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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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London Wool Sales. First Series Closed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 10 February 1908 · page 2

The first series of wool sales for the present season was concluded in the wool Exchange on Friday. There was a good attendance of…

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Travelling Sheep. Necessity of the "T" Brand

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 3

Mr. J. Wilks, inspector of stock, in the Albury district, has received a circular from the chief inspector of stock in N.S.W., regarding the…

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Wool Sales Dalgety & Co. Ltd. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 4

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report:—We held the fifteenth sale of the season to-day. There was a fair selection and a large attendance of buyers to spirited and…

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Latest by Telegraph Latest News From Sydney. Sydney, Monday. Wheat 44[?] to 45

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 2

The international Hotel at Newtown was robbed on Sunday of a considerable sum of money, which was afterwards discovered in a sink on the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Tuesday, February 4th

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy., Ltd., held their second sale for the new year, when they submitted a very attractive…

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Importation of Cattle Prohibited

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 13 February 1908 · page 2

BY THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. The prevalence of the foot and month disease among cattle in Scotland has resulted in the prohibition by the…

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The Timber Trade Strike. 3000 Men Out. Butter Industry Affected. No Boxes or Building Material. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 13 February 1908 · page 3

The trouble in the Sawmilling and Timber trade, which originated in a demand by the casual laborers for higher wages, has now ausumed…

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Wool Sales

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 2

Dalgety and Company Ltd held their third wool sale of the series and fifteenth, of the season on Monday, when they submitted a fair…

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Seed Wheat Pickling. Wheat Experimentalist’s Ad-vice

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 2

With the object of relieving some of the pressure inseparable from a very busy time (writes Mr G. L. Su[?], Government wheat Experimentatial, in the current issue of the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 6

Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report.— We held our third wool sale of the series, and fifteenth of the season to-day, when we submitted a fair selection of 1812 bales…

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Branding Sheep with Letter T.

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 6

A circular has been issued by the Chief Inspector to all Inspectors of Stock to the effect that it has been noticed that owners consigning sheep to Flemington display a…

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The English Wool Market. Bradford, January 3, 1908

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 17

While it would not be strictly correct to say that there is yet more business doing on our market, it will be well within the bounds of truth to assert that the close of…

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COMMERCIAL. (Continued from page 4.) Sydney Wool Sales. Thursday, February 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 21

Winchcombe, Carson, and Co. Ltd. report:—At our to-day's sale there was little change in superior wools. These continue to hold their own at fully late rates. For medium…

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Farming in German East Africa

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 17

It is about thirty years since the Germans acquired the vast region now known as German East Africa. They had no idea then that any part of the colony, which is…

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Unionism Among Farm Labourers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 29

Mr. J. Flanagan, Gunbar, writes as follows:—The farmers of our State voted at the last Federal elections against cheap labor and black labor, and for a tariff…

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Dairy Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 16

Every cow-keeper should provide that every cowshed in his occupation shall be sufficiently lighted. England imported from Canada last year…

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Farm and Field. Pasturage and Stall Feeding

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 5
Also in The Riverine Grazier

The comparative effects of stall-feeding and pasturage from the point of view of physiology and breeding formed the subject of two papers read at the…

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Farmers and Settlers' Union. Annual Meeting

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 4

The ninth annual meeting of the Jerilderie branch of the Farmers and Settlers Association of New South Wales was held in the Mechanics…

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Electric Farms

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 4

In the application of electricity to everyday work, Germany has, perhaps, gone further than any other nation. Electrically heated and operated cooking and laundry…

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