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Farming & the land, 1906

1,286 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 65

Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the Council of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal hotel on Thursday afternoon, when the following members were present:—Messrs…

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Alleged Diseased Cattle

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 2

A case of Interest to stock owner was heard in the District Court before his Honor Acting-Judge [?] and a jury of four (Messrs [?] Castles, A. G. Kimball, G. H. [?] and A. S. Hamilton), when…

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The Wheat Market

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 5

The local price of wheat is 2s 9d. Large quantities continue to come to hand at the rate of 2,000 to 3,400 bugs daily, the latter number being…

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Stock Report Stock Movements. Pastoral [?] OFFICE

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 2

The following are the stock movement:—I horse from Victoria to N. Wilson Mundiwa ; 1300 awes and ram[?] Perricoota to Brookong Station; [?] Warriston to Melbourne; 1050 wethers Caldwell’s…

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Cotton Wool for Foreign Bodies Swallowed

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 2

Dr. W. Blair Bell refers to several [?]ases in which he has used cotton wool in order to carry along foreign bodies which had been swallowed. One child had swallowed…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Care of Milk

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 1

MILK should be drawn from the cow[?] in the most cleanly manner, in tin pails, and strained through a wire cloth strainer, and the milking should be done…

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Dairying. Homesick' Cows

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 3

When a cow is moved from her old home to a new one, she is as homesick as a human being would be under like circumstances. Any…

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A Tribute to the Henty Farmers

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 4

In fixing the F.A.Q. standard of the State for this season, a high compliment was paid to the samples sent from Henty, some 200 samples…

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Electricity to Destroy Farm Pests

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 2

[?] a Monaco engineer’s discovery that an electric current will free the soil from insects, the idea has been held that electricity should aid in abating the insect…

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Victorian Farmers Classes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 2

Incidental to the success of the last Fanners Classes held at Wodonga and Wangaratta. it is interesting to note that the current series of Farmers…

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Wagga Experimental Farm

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 3

The [?] returns in regard to the breeding of lambs at the Wagga experimental farm show that the net proceeds were £152,127 while the…

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Alleged Wheat Stealing

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 February 1906 · page 2

A man named Alfred Newington was charged at the Albury Police Court yesterday with having st[?]ien at Condobolin 123 bags of wheat,…

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Wealth in Wheat. Settlers and the Soil How to Get on Tue Best Land

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 February 1906 · page 4

Everybody interested in the supreme question of settlement knows that the available virgin area for agricultural settlement is gradually growing less. Keen competition…

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Wodonga Farmers' Classes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 February 1906 · page 2

Intending students of Farmers' Classes to be held at Wodonga in or about July next, under arrangement with the Victorian Government, are…

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Wool

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 5
Also in The Independent

John Bridge and Co. Limited report:—On Tuesday, the 6th inst, we submitted a further largo catalogue of 6,218 bales, the selection being in the main late shorn,…

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Commercial. WHEAT

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 5

Harrison, Jones and Devlin, report:—The feeling of weakness which was manifested in this market at the time our last report appeared has been intensified this…

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Wheat Rust Spores

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 4

Consul-General Guenther, of Frankfort, Germany, reports that according to German papers the most important work with reference to the rust of cereals has…

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Hospital Wheat Fund

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 6

Messrs. A. A. Piggin and Co. are desirous of making the 85 bags now in had up to 100, and Mr. R. F. Gardner has requested us to remind…

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Wheat and Cereal Market. Melbourne

The Independent · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 2

Locally, the market was firm at [?]to [?]for milling varieties. There was inquiry for shipment to the East on the above basis. Medium milling brought 3[?]…

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