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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1911

1,407 stories in Murray's papers · page 64 of 71

Sydney Wool sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 6

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report under date of 17th inst.:—Heavy [?] have been offered in the Sydney wool market during the past week, the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 6

Younghusband, Row and Coy., continued the wool sales on Monday when they submitted a catalogue of 3336 bales. The highest price paid was 13d…

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 1

Melbourne Wool Sales.—The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. held their weekly sale on Tuesday, when they offered a catalogue consisting of…

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Wheat on a Four-inch Rainfall

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 16

A special commissioner, writing in the "Queenslander," mentions a fact:—"The experiment has been tried of raising wheat, with a 4in. supply of moisture and on plots…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 4
Also in The Riverine Grazier, The Berrigan Advocate

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve many problems concerning the land and production which would he impracticable to the individual producer…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne, Wednesday night

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 5

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. offered a full catalogue of 5,600 bales including a good show of Victorian and Riverina wools. The market is very…

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Wool Sales. Goldsbrough, Mort & Co., Ltd

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd., Melbourne, report: — Growers will be pleased to bear that Eastern Riverina wools continue to hold their own with the best of…

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Lime for Farm Crops

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 16

Experiments with lime carried out by the West of Scotland Agricultural College proved that the annual application of 5cwt. to 10cwt. of lime was much moro beneficial…

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Propose New Railways for Riverina. Tapping the Wheat Belt, Several Important Proposals Henty to Daysdale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 35

The Parliamentary public works committee had under consideration, on Thursday, afternoon the proposed branch railway from Henty, on the main line to Albury and…

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Dairy Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 16

A grade bull should not be used in the herd. To feed molasses to cows dissolve 3lb. in about two gallons of water for each…

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Fun with Jew Lizards. Falkirk Farm. The Rock

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 13

Dear Uncle Jeff,—We have started to cut hay, and nearly all the farmers are busy. My dad has two foals, and I would like you please to name them. One is a…

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The Crops at Jindera

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 13

Dear Uncle Jeff,—This is the first time that I have written to your page. I have spent many an hour in reading some of the letters. Some of them are worth while…

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Growing Crop Competition. the Benefit of Fallowing

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 5

The competition initiated this year by the Riverina P. and A. Society, Jerilderie, in which prizes are allotted for the best crops produced in the…

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Canada Through Australian Spectacles Experimental Farms Chapter Iv

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 4
Also in The Riverine Grazier

When you land in Canada you are confronted with a whole host of new propositions. We landed in Quebec and found it was old and slow, and French. If Quebec had been Canada, I would have felt bad, but it isn't, it is Quebec. You can only understand Canada…

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Jersey Cattle

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 November 1911 · page 3

The Jersey breeders in [?] country (says the English paper “Farmer and Stockbreeder”) have undoub[?][?]d[?][?] pursued a very satisfactory course,…

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Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 November 1911 · page 2

At the Antwerp wool sales bidding was irregular. Fine merinoes were five to 10 centimes below the September figures, but crossbreds are unchanged…

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Official Wheat Quotations

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 November 1911 · page 2

The Victorian Department of Agriculture has received by cable the following official report of the English wheat market, dated London, 22nd isnt..—Wheat market quiet…

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