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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1896

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A Talk About Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 October 1896 · page 14

With the continued low price of wool it will seem out of place and time to some even to have the name of sheep mentioned, but all people are not casual observers. The fact is…

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Sheep Dipping. Practical Suggestions

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 October 1896 · page 14

The beat time to dip merinoes, especially in hot climates, is within 30 days after shearing. If hand-shorn, merinoes may be effectively and economically dipped " off the board," but…

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The Wheat Supply

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 October 1896 · page 28

During the next three or four weeks the question will be decided as to whether the Australian colonies will have any surplus of wheat to export and whether…

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The Albury Co-operative Butter Factory Produce Co. Limited

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 October 1896 · page 21

The first general meeting of shareholders in this company was held on Tuesday last. There was a good attendance. Mr. G. Arthur Thompson occupied the chair and reported the progress…

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The Farmer's True Policy

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 October 1896 · page 35

A contributor to the Irish Farming World, a paper published in Dublin, furnishes an article which illustrates in a marked degree the decline of agriculture in England under…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 October 1896 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN. — Amateurs will be interested in the formation of celery trenches, as the present, month is suitable for the sowing of this vegetable in some warm and shady…

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Hay Pastoral Association

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 2

A meeting of the committee was held on Thursday morning. Present—Messrs. R. W. Ronald (in the chair) A. Macfarland, H. B. Broughton, L. Whitehead, C. Hidgcock…

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Pastoral And- Agricultural Society of DENlLIQUIN Annual Meeting

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 3

The annual meeting of the above Society was held on Wednesday last. Messrs W. B. Raleigh occupied the chair, and the following gentlemen were also present ;—Messrs R. Irving. J. Burchfield, R…

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Open Column. the Land TAX.(To the Editor of the pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 3

SIR,—The first batch of the notices in connection [?]th the Land Tax, has been delivered in Deniliquin, [?]d many of those affected, myself amongst the [?]lmber, are startled at the value which has been…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Desili[?]uin, Friday Evening, October 30, 1896

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 2

THE weather during the week has been intensely hot for this time of the year, one the official registrations at the telegraph office read as though summer is already open as. Grass and herbage are drying up rapidly…

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FEDERATION V. Fiscalism.—a Weak Case. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Time.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 4

SIR,—It is refreshing to read a candid article as your was last Saturday on this question. Federation is virtually little more than a cant. It it is not “as dead as Julius Caesar," as old Sir…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. (Dalgety and Co. Limited.) Monday, October 26

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 2

WOOL.—We report holding our weekly wool sale to-day, when we offered about 4,500 hales, comprising several leading clips from the Deniliquin, and Broken Hill districts of New South Wales, and Nerthern and…

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 November 1896 · page 4

THE MELBOURNE WOOLBROKERS' ASSOCIATION report that the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Melbourne, held their third wool sale of the season…

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The Hay Pastoral Association. (To the Editor of the Riverine Grazier.)

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 November 1896 · page 2

SIR,—In reading your abridged report of the annual meeting of the Hay Pastoral Association when seconding Mr. Gibson's proposal to borrow £1000, you make me to…

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The Wheat Supply

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 4 November 1896 · page 4

During the next three or four weeks the question will be decided as to whether the Australian colonies will have any surplus of wheat to export…

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Farm and Garden the Bee Keeper's Enemy

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 4 November 1896 · page 5

The English Board of Agriculture is devoting its hydra-headed energies to warning off foul brood. In order to put agriculturists on their guard against this…

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A Hint for the Dairymaid

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 4 November 1896 · page 5

To keep milk tweet in hot weather ia an ideal at which many have aimed but few hare won, and yet it ia a perfectly simple matter, providing no objection is raised to a…

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Kiewa Butter Factory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1896 · page 27

A special meeting of the directors of the Butter Factory was held at Kicwa on the 29 h ult. to consider an application for a new cream separator which had been made by Mr. Jaivis,…

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The Albury Butter Factory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1896 · page 24

A commencement wan made on Tuesday last of the erection of the building for this company. The architec, along with the directors and the contractor, marked out the ground…

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The Price of Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 November 1896 · page 3

ON Saturday last Mr. O'Halloran, acting for Messrs. Darling & Son., purchased from Mr. Regan 1100 bags wheat at 4s. 9d. per bushel. There is now no doubt…

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