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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1880

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Twenty Square Miles of Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 March 1880 · page 3

THE poetry of the harvest field wil have to be re-written. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writing from the Dairymple farm, furnishes…

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Australian Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 13 March 1880 · page 15

In connection with the intercolonial display of wool at the Exhibition, it is interesting to note the comparatively recent date at which the produce of Australian flocks began to gain a place in…

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Open Column. [?] Editor of the Pastoral Times )

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 March 1880 · page 3

[?] you kindly allow me through the [?] your valuable paper to express my [?] to those geutlemen of Deniliquin [?] upon the sbortest notice and…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times [?] [?]Friday Evening, March 12, 1880

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 March 1880 · page 2

[?] in the immediate neighbourhood is already showing a healthy [?] and [?] accounts come from other [?] of the district. Some more rain would crown [?] and seep things moving in a way to make all interested…

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Tumut Agricultural and Pastoral Show

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 10

The fifth annual show took place last Wednesday, and was only a partial success. It was, I am sorry to say, predicted that it would not be anything like snows of former years, and various…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March 19. 1880

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 2

STOCK matters are [?] quiet. On Thursday morning some [?] under half an inch of rain fell, which will serve to keep up the spring in the grap[?] which took place after the last rainfall from Hay [?] learn that there have been no…

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Rural Mems. Last Year’s Wool Trade

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 18

The year 1879 makes a gloomy chapter in the history of the wool trade. Not since 1867 has there been such a low range of prices, and the effect of this was to create an unwonted…

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Melbourne Wool and Stock Market

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 24 March 1880 · page 3

R. GOLDSBROUGH'S AND CO., report under date March 18th.—Wool.—Very little of importance has transpired in this market since the issue…

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Melbourne Wool & Station Produce Market. Hastings Cuningham and Co., Report

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 24 March 1880 · page 2

Wool.—Our last report was dated February, and on the following day telegrams from London came, to hand reporting the opening of February Mebruary-March…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March 26, 1880

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 March 1880 · page 2

[?] weather has been cool and pleasant. [?] few slight showers having bal[?] neighborhood is springing rapidly, and [?] of the country new furnishes a pleasant…

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London Colonial Wool Report. [Willans, Overbury, and Co.] 3, Copthali Buildings, London. E. C. February 11, 1880

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 March 1880 · page 2

During the past four weeks our market has continued firm, with a fair amount of enquiry on the part of both home and foreign buyers, and sales to the extent of several hundred bales of Capo and Australian wools have been made. Of…

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Concerning Peeurople Monia in Cattle

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 31 March 1880 · page 6

The following has appeared the Australasian, from the Chief Inspector of Stock in Victoria:— 1. Attention is first directed to…

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Melbourne Wool and Stock Market

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 31 March 1880 · page 3

R. GLODSBROUGH AND Co. report, under date 24th March:—Wool.—We held an auction sale to-day, and catalogued 255 bales, of which 243…

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Open Column [?] the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 April 1880 · page 3

[?] member of the Church of England I [?] bring before you a very se[?]ous [?] at Mathoura are subject to, [?] paid by the Church of Englang…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Ti[?] Denlli[?]. Friday Evening, April, 1680

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 April 1880 · page 2

THE weather during the week has been pleasant, a few showers have fallen, and some more rain would have been acceptable, although we have nothing to [?] of at present. At Hay the weather…

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[?] BARBOUR, M.P., Presenting Petitions to Parliament, (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 April 1880 · page 3

[?] is generally understood that Mr. Robert [?] M.P. is justly proud of the position he [?] the representative of the Murray Elec[?] it cannot by any means be…

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Wool and Stock Report. "Standard" Office

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 7 April 1880 · page 2

Since our last issue we have experienced an agreeable change in the weather, from that of a [?] and unsettled temperature. On Monday there were indications of rain, notwithstanding…

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Agriculture. Tillering of the Wheat Plant. Professor Levi Stockbridge

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 7 April 1880 · page 2

THE wheat plant, like some others of its class, has the habit of developing underground stems from the base of its main upright stem. These are full of nodes or…

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[?] Sheep

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 10 April 1880 · page 4

[?] hard way and an easy way, an awkward way and a skilled way to catch and handle sheep. A great many men will catch the sheep by…

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Stock Report. Pastoral, Times [?] , Friday, Evening April 9,1880

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 April 1880 · page 2

THE weather [?] the week has been fine and [?] the [?] cold. The country looks [?] present. but rain is [?] The success of the [?] experiment is we are steps are glad to say likely. to prove of service to…

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