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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

1,950 stories in Murray's papers · page 77 of 98

General Cable News. Australia at the Dairy Show. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 October 1913 · page 2

Both the Commonwealth and Queensland have excellent displays of produce at the London Dairy Show, which was opened yesterday…

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Farm Workers' Strike

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 22 October 1913 · page 2

There is a strike of farm workers at [?]omine owing to the refusal of em[?]ers to pay rates in accordance with the Rural Workers Lodge. In several…

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Wool Sales. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 23 October 1913 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. Ltd. held their second wool sale of the season to-day, offering a catalogue of 6200 bales, [?]ing a good selection from Riverina,…

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London Dairy Show. Australian Bacon Judged. Salted Butter Criticised. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 2

Father awards have been announced at the Dairy Show in London. The winner of the Bacon Trophy gained 87 points out of a possible 100. The Gippsland…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 6

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers, Association, viz., Harrison, Jone, and Devlin, Hill, Clark and Co., Ltd., and Pitt, Son, and Badgery, Ltd., report:—…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., held their second sale of the regular season on Tuesday, when they…

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A New Prolific Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 17

As discovery of what is believed to be a variety of wheat possessing exceptional, productive powers is reported from Buckden, Huntingdonshire. Three years…

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Pastoral. Rape at Nyngan. Some Surprising Results

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 6

A few weeks ago we mentioned in these "Notes" what had been done at Nyngan experiment farm in the way of establishing lucerne, and remarked that,…

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Wool Sales. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 2

The Australian Estate and Mortgag Co. Ltd. report: Our catalogue to-day consisted of 2300 bales, which included several well-known Riverina clips, and…

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Commercial. Melbourne Wool Sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 6

The Australian Estates and Mortgage Co. Ltd report:—We held our opening sale of the season last Thursday, when a catalogue of 1754 bales was…

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Land Wool and Stock

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 4

The Australian Mercantile, Land and Finance Co., Melbourne, wire:—For our sale to-day (Tuesday, 21st October), we catalogued 3257 bales. The bulk of the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Agricultural. Thew Wheat for the Coast. It Solves a Problem

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 6

Indications have been afforded in several ways during the past few years of the great value of Thew wheat for coastal conditions, but perhaps none has…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. October 21

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 5

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile. Agency Co. Ltd. held their second sale of the regular season to-day, when they submitted a large and…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 3

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Tra[?], Minister of Agriculture, And are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. No. 129. AGRICULTURAL…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Second Grade Cream. a Coming Crisis

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 17

The positions of the producer of second grade cream and of the manufacturer of second quality butter appear to be rather precarious: in fact, there seems to be a…

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AGRICULTURAL & Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Poultry. a Perfect New Laid Egg

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 4

"What is a perfect new laid egg?" Prizes were offered at a recent fair in Winnipeg, Canada, for the six best answers to this question. For its…

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COMMERCIAL. (Continued from page 4). Melbourne Wool Sales. Monday, October 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 21

Wool sales were resumed in Melbourne to-day when Dalgetys offered good representative catalogue of over five thousand bales and sold practically everything at…

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Permission to Obtain Remission of Rent. for Periods Up to Five Tears on Homestead Farms

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 16

There appears to be some misapprehension in regard to the requirements of regulation 409 of the Crown Lands Acts by those applying for homestead farms who…

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Shots at Night. Scottish Farm Mystery. London, October 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 43

A remarkable story has been told to the police at Portencross, in Ayrshire, by a farmer named Maclaren, whose house is situated in a lonely spot beyond the town…

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Crops Fit to Cut. Thelma, Coolamon

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—My father has started, cutting hay; nearly all the crops are fib to cut about here. There are a lot of wild flowers about this year. I…

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