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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

2,024 stories in Murray's papers · page 70 of 102

Public Meeting. Farmers Seek Information

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 3

There was a very good response to the public meeting, called by the Berrigan branch of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association and held in the…

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Agricultural & Pastoral

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 1

These notes are issued under the personal supervision of the Hon. W.O. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister for Agriculture…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 2

Goldsbrough Mort and Co., report:— We offered 3,200 bales, including some good, lines of Queensland merino, as well as a fair proportion of merinos from…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 4

February 24, 1842:— In reply to an influential deputation of [?] residents who invited him to stand for [?] for the Murray…

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Albury Wool, Skin, Hide, Tallow, and Fur Market

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

The Albury Wool and Produce Brokers,(Yonughusband Row and Co., Pty. Ltd., Dalgety and Co., Mathieson and Davis and The Southern Riverina…

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Agricultural Farm Site

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 4

Mr. W. J. Elliott, M.A., B.S.C., Inspector of (Secondary Schools, has been for a few days in 'Albury, on his return to Sydney from Broken Hill. While in…

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Cotton Markets Excited Crop Inadequate

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 4 September 1916 · page 2

There has been frenzied buying of cotton at the Liverpool market owing to the American shortage. It is stated that the crop will not meet…

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The Reaper and Binder. On the Wheat Farm

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 4

The oft-discussed claims of the reaper and binder as against the combined harvester were before the Little Plain branch of the Agricultural Bureau a…

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Money for Farmers. £4,000,000 Dividend for Wheat

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 4

Mr. W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister, announced on Saturday that the Commonwealth Government had been able to make financial arrangements which would…

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£12,800,000 for Wheat. Gash Received by Pool

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 4

Up to August 28 the cash received by the Australian Wheat Board for the sale of wheat overseas and locally amounted to £12,800,000. Shipments not drawn…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. No. 278. Agricultural. Mass Under Irrigation. On the Murrumbidgee Area

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 4

"Although maize has been more or less of a minor crop on the Murrumbidgee irrigation area up to the present, there in every reason to believe that its…

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Dairying. Machine Milking. The Problem of Difficult Cows

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 4

Milking machines have a wide range of adaptability to unevenly shaped udders, and to teats of different sizes but in most ordinary herds there are…

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When to Cut Lucerne. Effect on Next Crop

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 4

The Wisconsin experiment station, U.S.A., has shown, by actual trial, that where lucerne was cut on 2nd September, 1914, the stand on 12th May,…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 6 September 1916 · page 4

Goldsbrough, Mort and Company, Limited, report:—Of the 7,000 bales offered on August 29 our proportion totalled 3,200 bales, which included a…

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London Wheat Quotations. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 7 September 1916 · page 3

The wheat markest is quiet. Prices very from 69/ to 73/ per quarter. j…

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London Wool Sales. 110,509 Bales Available. London "Wednesday

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 7 September 1916 · page 3

The London wool sales opened yesterday, when 110,509 bales were catalogued for the series. Prices for merino wools, when…

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Sheep Exhibitors' Threat of Boycott. a Difference with the Society Which Refuses to Allow Sheer in Show Ring

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 7 September 1916 · page 2

Mr. W. P. Kelly, who has been an exhibitor of Lincoln sheep at the Albury show for the past 28 years, yesterday made the following statement to a…

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Cattle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 23

Once again there was a very satisfactory entry for cattle, and the beasts shown were of good quality in both milking and beef classes. Ordinarily the chief interest…

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Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 23

It was pointed out by a leading breeder that since sheep are worth, roughly, £100,000 to Australia per annum, when wool, mutton, and the by-products are…

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Butter Shortage

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 33

The butter shortage, threatens to become serious, if it cannot be fairly said to have already approached such dimensions. Sussex-street merchants asserted that the…

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