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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

2,172 stories in Murray's papers · page 71 of 109

New Season's Wool

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 August 1915 · page 2

Shrar[?]g at the district stations is proceeding space, and the clips on the whole are expected to be light. Owing to the very severe season, there is…

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American Butter for N.s.w

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 August 1915 · page 2

By far the largest importation of butter to New South Wales, and probably to Australia, arrived in Sydney by the Cansdlan-Australian liner Marams from…

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Price of Butter Reduced in Victoria. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 August 1915 · page 2

At a meeting of the Price of Goods Board to-day, it was decided to fix the maximum wholesale selling price for choice better for the ensuing week at 1/7 a lb…

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Wool

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 25 August 1915 · page 1

Dalgety and Company, Ltd., write with regard to the incoming wool clip us follows:—In view of the difficult season…

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Record Prices for Cattle

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 25 August 1915 · page 1

What is claimed to be the highest price ever paid for a butcher's bullock was recorded at the cattle sales at the Newmarket yards this month. A…

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Record Prices for Sheep

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 25 August 1915 · page 1

What is said to be a record price for the Commonwealth for the number and class of sheep submitted was obtained by Messrs S. G. Valentine…

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Sheep and Cattle Sale at Savernake

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 2

On Monday, September 6, Messrs. Green, Manning & Co., auctioneers, of Yarrawonga, will conduct a special sheep and cattle sale at Mr. C. Musty's…

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Butter Prices Fixed

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 2

The N.S.W. Attorney-General (Mr. Hall) announces a fall of three[?] a pound in the officially proclaimed p[?] of butter. The maximum retail price is…

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Sales of Sheep

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 5

Messrs M’Pherson. Thom, Kettle and Co. report having sold the following lines of sheep :—2615 crossbred and comeback wethers, on account of…

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Government and American Butter

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 3

The Government's efforts to regulate prices are (says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph") now beginning to have their sequel. Owing to purchases of American…

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Cattle From Western Australia

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 33

A few days ago it was announced that a proposal to bring 10,000 head of cattle to Victoria from the Northern Territory to relieve the meat shortage had been…

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The Kelpie Sheep Dog

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 2

From an article in the "Agricultural Gazette" the following extract is taken:—For some years I, like many others, believed that…

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Wheat Acquisition Act

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 5

Mr. Hall, Attorney-General, in his amending measure of the above Act, moved the expediency of bringing in a bill to amend the W.A.A. of 1914…

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The Wool Season

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 3

The review of the Australasian wool as son, 1914-15, by Dalgety and Company Ltd, covers more meidents than any previous issue of the kind by…

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The Wool Clip. Future Prospects

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 6

We have received a copy of Dalgety’s Annual Wool Review for Australasia for the past season, which contains the usual exhaustive…

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The Markets. Sydney Wool Market

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 6

Schute, Benn and Co. Ltd. report under date of 16th inst. as follows:—Although actual transactions in wool during the past week, have been of limited…

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Review of the Wool Season

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 16

The oversea, exports of wool during the statistical year ending June 30th, amounted to 1,575,688 bales from Australia, and 562,014 bales from New Zealand, the…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiences of the Department. No. 225…

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Shipping Facilities for the Wheat Harvest

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 2

At a conference of Commonwealth and State Ministers in Melbourne this week a definite scheme for the shipping of one exportable surplus in wheat…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week under the personal supe[?]sision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department No. 224…

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