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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

2,273 stories in Murray's papers · page 2 of 114

Wheat Lumpers' Strike. Unsuccessful at Lockhart. Lockhart

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 3 January 1914 · page 5

Contrary to expectations, the wheat humpers' strike at Lockhart did not cense this morning. The wheat lumpers as a body attended the yards, and essayed to…

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The Wheat Yield. in the Bowna District. Some Disappointing Crops. No. 1

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 5 January 1914 · page 2

The wheat harvest in the Howna district 18 disappointing. In fuily [?] percent, of the paddocks the yields are just half of what they were estimated to…

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DAYSDALE. Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 5

Harvesting operations are approaching completion, and all the farmers in this district will be finished next week. The yields in most cases are most…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Agricultural. Wagga Paddock Accounts. The Demonstration Area

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 6

The paddock accounts for the demonstration area of Wagga experiment farm show that during the year 1912 the 377 acres, which make up that…

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Lockhart Wheat Lumpers Strike. Trouble Likely to Extend Along Line. Look Hart

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 2

The wheat lumpers' strike [?] shows [?] of extending, To-day the wheat agents met Mr. Rlohardson, the A.W.U. agent, and after he…

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Fire Swept Country. Great Damage Done. Mr. Mulllavey Loses 360 Acres of Wheat. Germanton. Monday, 8 p.m

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 2

A bush fire is raging over a large area of wheat and grass country on the south-west side of Germanton. It originated at about 12.30 o'clock to-day in a wheat…

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Dairying. Yards and Bails. Suggestions for Their Improvement

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 6

During a recent tour along the North Coast, the manager of Cowra experiment farm observed one dairy yard in which the discomforts that attach to…

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The Wheat Yield. in the Jindera District. Big Yields on Tabletop Subdivision. No. 2

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 4

The crops in the Jindera district are, to a great extent, typical of those in the Bowna district. A much larger area is under cultivation than at Bowna, and…

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Cablegrams. British Tariff Reform. Unionist Farmers Dissatisfied. with Mr. Bonar Laws Compromise. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 2

The "Westminster Gazette" (Liberal) is publishing correspondence alleging that the Unionist newspapers are boycotting the [?] reform propaganda and…

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The Harvest in the Riverina. Expectations Not Realised, How Farmers Will Lose

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 3

Now that the harvest has benn almost completed in the Riverina, [?] farmers and others are asking each other the question, where is the 41,000,000 bushels to come…

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Wheat Growing Without Rain. Fourteen Bushels on 2¾ Inches

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 3

One of the observers for the Commonwealth Meteorological Service, who is farming on a large scale at Traice, near [?], New South Wales, in [?] his annual…

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AGRICULTURAL & Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Black Oats. There Papers on [?]

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 4

There papers which were rend at a meeting of the Coradgory branch of the Agricultural Burean commended themselves strongly to the Chief Inspector, and in disoussing…

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Butter Criticism

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 7

Much abuse has been heaped on the margarine industry which is [?] to have seriously affected Australia's butter market, in London. The…

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Herilderie Butter Factory

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 5

A meeting of the directors of the Jerilderie Butter Factory was held on Wednesday afternoon last. Present—Messrs Wilson (ch), Sleeman…

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Kiewa Butter Factory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 19

The monthly meeting of the directors of this factory was held on 27th ult. There was a full attendance, Mr. M'Leod in the chair. A report was read from…

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Wheat Stackings

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 2

Wheat carting is in full progress throughout the district, and the golden grain is being stacked at all the railway stations by busy gangs of lumpers…

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The Wheat Crop. Estimates Too High

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 8

Harvesting operations in the Culcairn district are now in full swing, and in some cases the farmers have finished. The weather has been the best that…

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Rations for Dairy Cattle. Balanced v. Unbalanced Ones

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 18
Also in The Corowa Free Press, Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser

With a view to demonstrating the loss which dairymen may sustain if they supply their cows with [?] (that is a ration which contains flesh-forming and…

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