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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1878

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Second Edition. Pastoral Times Office. Saturday Morning

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 September 1878 · page 3

WEATHER fine. DENILIQUIN POLICE COURT.—This (Saturday) morning William Hurley was fined £1, and Annie Davis [?] for drun[?]…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times [?] Pen[?] Friday Evening, September 20, 1878

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 September 1878 · page 2

THE weather has been fine and some days [?] which must. If it cou[?] in the appearance of t[?]. Shearing is progressing rapidly The latest accounts of the home wool sales show little…

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Farmers' Wool

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 25 September 1878 · page 2

EVERY season many hundred bales of wool are sacrified, both in this market and in England, simply because pains are not sufficiently taken to assert the different qualities…

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Second Edition. Pastoral Times Office. Saturday Morning

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 3

Weather fine. THE SCHOOL OF ARTS.—On Wednesday evening the Committee [received applications for the office of Caretaker and Collector, and accepted that of Mr. Peters…

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Open Column. (To the Editor of the pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 2

Sir,—On my return from Melbourne the other day, I was surprised to read a letter in the Chronicle signed” An End-street Grocer,” on cheap goods, of which I must inform you I was not the writer,…

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Ovens and Murray Pastoral and Agricultural Society. the Show Dinner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 10

The dinner in connection with the annual Exhibition of the Ovens and Murray Pastoral and Agricultural Society took place at Kett’s Billiard room. The chair was occupied by Mr. George…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, September 27, 1878

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 2

THE weather during the week has been variable and [?] [?] there will be few complaints now of the want of [?] or water; the coming [?] bids [?] to be a prosperous one. The last news of the home wool sales was not so satisfactory…

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News by the Mail. Failures in the Wool Trade

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 6

The failure is announced of the old-established firm of Hazard and Caldecott, wool brokers, of [?] New Basinghall-street, with [?] roughly estimated at half a million sterling, of which about…

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Farm Work for October

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 2 October 1878 · page 4

Abraham Lincolne, in his monthly circular says:— Summer Green Fodder—There is a larger demand for sorghum this season than usual,…

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Second Edition. Pastoral T[?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 October 1878 · page 2

WEATHER fine. AN entertainment will be given by [?] Dramatic Club at the Town Hall, next [?] Advantage will be taken of the [?]…

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Open Column. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 October 1878 · page 2

Sir,— Do you think that the Municipal Council will ever avail itself of the privileges accorded to it by the clause in the Municipalities Act of 1867, of obtaining books from the Government to furnish a free library…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office DE[?]tn Friday Evening October 4 1878

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 October 1878 · page 2

THE weather has been warm and [?] summer is dawning upon [?] feed [?] plentiful it begins already to show the effects of the [?] Since our last 2213 bales of wool have passed here, and a large number of sheep are now…

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In-breeding Cattle. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 October 1878 · page 4

Sir,—The present age is characterised, apparently above others which have preceded it, [?] an endeavour to discover the “truth,” whether in physical science, in what are usually…

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Ten Rules for Farmers

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 9 October 1878 · page 2

1. Take good papers and read them. 2. Keep an account of farm operations. 3. Do not leave implements scattered over the farm, exposed to snow, rain and heat…

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Agriculture. Dairying Fallacies. Air in Cream

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 9 October 1878 · page 2

FOR some time it was thought (and churns for carry out the principle were introduced) that the passage of air into the cream during the process of churning promoted the…

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The Mulburry Farm Bal Masque

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 October 1878 · page 2

ONE of those recherche entertainments -- a bal masque-- took place at Mrs Bladen Neill's Mulberry Farm on Friday evening last, to which about…

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Second Edition. Pastoral Times Office. Saturday Morning

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 October 1878 · page 3

WEATHER cloudy and unsettled. THE RIVERS.—October 11.—Gundagai, 13 feet, rising ; Wagga, 8ft 6in., rising; Hay, 15ft., stationary ; Balranald, 13ft. 1in., rising ; Albury, 13ft., rising ;…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, October 11, 1878

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 October 1878 · page 2

WE have at [?] been favoured with refreshing rains, the good affects of which will soon be apparent. The rainfall for the week amounts to 166 points. The wool still continues to come in from the stations, [?] bales having passed…

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Stock Report. Melbourne Wool and Station Produce Market

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 12 October 1878 · page 4

J. H. Clough and Co. report:—Wool—Since the date of our last month's report the new clip has continued to arrive, and there is already a fair quantity to hand, and by the…

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London Wool Sales. [By Electric Telegraph] From the Australian Mortgage Land [?] Company, Melbourne

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 October 1878 · page 2

We have received the following [?] Messrs. Helmuth Schwartz and [?] 30 [?] September:—“Wool sales [?] badly attended; tone is dull; [?]…

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