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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1891

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

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1891 · page 12

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—As soon as the soil has become dry again the hoe must be taken vigorously in hand to break the hardened surface as well as to destroy…

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Affairs in Russia. the Sufferers by the Famine. Brigandage Rampant. Goods Trains Plundered. Farmhouses Sacked. London, November 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1891 · page 18

The sufferings caused by the famine in the city of Keiff are very great A large number of persons are stated to be living on the refuse of the city abattoirs…

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[?] of Sheep. [?] of the Au[?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 November 1891 · page 1

[?] for the [?] Europe, and an increased [?] by means of which the [?] will be met no doubt in…

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Open Column. (To the Editor of the Pastoral [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 November 1891 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—Allow us as office [?] Deniliquin Wednesday Half Holiday [?] inform the employers and general [?] “The Wednesday Half Holiday [?]…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, November [?] 1891

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 November 1891 · page 2

THE weather has been comparatively [?] and changeable during the week. On Wednesday morning early there was a brisk thunder[?] from which 34 points were registered. On Thursday a [?] wind prevailed, and to-day it is…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, November 11

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 November 1891 · page 2

WOOL—For our fourth sale of the season we submitted a catalogue of 22[?] bales, out of which we sold 2880 bales, making, with private sales, a total of 2888 bales for the week. The attendance of buyers was [?] as large as…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From the Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited. Melbourne. Tuesday, November 10

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 November 1891 · page 2

We offered to-day [?] bales of wool and sold 2[?]00 bales. Prices were irregular; good quality, deep grown merinos, and crossbreds maintain[?] recent values, but all other descript[?] were [?] Greasy sold to 11½d…

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A Garden Farm

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 18 November 1891 · page 2

UNDER the title of "A Garden Form," we published in a late issue the first of a series of articles recommending the cultivation of small allotments…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney, November 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 4

Messrs, QOLDSEBOUGH, MORT, and Co. LTD. report :—We offered 3000 bales of wool to-day, and great interest was evinced in the sale, the lines included being more representative than…

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Commercial Intelligence. Wheat and Flour. London, November 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 18

There are sellers of New Zealand cargoes of wheat, off coast, at 43s. per 480lb. c.f.i Buyers offer 42[?]. The market of South Australian wheat is firm at 47s, per 496lb., ex warehouse;…

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The Federal Wool Scouring Company. Works at Wodonga

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 12

It is a fact that a great many woolgrowers in this district are having their wool scoured this year who never scoured it before. The reason of this is, maybe, that the process of…

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Mundawaddera. Farmers’ Union

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 13

A meeting of the members of this union was held at Yerong Hotel on Saturday, 7th inst., at 3 p.m. The president, Mr. G. F. Plunkett, occupied the chair. Apologies…

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

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 12

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—The principal works requiring to be done in the kitchen garden at the present are—keeping the ground clear of weeds, and keeping a loose…

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Prize Crops

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 3

The judging of the crops entered for competition for the prizes offered in connection with the late show of the Cobram Agricultural and Pastoral…

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Diseased Cattle

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 November 1891 · page 2

AT last the Municipal authorities hare been stirred up to take some action regarding the sale of diseased meat within the Municipality of Deniliquin. On Thursday last week the…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, November 20, 1891

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 November 1891 · page 2

THE weather during the last week has been exceedingly variable. On Sunday last the thermometer went up to 105[?] in the [?] shade, and an Monday it was 108[?] the hottest of the season. Tuesday was a little cool[?]…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 November 1891 · page 2

WOOL—We held, on 17th instant, our fifth sale for the season, when we submitted a catalogue of [?] bales to the usual large attendance of buyers. Competition was good throughout, but in proportion as irregular or mixed lots come to…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From the Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited. Melbourne. Tuesday, November 17

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 November 1891 · page 2

We offered to-day 8820 bales of wool and sold [?] bales. Competition was very keen for all best wools, but ordinary, inferior and faulty were about the [?] last week with a week market. Greasy sold up to…

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Neglecting to Brand Sheep

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 November 1891 · page 2

Raven Wade was charged at the police court on Monday with neglecting to brand 100 sheep, and to keep them legibly branded. Mr Kemp appeared for defendant…

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Prosecutions Under the Diseases in Sheep Act. Trespassing on a Stock Route

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 November 1891 · page 2

At the police court on Monday, before the P.M., Raven Wade was charged on the information of John A. Keighran, stock inspector, with depasturing sheep and cattle, not being…

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