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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

1,333 stories in Murray's papers · page 53 of 67

Wool-growers' Meetings

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 2

The whole question came under review at an influential and representative meeting of wool-growers, held at the offices of the Pastoralists…

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London Wool Sale's

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Ltd. have received the following cable from their London office under date 19th inst.—"The fifth series of London Wool Sales have closed; good…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 5

Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wool and Product Brokers, report as under:—At the wool sales on Monday last, we submitted 5,450 bales under very favorable…

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Opening of the Butter Factory

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 4

AFTER many months of delay this local industry has at length begun work. It is now nearly 12 months since the erection of the building and…

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Commercial. WHEAT. Sydney

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 5

Old wheat.—Choice milling, sellers at equal to 4/2½d (Sydney). New milling for December and January delivery, is offering forward at 3/7½d on trucks at Darling…

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Meeting of Wool Growers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 3

Ah influential and representative meeting of wool growers was held at the officers of the Pastoralists' Association, [?] Melbourne, on…

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A Recommendation to Wool Growers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 23

In view of the frequent complaints made regarding the damage to wool throutrh the use. of inferior wool packs, Messrs. Winchcombo Carson and Co. of Sydney, procured from…

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The Wool Dispute. Still No Settlement

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 2

A meeting of the Melbourne and Geelong Woolbrokers' Associations was held on Wednesday afternoon, at which a resolution passed at a meeting of…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Thursday October 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 23

Winchcombe Carson and Co. Ltd. report:—We offered a catalogue of close on 5000 bales to-day, and found the market firm at the best rates of the week. Even medium and…

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Shearing and Scouring. the Federal Wool Scour

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 2

A visit to the Federal Wool Scouring and Sheep Shearing Works, on the Wondonga-road, near the Union Bridge, will disclose that Messrs. Hunter Bros. have…

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The English Wool Market. Bradford, September 11

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 17

There is on all hands increasing interest in wool matters, and things are shaping much better. The whole market continues to wear a decidedly cheerful aspect, and…

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Farm and Dairy Produce

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 2

Best Three Pounds of Fresh Butter, in rolls (home-made). First prize, £1.—Six entries; Mrs. Jacobs, first; Mrs. W. Arnold second…

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Electricity for Farmers. Remarkable Results

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 18

Many experimentalists have observed that electricity seemed to give a stimulus to the growth of vegetation, and work done by Mr. J. E. Newman, of Gloucester…

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Dairy Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 16

As young animals produce more from same quantity of food, owing to their assimilative powers being more energetic, there is every reason for not keeping cows…

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The Dairy. How to Physic a Cow

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 5

Veterinary surgeons often use the expression "Give it a drench," which means that the medicine is to be in liquid form, put into a strong, rather…

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Dairying in the Hay District. Some Convincing Figures

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 5

On Wednesday last a gentleman just from Hay furnished us with a copy of the results of a dairy farmer in that town for the month of…

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The Dairy. How to Physio a Cow

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 6

Veterinary surgeons often use the expression "Give it a drench," which means that the medicine is to be it liquid form, put into a strong, rather…

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Rust in Wheat

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 2

The prespcet of an exceptionally heavy wheat harvest is all that could be desired, but among possible adverse conditions that may arise is a recurrence of the dreaded…

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Farm and Garden ORIGINAL ARTICLES.{All Rights Reserved] Market Cattle

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 2

The taste of the public for a gather leaner class of meat, whether pigs cattle, or sheep, has been growing now for some few years, and breeders and…

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Electrical Farming. Startling Experiments by Sir Oliver Lodge

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 1

Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University, has been conducting a series of experiments regarding the effect of electricity on field…

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