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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

2,172 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 109

Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1915 · page 6

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report: We offered on Monday a representative catalogue of merino and crossbred wool Prices included:—Exors. late Thos…

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Protest Against Wheat Act

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 January 1915 · page 2

The Albury District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association has convened a big public meeting in the Albury Town Hall on Wednesday afternoon next,…

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Seizure of Wheat. Meeting at Burrumduttock

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 January 1915 · page 6

A public meeting was held in Burrumbuttock on Saturday evening in connection with the Wheat Acquisition Act There was a good attendance of…

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Common Sense in Farming

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1915 · page 3

The land is like a bank. If you do not put money into it, you cannot draw any out, except as an overdraft, and an overdraft has eventually to be met…

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Farm and Field. Original Articles. What Cultivation Does

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1915 · page 3

What does tillage or cultivation [?]o the soil do? It improves the physica[?] condition o the soil; it stirs the soi[?] to a proper depth, thereby facilitating…

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Homestead Farms. Successful Deniliquin Applicants. Narandera

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1915 · page 2

For 25 homestead farms on Binya Estate, near Barellan, over 300 applications were lodged. Henry Curtis (Moroco), George Browne and Robert Burns,…

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London Wool Sales

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 2

The London wool sales were postponed on Friday, owing to the heavy fog, which prevailed in the city…

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Wheat Acquisition Act. (To the Editor:)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 2

Sir,—Occasionally I have felt inclined to intrude on your columns, have I generally resist that temptation, thereby saving the risk of imposition on your good nature…

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Wheat Acquisition Act

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

The Berrigan branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association at its last meeting resolved that Messrs. John Darling and Son, James Bell and Co.,…

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The Wheat Trouble

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

The defence of the New South Wales action was commenced before the Interstate Commission Friday last in connection with the application of the…

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Farmers and the Wheat Seizure. Th Government's "Very Courageous Step."

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

The wheat seizure by the Government was the most interesting question discussed at the Wagga meeting of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association on Saturday…

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Seizure of Wheat. (To The Editor)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 2

Sir-Your correspondent, Mr. Pam Mackenzie, complains of some a[?]eged interference with "freedom of business across the border." I Presume he refers…

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Wheat Acquisition Bill. Trouble on the Border

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 4

An Albury correspondent writes:-- Storekeepers here on both sides of the border are bitterly protesting against, and ridiculing, the Wheat Acquisition…

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Wool Sales. Good Prices America at Work

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 2

The feature of the pant week in the Melbourne wool sales has been in the language of the house, the offensive attitude of America, which is prosecuting her…

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Deciding the Age of Sheep. Fallacy of the Number Ok Teeth

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

As a seller of rams, many of them past the stage of having only two teeth. I occasionally meet people who from lack of observation and the handing…

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Scene at Sydney Wool Sales. Presence of German Buyers Resented. Aliens' Bids "Turned Down." SYDNEY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

There was trouble at the wool sales this afternoon, wool buyers refusing to operate while Ger[?]an buyers were present. A hurriedly convened meeting between…

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The Farmer Farmed

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

To induce the raising of an exportable quantity of maize in Queensland, the Government is considering guaranteeing a price for the risk of planing…

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Wool Sales

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 3

On sales being resumed in the market Younghusband, Row. and Co. Pty. Ltd submitted, catalogues, this week's limit of…

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Tasmanian Wheat Shortage

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 2

Mr. Earle, Premier of Tasmania, returned on Saturday from Sydney, where the Government agreed to supply Tasmania with 10,000 bags of wheat monthly, to be…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 4

Younghusband, Row and Co. Pty Ltd resumed their sales on Monday 18th January, when they brought forward a catalogue of 2044 bales, and…

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