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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1884

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Thursday, February

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 February 1884 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company held their wool sale this afternoon. 1,[?]50 bales were offered and about 1350 sold. There was a full attendance of buyers and prices for good wools were…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office [?]. Deniliquin Friday [?] February [?], 1884

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 February 1884 · page 2

A nice showers of rain fall on Wednesday night end Thursday morning, totalling 55 points; but the weather has again in warm. To-ay the thermometer registered 95° in the shade; and there is every…

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Open Column. “Relics of a Past Age.” (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 February 1884 · page 2

SIR,—While excavating at a depth of 2ft below the [?] for the foundation of the new Court House we found embedded in the maiden day two ovular stones. well warn, and evidently used by the natives of some remote…

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The Farmer. Bitting and Management of a Colt

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 9 February 1884 · page 3

So many young horses are spoilt by being badly bitted when breaking that our readers will be indebted to us for giving the opinions of a real professor of the art, none other…

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The Farmer. Bitting and Management of a Colt

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 February 1884 · page 2

So many young horses are spoilt by being badly bitted when breaking that our readers will be indebted to us for giving the opinions of a real professor of the art, none other…

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Sales of Australian in Wool Antwerp

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 February 1884 · page 4

Messrs. Finck and Sedmiratzsky Limited have received the following cablegram from Mr Joh Dan Fuhrman, Antwerp, dated February 9): — “Prices obtained in Antwerp for Australian…

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Sydney Wool Sales. [Hill, Clarke & Co.], FRIDAY. February 16

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 February 1884 · page 2

We offered a catalogue comprising 582 bales of wool to-day and told 570 bales. There was a large attendance of buyers and competition was very spirited for all descriptions, one line of [?]coured from Moorbank,…

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The farmer. How to Fertilise Fruit Trees

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 16 February 1884 · page 1

HERE and there on all farms and in most fruit gardens will be seen an occasional tree or grape-vine which seems to lack vigor—does not grow well, and yet seems to have…

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Combing Versus Clothing Wool

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 20 February 1884 · page 4

The following letter from William Hogarth, Balgownie, appears in the Queenslander:—Sir,—Noticing in your columns a discussion going on, originating from a letter written…

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Wool, Sheepskins, Hides. &c. MELBOURNE

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 February 1884 · page 11

Messrs. Monckton D. SY[?]OT Bros, report:, Wool.—Since our last report, transactions have been limited, owing to the decline in parcels coming forward. We, however, disposed of…

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The farmer. How to Fertilise Fruit Trees

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 February 1884 · page 2

HERE and there on all farms and in most fruit gardens will be seen an occasional tree or grape-vine which seems to lack vigor-- does not grow well, and yet seems to have…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin Frid[?], v Evening, February 22, 188[?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 February 1884 · page 2

The weather during the past week has been extremely warm, and on Thursday the thermometer reached 114° in the sh[?]de. To-day it has been a little cooler, but the temp[?]ature for ten dat[?]s [?] averaged over [?] in the official…

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The farmer. The Medieval English Farmer

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 23 February 1884 · page 2

BOTH horses and oxen were used on the land; wheat, barley, oats, rye, and beans and peas were grown. The mediseval farmer was entirely dependent on his hay and straw for the…

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An Episode in the Life of Farmer Chitty

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 23 February 1884 · page 2

To the city Former Chitty, Plain, bat gritty, Came one day…

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A Youthful Sheep-stealer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 February 1884 · page 15

The Sandhurst correspondent of the Melbourne Telegraph reports that a most extraordinary and barefaced attempt at sheep-stealing was made by a boy only 11 years of…

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The Wool Sales. London, February 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 February 1884 · page 7

At the wool sales to-day 12,300 bales were offered, making a total since the commencement of the series of 85,000 bales. Foreign buyers are operating more freely, and there…

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Wool, Sheepskins, Hides. &c. MELBOURNE

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 February 1884 · page 14

THE AUSTRALIAN MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY (LIMITED) report:—Wool—We held a small wool sale to-day, and offered 350 bales, selling 280 bales. For scoured wools' there was…

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An Episode in the Life of Farmer Chitty

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 February 1884 · page 2

To the city Farmer Chitty, Plain, but gritty, Came one day…

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The Farmer. The [?]edi[?]eval English Farmer

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 February 1884 · page 2

BOTH horses and oxen were used on the land; wheat, barley, oats, rye, and beans and peas were grown. The medi[?]yal farmer was entirely dependent on his hay and straw for the…

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Hay Pastoral Association

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 1 March 1884 · page 2

A meeting of the Committee of this Association was held in the Courthouse oh Thursday Present: —Mr A. Macfarland (in the chair), arid Messrs. H. N. Bowdon, C. G. Stewart, J. S. Lavender, R. K…

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