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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

1,053 stories in Murray's papers · page 50 of 53

The American Cotton Crop

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 December 1904 · page 3

The American bumper cotton crop has caused scenes of wild excitement on the Liverpool market, where prices full forty points yesterday…

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Wheat

The Independent · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 1

Mr T. A. Frearson notifies in oar advertising columns that he is prepared to pay highest cash prices for wheat, for December delivery, for the…

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Wool Market

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 3

Australian Mortage, Land & Finance Co, report:-At our sales on Wednesday we offered 2,385 bales of wool and sold 2,238. The market was quite firm at last weeks…

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Price of Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon the local price of this season's good milling wheat was [?] per [?] At this price 10,000 bags have been purchased by Messrs. A. A…

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The War and Wheat Prices

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 13

Agriculturists cling to the idea that a war between two great powers invariably causes wheat values to rise, and there was a general idea that the, present war…

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N.s.w. Wool Returns

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 3

The year's wool clip is turning out very satisfactorily. The woll generally has been much finer and lighter in condition than usual, and although the…

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A Good Wool Season. New South Wales Returns

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 17

The year's wool clip is turning out very satisfactorily. The wool generally has been much finer and lighter in condition than usual, and although the earlier…

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Tobacco as a Farmer's Crop for New South Wales. MANURING. (Continued from our last.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 12

In soils requiring lime manurially, it had best be introduced in the form of gypsum or slacked lime to the rotation crop preceding tobacco, a broadcast sowing of…

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Some Notes on the Wheat "Bobs." Its Peculiarities, Economic Value and Origin. (Continued from our last.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 13

An examination of the tables in our last issue will furnish many points of interest. Before I begin to compare Bobs with Power's Fife, I will point out that the…

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The Crops. Harvest Prospects

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 17

GUYRA, Wednesday.—The continued dry weather is greatly retarding the crops INVERELL, Wednesday.— The wheat crops throughout the district as far as…

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Dairying on the South Coast

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 28

One of the largest functions in connection with co-operative dairying on the South Coast took place a few days since at Dapto, the occasion being the official…

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American Cotton Crop. Record Yield Expected, London, December 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 27

The United States Government's estimate of the cotton crop this season is 12,162,000 bales, or 900,000 bales more than the record yield. The strength of the estimate has…

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Ganmain. Farmers' and Settlers' Association

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 3

A meeting of the Ganmain branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held in the School of Arts on Wednesday, the 30th ult., the main business being, the…

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Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 12

Orchard.—According to the locality and the capacity of the owner, we find at this and every other season, wet soil, weedy soil, hard dry soil, and poor soil. Each…

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Manuring Farm Land

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 13

Mr. W: H. Webb writes to a Sydney paper:—Many of your readers greatly appreciate the information in your issue of Monday re increased yield from manured…

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Farmers' Grain Sited

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 2

We have been informed that a large number of applications have been made by district farmers for space in the recently-erected grain…

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Commercial. Stock Movements. Pastoral Times Office

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 2

Harvesting is now general throughout the district. Fair yields are being obtained, but there is a disinclination on the part of farmers to sell just at present as, they look forward to an improved market…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Raising Autumn Chickens

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 2

THE early autumn brings the Second chance for growth and development and eggs may be set and chickens raised with satisfaction tod profit for the chicks…

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American Cotton Crop

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 12 December 1904 · page 3

The bankers in Texas are offering the farmers facilities in hold back the season's cotton for a year if necessary…

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Wheat Reason

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 13 December 1904 · page 2

Messrs. A. A. Piggin and Co., announce in our advertising columns that they are cash buyers of wheat at Wahgunyah and [?]wonga (Vic.): Corowa…

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