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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

1,501 stories in Murray's papers · page 57 of 76

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 September 1917 · page 6

November 14, 1871— It is reported on good authority that the police, districts of Deniliquin and Moama are to be united, as fur as…

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Farm & Field Original Articles. to Fatten Pigs

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 September 1917 · page 3

A good cheap food to use with boiled potatoes for the fattening of bacon pigs is a mixture of one of wheat one of barley and one half of white pass…

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Commercial. Highly Successful Sheep Sale

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 September 1917 · page 2

McPherson, Thom and Co., Oaklands, report having held a highly successful special sheep sale at their Oaklands yards on Friday the 7th inst., when…

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Wool for Sydney. Government Prepared to Carry It

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 September 1917 · page 2

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., send us the following for publication:— In the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" of the 1st instant there appeared an…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association. Coreen Branch

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 September 1917 · page 5

The second meeting of the newly-formed branch at Coreen of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held on Saturday, September 8. Owing to…

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Successful Sheep Sale at Oaklands

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 20 September 1917 · page 2

Messrs M’Pberson, Thom and Co., of Oaklands, held a highly successful special sheep sale at their Oaklands’ yards on Friday, 7th inst., when they…

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Warning to Drovera. Sheep Travelling for Shearing

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 20 September 1917 · page 4

At the Tocumwal police court on Monday of last week, before Mr W. Scott, P.M., Constable R. H. Smith proceeded against Michael Stephen…

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Reconditioning the Wheat. Prolonging the Work

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 20 September 1917 · page 3

At a meeting of the Berrigan Agricultural and Horticultural Society on Friday afternoon, Mr ,G. R. Rintoule drew attention to the manner…

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The Live Stook Market. High Price for Shorn Sheep

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 20 September 1917 · page 2

At the Newmarket yards on Tuesday last Messrs John M’Namara and Co. sold 108 crossbred sheep, which were shorn, on account of Mr J. G…

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Wool for Sydney. Government Prepared to Carry It

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 20 September 1917 · page 1

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., send us the following for [?] In the Sydney “Daily Telegraph” of the 1st inst., there appeared an…

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Pastoral. the Farmers' Sheep a Farmer's View About the Best Breed

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 6

Discussing the breed of sheep best adapted to farmers' requirements, Mr J. Sinclair, at a meeting of the ThyraBunaloo branch of the Agricultural…

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Wool Embroidery

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 14

Wool embroidery is new and pretty. One skein of yarn wil be enough, to blanket-stitch around the bottom of that old blue serge dress that you didn't know what…

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Cattle Scarce in Britain

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 23

Five hundred retail butchers from different parts of the United Kingdom attended a meeting in London on Monday at which was discussed the serious…

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Wheat Pool Problems Mice Devastations State or Farmer to Bear Loss

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 6

It is too early, yet to say definitely the amount of damage done by the. mice plague in New South Wales One Opposition member. Mr. G. Mc…

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Butter Factory. 22nd Half-yearly Meeting

The Independent · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 2

The twenty-second half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Deniliquin Co-operative B[?]ar Factory and Farm Produce Company, Limited, was held at the School of…

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Wheat Below Quality Sydney

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 2

In the Assembly to-night, Mr. Grahame stated a large quantity of last year's wheat harvest was. below the milling standard and the Wheat…

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Holding Back the Wool. Why?

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 1

We have been asked by Johh Bridge & Co., to give publicity to the subjoined statement:— In the "Sydney, Daily Telegraph,"…

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Further Dividend From Wool Pool

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 6

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report as follows:— Wool: Despite the influence of the strike, there has been, a steady…

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Ships for the Wool. Clip

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 6

Winchocombe Carson Ltd. report: Combing wools are reported to be very scarte in England. In fact it has been found necessary to reduce…

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Twenty Two Millions for Wheat Melbourne

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 6

Statistics issued by the Wheat Board up to September 10 show that for the 1916-17 wheat pool advances totalling £19,487,000 had been made…

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