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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1890

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The Australasian Sheep-breeders Association. the Annual Show

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 19 August 1890 · page 4

The judges were engaged in Melbourne on Friday in making the awards for this year's show, but did not get through. The following are…

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Riverina Wool Rates. the Victorias Rates Put Up

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 19 August 1890 · page 4

There is to be a decided departure from the rates of carriage for wool now levied from lines touching on the River Murray. Hitherto Victoria and New South Wales have been in…

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Rival Sheep Shearing Machines

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 20 August 1890 · page 2

In last week's issue of the Pastoral Times, appears a challenge from Mr F. [?]. Wolseley, the inventor of the famous shearing machine bearing his name, of £1000 to £800, to Mr…

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The French Wheat Crop. London, August 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1890 · page 19

The French wheat crop this year is 6,000,000 hectolitres (16,600,000 bushels) below that of 1889…

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Australian Sheep Breeders Show

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 22 August 1890 · page 4

Commenting on the features of the exhibition just held the Argus says:—"Last year the sheep of Vermont lineage were remarkably successful, no…

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Annual Sale of Stud Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1890 · page 17

The annual sale of stud sheep in connection with the exhibition of the Australian Sheepbreeders’ Association was held on Wednesday in the wool warehouses of the Australasian Mortgage…

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The Wheat Crop of the United Kingdom. London, August 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1890 · page 19

The Times states that the wheat crop of the United Kingdom will average 28£ bushels per acre, and that the total yield will be 8,000,000 quarters…

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Commercial Intelligence. Wheat and Flour. London, August 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1890 · page 19

Ex warehouse quotations per 496lb. are firm, as follows:— South Australian, 39s. ; and Victorian, 38[?] 3d. New Zealand long-berried is firm at 37s. 6d. Superfine…

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The Railway Carriage of Wool. Proposed New Tariff

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1890 · page 27

The Victorian Railway Department has for some time past been considering the question of a rearrangement of goods rates charged on the various lines of the colony, and the prices…

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The Australian Sheep-breeders’ Association. the Annual Show. (From the Argus, August 19)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1890 · page 26

The annual show of the Australian Sheep-breeders’ Association was continued yesterday, His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by the Countess of Hopetoun, visiting the show…

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The Shearers’ Union and the Pastoralists. the Boycotting of Non-union Wool. Creswick

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1890 · page 27

A telegram was received yesterday by the executive of the Amalgamated Shearers’ Union that the Colombo Creek non-union wool, which was expected to go to Melbourne, had…

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The Victorian Farmers and Free Trade. (Condensed From the Warsnambool "Standard.")

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 22 August 1890 · page 4

A public meeting—convened by Mr W. J. Allan, as president of the Villiers and Heytesbury Agricultural Association—was held in the Panmure…

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Farmers' Union Meeting at Corowa

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 August 1890 · page 3

A MEETING of the committee of the above was held at the royal Hotel, on Tuesday, 19th inst. The president, Mr. W. T. Monahan, occupied the…

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The Farm, Station, and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1890 · page 12

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—The rains that have lately fallen in abundance, even though work may be delayed, moat prove highly beneficial afterwards, as the subsoil has…

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The Wolseley Sheep Shearer

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 August 1890 · page 2

THE challenge Issued by Mr F. Y. Wolseley on behalf of the Wolseley Sheep-shearing Machine Company, has rather more underneath it than appears on the surface. It is one of…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening. August 22, 1890

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 August 1890 · page 2

THE weather seems at last to have cleared and there are now some [?] of the country drying up. The [?] [?] and the [?] [?] in and all the [?]…

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Open Column. St. Paul’s Church. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 August 1890 · page 2

SIR,—Will you allow me through the medium of your valuable paper to ask certain members of the congregation of the above church if they will for the future kindly abstain from taking full possession…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 August 1890 · page 2

WOOL—We submitted a small catalogue on the 14[?]b instant and made a fair clearance. Greasy realised no [?] 9½, and [?] up to 15[?] per[?]. Our London office cables [?] [?] at the Autwerp wool sale[?] which opened on Monday…

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Farmer. Feeding Horses

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 August 1890 · page 2

The food should be of the quality and quantity to impart strength, vitality, and elasticity; and this requires some discrimination and care, as the food should be…

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Large Sale of Sheep

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 27 August 1890 · page 2

We take the following from "Bruni's" notes in the Australasian:—Hitherto very few ewes have been sold from the Wanganella stud, Messrs Austin and…

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