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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1889

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 November 1889 · page 3

SIR,—With your kind permission I would like to lay a few words relative to the so-called Ratepayers Association, my remarks therein at the last Council meeting, and Mr H. W. Hunter’s letter in your issue…

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Stock Report Pastoral Time Office Deniliquin Friday Evening. November 15,1859

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 November 1889 · page 2

The weather has been very warm during the week, with strong winds blowing, the combination having a decidedly unfordable effect on the pastors. The [?] visible a lastnight ago on the plains bad now all gone, and the feed…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, November 19

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 November 1889 · page 2

Wool—We held oar fourth wool. [?] of the present seasons on Monday last, the fifth Inst., when we offered 3609 bales to a full attendance of home foreign and local buyers. there was a brisk demand from all sections of the trade…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From Merssers Goldsbrough Mort and Co., Limited. Melbourne, November 13

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 November 1889 · page 2

There was a splendid competition at our sale to-day and excellent prices ruled for all description. Superior greasy ranged up to 14d, good greasy to 221/4d, superior lambs to [?] and good pieces in 12. and good accorded…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 November 1889 · page 2

IT rained steadily for two hours last Saturday afternoon, and early on Sunday morning the long-expected thunderstorm broke, 1 inch 75 points being the result…

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The Silver Sheep-shearing Machine

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 22 November 1889 · page 4

An exhinition of the Silver Sheep shearing Machine was given at Messrs Younghusband and Co.'s wool warehouse on Wednesday before a number…

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Why Should I Keep Sheep?

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 November 1889 · page 2

You have never kept sheep. Perhaps you have never thought of keeping them. Would it net pay you to do so? Why should you keep them? Well, you have a farm that is…

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Monetary and Commercial Intelligence. Wheat. London, November 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 November 1889 · page 18

Australian wheat is firm at 39a. 61. per 4961b., ex warehouse. New Zealand wheat is steady at 37s. 91., same delivery. LONDON, November 16…

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Western Rural Dairy Suggestions

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 22 November 1889 · page 2

Feed a little grain to the cow through the summer. We believe it will pay. Some of our most enterprising dairymen believe it too…

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Farmer. Pointers About Hatching

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 22 November 1889 · page 2

Our experience has demonstrated that eggs a week old when set produce the best results. Never try to help a chicken out of the shell. Nature has so provided that…

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Farmer. Arrangement of Grounds

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 November 1889 · page 2

It any class people should have pleasant grounds and surroundings. It is the farmer class, yet it it a lamentable fact that few farmers do have their farms ornamented…

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The Farm, Station, and Garden. Experiments on Potato Growing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 November 1889 · page 12

Years ago tho experiments for the production of largo crops of potatoes were hardly necessary. They seemed to be a natural affinity between tuber and soil…

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The Silver Sheep-shearing Machine

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 November 1889 · page 1

An exhibition of the Silver Sheep-shearing Machine was given at Messrs. Younghusbans and Co.’s wool warehouse recently before a number of persons largely interested in pastoral…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Offices, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, November 22, 1899

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 November 1889 · page 2

[?] tall and of what was evidently a tropical rate storm passed over the district on Saturday last and for about an hour to the early part of the night the rain was very heavy, During the hour over an [?] and three-quarters of rain…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From Messrs Goldsbrough [?] and Co Limited

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 November 1889 · page 2

We offered 7000 bales at our sale to-day and [?] and privately during the week [?] satisfactory prices. Competition was [?] sustained inferior and ordinary greasy gold [?]…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, November 20

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 November 1889 · page 2

WOOL,—We held our fifth wool sale of the present season on Monday last, the 18th Inst., when we brought forward a choice catalogue of 8855 hales in the presence of a large number of buyers, growers and others Interested. Although…

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Stock and Pastoral News. Wool and Stock Reports. Riverine Grazier Office

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 November 1889 · page 2

Thunder and heat are the principal elements in the weather we are getting just now. Stock movements are as under:—24th November 24th.—115 rams from railway yards to…

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 November 1889 · page 4

DALGETY AND COMPANY, LIMITED, Melbourne, report under date 20th November:—Wool.—We held our fifth wool sale of the season on…

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 November 1889 · page 4

THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY COMPANY, Limited, Melbourne, wire under yesterday's date that they held their usual weekly wool sales on Thursday, at…

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Queechy Wool Scouring Works. New Machinery and Plant

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 27 November 1889 · page 2

The Importance of washing wool in a thorough and careful manner is well-known both to the producer and consumer; more especially to the producer when the wool…

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