Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Farming & the land, all years

Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1890

670 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 34

The Farm, Station, and Garden. Correspondence. to the Agricultural Editor of the Albury Banner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1890 · page 12

SIR,—For some years I have experimented with many varieties of wheat, colonial and imported, my object being to obtain some which could resist the attacks…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Hay Pastoral Association

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 2

A MEETING of the committee was held at Messrs Wilkinson and Lavender's office on Wednesday. Present—Mr. A. P. Stewart, the president in the chair, and…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office Deniliquin, Friday Evening, April 11, 1890

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 2

ANOTHER splendid fall of rain occurred Tuesday night and Wednesday last. At the telegraph office [?] were [?] to the town, but at two private [?] the [?] were 108 and 128 points respectively Cold [?] have…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company limited). Melbourne. April 9

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 2

WOOL-In the absence of any public sales of wool there to no local business to report. There will probably be no wool sales until about the end or the month. The opening of the second series of sales of colonial wool In London…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

London Wool Sales. From the Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company, Melbourne)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 2

We have received the following telegram from Messrs Helmuth, and Co., dated London, 10 inst.:—“ Wool sales —The sales opened with a fair attendance of both home and foreign buyers, competition…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Sheep and Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 April 1890 · page 12

At the late Science Congress Mr. William Brown, of the Longerenong Agricultural College, in a paper entitled ‘‘ Some Remarkable Agreements between Science…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 April 1890 · page 2

THE weather during the past week has been fine, no rain having fallen since the 11th. The farmers were complaining in the early part of the week that if rain did…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wodonga Store Cattle Sales

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 April 1890 · page 4

Messrs. EDWARD TRENCHARD and Co. (late Richard Gibson and Co.) report having sold at Wodonga on Friday, 3rd ins., 651 cows for Jas. Tyson, from Tininboro station, heifers at £3 5s,…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Fall in Wool

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 April 1890 · page 4

Our cable messages published on Saturday last conveyed the unwelcome intelligence that, at the opening on Thursday last of the second series of…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Cross Fertilisation of Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 April 1890 · page 12

In spite of the low price of wheat that cereal still occupies a most important place in the agriculture and commerce of the world. It is the greatest food crop we…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

WOOL & Station Produce Reports. Melbourne, April 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 April 1890 · page 4

Messrs, DALGETY and COMPANY LIMITED report:—Wool. — There have been no transactions an our local market during the week. The usual monthly winter sales will be held…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Commercial Intelligence. Wheat and Flour. London, April 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 April 1890 · page 18

The English wheat market is firmer. The Continental markets are steady. The American market is advancing. Quotations for colonial wheat, ex…

Continued on Trove, page 18 →

The Opening of the London Wool Sales. a Decline in Prices. London, April 10

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 April 1890 · page 18

The second series of colonial wool sales for the present year opened this evening in the presence of a good attendance of buyers. Messrs. Chas. Balme[?] and Co. and Messrs…

Continued on Trove, page 18 →

The Farm, Station, and Garden. Hints on Horse Management

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 April 1890 · page 12

When your young horse is in position to go ahead he is in the proper position for going backward as well. When a trainer of saddle horses wishes to teach his pupil…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 April 1890 · page 2

The ordinary monthly meeting of the [?] the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural [?] was held on Wednesday last at the Royal [?] Messrs James Dickson in the chair, James [?]…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin Friday Evening, April 18, [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 April 1890 · page 2

THE weather has seen [?] fine and seasonally [?] during the week. The days are simply perfect and although the night are a little cold the [?] are exhilarating and [?]. The lumbing [?] not received a shock and all…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, April 18

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 April 1890 · page 2

WOOL—There have been no transactions in our local market during the week. The usual monthly winter sales will be held next week on the 23rd instant and following day. London Sales.—The London wool sales opened on the10th…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 April 1890 · page 2

THE weather still continues dry, and farming operations are brought to a standstill. Water, too, is becoming scarce, the rains of a fortnight ago having had no perceptible…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

That Dog and Sheep

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 April 1890 · page 2

We know one flock of ten pure-bred sheep which produced in one season twenty-three lambs, the proceeds of which, when sold, netted £6 for each ewe. The profits on the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Last Year’s Wool Trade

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 April 1890 · page 12

The condition of the wool trade .is a matter of vital importance" to the Australian colonies. Occupying as they do the position of the principal exporters to the…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →