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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

1,286 stories in Murray's papers · page 23 of 65

Cablegrams. London Wool Sales. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 May 1906 · page 2

The May series of Wool Sales were continued to-day. Competition was keen in all quarters and classes, the prices obtained being…

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London Wool Sales

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 May 1906 · page 3

The May series of Wool Sales was continued to-day. Competition was keen in crossbreds and top prices were well maintained…

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Wool

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 2

The Melbourne Wool Brokers held a very important sale on Tuesday considering the period of the year. In all, some 2,300 bales were offered. Dalgety and…

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Degreasing Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 13

The object of degreasing wool is to find the actual amount of fat, or what is technically technically yolk, in the wool. This is of vital importance in connection with…

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Hay Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 2

The committee met yesterday, There were present:—Messrs R. C. Simson (president), K. Hill, G. Melrose, C. Blom field, G. R. Ayre, A. E. Browne, R. W…

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Marketing Hints on Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 13

In a lecture by Mr. A. F. Barker, of the Bradford Technical College, the following hints are given, which the Bradford Chamber of Commerce forwards to "The…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Tuesday, May 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 4

A clearing sale was held in Melbourne to-day, when the greater part of the offerings consisted of oddments of clips, town shorn wool, and crutchings. There was a…

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Third Series of London Wool Sales

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 4

Dalgety and Co. Ltd. have received tho following cable from their London office, under date of the 8th inst.:—"The sales opened to-day. There was a fair selection, but the clips…

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Cablegrams. General Gables. the Wool Sales. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 2

To-day's Wool Sales were animated, and top prices were fully maintained, American competition being stronger. The Australian Mortgage Land and…

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Russian Peasant Savageries Brutal Outrages on Cattle. a Woman "Sacrifice" to God

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 2

An appalling account of atrocities committed in the neighborhood of Kherson is given by the special correspondent of the "Daily News" at St. Petersburg…

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Queensland Importing [?]Eadstufes. Wheat and Hour. Great Draw on Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 4

A number of New South Wales farmers are still refusing the farm equivalent of 36 per bushel (Sydney) for choice milling grain; but several…

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Curl Dairy

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 15

This is the property of Mr. Alexander Raiston, a worthy Scotsman, and is situated on a creek of the same name, about 2½ miles from Manly on a sweeping bend of…

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Rand Chinese. Dynamiting Farm Houses. London, May 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 37

Boer residents of the Transvaal are complaining very bitterly of the outrages being committed by Chinese escapees from the Rand mine compounds. Attempts, the…

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A Farm with Slopes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 25

Mr Henry Hubbard's farm is adjoining the above. Mr. Hubbard has lived there for eight years, and during that period the worst crop gave two bushels per acre, and…

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Among the Farms about Methul

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 25

Methul is 16 miles from Coolamon, on a fairly good road, and 13 miles from Ganmain. It is, generally speaking, good land, and like the neighbouring township districts has an…

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Farmers' and Settlors' Association. Brocklesby Branch

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 38

A meeting of the above branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held on Saturday, May 12th. The President (Mr. W. Schilg) occupied the chair…

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The Angora Goat and Ostrich Farming

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 12

On this subject Mr. Valder, the commercial agent for South Africa, thus reports to the Premier of New South Wales: According to the Australian press…

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Sheep Farming

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 1

The main thing in the profitable management of sheep is to keep them in such a manner as to ensure rapid, uninterrupted progress. Time is lost and food is wasted…

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Canadian Butter

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 2

Lord Grey, the Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada, in replying to the speeches of the numbers of an Ontario dairymen's deputation,…

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Wheat Market

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 6

The local price is 3s Id, but only small lots can be secured at this price, as holdersare anticipating a still further rise before entertaining the…

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