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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

1,501 stories in Murray's papers · page 64 of 76

Post-war Values. Mr. Hughes Sees Cheaper Wheat and Wool

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 3

When passing through Harden on Tuesday last, the Prime Minister (Mr. W. M. Hughes) was interviewed by Mr. Robert Gibson, hon. secretary F. and S…

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Wool Appraisements

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 3
Also in The Riverine Grazier

We learn from John Bridge & Co., Ltd., that it has now been officially announced that the Wool Appraisements for the 1917-18 wool clip will…

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Wool Appraisemets

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 2

The Australian Mercantile, Land and Finance Co., Ltd., report:— It has been arranged that the appraisements will commence on…

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The Wheat Crop. Good Average Yield Promised

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 4

Regarding the prospects of the coming harvest, the "S.M. Herald" writes: --"It is, of course, too early at this stage to consider the future with any…

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DAIRYING. Butter and Cream Quality. Under Unfavourable Weather Conditions

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 6

Some indication of what can be done in the way of cream quality notwithstanding apparently unfavorable conditions is afforded by some figures…

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Notes on Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 16

Mr. F. B. Guthrie, of the New South Wales Department of Agriculture, has published the details of the wheat varieties entered for competition at the last…

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Hospital Wheat Fund

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 2

The secretary of the above desires to acknowledge receipt of the following moneys in connection with wheat promises made to the Corowa hospital last…

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Wool Clip Appraisements

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 47

Fifty thousand bales of wool will be offered in Sydney at the series of wool appraisements which Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., intimate will begin on…

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Special Cattle Sale at Wodonga

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 45

The special sale at Wodonga, announced by the Gippsland and Northern Co-operative Selling and Insurance Co. for 14th, has been postponed till Friday, 16th…

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Mallinson's Sheep Dip Another "Bridge" Agency

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 1

John Bridge and Co. intimate that their Queensland Office has accepted the agency for Mallinson's Oil Sheep Dip, and that producers in New South…

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Where Wheat Is Crown. District Comparisons

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 3

The estimates supplied by Mr. H. A. Smith, Acting Government Statistician, of the areas of wheat sown this season in the various police patrol districts,…

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Mailinson's Oil Sheep Dip. "John Bridge" Accept Agency

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 3

Woolgrowers and others will be interested to learn that John Bridge & Co's Queensland house has accepted the agency for the popular…

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AGRICULTURAL & Pastoral Notes. No. 339. the Orchard. Trait Drying. A Subject of Increasing Importance

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 6

As a method of dealing with fruit of almost all kinds, drying should certainly receive more attention from growers than it has in the past…

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The Fruit Crop

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 41

The British Government having definitely declined to accept the offer of the Commonwealth Government of 150,000 56lb. cases of dried apples, the Commonwealth…

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A Good Crop. Osborne

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—This is the first letter I have written to you. I am going to school. I am nine years old and in the third class. The crops about here are…

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End of a Brave Lad. Glen Farm, Coonong Siding

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—This is my first letter to the "Banner." I am eleven years old. I hope you will accept me as one of your "Banner" cousins. The horses…

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Record Sugar Crop

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 1

It is offcially stated there is a record sugar crop in Northern Queensland. £1,500,000 worth of raw sugar is stored in the Nonth, which will…

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The Vegetable Crop

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 4

Brethren, allotment-holders, diggers and delvers, hewers of wood and drawers of water; you with the perpetual backache and the skin peeled off your…

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

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 November 1917 · page 4

March 20, 1875 :— The sale is reported by private contract to Thomas McFarland, the Nap-Nap Station, in the Murrumbidgee…

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