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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1880

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Melbourne Wool & Stock Market

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 18 February 1880 · page 3

J. C. WALKER & Co.'s Report under date February llth—Fat Cattle—2,000 yarded for the week's supply, the greater portion of which…

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Second Edition. Pastoral Times Office. Saturday Morning

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 3

WEATHER fine. IRISH RELIEF FUND.—The Irish Relief Fund in account with Deniliquin Owl Club. To advertising and printing, 9 [?] 6d; painting signboard, £15s: Tuning piano, 15s; posting…

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London February Wool Sales

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 2

The Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company have received a telegram from Messrs Helmuth, Schwartz & Co. as follows:—London, 17th Feb.—Wool sales—The…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin Friday evening, February 10, 1880

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 2

THE weather during the next week has been fine, at times cloudy and threatening rain. A good downpour would now be very acceptable but immediate prospects are not promising. In the Sydney wool market we notice that there is still at…

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Open Column. the Municipal Council and the Fire Brigade. (To The Editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 3

SIR,—The action of the Municipal Council is certainly beyond the ken of ordinary mortals, in their actions anent the Fire Brigade. The proper organization of such a body being certainly the most…

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Farming in California

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 18

The English Independent of a late date publishes the following remarks respecting farming in California received from its United States correspondent: “—Mr. John Mitchell, of California, planted 40,000…

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Melbourne Wool & Stock Market

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 25 February 1880 · page 2

R. GOLDSBOROUGH AND Co. report, under date February 19th—Wool—During the month 6,341 bales have been catalogued, and 5,439 bales sold, prices being firmly maintained at last month's rates…

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Melbourne Wool and Stock Market

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 25 February 1880 · page 6

R. GOLDSBROUGH AND Co. report, under date 18th February:—Wool—We have not held our usual auction this week, but shall offer a fair…

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Second Edition. Pastoral Times Office, Saturday Morning

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 3

THE RAINFALL.—Last night a thunderstorm passed over and 52 points of rain fell, making a total of 2[?]19 in for the week. This morning it is again cloudy; another thunderstorm is passing over, with heavy rain…

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Rural Mems. New Zealand Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 18

Wheat-growers will probably be surprised to learn that the Oamar[?] Mail claims that New Zealand has “beaten the world in wheat.” Here is the paragraph in which that journal makes…

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Stock Report, Pastoral Times Office, Denlliquin. Friday Evening, February 27, 1980

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 2

AFTER a protracted season of dry and hot weather, we have at length been favoured with some welcome rains, the fail up to this morning amounting to 1.67 inch. Stock matters continue to be very quiet, and very few lots of either store or fat…

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The Dairy and Its Management

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 18

“What ought to be produced upon a daily farm ?” is a question which might properly be considered first in any article dealing with the subject of our heading. If near a village or…

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Melbourne Wool and Stock Market

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 3 March 1880 · page 4

Messrs J. H. CLOUGH and Co. report, under date 25th February—Wool—The first local sales since the receipt of intelligence of the…

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Irish Tenant Farmers' Meeting Attacked by Orangemen. Serious Conflict London, Feb. 26

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 3 March 1880 · page 2

A meeting of tenant farmers and others was held at Portadown, province of Ulster, yesterday, for the purpose of discussing the land question. A band of Orangemen…

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Second Edition. Pastoral Times Office, Saturday Morning

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 3

WEATHER fine and cool WE are requested to intimate to intending visitors to Chiarini’s circus that they should obtain railway tickets at once in order that arrangements may be made…

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Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 14

A meeting of the committee of the above society was held at the Globe Hotel on Thursday afternoon, the members present being Messrs. Lyne (in the chair), Watson, Dight, Frew, Hayes, and…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin Friday Evening, March [?] 1880

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 2

[?] morning the [?] was and some tight showers fell. This following the rains of last week will not be without service as the plains are already [?] to assume a [?] appearance from the springing up of young [?]…

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Rural Mems. the Best Way of Selling Our Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 19

At this juncture in farming affairs a few words on the subject of our available surplus and the courses that may be adopted to realize the best price for it cannot be regarded as out of place…

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Melbourne Wool and Stock Market

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 10 March 1880 · page 6

Messrs J. H. CLOUGH and Co. report under date March 3rd.—Wool.—The season having virtually closed, only odd lots, consisting of…

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Arrival of Victorian Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 March 1880 · page 2

The s.s. Norfolk has arrived with the first shipment of Victorian wheat this season. It is worth 59s. per quarter…

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