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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1888

637 stories in Murray's papers · page 23 of 32

Wool and Station Produce Reports. Melbourne

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 September 1888 · page 4

Messrs. DALGETY and COMPANY (LIMITED) report:—WooL—We are advised that a considerable number of wool buyers are already on their way out from England, Scotland, America,…

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The English Wheat Market. Further Advance in Price. London, August 2[?]

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 September 1888 · page 18

The following cargoes of South Australian wheat have been sold :— A cargo of 9000 quarters, shipped in May, at 39s. 91.; the cargo per E[?]rnock, sold June 4, at 40s ; and a…

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Farmer. Selecting a Farm

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 September 1888 · page 1

One of the first requisites of success in farming is a good farm. A very good farmer may possibly make money on a poor farm, and a poor farmer may fail to make farming…

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Farm and Garden. How Does Make Cells

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 September 1888 · page 2

In Murray's Magazine we find the following explanation of the geometrical forms which the cells of a honey-comb assume: Recent measurements and observations have…

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Rural Notes Vine-growing for Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 September 1888 · page 11

It has become almost a stereotyped expression, when speaking of our agricultural population, to call them “poor, struggling farmers.” A Victorian country agricultural…

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Hume Farmers’ Union

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 September 1888 · page 25

A meeting of the Hume Farmers’ Union was held on Saturday last at Burrumbuttock. There was a large attendance, including both members for the Hume, and Messrs. Boyle,…

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The Australian Sheep- Breeders’ Association. the Annual Show

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 4

The judging at the. eleventh annual show of merino and long wool sheep, held by the, Australian Sheep breeders Association at the warehouses of Goldsbrough and Co. Limited, Bourke-street west,…

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Open Column IRRIGATION.(To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 3

Sir,—I am glad to read in the Sydney Mail that an agitation has started in Deniliquin to effect irrigation by aid of Municipal surplus water. This rightly carried out will soon recompense losses which have…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, [?] Friday Evening, September 7, 1888

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 2

SINCE the rain of Friday last which here amounted to only 34 potato. the weather has con tinned fine with occasional [?] The limited fall will do but little tool beyond temporarily freshening un what [?] there is. Gras in most…

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By Electric Telegraph. the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Show. Wagga Wagga. Thursday, September 6

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 2

The Tubbo Estate Company has taken champion prize in the ram class, and Messrs Bear Bros, champion in ewes, both with grass-fed sheep…

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Squatters and Rabbits in South Australia. the New Pastoral Leases

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 11 September 1888 · page 4

A part of my talk with Mr Coles, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, South Australia, was directed to the subject of the relations of the pastoral…

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Farmer. How The Swiss Treat Their Cows

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 12 September 1888 · page 1

The United States Con[?] to Switzerland gives the following as the manner in which the Swiss treat their cows. As they are a famous people for dairy products…

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Cattle. Dubhams

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1888 · page 18

The cattle sections have not for many years past constituted a very important feature of the Albury show, the breeding of this class of stock having in most parts of the district given…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 September 1888 · page 2

THE weather during the week has been simply a foretaste of summer. With the exception of a light shower which fell during Wednesday night, there has been no…

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The Wheat Market. London, September 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1888 · page 26

The cargo of wheat by the Victoria Bay, from south Australia May 2 (67,720 bushels), has been sold at 40s. 3d. per 480lb. The American visible supply is 29,250,000…

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The Wool Sales. London, September 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1888 · page 26

It is expected that 236,000 bales will be available for the forthcoming wool sales…

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farmer. Practical Dairy Hints

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 September 1888 · page 2

A Kansas city paper gives the experience of W. Z. Hickman, of Kansas, in butter-making as follows:-- His experience is that of almost every…

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Albury & Border Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society. Annual Exhibition, 12Th and 13Th September

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1888 · page 17

President: Mr. John Grieve. Vice-Presidents: Messrs. J. W. M. Kellar, C.H. Douglas and C: J. Morton. Treasurer: Mr. D. J. Abercrombie…

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Farmer. How The Swiss Treat Thier Cows

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 14 September 1888 · page 1

The United States Con[?] to Switzerland gives the following as the manner in which the Swiss treat their cows. As they are a famous people for dairy products…

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The Dairying Industry in the Colonies

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1888 · page 11

New Zealand farmers are probably entitled to the credit of being the Australasian producers who have first tried to obtain share of the dairy import trade of Great…

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