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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

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Corowa Wool, Hide, Skin, and Produce Sales

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 2

A. A. Piggin and Co. report holding their usual monthly sale of sheepskins, hides, tallow, opossum skins, etc. on Saturday, 25th ult, There was a good…

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Crops

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 6 October 1897 · page 2

Hay making is an anxious time, as, when it is nearly ready to go in the rick, a wetting with rain may necessitate the [?] doing of it all over again. This incr[?] the expense…

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The Wool Traffic

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 October 1897 · page 29

So far the operations of the New South Wales railways in the conveyance of wool this season have been about 30 per cent. below what they were at this time last…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 October 1897 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that their wool sales were resumed in the Sydney market on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this…

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The Proposed Butter Factory. Visit of the Government Dairy Expert. Mr. O'Callaghan's Views

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 October 1897 · page 2

Mr O'Callaghan, the Government dairy export, visited Hay this week, in response to the request of a public meeting, for the purpose of advising as to the desirability of…

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The Regent Gales. Several Cattle Killed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 October 1897 · page 35

The heavy gales of last week resulted in severe loss to some of the farmers in the Neerim South district. Mr. John English, of Neerim, had 12 head of cattle killed…

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The Wheat Season at Corowa

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 October 1897 · page 17

The Free Press has the following:—There are signs already in Corowa of a big carrying trade in wheat during the approaching summer. The Culcairn train brings nine or ten trucks of…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 October 1897 · page 4

THE SYDNEY WOOLSELLING BROKERS' Association report:—The wool sales were resumed in Sydney market on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, this week, when catalogues…

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Tuesday, October 5. Alleged Wool Stealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 October 1897 · page 25

Heinrich Schultz was charged with killing 25 sheep and stealing 2001b. of wool therefrom. Prisoner pleaded not guilty, and was…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 October 1897 · page 12

KITCHEN GARDEN.—Kidney beans of an early variety may now be put in with more certainty of success. Cucumbers and plants of similar character, tomatoes, egg plants,…

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The Coming Wheat Crop

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 October 1897 · page 4

The SM Herald gives the following information concerning the coming wheat crop in the southern districts of the colony :— Corowa.—Considering the general lateness…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. 2. Manures—the Action of Lime on Sugar Canes—the Cerealia

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 October 1897 · page 1

Any considerable change in the force of gravity is very injurious to plant life. A decrease of gravity causes the activity of the vegetable circulation to be greatly reduced,…

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The Cooinda Estate. a Well Regulated Farm

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 October 1897 · page 3

Few people, even those who are interested in farming pursuits and in the general prosperity of agricultural affairs about Deniliquin, have any [?] knowledge about the handsome little…

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Insuring Cattle

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 13 October 1897 · page 2

A meeting of cattle buyers yesterday agreed to adopt the suggestion of the Stockowners Board to levy one shilling per head on all cattle sold at…

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The Wool Traffic

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 13 October 1897 · page 3

So far the operations of the New South Wales railways in the conveyance of wool this season have been about 30 per cent below what they were at this time last year…

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Experimental Farm at Hay

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 13 October 1897 · page 2

The Agricultural Department has selected two sites for Experimental Farms, one in the vicinity of Hay, and the other near Hillston…

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Farm and Garden Notice

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 13 October 1897 · page 2

As intimated last week, we commence in this issue a series of original articles on Agricultural topics, to which we invite the attention of rural readers and of all who…

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The World's Estimated Wheat Crop

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 October 1897 · page 13

The English estimates of the world's wheat crop in the current "cereal year" (which owing to the vast preponderance of production in tho Northern Hemisphere, must be taken…

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The Wheat Statistics

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 October 1897 · page 17

According to the Collector of Customs, the imports of breadstuff for the first nine months of the year equal 3,276,935 bushels. The wheat exports are 2,535,453 bushels, leaving a net…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne, October 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 October 1897 · page 4

GOLDSBROUGH, MOST and Co Ltd., report:— Wool season opened by us today with useful catalogue of 3133 bales. Exceedingly large attendance of buyers and keen competition from…

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