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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

1,501 stories in Murray's papers · page 62 of 76

The Crops

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 19 October 1917 · page 2

The crops in this and surrounding districts are making excellent headway owing to the warm weather experienced during the past…

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Forthcoming Wheat Harvest

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 October 1917 · page 6

In the Assembly last week Mr P. McGarry asked the following question. Mr McGarry. I desire to know whether the Minister for Agriculture…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 October 1917 · page 6

February 13, 1875 — Hay municipal elections resulted as Follows—Mr Churche, 98 votes Mr Sabine. 97, Mr Esplin, 53, Mr…

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Why Meat Is Dear. Interstate Commission Inquiry. Cattle From Queensland

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 October 1917 · page 6

Robert Pitt, managing director of Bitt, Son and Badgery, gave evidence before the Interstate Commission in Sydney on Monday morning in regard…

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Deriving. Rations for Dairy Cows

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 October 1917 · page 1

The Board of Agriculture of Gres Britain has published a very useful [?] which the daily rations [?] cows in full milk, and contains…

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Farm & Field, Original Articles. Ensilage

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 October 1917 · page 3

There are few districts where there is not a certain season of the year in which the farmer looks back with envy to the time some weeks back, when…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 2

It is estimated that after next harvest there will be between five and six million tons of wheat in Australia…

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Area Under Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 2

The official estimate of the area under wheat in this State is available. It places the area at 3,812,500 acres, as against 4,510,112 acres of last year, a…

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AGRICULTURAL & Pastoral Notes. (Issued by the N.S.W. Department of No. 337. DAIRYING. The Breeding Herd And Its Improvement

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 4

Professor C. H. Eekles, of the University of Missouri, U.S.A., recently made a plea for better breeding operations, declaring to a gathering of…

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The Carrathool Sheep Sale. Held Under Difficulties. High Prices Realised

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 2

The annual sale of off-shears sheep at Carrathool, conducted by Messrs. Wilkinson and Lavender, Ltd., on account of the district pastoralists, is…

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Sheep Lice

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 24 October 1917 · page 3

Owing to the prevalence of sheep lice in many flocks, and the necessity for having sheep dipped, the Hay Stock Inspector, Mr M. T. Little, reported to…

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Wheat Stacks. Statement by the Minister

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 25 October 1917 · page 3

The Minister of Agriculture (Mr Grahame) referred on Tuesday of last week to a report of a sub committee in connection with the Berrigan…

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Pastoral Notes. Sheep-maggot Flies

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 17

Many sheepowners are now cupping their sheep, not only to destroy lice and ticks, but to afford, also, some protection from blow-flies. For this purpose the…

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Show Cattle Poisoned

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 3

A sensation was caused at Clifton recently when it was made known that a number of valuable cattle which had been shown and had secured prizes at…

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Wheat Stacks

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 33

The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Grahame, referred to a report of a sub-committee in connection with the Berrigan A and H. Society, which had inspected…

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Wheat Silos

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 17

A Temora correspondent writes:—"In the course of a conversation I had with Mr. J. J. Donnelly regarding the condition of the wheat now in the stacks and the…

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Central Wheat Board "Flouting the Farmers"

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 1

The anomalous position in which Mr. Clement Giles has been placed since his election as farmers representative on the Central Wheat Board…

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Wool Dealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 17
Also in Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo

The Victorian State Wool Committee desire to again draw the attention of growers and wool dealers to the war Precautions (Wool) Regulations, clause 10:—…

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Wheat Storage Schemes

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 3

After the next harvest there will be between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 tons of wheat in Australia, the greater proportion of which will require to be stored…

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