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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

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Seed Wheat and Fodder Accounts. Re-payment Spread Over Four Years

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1917 · page 4

Mr Beeby, Minister for Labor and Industry, has received official information from the Under Secretary and Director of Agriculture, to the…

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Butter Factory

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 2

The directors of the Jerilderie Putter Factory failed to hold a meeting on Saturday last after all, so the proposed meeting of the shareholders on…

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Wheat Farmers Need Money

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 33

Sir John Forrest, Commonwealth Treasurer, has arranged to confer with Mr. Denison Miller, Governor of the Commonwealth Bank, to arrange to expedite the…

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Corriedale Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 16

The average lambing return from every registered flock of Corriedale sheep in New Zealand for some years past has been over 110 per cent., whilst in the Corowa…

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The Wheat Guarantee

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 4

The Victorian Cabinet has approved of the increase in the wheat guarantee from 3s to 4s per bushel…

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Agricultural Notes. Choosing Seed Wheat. Its Importance to the Crop

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 17

Among the preparations for the sowing of wheat there is hardly any to which greater importance should be attached than the choice of the seed itself. Not…

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The Wheat Pool Guarantee

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 33

At the Australian Wheat Board Conference consideration was given to the question of the advance to be given to farmers in respect of the 1917-18 harvest…

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Record Load of Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 2

The record load of wheat for the Corowa district was taken into Oaklands last week from Mr. George Saunders' farm, 32 miles distant. The load…

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Wheat in Bulk Experiments

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 32

In view of the proposed installation in New South Wales of the bulk handling of wheat system, the State Government some time ago decided to send to Great…

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Delay in Payment for Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 32

Reeling amongst Lockhart fanners has been considerably agitated respecting the delay in making a further payment out of last year's wheat pool. Mr. W. F…

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Stacking of Wheat. Complaints From Riverina

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 6

Complaints are being made in the Southern Riverina regarding wheat stacking. In some centres such as Walla Walla, on the Culcairn-Corowa…

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The Wheat Pool. To the Editor of the "Albury Banner."

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 18

(Sir,—I wrote you last November are New South Wales Wheat Pool, and as there is again some agitation, for a further dividend and State and federal…

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The Wheat Harvest. F.A.Q. Standard. Fixed at 56[?] lb. to a Bushel. 4 14 lb. Less Than Last Year

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 6

The Chamber of Commerce on Monday fixed the f.a.q. standard for this season's wheat at 56[?] lb. Last season the standard was fixed at 61 lb., but the…

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Assistance to Share Farmers

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 3

The N.S.W. Minister for Lauds (Mr. Ashford) has uuder considera tion a scheme to cuable share-farmers to acquire the land they are…

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Farmers' & Settlers' Meeting

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 2

The first meeting of the new Executive of the Jerilderie F and S. Association was held on Saturday last. Present Messrs Liddle, (ch), Bull…

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Gunbar Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 2

A meeting of the above association was held at Gunbar on March 3rd. There were present: Messrs. P. J. Flanagan (president), S. Nixon, J…

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Farm Labour in America

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 17

The farm labour question in the United States forms the subject of a significant comment by the New York Labour Commissioner, who states :—"Eight million…

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Threat to Burn Senator Lynch's Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 33

The W.A. Chief Jusice passed sentence on Michael Sawtell, a member of the I.W.W., who pleaded' guilty to sending Senator Lynch a letter threatening to…

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Further Advances to Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 33

It is announced by the Victorian Wheat Commission that the position has now been reached when the banks have been practically paid off the overdrafts caused by…

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Other Items. King George's Confidence. the Wool Trade at Home. the Empire War Council. the Labor Party and the Irish Problem. India's War Contribution

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 2

King George in acknowledging the congratulations of the Allied sovereigns and heads of state, on the capture of Bagdad, expressed his…

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