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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1896

719 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 36

The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN—The past season has plainly proved the great value of deep and thorough cultivation. Where shallow digging has been practised the crops have been a…

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The Care of Dairy Utensils

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 14

When dairy utensils are rightly cared for, they need never become grease-soaked. I have had a 20 gallon churn in use for nearly seven years, and it is as sweet and clean inside…

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Experimental Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 29

The Director of Agriculture, Mr. W. S. Campbell, has returned from a visit to the Wollongbah experimental farm, between the Richmond and Clarence rivers…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, February 7, 1896

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 February 1896 · page 2

THE weather during the week has been fine and the temperature fairly warm. On two or three days it wo[?] over 100 degrees in the shade. The rain still keeps away, and is causing considerable anxiety. There is no…

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Melbourne Wool Markets. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, February 5

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 February 1896 · page 2

WOOL—The first series of London Colonial Wool Sales closed on [?]oth January, and our London office reports by cable: —“The sales closed firmly, and the improvement in values crossbred and merino wools of all descriptions, particularly…

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Original Story. The Mystery of the Willow Farm. III.—(CONTINUED

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 February 1896 · page 2

‘Don’t hurry back, but let me have just an hour and see if I don’t bring back one, at least—that is, if the ghost has not frightened them all away;’ and in saying this he made…

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Farm and Garden. Foul Seed

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 February 1896 · page 1

As long as it remains true that as a man alw[?] so shall he reap, it behooves him to get [?]ol foul weed seed out of his seed grain. Some practice ‘swimming’ it out, but the…

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Farm and Garden Bill Nye on Farming

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 12 February 1896 · page 5

Bill Nye, who considers himself some thing of a farmer, contributes a chapter on advice to the agriculturists of the country. This is it:…

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Original Story The Mystery of the Willow Farm I.

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 12 February 1896 · page 6

THAT our ho[?] was a beautiful woman we all agreed; and when we retired to our large, double-bedded sleeping chamber, the first night of our stay at the 'Willow Farm," we…

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Diseased Cattle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 February 1896 · page 29

A cage affecting drover., stockowners, &c, wan heard at the Bourke police court, when the local inspector of stock, D. W. F. Hatton, proceeded against a drover…

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Queensland Cattle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 February 1896 · page 29

The Chief Inspector of Stock in Queensland has received a telegram from Inspector Evans at Mitchell, stating that Inspector Evans does not think the ticks…

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The Alleged Wheat Frauds

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 February 1896 · page 24

William Kittle, late manager of the Numurkah Roller Mill Compnny's business in Numurkah, was on Friday brought before the local court of petty sessions charged with having stolen 1286…

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Ovens and Murray Dairy Company Limited

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 February 1896 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the directors of the above company, was held at their office on Saturday. Present--Messrs T. G. Clarke (chairman), Simpson,…

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The Dairy Stables

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 14 February 1896 · page 1

Dairy stables arc seldom sot in order for fall and winter occupancy. Cows find their habitations now as when they left them in the spring. There has been no house cleaning,…

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Farm and Garden Bill [?] on Farming

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 14 February 1896 · page 1

Bill Nye, who consider himself [?] thing of a farmer [?] advice to the agriculturist of the country. This is it:…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 February 1896 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Ground that has been cleared of potatoes, &c, will now be available for email seeds. A sowing of early cab bages should be made for use in June and July,…

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[?]Liquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 1

[?]cial meeting of those interested in the re[?] of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agri[?] Society was held at the Royal Hotel on [?]day last. Mr W. R. Raleigh occupied…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, February 14. 1896

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 2

The long looked-for rain commenced to fall on Monday last, and continued steadily over Tuesday and Tuesday night. The total at Deniliquin was 117 points. The rain was general over the whole of northern and…

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Deniliquin Quarter Sessions. Saturday, February 8. Alleged Cattle [?]Ling

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 4

Claude Perrignon was charged with stealing three caws the property of John Fitzmaurice Lenon at Moama, on the 17th January last, and pleaded not guilty. He was defended by Mr…

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Open Column. the Mayoral Election. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 2

SIR, —Unquestionably, troublous monetary [?] lie ahead ahead of the Municipal Council of Deniliquin nor does it require tie effort of a gigantic [?] to realise the fact that the monetary difficul[?]…

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