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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1881

362 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 19

Poultry on the Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 March 1881 · page 18

There are a vast number of people (writes the Mark Lane Express) who are utterly ignorant about the management of poultry, and who are also unaware how cheaply the birds may be kept…

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Ostrich Farming on the Murray

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 March 1881 · page 15

Some interesting details of the progress of ostrich farming in Australia were recently forwarded to the Argus (Melbourne) by a correspondent who, it would appear, is well informed on the subject…

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Melbourne Wool & Station Produce Market

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 19 March 1881 · page 2

The Australian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited, (Late Hastings Cuningham Limited) report— Wool—Our last monthly circular was dated…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 March 1881 · page 2

Sir.—1 very rarely write a letter to a [?] have a dislike to appear in print, but [?] I never speak but I say something—therefore must ask you to kindly allow me to [?]…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin Friday Evening, March 18, 1881

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 March 1881 · page 2

We have again to report another week without rain, which is now [?] wanted. The roads between Hay and here are at present very bare of [?]and until rain falls it is not likely that we…

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Sheep Dogs

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 23 March 1881 · page 4

The operations of the Northern Counties' Sheep Dog Trials Association are bearing good fruit for the shepherds' dogs, and never before were these really useful and intelligent…

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"The Coming Sheep."

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 23 March 1881 · page 4

Three weeks ago the Hampshire sheep was spoken of in this column in laudatory terms, and it was even claimed for him that he is "the coming sheep." No disrespect to other…

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Melbourne Wool and Stock Market

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 23 March 1881 · page 6

MESSRS. J. C. WALKER AND CO. report under date March 16:—Fat cattle.—2186 yarded for the week's supply, chiefly Victorian. There…

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Agriculture. the Boy on the Farm

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 23 March 1881 · page 2

FROM a thoughtful, interesting leading article in the New York Tribune, by Charles A. Green, we take the following:— "Our homestead farm was one of the…

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Cgrowa Police Court. Monday, March 21St, 1881. (Before R. Hare Esq., P.m.) Sheep Stealing

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 March 1881 · page 2

Edward Gibbs, Charles M'Crudu, and Edmund West were charged with sheep-stealing. Mr. Jhonson, who appeared for the…

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Melbourne Wool & Station Produce Market

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 26 March 1881 · page 4

The Australian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited, (Late Hastings Cuningham Limited) report— Wool—The selling Benson being now…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Offices, [?] Friday Evening, March 19, 1881

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 March 1881 · page 2

THE weather since our just report has been in the man [?] hot and [?]. On Thursday Evening a change in the direction of the wind took [?], the sky because overcast and a few drops of…

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Melbourne Wool and Stock Market

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 30 March 1881 · page 6

Messrs R. GOLDSBROUGH and Co. report, under date Wednesday, 23rd March:—Wool.—This market is still inactive, owing to the limited…

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Geelong Wool and Stock Market

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 30 March 1881 · page 4

GEORGE SYNNOT AND CO. report under date March 22:—Wool.—Reports from the Home market are rather better than at the time our…

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Sheep Stealing

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 April 1881 · page 3

At the Urana Police Court, on Friday, last, before, Mr. H. Bayliss P.M., and Messrs F[?]ed, Newton, and Dr. Bellamy Js.P. Edmund Gibbs,Edmund West, and…

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Corow a Police Court. Monday, March 21. (Before R. Hare, Esq., P.m.) Sheep-stealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 April 1881 · page 15

Edward. Gibbs, Charles M'Crwkn, and Edmund West were charged with sheep-stealing. Mr. Jhonson, who appeared for the prosecution, applied for a remand to Urana. He would first…

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Stock Report. Pastoral, Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, April, 1888

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 April 1881 · page 2

SINCE our last report a splendid change in the weather has taken place, and leally two and a half inches of rain have fallen. This will do an immense amount of good, and in a short time the…

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Do Sheep Impoverish Land

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 6 April 1881 · page 4

A passage in the Melbourne Australasian, relative to a large farm on which pigs were bred largely, reads as follows:—"Pigs, moreover, are better stock for the land than…

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Melbourne Wool & Station Produce Market

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 6 April 1881 · page 2

The Australian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited, (Late Hastings Cuningham & Co., Limited) report—Wool.—There has been during the past…

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Geelong Wool and Stock Market

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 6 April 1881 · page 3

GEORGE SYNNOT AND CO. report under date Tuesday, 29th March:—The London-Colonial wool sales closed on the 25th instant, and, as…

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