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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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London Wool Sales. Prices Highest of the Series London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 January 1906 · page 3

The January series of the Wool Sales was continued to-day. Business was animated in merinos and fine crossbreds. The prices realised were…

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Local Land Board. Some Interesting Appligations. Closer Settlement on Brae Springs. Farming on Shares. Disparity in Land Values

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 January 1906 · page 2

The sittings of the Local Land Board (Messrs J. Keating (chairman), W. N. M. Edmondson, nad W. I. Johnson) were concluded on Saturday,…

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Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 2

It is estimated that there are about 12,000 bags of wheat stacked to the grain shed in the railway station yard, 20,000 in the Corowa grain…

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The Bush Fires. Another Bush Fire at Hillston. Wheat and Crops Destroyed. HILLSTON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 2

Another outbreak of fire occurred yesterday, and proved to be the most destructive yet experienced. About noon smoke was seen rising about…

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London Wool Sales. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 2

The Wool Sales were continued yesterday, when competition was strong in all sections…

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Proposed Butter Factory

The Independent · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 2

A largely attended meeting was held in the Temperance Hall yesterday of those infavor of the establishment of a butter factory. Mr Ingram occupied th chair, and…

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Wheat Wealth

The Independent · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 2

FEW premiers of byegone days have had the happiness to stand at the helm of State when the vessel has been subjected to each fair winds and…

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Markets. Wool

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 4

The Sydney Wool-selling Brokers, report. An excellent demand has prevailed during the largest continental buyers being the largest…

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Fixing Wheat Standard

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 3

The grain section committee of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce had a busy time on Wednesday of last week testing the representative samples of…

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Horses and Wheat

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 2

The following remedy for hor[?] that have been gorging on wheat has been sent to the “Leader” by a subscriber in Riverina—“As a great…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 4

Although deliveries of the N.S.W new crop of wheat are in full swing, there ara no cheap grades of fowls' feed available. Pinched grain from…

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The Wheat Season

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 5

A London cable reports (the S. M. Herald" says) the home markets as quiet, but steady, and wheat quotations practically unchanged…

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London Wool Sales. London

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 4

At the wool sales competition is animated, and everything is selling at highest' prices…

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Wheat and Cereal Market. Melbourne

The Independent · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 3

Wheat.—Private cables from London report the market for wheat as dull and buyers indifferent. A sale has been made of 12000 quarters Victorian at 31s 7½d…

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Butter Adulteration. Smithfield Firm Fined. London, January 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 27

The hearing of the charges made against the Preston branch of Messrs. Coopman end Young, provision merchants, of Smithfield, on 11 counts of falsely…

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Cablegrams. London Wool Sales. London

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

The wool sales were continued yesterday. Bidding was animated and all classes were selling at the highest prices reached in the present series…

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London Wool Sales. Opening of Sixth Series. London. December 1. 1905

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 12

Another chapter has opened in the history of the colonial wool trade, and a good record is being written. There was never a time when the eyes of the wool world…

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Vegetable Garden. Systematic Cropping

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 12

One of the first and principal features of good management in the cultivation of the ground either in farming or gardening is a proper attention to the regular rotation…

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Beautifying the Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 13

Canada can give us hints in many farming details, and the. following ideas from the "Canada Farmer" can be localised:— It should be a matter of pride with…

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Proposed Butter Factory

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 2

There was a very good attendance of farmers and others at a meeting held in the Temperance Hall on Thursday afternoon to, deal with the report of the sub-committee appointed to draft a prospectus for…

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