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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1902

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 November 1902 · page 12

ORCHARD.—Irrigation must now be practised wherever young trees require to grow freely or more matured specimens are developing their fruit. Avoid flooding…

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Waste on the Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 November 1902 · page 13

Mr. Maslin, of Wilmington, considers that waste is caused on farms by:—Neglect to have machinery placed in a proper state of repair until it is actually needed for use…

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The Young Man on the Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 November 1902 · page 12

Mr. T. Gray read a paper on this subject at a recent meeting of the Amyton Agricultural Bureau (S.A.). He said that it should be the aim of every…

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A Veteran Farmer's Experience

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 November 1902 · page 13

In the Highland Agricultural Societies' Journal appears an interesting biography of a well-known and successful farmer, Mr. John Wilson, late of Chapel Hill, in which…

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The Crop Shortage

The Independent · Friday 21 November 1902 · page 2

Coming to the second aspect of the case which has resulted from the failure of the winter and spring rains—the crop yields— Mr Carruthern has obtained information…

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Farmers and Settlers Association

The Independent · Friday 21 November 1902 · page 2

At the monthly matting of the Moama and district branch of the New South Wales Farmers and Settlers' Association, held at Aitcar on Tuesday…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 21 November 1902 · page 3

The following letter to the various branches of the Farmers and Settlers' Association has been received:— Owing to the distress occasioned by the…

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O. and M. Dairy Co

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 November 1902 · page 2

The usual monthly meeting of the directors of the Ovens and Murray Dairy Co. was held at Springhurst on Wednesday last Mr. T. G. Clarke presided over…

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The World's Wheat Crop

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 22 November 1902 · page 4

The New South Wales wheat crop has been much affected by the drought, and as Victoria and South Australia have nothing to boast of this State…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 November 1902 · page 1

Younghusband and Co. Proprietary Ltd. and R. Goldsbrough Row and Co. Proprietary Ltd. continued their wool sales to-day, when they offered a catalogue of 2544 bales. The attendance of buyers…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 November 1902 · page 2

Goldsbrough Mort and Co. report holding their usual sale to-day and submitting a catalogue of 4,458 bales and selling 4601 bales, including private sales. There was the usual large attendance of…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, November 21, 1902

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 November 1902 · page 2

The following are the stock movements:— [?],400 sheep from Pint Hills, C. Uphill’s, via Tocumwal, to Via, Victoria; 15 rattle from Deniliquin to Echnes, E Oarr owner; 22 cattle and 7 horses…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles Successful Potato Growing

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 November 1902 · page 2

PROBABLY there is no other crop grown by so many different people and so many different methods. some methods of…

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The Paralysed Pastoral and Agricultural Interests of Australia. (To the Editor of the Riverine Grazier.)

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 25 November 1902 · page 2

Sir,—To those on the lauds within the grip of this awfully alarming drought, affecting as it does so many parts of the Commonwealth, the next…

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False Teeth and Cotton Wool Sandwiches

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 26 November 1902 · page 5

A young man, aged 20 years, whilst swimming in the open sea, was struck in the face by a wave. He immediately felt a choking…

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John Bull's Farm

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 26 November 1902 · page 5

Britain may be viewed as one farm extending from county to county, interrupted by towns, it is true, but surrounding then like the ocean…

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The Wool Markets. Advance in London. Record Prices in Melbourne and Sydney. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Thursday 27 November 1902 · page 2

The London wool sales opened at an advance of from five to twenty per cent. Thursday…

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Kiewa Valley Butter Factory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 4

The butter turned out at this factory during the month of October made a total a little above 16 2-5 tons. This cost the company £1265 19s. 8d. at 8d. per lb., the sum…

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Jersey Cattle at Home

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 13

A correspondent, who has been on a visit to the Island of Jersey, writes :—Everything is novel and interesting on the island. Always a lover of Jersey cattle, it has been so…

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London Wool Sales

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 2

The sixth series of sales held in London recently have been very brisk, the prices advancing from 5 to 25 per cent beyond those of [?] sale…

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