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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1903

916 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 46

A Scathing Indictment of Prickly Pear. the Evidence of the Muswell-brook Dairymen

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1903 · page 13

The Muswellbrook dairymen having noticed in the newspapers that using the prickly pear as a food for cows during the past winter is being put forward as a proof…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles Preserving Forage by Means of Silage

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 30 January 1903 · page 2

PLACING corn in the [?] usually increase the digestibility of the crude fibre. On the other hard, there is always some [?] from…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Friday, January 20

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 2

Hot days and fairly cool nights have been experience this week and there does not seem to be any indigestion change to rain. Yesterday the thermometer went up to to 102.5deg. and to-day…

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A Lord As Dairyman

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 1

Lord Rayleigh, who has attained his sixtieth year, is known to the public both as a man of science and a dairyman, and his work and his milk are alike excellent…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Growing Cowpeas

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 1

IF clover cannot be grown some other good leguminous crop is needed that will act as a soil renovator to fix in the soil the atmospheric…

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Government and Seed Wheat

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

The State Premier, in a letter to the Farmers' and Settlers' Association on the question of the distribution of seed Wheat, stated that the…

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Latest by Telegraph Wheat Market. Sydney

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

Whest 6s, to 6s 1d' chickwheat, local medium, 5s. 6d…

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Special Notes for Special Readers. Shoddy and the Wool Industry

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 4

Extreme monoply is bed extreme so is competition. Trough the latter the consumer has become ton "pinched" be always buy the last. The producer catering for…

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Butter Shipments

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

In a report which has been received by the Agricultural Department of Victoria from its agent in London, it is stated that advices which have been received of butter…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 34

A meeting of committee was held on Friday morning. Mr. G. A. Thompson occupied the chair. The others present: were Mesers. H. F. Ogilvie, M'Intosh, J…

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Re-introduced Sheep

The Independent · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 2

We have ascertained from Mr J. Weir, Inspector of Stock, that all sheep sent to Victoria, for grass must on reintroduction be branded V and have a…

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Seed Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 29
Also in The Independent

A report from Queanbeyan says:—A meeting of the farmers and Settlers' Association for the purpose of receiving requisitions for seed wheat and other grain…

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Kiewa Valley Butter Factory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 19

The 20th half-yearly meeting of this company was held afc Kiewa on the 31st ult. The balance-sheet was accepted as read and passed after a few questions had…

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Seed Wheat Distribution

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 2

Mr. Kidd and Mr. Hayes, who have been deputed by their colleagues to supervise the distribution of seed wheat to distressed farmers and…

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The Markets. Wool

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 3

Large supplies of wool were dealt at the Sidney market during the past week and the offerings included a good as [?] of useful wools as well as s large…

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Wheat Supply at Wangaratta

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 28

The supply or wheat in the Wangaratta district this season is so far below the average that the millers of Wangarntta, Messrs. W. Allen and Sons and Alex…

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Latest by Telegraph Wheat Market. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 2

Wheat, 6s. 1d to 6s. 6[?]d…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

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

ORCHARD.—Thinning and spurring should go on wherever trees are strong, have crowded top or a scarcity of fruiting wood. Bandages must be removed at short intervals, for the…

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Baby-farming Case. Two Women to Be Hanged. London, January 31

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 27

The Home Secretary, Mr. A. Akers Douglas, has decided that the sentence of death passed at the Old Bailey on the 16th inst. on two women named Annie Walters,…

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