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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1903

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 3

The wool sales for the present season were opened by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co Ltd., who submitted a catalogue of nearly 2000 hales. There was a…

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An Interesting Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 32

Standing between Dunlop and Stewarton villages, in Ayrshire, is one of the most interesting farms in the country in an industrial sense. This is the old home of…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 12

ORCHARD.—The soil about stone fruits should never be wet, cold or sour whilst the storing process is going on. Nor is it safe to let too much air into the soil by deep…

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Management of a Dairy Herd

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 1

To the owner of a dairy herd the most important matter for consideration is how to make the herd pay. Many dairymen seem to think that it makes but little…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles the Apiary an Observation Bee Hive

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 1

NOW the best way to obtain practical knowledge of what is going on inside of a beehive is to make an observatory hive and place it on…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

The Riverine Grazier · Monday 2 November 1903 · page 2

The Woolabra (Narrabri district) Progress Association carried the following motion at their last meeting:—" That the Government be urged to…

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Wool and Stock Reports Riverine Grazier Office

The Riverine Grazier · Monday 2 November 1903 · page 2

There are no stock movement to report since our last issue. R. C. McKINNEY AND CO. report having sold by private sale on account Mr. Chas…

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Organisation in Farming

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 3 November 1903 · page 2

Within the next few weeks great activity will reign throughout the vast agricultural settlements of Northern Victoria and Riverina…

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Wool Sales. Harrison, Jonoa & Dovlin, [?] SYDNEY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 5 November 1903 · page 4

To-day we submitted a catalogue of 5106 bales, making a fine display of very attractive wools. The market [?] brisk and animated with…

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Cattle Dealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1903 · page 13

A member of the Gisborne branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union has written to the committee of management stating that there is far more lying, deception, and…

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Export of Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1903 · page 12

Mr. G. S. Thomson, the South Anstralian Government Dairy Expert, recently visited Europe to Btady there the agricultural and particularly dairying industries. On visiting…

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Dubbo Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1903 · page 15

We were shown a day or two ago (says the Bathurst National Advocate of Monday) by Mr. T. Lewis a sample of wheat which he obtained at Eolomogo near Dubbo, on a farm…

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A Wheat Deal

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 6 November 1903 · page 4

In the Banco Court before Judges Simpson, Pring and Owen, In the matter of South Australian Farmers’ Co-operative Union Ltd., [?] Farmers’…

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The Wool Market

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 6 November 1903 · page 3

The Sydney selling Broken report:— No auction sales have been held daring the past week and business has been confined to dealing with lots passed in at the recent…

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Rust in Wheat. Departmental Report

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 6 November 1903 · page 4

The following report on the question of rust in wheat has been forwarded to the Victorian Department of Agriculture by Mr. M'Alpine, the…

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Rust in Wheat. Expert Advice

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1903 · page 35

Recently several specimens of rust in wheat were sent to the Victorian Agricultural department, find a report on the subject has been prepared by the Vegetable Pathologist at the…

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How Many Stalks of Wheat From One Grain

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1903 · page 29

Mr Paul D. Robinson, Roma (Q.), writes:—"Concerning Mr James Marsh's question: How many stalks is one grain of wheat capable of producing? Mr…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1903 · page 12

ORCHARD.—All strong trees may be helped to fruit early where a somewhat severe thinning of excessive light branches takes place at this season. There should be no…

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Mr Chanter’s Threat (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 November 1903 · page 2

SIR.—In the last issue of your contemporary there appears above the heading of J. M. Chanter (the man who opposed the remission of the fodder duties when this district was passing through one of the…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles the Dairy Herd

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 November 1903 · page 2

IN no class of animals exists the opportunity to determine the individual merit of the females from a standpoint of production as in dairy cattle…

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