3

SIR,—Allow me to call your attention, and that of the squatters, to the present season as regards boiling-down. It is a patent fact that boiling-down will only pay when sheep are fat, and, therefore, can only be carried out…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, October 18

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 October 1867 · page 2

THERE are many anxious inquires in the northern districts for good stations, moderately supplied with good [?] Buyers, however, refuse to give prices asked for [?] properties, in fact, there as a full in…

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The Wool Season

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 26 October 1867 · page 4

Most of the squatters in this district are now busily engaged in shearing. The weather during the past week has been drier and more favorable, and the work has in consequence…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday evening, October 25

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 October 1867 · page 2

THE recent lambing appears to have every where yielded a larger percentage than has been obtained for many years and the widely diffused [?] of abundance of water and feed will enable the whole…

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Melbourne Wool Market

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 November 1867 · page 2

Messrs. R. GOLDSBROUGH & Co. report (November 6.)—The sales of wool held at our Warehouses this day attracted a full attendance of buyers, and the prices obtained were very satisfactory, considering the state of the English market…

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MAGISTRATES. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 November 1867 · page 3

SIR,—I would beg permission through your colunms to bring under the notice of the Executive the great want of magistrates on the Lachlan runs between Booligal and Condoblin…

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