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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1891

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Proverbs From the Farm

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 30 September 1891 · page 2

THE cat is always friendly at milking time. Never inform the calf which way you wish to drive him…

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Wool and Stock Report

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 October 1891 · page 1

MESSRS GOLDSBOROUGH, MORT AND Co. wire as follows under Thursday's date:—At our opening sale of the season held yesterday [?]…

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Company Limited, report:--WOOL

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 October 1891 · page 2

[?] In September sales continue [?] attendance of buyers, but our [?] a poor demand for faulty [?]d all classes of scoured wools…

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The Farm, Station, and Garden. Forthcoming Agricultural Shows

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 October 1891 · page 12

Benalla Agricultural Society, October 8th and 9th…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Offices. Deniliquin Friday Evening, October 2, 1891

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 October 1891 · page 2

[?] points of rain fell since last report, making about an inch and a Quarter for the month, and a total of seventeen and a quarter inches since the beginning of the year, as compared with with 14 63 inches to the same…

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Open Column. Peace or War. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 October 1891 · page 1

SIR.—It is much to be regretted that Mr. W. G. Spence, secretary of the Labourers’ General Union, should persist in his endeavours to foment strife between the pastoralists and those in their employ,…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, September 80

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 October 1891 · page 2

WOOL—The London September sales continue with a good attendance of buyers, but our cables report a poor demand for faulty greasies, and all classes of scoured wools, and these had to submit to a further red[?] in values. The…

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London Wool Sales. From the Australian Mortgage Land and [?] Company, Melbourne

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 October 1891 · page 2

We have received the following telegram from [?] [?] and Co.. dated London, [?] [?] Wool Sales—Sales continue fairly [?] prices on the whole being well [?]…

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Wool and Stock Report

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 October 1891 · page 4

MESSRS GOLDSBOROUGH, MORT AND Co. wire as follows under Thursday's date:—At our opening sale of the season held yesterday we offered 1,400 bales wool to a very large and…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 2

SQUARING down the river has been somewhat imported by sickness amongst the hands. At Tarramia the full board is twenty, but only six hands were at work…

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Effects of Food on Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 13

The feeding of a sheep, says a French journal has a most marked influence on the quality and quantity of the wool. In this connection the rules to be observed are :—…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Wednesday, October 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 4

Messrs, GOLDSBROUGH, MORT, and Co., LTD., report :—At our opening sale of the season held yesterday we offered 1400 bales of wool to a very large and representative attendance of buyers…

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Commercial Intelligence. Wheat and Flour. London, October 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 19

Quotations for Australasian wheat ex warehouse are as follows :—South Australian, 45s. per 496lb., market firm ; Victorian, steady at 44s. 6d.; New Zealand, firm at 44s…

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Farmer. Care of Farm Horses. M. MORGAN

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 2

THE general appearance of the farm horses throughout the country furnishes convincing proof that the great fundamental principle that feed and work are to one another in…

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Poetry. The Farmer's Wife

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 1

Firmer Hayseed talked to a friend Of the ways of country life; And he said nine-tenths of success Depends on a farmer's wife…

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

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 12

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—It is a good time to plant tomatoes, for though some have already been planted the cold nights have prevented much growth, unless the…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society. [?] Meeting

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 October 1891 · page 1

The annual meeting of the members of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday last. Mr J. J. Armstrong occupied the chair, and…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society Annual Report of the [?] , 1891

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 October 1891 · page 1

GENTLEMEN,—Your Council, in presenting you with the Fifteenth Annual Report and Balance Sheet, have again much pleasure in congratulating you on the prosperity of your…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin Friday Evening October 9, 1891

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 October 1891 · page 2

NEARLY an inch of rain since last report, the first half it being on Friday night last week, and the last so Wednesday night and Thursday. The [?] were very dry previously, and very little of the…

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Melbourne Wool Market (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne. October 7

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 October 1891 · page 2

WOOL—The London September sales have been [?] by several days, the closing of the series being announced to take place to-morrow, 8th inst. Our head office advise as by cable that no farther chance ban taken place in the…

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