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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1902

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Wool Sales. Melbourne

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 2

Goldsborough, Mort & Co. offered at their [?] to-day 5,381 bales, and sold 5216. The market was firm at last week’s sales, althoug[?] wools for America sold rather…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. November 27

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 3

The usual weekly sale of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., was held this afternoon, when a representative catalogue of 6260 bales was submitted. The…

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London Wool Sales. Substantial Rise in Price. London, November 26

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 21

The Sixth series of London wool sales this year opened yesterday afternoon, when Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Co., Charles Balme and Co., Jacomb, Son, and Co., and…

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Moama Farmers' Union

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 29

The monthly meeting of the Moama Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held on Tuesday week at Altcar. The president (Mr. Topham Forge) was in the chair. It…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 12

ORCHARD.—If not already done, thin out all crowding shoots from strong pears and apples, leaving room for light and air to circulate freely, and also space for side spar…

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Drought in the Hillston District. All the Crops Destroyed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 24

Mr. Ashton, M.L.A., has received a letter from the Mayor of Hillston Mr. R. W. Stewart, in reference to the ravages by the drought. The hardships and sufferings…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 3

A meeting of the members of the above was held on Saturday afternoon last. Present: Messrs. M'Arthur (chair), Noonan, Greggery, Sleeman, Connell, Carroll, Kelly…

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Farm and Garden O[?]ginal Articles Successful Potato Growing

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 2

PROBABLY there is other crop grown by so many different people and so many different methods. Some methods of…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 November 1902 · page 2

Dalgety and Company, Limited, offered at theirs wool sale on Monday, 3,400 bales, a catalogue of thoroughly representative wools, including Langl Kal Kal, one of the choicest western Victorian cllpe…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 November 1902 · page 2

The following are the stock movements:—772 sheep from Hartwood to Oddy and Son’s boiling down ; 1.122 sheep from Mathoura station to Melbourne; 17 horsed from Deniliquin (G.B.-Newton’s)…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles Selection of the Dairy Cow

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 November 1902 · page 1

THERE are three phases to be considered in choosier a cow: First, select the cow as an individual, without reference to antecedents…

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The Drought Meeting of the Hay Branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 29 November 1902 · page 2

A special meeting of the members of the Hay Branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held on Thursday night, at Mr. Hidgcock's…

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Ants and Farmers

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 November 1902 · page 1

One of the most interesting points connected with ant existence is that which shows as the evolutions which haven tended their ways and works. All ants do not…

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Sydney Sheep Sales

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 December 1902 · page 2

At the Homebush sales last Thursday the following sales of local sheep were effected:--J.Lonsdale, Corowa, 75 wethers at 106, 63 crossbred wethers at 84, 60…

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London Wool Sales

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 December 1902 · page 2

At the London Wool Sale on Thursday last the market was animated. Merinos showed a hardening tendency, and crossbreds were…

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Farm Life in the United States. Making it Attractive

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 December 1902 · page 4

The chief cause of the exodus from country to city has been the isolation and lonliness of farm life. Especially has this been true in the west, where…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 3 December 1902 · page 3

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company held their usual weekly sale on Thursday last, when a representative catalogue of 6260 hales was submitted. The…

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Sheep Eating Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 December 1902 · page 29

A sight which is comparatively rare in Junee, but which has, unfortunately, been by no means rare in the back country, was (says the Democrat) witnessed on the Junee…

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Sheep Judging at Numurkah

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 December 1902 · page 29

There is likely to be some trouble over the judging of sheep at the recent Numurkah show. The duty of judging was carried out by a large landholder and…

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A Sheep Judging Episode

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 5 December 1902 · page 2

At the Numurkah Show held recently, a large and well-known sheep breeder from the Morwell district acted us judge in those sections. A…

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