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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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London Wool Sales. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 3

The March series of wool sales have closed firmly, prices being the highest of the series…

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London Wool Sales. London, February 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 12

Cloeman-street Wool Exchange closed its doors last Monday, and buyers have all gone home. Up to the very last lot competition was well sustained, though in the…

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A Corner in Wheat. London, March 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 35

The Daily Express states that Mr. Armour's seven months' wheat corner in the May Option at Chicago, involving the holding of 25,000,000 bushels, has yielded a profit of…

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Politics and the Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 29

Speaking at a meeting of the Tumut branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association, Mr M'Inerney advised that at the coming election the farmers and…

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Dairy Floors

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 13

According to a New Zealand paper, despite repeated advice given by the Government experts, that nothing but concrete floors should be put down in butter factories, a…

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Lime As a Dairy Wash

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 13

A Victorian dairy farmer, who travelled recently on the Continent, gives the following particulars of an interview he had with Mr Boggeld, the official dairy instuctor, in…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Offices

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 2

At Deniliquin —100 merino rams from Boonoke to R. Turnbull, [?] Station, Queensland ; 800 merino rams from Boonoke to Isis Downs, Queensland; 300 merino rams from Boonoke to Portland…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and [?] Co., Ltd., report :— We held our first [?] of the winter series on Tuesday when a of about 770 bales was submitted. As [?]…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Pure Bred Poultry Farming

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 1

IT ought not to be necessary to argue the advantages of keeping pure [?] rather than scrubs or the very common varieties. But the number…

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Butter Export Trade

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 28 March 1904 · page 3

The Director of Agriculture (Mr S. W. Wallace) has been furnished with the following report by the Dairy Expert. (Mr R. Crowe) showing that…

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Farmers and Citizens' Exchange

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 28 March 1904 · page 2

Messrs Mudge Bros., auctioneers, Dean-street, report the sale of two freehold properties on Saturday last, consisting of houses and land, in…

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London Wool Sales

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 March 1904 · page 2

The March series of London wool sales closed on the 23rd inst. with a firm market at the highest prices given during the series of sales. The number of bales…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. Butter Freight Commission

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 30 March 1904 · page 3

The State Cabinet has appointed Mr. Morrison Under-Secretary, Mr. George Graham, M.L.A., (Numurkah and Na[?]), and Mr. Henry Gyles Turner…

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Victorian Wheat Yield. Twenty-eight Million Bushels

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 30 March 1904 · page 3

The Government States has given the wheat yield in Victoria at 28,356,052 bushels for the season just past…

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Essay on Cattle

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 April 1904 · page 3

The following is alleged so be the work of a scholar who has passed through state school in Rutherglen district -- youth said to be about 16 years of age:…

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Hay Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 April 1904 · page 2

The committee of the Hay Pastoral and Agricultural Association met to-day. There were present:—Mr A. C. Ronald, president, and Messrs Esplin, Julian, Melrose, Ayre,…

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A Big Sheep Prize

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 April 1904 · page 29

Wagga is determined to add to its reputation for big prizes at the annual show, and, thanks to the energy and foresight of Mr G. P. Wilson, Big…

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The Wheat Market

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 April 1904 · page 3

There has been a steady demand in Melbourne during the early part of the week, but supplies though offering a little more freely are far from liberal…

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The Wool Trade

The Independent · Friday 1 April 1904 · page 2

THE general prosperity of the Commonwealth is so bound up with the volume of the wool export and the fluctuations of the wool market,…

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Pigs on the Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 April 1904 · page 13

Mr. Nash, of Virginia, considers that there is more or less waste on a farm where there are no pigs. Refuse from the household, which is of little use for anything else, makes…

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