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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1881

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Melbourne Wool and Produce Market Report

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 2 November 1881 · page 2

The Australasian Mortgage & Agency Company Limited report:—We held our second wool sale of the season this day at the Australian wool stores and offered at auction 2040 bales. The catalogue was a…

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Wool and Stock Report. "Standard" Office

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 2 November 1881 · page 2

THE weather daring the week has shown most unmistakeable signs of summer, some rather warm days having been experienced. On Sunday a change took place, the sky being overcast…

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The Old Farm Gate

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 2 November 1881 · page 2

IN gilded saloons, where the fairest of belles Flung around me their subtlest of glamour and spells, I broke through their magic, I mocked at…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Harvesting Machinery

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 2 November 1881 · page 2

THE harvest promises to be memorable for the introduction of harvesting machines, even in excess of those of preceding years—which is saying not a little. In…

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Agriculture. Station Farm and Garden. Harvesting Machinery

The Corowa Free Press · Thursday 3 November 1881 · page 2

THE harvest promises to be memorable for the introdnation of harvesting machices, even in excess of those of preceding years which is saying not a little. In…

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The Old Farm Gate. (In Harper's Weekly.)

The Corowa Free Press · Thursday 3 November 1881 · page 2

IN gilded saloons where the fairest of belles Flung around me their subtlest of glamour and spells, I broke through their magic, I mocked at…

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Improved Cattle Trucks

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1881 · page 15

Mr. M’Lean asked a series of questions in the Victorian Parliament last week affecting the conveyance of stock on the railways, and said that cattle were sometimes killed in transit, of which…

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An Extensive Wool Sale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1881 · page 7

Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co. (Limited) held at their Melbourne stores this afternoon one of the most important wool sales that have ever been held. They catalogued 16,678 bales, a…

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Loss of Sheep During the Late Storm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1881 · page 15

The storm on the night of Thursday, 20th October (says the Geelong Advertiser), will long be remembered in the Little River district by sheepfarmers. The small holders, who were caught in…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 5 November 1881 · page 2

The Australasian Mortgage & Agency Company Limited report:—We offered at auction to-day 3890 bales wool mostly greasy, and had good competition at former prices. 50 bales of Sangers Wanamiong…

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Melbourne Wool and Produce Market Report

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 5 November 1881 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited report.—WOOL: a brisk demand at late rates continues to characterise the market During the week the different sales have been well…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, November 4, 1881

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 November 1881 · page 2

THE weather until this morning has been hot and sultry, and rain is badly wanted. The wool passings for the week amount to 1164 bales. In the Mudgee district a heavy thunderstorm…

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The Dairy. Butter-making Utensils

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 9 November 1881 · page 2

AT our agricultural shows dairy utensils of various kinds may generally be seen, but no attempt is ever made to submit them to a practical test for the benefit of butter and…

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Melbourne Wool and Produce Market Report

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 9 November 1881 · page 2

The Australasian Mortgage & Agency Company Limited report—Mu[?] and important business has been transacted in this market since our last report values having become firmly established at the currency of [?]…

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Associated Dairying

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 9 November 1881 · page 2

THE factory, or as it is often called the American system of dairying, was first started in the United States about twenty-five years ago, and has proved so successful…

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Ostrich Farming

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 9 November 1881 · page 2

THE success of the farmers of the Cape Colony with ostriches, has of late years caused more than a little attention to be devoted to these strange but profitable birds. Recent…

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Coarse Wool v. Fine Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1881 · page 15

The great advantage of growing the finer grades of wool in preference to coarse wools of low-type crossbreds is illustrated in the following extracts from the letters of an eminent firm of London…

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Wool Crossings

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1881 · page 14

The following are the wool crossings at Albury from 1st November to 8th November, 1881:— 1st November—60 bales Woomargama, 54 bales Tootal, 27 bales Burrumbuttock, 30 bales Miller,…

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How to Obtain Large Yields of Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1881 · page 18

There is a vast difference in the quality of cows, and it is well known that in a mixed herd one cow will yield double or triple the quantity of butter to that obtained from another, and that the…

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Hints for Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1881 · page 18

To REMOVE HARDENED GREASE.—The grease which has become hardened by dust on the axles of machinery can all be cleaned off by the use of kerosene…

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