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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1872

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Farming & Gardening. Notes on Farming

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 April 1872 · page 1

It is very satisfactory to be able to select from the columns of so trustworthy a journal as the Melbourne Leader evidences of the value of our repeated suggestions on…

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The Wool Market.—its Condition and PROSPECTS

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 1 May 1872 · page 2

THE recent advance in the price of wool may be looked on by many, who remember the experience of fluctuations in time past, as only a…

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The Ballarat Farmers’ Club. (From the Star.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 1 May 1872 · page 4

The monthly meeting was held in the lecture-room of the Mechanics’ Institute on Saturday afternoon, Mr W. H. Becchus, president, in the chair. There were about twenty…

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Central Pastoral Association of Riverina. [From Our Special Reporter.]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 2

Pursuant to announcement by advertisement in several public journals, the annual meeting of subscribers to the above Association was held at Jerilderie on Thursday last. The Society is now in the…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. De[?], Friday Evening, May [?], 1872

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 2

SEVERAL [?] of fat cattle and sheep passed Wilcannia to market, [?] from Car[?]lin for Melbourne, [?] do from Mount, Murohison, for Adelaide; 333 do, from Bulla…

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Wool and Stock Report. Standard Office, Hay, Wednesday, May 8, 1872

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 8 May 1872 · page 2

THE weather continues dry. The lambing has commenced at Mungadal, and a few other stations, and will be general by the end of this month. Feed is not scarce, but surface…

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The Ballarat Farmers’ Club. (From the Star.) (Continued from last Wednesday’s issue.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 8 May 1872 · page 4

Our attention is occasionally directed by writers And others to the good, as said, resulting from governmental agricultural school teachings, and governmental model farms,…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 May 1872 · page 2

SIR,—There is a prevalent opinion that a written contract to perform work such as dam making, well sinking, fencing, &c., although signed in the usual way, is not binding on the…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, May 10, [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 May 1872 · page 2

HEAVY RAINS have fallen at Fort Bourke and refreshing rain has fallen between Will[?] and B[?]ligal, but not sufficient for stock purposes. A correspondent at Wilcannia (April 25) says:—“A…

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Farming & Gardening. Notes on Farming

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 May 1872 · page 2

A move in the right direction has been made by Mr. Hodgkinson with reference to the circular for land officers in the colony of Victoria. Some of these…

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Open Column. the Late Deniliquin Races. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 May 1872 · page 2

SIR,—At a meeting of the committee previous to the races the Honorary Secretary was ordered to make the fences for the Hurdle Race high and stiff. Acting on those instructions the…

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Wool and Stock Report. Standard Office, Hay, Wednesday, May 22, 1872

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 22 May 1872 · page 2

OUR up-river correspondents speak of plenty of rain, while down river they would like a little more; but on the whole the present lambing season is favourable to a degree…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 May 1872 · page 2

Sir,—We, the undersigned, stewards of the late Deniliquin Races, beg to state that Mr. O'Shanassy must have been misinformed, as the statements contained in his letter in your issue of the 18th…

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Commercial. Albury, Friday Evening. the Wheat Market

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 25 May 1872 · page 2

Now that the Victorian harvest return have been published, from the report! of tile three principal Melbourne papers which are given below, it will appear that the wheat market it inclined to be firmer…

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Price of Wool in 1820. What Has Seen May Be

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 May 1872 · page 4

Our attention has been called to the following extract from the Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter of Saturday, Nov. 18th, 1820:—By accounts received from England by…

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Wool Producing in New South Wales. (From the S. M. Herald.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 May 1872 · page 4

There is no product that excites so much attention is this colony as wool. Gold, tin, [?] their followers, but fewer [?] are affected by a new rush than by…

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Farming & Gardening, Notes on Farming

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 May 1872 · page 1

As the season for wheat-sowing has come round again a few remarks upon seed wheat may not be amiss, especially when it is remembered that a good deal of…

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Hay Pastoral Association

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 29 May 1872 · page 2

A meeting of the above Association was held on Thursday last at the Caledonian Hotel, Hay Present:—Mr. Chambers (in the chair) Messrs. M'Gaw. Tully Curtain,…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 June 1872 · page 2

Sir,—Observing a letter signed by Mr. J. S. O‘Shanassy in your issue of the I8th, to which I observe a reply signed by stewards of Deniliquin Races in your issue of to-day, I think that in…

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London Wool Sales

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 5 June 1872 · page 2

The second series of London colonial wool sales opened on the 11th inst., at which dates 177,504 bales had arrived, the Somersetshire, with a considerable cargo of wool, arriving about 24 hours too late…

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