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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1881

362 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 19

Wool and Stock Report. "Standard" Office

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 1 June 1881 · page 2

The weather daring the past week has been fine, with the exception of a light shower or two on Sunday night. The mornings are cold, but the days are very pleasant. Business is rather dull,…

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Need Our Wheat Farmers Despair? (From the S. A. REGISTER.) No. I.

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 June 1881 · page 19

An average yield of only 6 bushels per acre over the whole colony may well cause both our legislators and our farmers to put on their considering-caps. One thing is certain, that if this…

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Corowa Pastoral. Agricultural, and Horticultural Society. Fourth Annual Meeting

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 June 1881 · page 3

THE fourth annual meeting of the above Society was held last Tuesday at Martin's Royal Hotel, under most auspicious circumstances, there being present about…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 June 1881 · page 2

ANOTHER good fall of rain is now wanted. Some fell last night and continued during to-day at intervals, but not in sufficient quantity. In the Mudgee district preparations for lambing are proceeding,…

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Melbourne Wool and Produce Market Report

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 8 June 1881 · page 2

The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited, report:—Wool—Transactions are, as usual at this season, few and unimportant; the latest telegrams from…

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The Farmer. Salt for Pigs. Preventives of Disease. Natural Insects. Sanitary Laws

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 8 June 1881 · page 2

IT is not a general practice with farmers to give salt to pigs, or to mix it in their food. Salt is no more injurious to a pig than to a person. The stomach of a pig…

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The Farmer's Wooing

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 8 June 1881 · page 2

THE daisies nodded in the grass, the buttercups were sleeping, And just across the river sang the farmers at their reaping…

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Improved Farm Home Steads

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 8 June 1881 · page 3

IT is greatly to be regretted that farmers in Australia, as a class, bestow so little attention upon their homesteads, the majority of which are arranged in the most rough and…

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Different Qualities of Wool on the Same Sheep

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 June 1881 · page 2

THE classification of the "stapler" or [?]orter of wool is founded to a certain extent upon the difference in the quality of wool according to the part of the sheep's body…

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The Farmer. Destruction of Seeded Wheat by a Fungus

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 June 1881 · page 2

ONE of the most extraordinary cases on record of the non-germination of winter wheat is reported to have counted in Europe. A field of this grain, which had…

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Need Our Wheat Farmers Despair? (From the S.A. REGISTER.) No. II

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 June 1881 · page 19

Although I fix upon 10 bushels per acre as the average minimum crop of a properly cultivated South Australian field, yet to obtain this quantity thin sowing and hoeing are absolutely necessary…

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Mr. G. Rouse’s Sheep

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 June 1881 · page 3

After the sale by auction, Mr G. Rouse sold privately one ram to Mr Band for L120, another for L100, and 2 for L105; rams to M‘Caughey for L100, one to Mr J. Lee of Larras Lake, for L105, and 2 to Mr…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 June 1881 · page 2

Sir,—In overhauling an old [?] followed my varying fortunes for [?] years, I stumbled on some old [?] nearly one hundred years, they [?]…

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Sheep Sale at Mudgee. (From the Independent.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 June 1881 · page 3

On Wednesday last an important , Sale of sheep by public auction was commenced on the Mudgee Show, Ground. The catalogue comprised 4,755 pure merino rams, 50 pure merino maiden ewes, and a…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, June 10, 1881

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 June 1881 · page 2

THE weather during the past week has been variable, for the most part cold and wintry, and some [?] showers of rain [?] fallen, but as [?] appear to be setting in, the effect of the rain will…

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Ostrich Farming. to the Editor of the “Hamilton Spectator.”

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 June 1881 · page 4

Sir,—Allow [?] to express my satisfaction at the able article in your valuable paer of the 14th instant. It is right with one or two exceptions, which I will explain. I am the only ostrich…

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Wool and Stock Report. "Standard" Office

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 15 June 1881 · page 2

THE weather since our last has been tolerably fine. On Sunday a light shower or two fell, and again on Monday night there was a little. This morning there was a heavy fog, and rain…

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Echoes of the Past. Wattle Farm. an Idyll of Lancefield

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 15 June 1881 · page 1

"Nessum magglor d[?]lo[?] Che recordasi del tempo felice Nella miseria." DANTE, INFERNO…

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The Farmer. Farmers' Roubles in California

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 15 June 1881 · page 2

THE Californian farmers appear to be badly off in the matter of shipping and storage room for their wheat. The [?] New Yorker says: The wheat raisers of California are in a…

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The South Australian Farmers' Association

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 15 June 1881 · page 2

WITHIN the last twelve or eighteen months a new political power has come into existence in South Australia, and it appears to be growing in strength and extending its…

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