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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

1,072 stories in Murray's papers · page 52 of 54

The Wheat Market

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 December 1905 · page 2

The first of the new season's Australian wheat to be exported is, as usual, from South Australia. The parcel consists of 530 tons from the…

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The London Wool Sales London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 December 1905 · page 2

The sixth series of wool sales was continued yesterday. The market was animated and prices for merinoes firm. but inclining to…

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Farming Immigrants

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 December 1905 · page 2

Mr. A. S. Cur[?]ton, one of three British farmers who arrived in Sydney recently, with the intention of taking up land on the Myall Creek Estate…

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The Wheat Season

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 13 December 1905 · page 4

Samples of New South Wales new wheat are to hand from Corowa, Henry, Berrigan, jerilderie, Coolamon, and Junce districts, and harvesting…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 13 December 1905 · page 2

The sales were continued to-day when the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy., Ltd, submitted one of the most attractive catalogues of the present season…

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Jersey Cattle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 13

The Channel Islands—Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark—are in the English Channel, between England and France, and the cattle of the islands are said to…

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Wool

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 3

Goldsbrough Mort & Co., report under [?] Dec 13 :—We offered a good selection of 4800 bales to the usual large attendance of the trade. The market was very irregular [?]…

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Wool Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 4

An Upper Murray cup sold in Melbourne this week, which, although but small in number of bales, deserves more than passing notice, was one marked JB/Glen, the…

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Markets. Wool

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 4

The Sydney Wool-selling Brokers report:—Very heavy supplies have been placed on the local market during the past week, a large proportion…

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The Proposed Butter Factory

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 2

A meeting of those interested in the formation of a co-operative butter factory company at Hay was held on Tuesday evening at the Council Chambers. There were…

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Scarcity of Sheep Skins

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 29

At the last meeting of the executive of the Australian Progress Association, at Abbotsford, Melbourne, the following letter was received from Messrs. Ludlow…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 6

The to [?] Company offered [?] line [?]…

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The Hospital Wheat Funs

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 5

In connection with the wheat fund organised at the recitals given by the B. B. Band promises were made by different [?] of bage of wheat. At…

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The London Wool Market. November 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 12

Practically speaking the market remains unchanged from last week, but, all the same, the influences at work are producing an increasingly firm situation, though…

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Wool Growing in New South Wales

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 25

Anticipations of a successful wool season are being more than realised. When the prolonged drought broke up the opinion was expressed by those qualified to speak…

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Dry Farming. Good Crops with a Small Rainfall

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 3

An interesting account of “dry farming“ as conducted in the United States has been forwarded to the Minister of Agriculture by Mr J. H…

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Closer Settlement. Effect on Wool Production. London. December 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 27

The "Manchester Guardian" devotes an article to the subdivision of the large station properties in Australia. It calls attention to one phase of the change that is…

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Orange River Colony. Shortage of Farm Labor. London, December 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 26

The farmers of the Orange River Colony are suffering a good deal from the shortage of Kaffire for agricultural labor. They are asking that arrangements should be…

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A Thorough Farmer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 12

What makes a thorough farmer? Certainly not the number of acres he farms, for usually the more acres the less thorough the operations on the farm. How…

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How Uncle Sam Helps the Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 13

Mr. T. Clarkson, special correspondent for a syndicate of New Zealand newspapers, and who just returned from the United States, writes: "The farmers of the…

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