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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1886

482 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 25

The Alleged Wool Frauds

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 22

On Friday morning, in the summons division of the Water Police Court, Sydney, before Mr. W[?]ting[?] Johnson, S.M., Francis Augustus Wright, Edward Heaton, George E. Bonamy,…

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The Wool Frauds. Later Particulars. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 4

In the railway frauds case against Messrs; Wright, Heaton, and Co. to-day, W. H. D[?] goods clerk at Bourke, deposed that he had gone through all the squatters waybill’s…

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The Forsaken Farmhouse

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 1

Against the wooded hills it stands, Ghost of a dead home, staring through Its broken lights on wasted lands. Where old time harvests grew…

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The Farmer. [?]eeding for Lean and Fat Meat

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 1

THE conclusions to which we came in regard to the influence of food upon the quality of the the increase of the pig do not differ in any material degree from those recently arrived…

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The Farmers at Corowa

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 2

MR. G. H. WILLIS' suggestion that delegates from the different Selectors' Associations in the Hume electorate should be invited to meet at Corowa on show…

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The Farmers and Protection

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 2

WE are glad to see that the Burryjaa farmers have sensibly decided to advocate an amendment of the Customs Bill so far as it affects their own…

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System on the Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 11

In the workshops and factories everything is done systematically. There is a time for beginning work and a time for work to cease, while each and all have…

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Variety of Crops

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 11

We have always advocated a greater variety of crops for the farm, and believe that there are many commercial plants now comparatively unknown which might be…

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The Pastoral Outlook

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 2

UP to the recent change in the weather the pastoral outlook was of a most unsatisfactory character; but the glorious rains which have fallen nearly all over the colony…

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The Yarrawin Sheep

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 2

The extraordinary journey performed by the Messrs W. and T. C. Dickson, of Yarrawin Station, in bringing their exhibits of sheep to the late Show, and the success which attended their efforts deserve…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 2

Sir,—Kindly allow me to correct [?] appeared in Wednesday’s Riverine [?] therein said that the Bishop of the [?] Sunday evening’s service “suggested [?]…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin Friday Evening, July 30, 1886

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 2

There has been a grand change of the weather throughout Riverina since last report and the drought seems to have generally broken up. The Darling districts seem to have been especially fortunate. From Wentworth right away up…

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Pastoral

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 August 1886 · page 2

MR TYSON's letter on the appraisement of runs will appear next issue. We flatter ourselves we have bad a fine ran, but comparisons with other years come out vary…

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Pastoral. SHOWS

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 6 August 1886 · page 2

Wagga .. August 8 Narandera .. August 19 LAND BOARD FIXTURES. Hillston: August 5, 31. Condo[?]: August 16…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 August 1886 · page 3

WET weather has been the feature of the week. The total full at Corowa up to yesterday was 2.45 points. At Oakbank Bull Plain 2.30 points were registered and at…

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Corowa Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society. Annual Show

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 August 1886 · page 23

The tenth exhibition of the Corowa Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society was held on Wednesday last, and must be regarded as a success. This was looked upon as…

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Wool, Sheepsk[?]s, Hides, &C. Melbourne

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 August 1886 · page 4

Messrs. B. GOLDSBROUGH and Co. (Limited) report:—Wool.—A strong private inquiry exists at the home market, and all the wool passed in at the recent sales there has been sold at an…

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The Pastoral Depression in New South Wales. Deputation to the Minister of Lands

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 August 1886 · page 15

A large deputation of pastoral tenants and others waited on the Minister for Lands on Friday, and presented the resolutions passed at a public meeting held on July 21. These…

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The Wool Frauds Prosecutions. Messrs. Weight, Heaton, and Co. Committed for Trial

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 August 1886 · page 26

The railway frauds case in which W[?]ight, Heaton, and [?] are defendants, was resumed in Sydney on the 29th ult. James Stevenson, a clerk of Wright, Heaton,…

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Work in the Dairy. [Abridged From a Paper by Professor Long.]

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 August 1886 · page 9

It is perhaps not strange, but there are more troubles in the dairy—and especially in the butter-making department—when the temperature is extreme than at any…

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