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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

2,024 stories in Murray's papers · page 44 of 102

Royal Agricultural Society. Field Wheat Competitions

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 2
Also in The Corowa Free Press

The farm Produce Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society has decided that the first of the Field Wheat Competitions, winch the Society will carry…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 3

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefic, Minister of Agricultural and are based mainly on the experiments of Departments. No. 263…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Poultry. Looking Ahead. Cleaning the Ground

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 4

It is of much importance that ground on which chicks have been raised during the autumn about be special and thoroughly cleaned up before the spring…

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The Wheat Pool. Sale of £2,500,000

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 32

The largest wheat sale made since the inception of the wheat "pool" was announced on Saturday. The Allies are the purchasers, and the "pool" will benefit…

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The Wheat Pool and the Prospects of Marketing Grain

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 46

From the basis of the sales reported by the Australian Wheat Board on Saturday, and the returns published on Tuesday, a fairly close examination of the…

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Correspondence. Bulk Handling of Wheat. To the Editor of the "Albury Banner."

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 25

Sir,—For goodness sake write down bulk handling of wheat. It is or would be, of no use to the farmer, as we must have bags to convey our wheat from the…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association. Executive's Annual Report

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 41

In presenting its report for 1916, the executive of the Farmers and Settlers' Association said that it had to record a year of variable fortune to producers. Many…

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Dad's Healthy Crop Hiawatha, West Wyalong

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—Our school at Youngee Plains has not been opened since the Christmas holidays, so my sister and I drive to the West Wyalong school. I like…

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An Analysis of Dairy Records. The Only Way

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 17

A striking illustration of the fact that the test and scales is the only method of knowing the best cows is shown in some figures recently published from the books…

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Farmyard Manure. Preservation of its Value

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 17

Here and there in this State are to be found formers who have realised the value of farmyard manure, and who apply it regularly to the land before its qualities…

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Live Stock. Feeding Farm Animals, The Science of It

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 3

In the classification of the principal foods, which was attempted a night ago, as a means of indicating the way in which various fodders may…

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The Coming Season. Government and Farmer

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 2

Although the agriculturalist looks with a certain amount of anxiety to the weather as one of the most important factors to regulate the area…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Corowa District Council

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 3

The quarterly meeting of the above will be held at the Globe Hotel to-day (Friday), at 2.30 p.m., when delegates will be present from all the branches in…

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What Shire-Farming Offere

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 4

Mr F. J. Gorman, of [?] Berrigan, who farms [?] 4000 acres, about half of it on the shares system, writes in the Sydney “Daily…

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Farmers and Settlers’ Association. Berrigan Branch

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 4

A special meeting of the [?] branch of the farmers and [?] Association was [?] evening for the purpose of giving…

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Cattle Advances Act. Assistance to Victorian Farmers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 27 May 1916 · page 4

After June 30 it will not be possible to make fresh advances to dairy farmers under the Cattle Advances Act. Though the act made provision for advances not and make…

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Riverina Field Wheat Competitions

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 27 May 1916 · page 3

The Farm Produce Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society has decided that the first of the field wheat competition which the society…

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Deniliquin (and District) History [Extracts from the “Pastoral Times.”]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 May 1916 · page 4

April 15, 1871 — Mr Russell, the Government Astronomer, at Sydney, visited Deniliquin last week. Mr Russell picked up…

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N.S.W. Farmers and the War. Magnificent Result of Last Year's Effort. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 27 May 1916 · page 2

Official reports received by Mr. Grahame, Minister for Agriculture, indicate that the area being prepared for wheat equals that sown last year.' There…

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