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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1895

944 stories in Murray's papers · page 45 of 48

Storing Wheat with Millers. (Extract from Melbourne AGE, 23rd July 1895.)

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 29 November 1895 · page 2

Some considerable time ago attention was drawn to the inadvisability of the practice adopted in many of the country districts of farmers storing their wheat with millers and…

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The Fruit Crop of 1895

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 November 1895 · page 14

The Rural World says that the fruit crop of 1895 will probably prove the heaviest of the last twenty years. In all parts of the country trees are so heavily laden as to be scarcely able…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 November 1895 · page 14

The Kitchen Garden.—French be[?]s and peas are now coming into bearing and require plenty of water. Where cot previously done, they should be mulched heavily with good…

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The Crops

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 29 November 1895 · page 2

Harvest has now started is this district, and returns to hand at present are very gratifying. Messrs. Greggery Bros. are realizing [?] bags per acre from an early Steinwedel crop,…

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Farm and Garden Onion Maggots and Scallions

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 29 November 1895 · page 2

These is no known remedy for the onion maggot sphere onions are cultivated on a large scale. The best known means of prevention is to roll the soil as soon as the seed…

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Hay Pastoral Association

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 2

THE committee of the Hay Pastoral Association met at at Messrs. Wilkinson and Lavender's office yesterday. There ware present—Messrs. Ronald (president). W…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, November 29, 1895

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 2

THE weather has been fine, and the temperature variable during the week. Monday wan an extremely hot day, the thermometer attaining the highest range of the season viz., 106deg. On the previous Saturday it…

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Melbourne Wool Markets. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, November 27

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 2

WOOL—At our wool sale on Monday tea offered 3600 bales, comprising representative cli[?]s, from Queensland. Riverina, and the Darling District of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, and all parts of Victoria, including the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. From the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Limited. Thursday, November 28

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 3

At our wool sale to day we submitted a large end attractive catalogue, embracing 6124 bales. There was a full muster of buyers and animated competition, prices showing, if anything, a hardening tendency, thus…

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Farm and Garden. Fodder for Stock

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 1

Fodder is an essential article of diet for took. It helps in the [?]mi[?]ation of the other foods, and should be fed with rich foods, a[?] clover and [?]mothy. Most farmers…

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Profits in Farm Poultry

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 1

Profits in farm poultry depend more upon the care it receives than most people think. For the average farmer there is probably more profit in selling eggs than raising…

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Farm and Garden Sows Eating Their Pigs

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 4 December 1895 · page 5

Give the sow 2 to [?] lbs of salt pork (cut in places half an inch thick) immediately after farrowing, provided there are any signs of trouble that way. This has proved a sure…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 December 1895 · page 37

A meeting of committee was held on Wednesday. Mr. [?]ke[?]ter occupied the chair, the other members present being Messrs. [?]ck, Chapman, Kierath, Bowyer-Sm[?]…

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The Wheat Market

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 6 December 1895 · page 2

Although the drought has withdrawn the colonies from the influence of the outside wheat markets for the new season, (says the Melbourne Argus” of Monday,) yet the…

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Brunton and Company’s Wheat Operations

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 6 December 1895 · page 2

The attention of wheat growers is directed to the advertisement on the opposite page of this issue, wherein Messrs T. Brunton and Company, of the Australian Flater Mills,…

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The Sydney Wheat Market. Sydney, November 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 December 1895 · page 4

HARRISON, JONES, and DEVLIN LIMITED report receipt of the first consignment of the new season’s crop of wheat, viz., four trucks. The quality, although showing evidence of the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. (By Wire) Thursday NIGHT

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 6 December 1895 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy. Limited, Melbourne, submitted one of the finest catelogues of the season at their wool sale to-day. The offerings among…

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The Drought and the Farmers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 December 1895 · page 3

BESIDES being felt immediately, the effects of the prolonged drought now prevailing throughout Australia will be marked by results which will more…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 December 1895 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—The continued dry weather is making itself felt in this department of the garden. When making successional Bowings of peas it will be well to soak the seeds…

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Albury Farmers’ Market

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 December 1895 · page 4

THE RIVERINA WOOL, HIDE, AND PRODUCE Co. LIMITED report holding their usual weekly sale of farm produce on Saturday last. They quote oats 2s 5d to 2s 9d per burhel, barley 2s 8d…

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