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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1883

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Farming Notes. a Dairy Cow

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 April 1883 · page 2

A cow never reaches perfection in her line until she has arrived at maturity; and she must roach this period of her life with all her faculties unimpaired if we expect her to be as…

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Deniliquin, Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 2

WHILE admitting the very great benefits which accrue from the establishment of agricultural societies generally, and those from, the Deniliquin Society to this district,…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, April, 20 1883

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 2

THE weather continues dry and the prospects are scarcely so encouraging an they were. The pa[?]rage on the Common is very abort; but in some place along the bank of the Edwards there is some good picking. More…

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Open Column. the Drink Question (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 3

[?],—I can fully endorse every word in “Teeto [?]letter in a recent issue of your paper, as I [?] a painful experience, last Saturday, of the [?] and “vile mixture” which some of the…

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Anthrax Fever in Sheep

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 25 April 1883 · page 4

Mr J. W. Edmunds writer the following letter to the Herald :—Sir,—My attention having been directed to the above subject, would you mind inserting the following:…

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The Honest Farmer

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 25 April 1883 · page 2

AN honest farmer, who reckoned among his possessions a steer which had been stunted in its growth, was accustomed to vent his spite upon the hapless animal by beating it…

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Amateur Sheep Farmers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 April 1883 · page 3

THERE are three supremely ridiculous things under the sun: a kitten with its first mouse, a girl with her first sweetheart, and a selector with his first sheep…

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Wool, Sheefski[?]s. Hides, &c. MELBOURNE, April 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 April 1883 · page 11

Messrs. R. GOLDSBROUGH and Co report:—Wool.— We catalogued 915 bales for our sole to-day and had a l[?]ge attendance of buyers and brisk competition late rates being firmly sustained. Inferior to average…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times [?] Del [?] Friday Evening, April, 27, 1883

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 April 1883 · page 2

THE weather continue One—mach too fine for those interested in g[?] and there is a general cry out for water throughout the district. ln the immediate vicinity of Den[?]iquin the [?] fairly for…

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The Riverina Wool Trade

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 2 May 1883 · page 4

The Age has the following remarks and information on this subject:—"It will surprise few, if any, to find that the latest returns of our wool trade with Riverina exhibit…

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Rust-proof Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 May 1883 · page 18

In a recent issue of the Pacific Rural Press some interesting particulars appeared with reference to a new wheat named " Pugh's rustproof wheat." It appears that in 1878, when…

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Rotation of Crops

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 May 1883 · page 18

Where wheat, and nothing but wheat, is grown on the farm, as is too often the case In this colony, there must of necessity be a great portion of the year during which there is little…

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Melbourne Wool and Produce Markets

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 5 May 1883 · page 2

THE AUSTRALIAN MORTAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY, Limited, report—Wool.—There is ample demand for all offered, and during the past week about 1,000 bales have been disposed of at…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin. Friday Evening. May, [?] 1888

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 May 1883 · page 2

The rain still bange off, and there seems to be no pro[?] of an early change for the better. The [?] from [?] to Deniliquin is far from [?] but it is strange that in the immediate vicinity…

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Corowa Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Society

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 May 1883 · page 3

THE following is the ninth annual report of the committee of this society, with the exception of the names of prize-takers, which were given by us at the time of the…

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New Kind of Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 May 1883 · page 18

Last season Baron von Mueller, the Government botanist of Victoria, supplied a Dumber of farmers with a new kind of bearded wheat, has proved to be of a very prolific…

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Wheat-growing Experiments in New Zealand

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 May 1883 · page 18

Mr. James Wood, sen., of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, sends the following columnisation to the Australasian, having reference to an experiment in wheat culture…

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American Stud Sheep

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 May 1883 · page 4

The “Sydney Mail” has been, given some particulars respecting the clip from the American stud sheep, the report of the sales of which we recently published. Our contemporary says:— Since the sale, two rams hare been…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 May 1883 · page 2

The ordinary meeting of the: committee- was held at the Royal Hotel on Friday, at 2 o’clock,. There were present:- Messrs Mack,. Dickson, Seeley, Kiddle, Currie, Parker, Irving; Chariton,. McLautin,…

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Stock Report Pastoral Time Office, Deniliquin. Friday Evening, May [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 May 1883 · page 2

A fair fall of rain was experienced on Saturday night. last. It was usually general throughout Riverina: and from Albury to [?] and from Wilcannia to the [?] an average fall of three…

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