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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1903

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Independent · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 3
Also in The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express

A meeting of the members of the Council of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal Hotel yesterday afternoon. Mr W. R. Clarke…

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Markets. Wool

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 3

The Sydney wool-selling brokers report:— The local wool market continued very quits and operations during the past week leave been limited to planning a number of lines…

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Kiewa Valley Butter Factory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 15

At the directors' meeting held on the 4th inst. the price of butter fat for June was fixed at 10d. per lb. The butter turned out for the month made a total of…

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A Strange Sheep Disease

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 3

Mr. L. Jensen, of Tocumwal, sends the Finley paper the following letter :—" In the last issue of the Free Press I noticed an article re a peculiar disease in…

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The Wool Market

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 4

A London telegram dated 7th July says :—" The fourth series of wool sales commenced this day. The market for merino wools is unaltered, while coarse to medium greasy…

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Sydney Sheep Sales. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 37

The annual sales of stud sheep, which follows the show of the New South Wales Sheep breeders' Association, wan opened to-day, when Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co…

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Australian Wool. a New Syndicate London, July 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 34

The New York Times says that a syndicate has been formed of Australian and New Zealand wool-growers, headed by Mr. R. A. Alley, who has just completed arrangements…

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Yorkshire Wool Market. Bradford, May 22. Big Buying Movement

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 12

No feature shines out so prominently in connection with the sales as the big buying movement which has come over the entire trade. The Continent has played its part…

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Farmers' and Citizens' Exchange

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 4

MUDGE BROS. report having held their usual weekly sale of form and dairy produce, &c., on Saturday last, the following prices ruling :—Prime mutton, sides (16 to 241b) 3 1/2d, hind quarter…

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The Crops in South Australia

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 13

So rapid has been the growth of the crop in South Australia this year that many farmers have been putting cattle into their paddocks for weeks past to eat the crops…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 12

ORCHARD.—Plums placed in hot and hard positions should be pruned to form stocky trees composed of a few fairly stout branches, but where they are inclined to grow strong a…

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Farmer’ and Settlers’ Associations. Proposed Unified District Council Representative Meeting in Berrigan

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 3

Delegates from the Jerilderie. Tocumwal and Friday farmer’ and Settlers’ Associations met Inst Wednesday afternoon at McGrady’s Royal…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 July 1903 · page 2

The council of the Above Society met at the Royal Hotel on Thursday afternoon. Messrs W. It. Clarke (president), R.W. Holmos, B. Irving. G. Leetham. J. V. Ingram, at. J. Carew, S. Currio and J Burchfield…

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Rain on O Rain ? (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 July 1903 · page 2

SIR, — A “word fitly spoken,” or a number of “[?] units” operating in the minds of the people through the columns of newspaper may be effectual in their aggregate force, just a Dr…

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Open Column. an Explication. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 July 1903 · page 2

SIR—“An impression seems to exist that I am Henitt Officer for the town and district Such is not the care, as in the smaller country towns of Now South Wales there are no such appointments…

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Farm and Garden, Original Articles Fowls-good and Bad

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 July 1903 · page 2

THE tell tale trap nest shows that some hens are the merest apology for the, name so tar as eggs are concerned, while others ought to…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

The Riverine Grazier · Monday 13 July 1903 · page 3

Sheep have been turned into a number of the early—own wheat paddocks in the Narrabri district. Given good rains, the farmers expect a record…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association of N.S.W. Gunbar Branch

The Riverine Grazier · Monday 13 July 1903 · page 3

The Annual meeting of the Gunbar branch of the above association was held at the Gunbar Hotel on Monday last. There were present:—Messrs…

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The Age for a Sheep

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 July 1903 · page 4

The sheep is in its best condition, as food, when five years old-- an age which it is almost never allotted to attain, unless when intended for the private use of the owner,…

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