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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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Dairying. Variations in Test of Separator Cream

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 7

In writing of creamery problems, Mr. E. H. Farrington expresses his opinion on variations in lest as follows in the "Wisconsin Bulletin":—…

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Meeting of Farmers

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 5

A meeting convened by the Farmers and Settlers Association was held in the School of Arts the same afternoon, when about twenty five…

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Crop Maps

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 1

The U.S. Biological survey is engaged in mapping the natural life zones and crop belts of the country for the primary purpose of aiding the farmer to decide what crops…

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Improved Values in Wool

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 February 1906 · page 2

The principal cause of sustained improved values in the wool market has been the improvement in the European trade, where wool has gone into…

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Wool Worth £11,000,000

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 February 1906 · page 2

At £14 per bale the generally accredited fair average of a bale this season, the wools sold in Sydney have realised over £8,200,000, while…

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Chinese on the Rand. Five Farmhouses Attacked

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 February 1906 · page 2

Another outrage on the part of Chinese coolies engaged in the Rand mines is reported from South Africa. A number of the aliens broke out of…

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Victorias Farmers Classes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 February 1906 · page 2

Farmers' classes will be held in the country districts of Victoria this year wherever 50 students are guaranteed. The daily course will consist of three…

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Alleged Wheat Stealing

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 February 1906 · page 2

Alfred Newington, who was before the Albury Police Court on February 12. on a charge of larceny of 123 bags of wheat, valued at £76, the…

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Rise in Wool

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 February 1906 · page 1

The close of the January wool sales at the best rates of the series, and for merino wools at 5 to 7½ per cent. above the opening rates, puts to right…

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Fertilisers and Wheat Averages

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 February 1906 · page 2

Now that harvest is over a few returns from well-known wheat growers may prove not only interest as reading, but of great value when…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 1

After an interval of four weeks, the Melbourne wool sales were continued to-day. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.,…

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Butter at Tumut

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 February 1906 · page 4

The Tumut "Times" says :—"Notwithstanding the phenomenal dry weather that has been experienced during the month of January (the…

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The Wool Sales. Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd. MELBOURNE

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 February 1906 · page 2

At the Melbourne Wool Sales today Goldsbourgh Mort and Co. offered a small catalogue, comprising chiefly town scoured parcels. Late…

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Fat Cattle

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 5

John D. Fraser reports selling privately yesterday 17 head of prime bullocks on account of Mr. J. H. Olsen, Billabong; also on account of the…

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Wool

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:—Wool After an interval of four weeks the Melbourne wool sales were continued on…

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Wheat Traffic

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 5

The wheat traffic has slackened down a good deal. The bad state of the roads and shortage of water has something to do with it. A number…

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Commercial. WHEAT

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 2

The price of wheat locally is from 2s 8d to 2s 9d. Messrs Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Ltd report:—The dullness prevailing in…

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Wool Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 38

The wool season of 1905-6 has been a prosperous one for growers and is particularly notable for the fact that, for the first time in Australian history, over a…

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Gold in Sheep's Teeth

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 29

An unusual application was made to the clerk of Petty Sessions at Hay last week for two miners' rights. The incident which led to the application is not an everyday…

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London Wool Market. Bradford, December 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 12

The year 1905 has now practically run its course, and so far as the wool trade is concerned, the business of the year is finished. Firms for several days have…

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