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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 4

THE SYDNEY WOOL-SELLING BROKERS' ASSOCIATION report that very large catalogues have been offered this week, the total supply available for sale aggregating some…

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Corowa Wool Hide, Skin, and Produce Sales

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 2

A. A. Piggin and Co. report holding their ordinary sale of sheepskins, hides, tallow, etc., on Saturday, 20th, when a full catalogue was cleared at ruling…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 24 November 1897 · page 2

No, 7. BARLEY, OATS, RYE—IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES—RICE IN CHINA AND JAPAN—WHEAT IN AUSTRALIA—WHEAT IN EURORS—SPRING AND WINTER WHEAT…

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The Wheat Crop

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 November 1897 · page 29

The estimate of the wheat crop in New South Wales for the present season is in one sense satisfactory, and in another disappointing. It is satisfactory because it…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 26 November 1897 · page 1

No. 7. BARLEY, OATS, [?]—IN, VARIOUS COUNTALKS—RICH IN [?] AND [?] —WHEAT IS AUSTRALIA—WHEAT IN EUROPE—[?] AND WINTER WHEAT…

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Berrigan Farms and Homes’ “Strath William.”

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 26 November 1897 · page 3

We are told by [?] the man, who wishful, [?] had no place whereon to lay his head, that “There’s on place like home,” and no…

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Farming in the Early Days

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 November 1897 · page 9

There is a true story, told by a colonist of 53 years, relative to the struggle of "The Poor Farmers" over half a century ago, the narrator being still pursuing farming…

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Clipping Farm Horses

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 November 1897 · page 13

Working horses encumbered with long thick coats of hair sweat heavily, often causing weakness and ill-health. When undue swotting from any cause occurs the…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 November 1897 · page 12

KITCHEN GARDEN.—It should not be forgotten at this season that all saladings require to be brought to maturity without delay, to prevent their becoming tough and bitter…

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Poetry. a Skein of Wool

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 2

I am holding her wool in an attitude quiet, Feeling just like a wooden-armed, stained window paint. She is sitting at ease in a negligent pose,…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, [?] Friday Evening, November 26,1897

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 2

THE weather has been very [?] during the week, the thermometer ranging up to nearly 100[?]. in the shade every day. Hot winds also prevail and the pastures are almost completely dried up. Barrelling operations are…

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Open Column. the Deniliquin Lagoon. (To the Editor, of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 3

SIR,— Endeavour is being made to the Municipal Council to obtain water at flood time from Aljoe’s Creek, to flush out the Waring Lagoon, which may rightly be said to be “a danger and a [?] to…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 1

NO. 9. RYE—ITS GRAINS AND STRAW— HOLLANDS OR GENEVA—HORNED RYE OR ERGOT — DIFFERENCES BETWRN BARLEY AND WHEAT —A CALENDAR OF…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 November 1897 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report:--Very large catalogues have been submitted to a full attendance of buyers. The supply…

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Late Sown Wheat

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 1 December 1897 · page 4

The Hon. Sydney Smith, Minister for Mines and Agriculture, has received a report from the acting manager of the Wagga Wagga Experiment Farm…

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Varm and Garden Original Articles No. 8 Egyptian Wheat—sp[?] Wheat—one [?] Wheat— Tille[?]g—methods of Sowing—straw

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 1 December 1897 · page 2

Egyptian, or many spiked, wheat is a species chiefly cultivated in Egypt and some parts of Italy. It is supposed to be of African origin, and in its qualities and…

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Cattle Stealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 27

On Tuesday morning at the Rutherglen police court, before Messrs. Pearce, O'Grady, and Morris, J.P.'s, an elderly man named Alexander Longmore was committed for trial…

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Allora Spring Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 27

Dr. Cobb a few days ago called the attention of visitors to the excellent results obtained by sowing in July a quantity of Allora Spring wheat, which had been improved…

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The Wheat Outlook

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 2

THE hardships under which Hay district landholders labor is strikingly illustrated by the recently published statements in the Sydney newspapers…

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Illegally Occupying Crown Lands. Trespassing Sheep

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 2

At the police court this morning, before the P.M., Henry Moorhead was charged that he, not being a person claiming under any subsisting lease or license, or otherwises…

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