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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1903

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The Seed Wheat Question. Reply From the Minister

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 2

The following communication has been received through Mr Hayes from the Minister for Agriculture in reference to the request which emanated…

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Queensland Maize Crop

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 29

Says the Queenslander:—The maize crop this year promises to be a record one. Since the failure of the wheat crop farmers have turned to a maize crop as a…

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The Beginning of Ostrich Farms

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 13

Fifty years ago the domestication of the ostrich was an idea scouted by moat of the zoologists who had given time and thought to the subject. Their young, it was believed…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 12

KITCHEN GARDEN.—It; is necessary to keep a look out for snails or slugs, which the moisture will entice from their hiding places. If unmolested, they would injure…

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The Boer Delegates. Visit to the Wagga Experimental Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 15

The Boer delegates, accompanied by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Kidd), and Messrs. Gormly, M.L.A., Campbell, and W. J. Allen (fruit expert), arrived at…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles Irrigation

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 2

OF late years the growing of strawberries in these colonie[?] is rapidly developing, demanding special care in aiming to produce…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

Dalgety and Company, Limited, offered at their wool sale to-day, 4,400 bales, comprising a good average collection of wools, of which the bulk were from the South Australian border, and also some…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Friday January 16

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

The weather has been unusually cool tor this period of the year during the past week, though it has been wanner to day. Few lots of stock are moving in the district, and it is hardly likely there…

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Open letter. Will Parliament Before [?] To the Editor of the Pastoral [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

Sir,—There can hardly be an intel[?] and of course we are all intelligent ele[?] South Wales, who does not feel asb[?]mayed when he surveys the doings [?]…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles Catch Crops

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

NEARLY every season there is a period when supplementary feed for live stock is necessary. To provide for that is not always…

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Return of Sheep

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 January 1903 · page 2

Mr. Campbell, Inspector of stick, is at present preparing a return of the sheep in the Corowa district at the close of last year. From the…

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Sheep Killed by Cold

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 January 1903 · page 2

Reports received at Albury from the mountains in reference to the mortality amongst sheep grazing there during the recent cold weather…

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Wheat Market. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 January 1903 · page 2

Wheat 59 to 59½; chickwheat, local, prime, 59 to 510…

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The Corowa Wool Clip

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 January 1903 · page 2

The return of tho wool clip for the Corowa Sheep District for the year ending 31st December, 1902, has been completed by Mr. Campbell,…

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Wool and Stock Reports. Riverine Grazier Office

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 January 1903 · page 2

There are no local stock movements to hand since our last. Our Sydney correspondent wires that at the stock sales on Monday, 16,360 sheep were punned; mar…

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Ovens and Murray Dairy Co

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 January 1903 · page 2

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

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 21 January 1903 · page 3

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company held their opening sale of the new year on Thursday last, when they submitted a very representative…

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How to Make Poultry Farming Pay

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 21 January 1903 · page 2

The artificial hatching of eggs has been so long practiced in Egypt that the hens have completely abandoned that part of their work to…

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Wool and Stock Reports. Riverine Grazier Office

The Riverine Grazier · Thursday 22 January 1903 · page 2

There are no stock movements to report since our lost issue. MESSRS. DALGETY AND Co., Sydney, report under yesterday's date:—We offered…

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The Hay District Sheep Returns. Startling Figures. A Great Falling-Off in Numbers

The Riverine Grazier · Thursday 22 January 1903 · page 2

The returns shewing the number of stock running in the various holdings in the Hay Sheep District on the 31st December have been made up by the…

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