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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1886

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Rural Notes. Wheat As a Meat Producer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 January 1886 · page 11

We note by the incoming mail that some of tho agricultural journals in Great Britain are advocating the desirableness of utilising wheat as a stock fattening material,…

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A Model Newspaper. (Martin's Home and Farm, August) a Word for Our Advertisers. "Hold fast to that which is good,"

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 January 1886 · page 15

In a footnote on one of our pages we advise our readers to write to or call on those firms who advertise in our paper. By this it is not insinuated that they are the…

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Why He Sold the Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 January 1886 · page 15

"Then why do I sell [?]" you ask me again, Big cabin an' clear in', an all ! Well, stranger, I'll tell you; though maybe you'll think…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin. Friday Evening, January 23, 1885

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 2

The next was very a very during the early part of the week the [?] having re[?]tered as much as [?] deg.in [?]. On Wednesday a [?] [?] and [?] the [?] from which 44 points were registered. The…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From R. Goldsbrough and Co., Limited. Wednesday, January 20

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 2

We offered this week 3600 sales and sold 2800 at prices fully equal to sale rates. Greasy ranged up[ to 10[?] and scoured to 10d per pound. Crowded attendance and very spirited competition…

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London Wool Sales. (From the Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company, Melbourne). Friday, January 22

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 2

We have received the following telegraph from Messrs Helmuth, Schwarize and Co., dated London, 21st January :— “ The wool sale. —Opening rates are [?]tained and competition is more regular…

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Experimental Farms

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 3

THE want of Experimental Farms in New South Wales, particularly in the [?] great [?] tram. We [?] of that party which thanks everything im[?] to be [?] what is [?]. We…

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Farmer. Good News for Horse Breeders

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 2

COLONEL RUSSELL contributes to the current number of The Nineteenth Century an article on "War Horses." In the event of war with a first rate Power, he says, we should certainly…

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Experimental Farms

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 27 January 1886 · page 2

THE want of Experimental Farms in New South Wales, particularly in the West, is a great desideratium. We are not of that party which thinks everything imported to be bettter than what is native. We…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 January 1886 · page 2

The excessive beat of the last few weeks culminated on Tuesday in a thunderstorm, when half an inch of rain was recorded At Howlong the same fall was registered…

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The Wool Sales. London, January 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 January 1886 · page 18

At the colonial wool auctions to-day 10,500 bales were offered. The market was quiet. LONDON, January 23. The wool market is flat, except for…

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Rural Notes. a Manufacturer‘s Views on the Get-up of Wool. Skirting and Classing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 January 1886 · page 10

The main object of skirting and classing is to bring the wool to market in such a condition as to obtain the highest price possible. It need hardly be shown that the…

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Fire at Oeding's Farm

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 January 1886 · page 3

NEWS was received in Corowa on Friday afternoon that an extensive fire was raging at Mr. H. G. Oeding's farm, on the Nullah Nullah, about…

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Farmer. Scraps from the Live Stock Journal

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 January 1886 · page 2

SIR JOHN B. LAWES makes the important announcement that he is engaged with Dr. Gilbert in preparing a paper for the next Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society on…

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The Wool Market in America

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 4

The wool market (says Wade’s Fibre and Fabtic, a trade journal published in Boston, U.S A.) remains about the same as reported last week, with perhaps a little more inquiry from…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Offices. Deniliquin. Friday Evening. January 29, 1886

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 2

The wither has been seasonably warm during the week, Yesterday [?] was a little cloudy and rain threat[?] but at night if cleared off. This morning it was very [?]. and at about eleven o’clock a smart shower…

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A Manufacturer's Views on the "Get Up" of Wool

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 3 February 1886 · page 4

The extremely low prices that have for some time been ruling for wool have produced consternation in wool circles, not only in Australia, but also in the manufacturing centres of Europe. Whatever the…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 February 1886 · page 2

Dull cloudy weather opened the week. Rein set in on Saturday afternoon, and showers fell [?] intervals until Tuesday. The total fall registered was 55 points…

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The Wool Sales. London, January 30

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 February 1886 · page 18

The wool sales show a better tone, though prices have not advanced. The total quantity catalogued has been 102,000 bale", of which 10,700 bales have been withdrawn…

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Stall Fed Sheep

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 February 1886 · page 4

The committee of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society (says the Sydney have resolved to expunge from the prize list of this year the prizes usually offered for the…

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