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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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Re-payments for Seed, Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 2

The re-payments for seed wheat are Mr. Kidd says, being made satisfactorily. Some of the farmers are, however, asking for time within which to make…

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Re-payments for Seed Wheat

The Independent · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 4

The Re-payment for seed wheat are, Mr Kidd says, belong made satisfactorily. Some of the farmers are, however, asking for time within which to make the…

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A Terrible Mistake. Mistook Sheep Dip for Sulphur

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 39

A terrible mistake, resulting in the death of a child aged two years and a half, was made at Gilgandra on Monday. Mr George Collison had mixed some honey and, as he…

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Harrison, Jones and Devlin Weekly Wool Report

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 2

At auction on Monday we submitted an attractive catalogue of 1[?]25 hales embracing some really superior lines which were keenly competed for by all…

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Wheat Experiments, in New South Wales. New Variety Developed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 35

Experiments of an important nature are being mode at Lambrig, near Queanbeyan, by Mr W. Farrer, the wheat experimentalist of the Department of Agriculture, in the…

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London Wool Sales. Opening of the First Series. London, January 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 4

The first series of London wool sales this year opened yesterday, when Messrs Buxton, Ronald, and Co., Messrs Charles Balme and Co. and Messrs Ducroz, Doxat, and Co. offered 7560…

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Government Farms

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 34

Mr. W. S. Campbell (Director of Agriculture) reports that the crops of fruit at the Government experimental farms are in a splendid condition. This is especially the…

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What Dairy Cow Pays Best

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 13

A loading article in the Scottish Farmer of a recent data deals with this subject. It points out that the Canadian Department of Agricultural has been engaged in settling the…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 12

KITCHEN GARDEN.—A sowing of beet for winter use may be made. In preparing the ground for this vegetable, it may be dug two spits deep, and if not sufficiently manured…

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Farmers and Socialism

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 2

A movement has recently been inaugurated at Cranbourne, a somewhat insignificant township situated within the suburban radius of…

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Wheat Experiments

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 4

Experiments of an important nature are being made at Lambrig, near Queanbeyan, N.S.W., by Mr W. Farrer, the wheat experimentalist of the Department of Agriculture,…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 2

The following passings are recorded :— At Deniliquin.—650 sheep Caroonboon to Hills Plain ; 18 stud ewes, Sanderson and Co’s, Victoria, from Boonoke to Melbourne ; 1 stud ram,…

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Wool Markets. LONDON

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 3

The wool sales opened brisk with an advance from par to fifteen per cent…

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Operations in Somaliland. the Dervishes Surprised. Fifity Killed. Thousands' of Cattle Captured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 3

Colonel Kenna commanding a mounted forced of British troops, was sueccessful in surprising a detached parts of the adherents of the Mullan in…

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Cablegrams. London, Friday. London Wool Sales. 5 Per Cent Advance in Merinoes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 3

The wool sales were continued to-day. Business was brink and good. Merinoes advanced 5 per cent, above December quotations…

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Two Million Pounds for Victorian Farmers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 2

The final estimate of the agricultural editor of the "Australasian" is that the season's output of wheat in Victoria will be over twenty-six million…

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Telegrams. Inter State. New South Walles. Sydney, Friday. the Fiji [?]Cane. Destroys the Banana Crop

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 2

The hurriecane which has been [?]aging in Fiji is stated to have destroyed 90 per cent of the hanana crops. This will entail a great hardship…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Poultry Keeping

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 1

THE raising of poultry by farmers has not hitherto been considered by them as a business but rather us an adjunct or a pastime, the…

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For Stimulating Growth of Leguminous Crops

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 1

Recent discoveries by scientists of a successful method of propagating nitrogen breathing bacteria in insumerable quantities and being able to transfer them…

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Wool and Stock Reports Riverine Grazier Office

The Riverine Grazier · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 2

There are no stock movements to report since our last issue. THE AUSTRALIAN MORTGAGE LAND AND FINANCE Co., LTD. report:—We have…

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