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Farming & the land, 1909

1,267 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 64

Wheat for the Hospital

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 2

Mr. R. Rixon, collector for the Albury District Hospital, in response to an appeal made for a bag of wheat for the Hospital had received at noon…

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The Henty Wheat Yield

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 4

The "golden grain distributing centre" for quite a number of townships in the surrounding district, a district which is splendidly adapted to…

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100,000 Bags of Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 2

The total quantity of wheat stacked locally amounts to 100,000 bags of new season's wheat. At the Corown railway wheat shed and in the grounds are stacked…

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The English Wool Market. Bradford, December 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 17

Another series of auctions has joined the limbo of dead things, and now after the turmoil and din of the London saleroom one is enabled in the calm atmosphere of…

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London Wool Sales. Postponed on Account of Fog. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 3

In consequence of a dense fog which prevailed in London yesterday the wool sales had to be postponed…

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Commercial. (Continued from page 4.) Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne January 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 28

Younghusband, Row, and Co. Ppy. Ltd. continued their wool auctions to-day, when they offered a catalogue of 1759 bales, of which they sold 1589 under the hammer; to this total…

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N.s.w. Flour. From This Summer’s Wheat the Resultant Loaf

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 2

Though the dawn of the new wheat season in N.S.W. did not give promise of either a bountiful harvest or a prime quality of grain, yet under the…

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Failure of the Olive Crop. Great Increase in Price of Oil

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 3

There has been a most serious failure of the olive crops in France, Spain and Italy. This has caused the price of olive oil…

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Dry Farming

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 3

Mr. John Jones of Berrigan, whose views on the above subject are published in the "Advocate" of last issue are reprinted for the…

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The Dairy. Ropy Milk and Cream. Preventive Measures

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 5
Also in The Riverine Grazier

In warm weather what is knwn as "ropy" or "stringy" milk and cream is frequently met with. It is objectionable on account of its unwholesome…

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Dairy Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 16

There are too many animals the progeny of scrub bulls whose presence is excused by the statement that they were kept for no other reason that to have…

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Australian Dry Farming. R W. Peacock’s System

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 3

Mr E. W. Peacock, manager of the Bathurst Experimental Farm, contributed to the Science Congress now sitting in Brisbane a paper which he entitled “Australian Dry,…

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Parsley and Butter

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 2

To be served with call’s head and boiled fowls Ingredients—2 tablespoons of minced parsley ½ pint of melted…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 4

Messrs Dalgety and Company Limited offered another large and representative catalogue of wool on Tuesday, amounting to 6000 bales and including consignments…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. report: We held our ,third sale of the year on Wednesday, when we brought forward 3, 195 bales, of which, including private sale out of previous…

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London Wool Sales. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 2

London for the second day in succession was in darkness owing to fog. A postponement of the wool sales was again accessitated…

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Victorian Wheat Yield. Record Harvest Expected Melbourne

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 4

From so many districts the story is coming that the wheat yield is exceeding. the estimate, that though it is yet too early to speak definitely, the railway…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved) Pig-styes in Summer

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 1

At this season the more the pigs can be kept outside, of the stye the better it will be for their health, and also their owners pocket. There stubble…

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How the American Farmer Feeds the World

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 4

America is in the extremely comfortable position of being the world’s great food basket declares W, M. Hayes in a recent number of the “World’s…

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