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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1869

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“ Sheep-farming in South America.”

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 8 May 1869 · page 2

AN article bearing this title from an English agricultural paper has lately been widely reprinted in the colonial press, and has served to open the eyes of our squatters to the serious…

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GILES v. Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 May 1869 · page 1

We have been trying our best to devise some means for publishing the whole of the [?]vits in this case, filed for and against Mr. Giles, and we have taken counsel’s…

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Travelling Sheep. To the Editor

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 May 1869 · page 3

Sir,—You would confer a benefit on your subscribers by noticing in a prominent manner the extent the travelling of sheep for feed has grown to. The flocks that left this last summer…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, May 7

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 May 1869 · page 2

THE news from England respecting hot water sheep-washing is not satisfactory, and if the news is confirmed by the next mail from thence the new plan of hot water washing will be generally…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, May 14

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 May 1869 · page 2

As the time for shearing approaches sheep-owners are making anxious inquiries as to the best modas operandi—the hot water soak, and the “spouting” after it, have not answered, according…

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The Prevention of Cattle and Sheep Stealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 22 May 1869 · page 2

IF there should happen to be one part of the Scriptures which has been more closely studied by stockowners than any other portion of the Holy Book, we should imagine…

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Open Column. Sheep Runs Fenced. To the Editor

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 May 1869 · page 2

SIR,—In your issue of the 1st [?] rather a lengthy, and most [?] duction, taken from the Dubhn [?] the writer not given his views and [?]…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, May 21

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 May 1869 · page 2

THE temporary rise in the price of fat sheep in the Victorian markets, and the great fall in the price of the same stock, all occurring within fourteen days, should show the stockowners the…

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The Objections to Mixed Schools. (Abridged from the Advocate’s report of the Pastoral Letter of the Second Roman Catholic Provincial Council of Australia.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 22 May 1869 · page 3

MIXED SC[?]OOLS’—The letter denounces the evil of these schools, in which religious teaching and discipline are withdrawn from the guidance of the Church, as a gross invasion of a common liberty of…

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The Prevention of Sheep and Cattle Stealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 29 May 1869 · page 3

A meeting of stockowners for establishing an Association for the above-named object, was held at the Globe Hotel op Tuesday last, the 26th inst, Mr. Thomas Mitchell, of Woomargama, being in the…

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Sheep Quarantine on the Border

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 29 May 1869 · page 3

At a meeting of the Sheep Directors of this district held on Tuesday last at the Globe Hotel, a long discussion took place on tho vexed question as to whether or not the establishment of a quarantine ground. at…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. D[?], Friday Evening, May 28

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 May 1869 · page 2

EVERY encouragement is offered to stock breeders in the great demand for first-class stove stock, either cattle or sheep, both of which are now [?] great demand throughout [?] South Wiles [?]…

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Our Exports of Pastoral

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 June 1869 · page 2

THE question as to our being able to sell all our surplus meat in England is now settled. Some eight or nine years ago we directed public attention to this fact as certain…

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Hot Water Wool Washing

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 June 1869 · page 2

IN less than three months time we shall be in the middle of shearing, and flockowners are making anxious inquiries as to the best method of cleansing wool on the backs of the…

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WOOL. To the Editor

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 June 1869 · page 3

Sir,—The position of the flockmasters of Australia no longer admits the idle badinage of words. Action has to be taken to preserve to us that position for our produce in the manufacturing…

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Stock Report. Pastoral, Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, June 4

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 June 1869 · page 2

JAMES CREEK and Tait’s station were sold at auction at Sydney (Brewster and Treback), with 2500 mixed cattle, over sic months old, mustered at 31s 6d per head stock horses, &c., [?]…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Monthly Summary for Europe

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 June 1869 · page 2

PASTORAL property is in a transition state, as owing to the dry seasons, and the fall in wool, we have something like a crisis. Many settlers have had to assign their stations and stock in trust for the…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 June 1869 · page 2

The current season is the finest for stock we ever remember in Riverina—the vast plains look like richly-grassed home paddocks, and many of them could be mown with advantage, go high is…

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The Travelling Sheep Question

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 June 1869 · page 2

FOR some time past the runholders of Riverina have been perplexed with the travelling sheep question. Sheep starved out of their natural pasturage have been driven…

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The Travelling Sheep Question

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 June 1869 · page 2

The following is the Petition agreed upon at the late meeting at Hay :— To the [?] the Minister of Lands, Sydney The humble Petition of the Croan [?] of the…

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