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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1901

740 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 37

Breeding Dairy Stock

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1901 · page 13

The prevailing practice among Jersey breeders on any point relating to their cattle may be safely accepted as the best. The breeding age for heifers, for example…

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Why Some Farmers Fail

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1901 · page 12

There is probably no class of men so persistent in their adherence to opinions, practice, and habits of the past generation as the average farmer, and more than one generation…

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English Farm Laborers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1901 · page 13

Referring to the condition of farm laborers in England, the Agricultural Gazette says:—"They stand out alone as the one agricultural class better off at the and of the century than…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March 29, 1901

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 March 1901 · page 2

WARM days and cool nights are being experienced locally, and although rain has threatened none has fallen. Heavy rain would do a lot of good at the present time, and the absence of rain for so long is…

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Farm and Orchard, Original Articles. Autumn Work for San Jose Scale

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 March 1901 · page 2

NOW the great development san Joes Scale during the summer period, in same district, necessities vigorous work on the part of…

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Manuring Wheat Crops

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 April 1901 · page 4

PLAIN speaking is necessary when it is well known how backward our Agriculturists are in practically the very first principles of farming. Manuring…

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Sheep Board Meeting

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 3

A special meeting of the Board of Sheep Directors was held at the Royal Mail Hotel, Jerilderie, the saturday, Messrs. Jan. Fulton (in the chair), G. F. Simpson, and A. H…

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Manitoba Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 13

The sowing season being again at hand, farmers are generally discussing the value of haid-milling wheats, and whether they ought, or ought not, to grow the Manitoba variety…

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Stages in the Life of a Wheat Plant

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 13

Chemical analyses of the growing crop have served to indicate six well-defined periods or stages in the life history of the wheat plant:—(1) From germination to…

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The Farmers' and Settlers' Association

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 35

A special meeting of the Brookong branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held, at Lockhart on Friday, 29th inst., for the purpose of choosing a candidate for The…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 12

KITCHEN GARDEN.—It is now a good time for the planting of bulbs of all sorts as soon as the ground is properly moistened; if once they commence to root, there is not the…

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Farm and Orchard. Original Articles. Autumn Work Foe San Jose Scale

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 2

NOW the great development of the San Jose Scale during the summer period , in some districts, necessitates vigorous work on the part of…

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Important Hints for Wheat Growers

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 2

A great deal of valuable work has been done in various ways in endeavouring to improve tho method of wheat culture. Some of the results have confirmed…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Friday Evening, April 5, 1901

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 2

THE steady rain which fell locally on Tuesday night and Wednesday should give the grass a start and enable ploughing operations to commence now that the ground has been fairly well soaked. Although…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Rye Valuable As a Catch Crop

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 2

NITROGEN is the fertilising element most easily lost from manures and soile, also it is the most expensive. The readiness with…

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Wool and Stock Reports. Riverine Grazier Office

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 9 April 1901 · page 2

THERE are no stock movements to hand co our last issue…

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Wool and Stock Reports

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Thursday 11 April 1901 · page 2

Deniliquin—The following stock movements were reported on 19th April:—30 bullocks, F. S. Falkiner and Sons, to Victoria; 30 bullocks, J. Skelley's, Victoria to Moira;…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Independent · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 6

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Council of the above Society was held at the Royal Hotel, yesterday afternoon. Mr Geo. Lester (President) occupied the chair…

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Important Hints for Wheat Growers

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 1

A great deal of valuable work has been done in various ways in endeavouring to improve the method of wheat culture. Some of the results have confirmed…

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