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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

2,024 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 102

Farmer Committed for Trial

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 1

At a coroners' inquest at Ariah Park, concerning an otbureak of fire in Mr. Jeffrey's crop at Mirrool on 7th inst. a share farmer S. A. Ryan…

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Agricultural. Practical Irrigation Farming. Manuring of Orchards

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 4

In almost every branch of agriculture the application of fertilisers to the soil is essential if the best results are to be obtained. According to the officer who…

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Farmer and Business Man. Varied Problems

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 4

There is no man in the country who needs to be a good business man more urgently than the farmer, says Mr. D. P. Houston, Secretary to the United…

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Helping the Farmer

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 6

"I bought Gleeson's farm at Cullivel last year," said Mr. harry Rockliff, "cultivated 350 acres with one team, took of 7 1/2 bags to the…

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Homestead Farms

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 4

Two splendid homestead farms will be available for selection at Corowa between 14th and 19th February. The areas of these two…

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The Dairy What Is Butter-fat?

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 4

In an interesting investigation into this question by a committee of Danish, Swedish, and German of the cow-testing association, it was…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 2

Australian, Mercantile, Land and. Finance Co., Ltd., report :— We held our first sale on Tuesday, when we offered a catalogue of 3,610 bales. with the…

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Wheat Estimate. 1915-16

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 4

The compilation of the returns of the estimated wheat harvest in this State is advanced sufficiently to admit of the publication of the following…

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PASTORAL & AGRICULTURAL Issued under the personal supervision of the Minister of AGriculture. Wagga Crop Competition

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 3

A good deal of interest now attaches to the growing crop competition conducted annually in the Wagga district by the…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 4

June 25,1870 :— The committee reported the Council meeting this week that the river bridge had been handed over to the…

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Albury Wool Sale Thursday, January 26, 1916

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 2

The brokers held a clean up sale of the season, offering between them about 906 bales. For such a quantity, the attendance of buyers was not so large, but an…

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Sheep Fly Pest. the Effect of Dipping. Results of Mr Froggatt’s in Vestigation

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 4

For some time Mr J. L. Froggatt, B.Sc. officer in charge of the Government sheep fly experiment station, has been making exhaustive tests in…

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Incidents of the War. Australian Wheat in England Newspaper's Protest Against High Prices. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 5

The newspaper "Fair Play" says that the general assumption is that British shipowners by running up the freights are increasing the cost of the people's daily…

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Britain Buys Roumanian Wheat

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 January 1916 · page 2

Great Britain has bought £10,000,000 of wheat from Roumania…

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Lamb Raising with Wheat Growing

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 January 1916 · page 4

For anyone taking up lamb-raising in connection with wheat-growing, it is very necessary to have the property securely [?] into family [?] In victoria…

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Great Loss of Property. Wheat and Sheep Burnt

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 3

Details of the losses in the late disastrous bush fires in the neighbourhood of Cookardinia and Holbrook [?] that about 30,000 bags of wheat, worth…

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LOWESDALE. Wheat Yields

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 3

With the wheat harvest almost finished, the result revealed an approximate average of 8 bags per acre. A feature of the local yields was the…

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Private Wheat Speculators. Wheat Bought at 39 Per Bushel

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 3

During the past few days a private firm has been buying wheat at Berrigan at 39 per bushel. At a meeting of farmers an emphatic protest was made,…

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Railway Congestion. Handling the Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 3

In order to deal satisfactorily with the sudden increases to the grain and fodder traffic, and to guard against congestion, the railway department has…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. No. 246. (Continued from last Friday's Issue). to Tar a Floor

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 4

To a correspondent who stated that the floor of his workshop and garage becomes very dusty, and who asked what he could do, the overseer of…

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