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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

1,788 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 90

Weevils in Wheat Dry Conditions Essential

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 4

The definite claim made by Professor Lefroy, member of the British Wheat Commission, that a method of stacking wheat has been devised whereby all danger of…

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Wheat for Pigs and Poultry Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. Arthur Griffith, ex-Minister for Public Instruction, suggests that the wheat lying here unshipped, and in danger of being lost would be well employed in…

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Stacking New Wheat

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 1

The report from Albury that at stations on the Culcairn-Corowa line new wheat was being dumped on old sites, near weevil-infested stacks, was referred on Friday…

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 1

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., Melbourne, submitted their fourth catalogue for the season on Friday last, 11th inst., the selection being a…

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Springhurst Factory Butter Regular Supplies in Albury

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 3

With a modem butter factory situated at Springhurst in the heart of the big North-Eastern and Southern Riverina districts, from whence regular supplies of…

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The Future of Wheat. Government Action

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 2

Last week the New South Wales Cabinet approved of a scheme [?] by Mr. Ashford (Minister for Lands), for the expansion of the live…

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Wealth Production. Stock Raising Oh Wheat Growing

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 4

The vital question of the relative importance at this juncture of stock-raising and wheat-growing was considered by the Cabinet on Monday last,…

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The Wheat Harvest. Protection From the Weevil

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 3

Officers of the Victorian Wheat Commission have been asked by the Minister of Agriculture to review the proposals for the preservation of [?]…

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The Hay Butter Factory. Meeting of Cream Suppliers. Action to Remedy Complaints

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 2

A meeting of cream suppliers, convened by the Chairman of the Hay Butter Factory, took place at the Athenseum on Saturday night. There…

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Sensational Experience. Ge[?]ogery Farmer's Home Wrecked

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 4

Describing his experience in the thunderstorm which swept over Gerogery on Wednesday afternoon, January 9th, Mr. M. Salzke, a well-known…

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Wheat or Meat? Arguments of Minister for Lands the Conference Opened. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 23 January 1918 · page 3

Mr. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Lands, opened an important conference of pastoralists and farmers at Parliament House to-day, to discuss whether stock or…

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Wheat Harvest

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 2

Up to last evening 40,150 bags of this season’s wheat had passed over the weighbridge at the Berrigan railway station…

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Central Wheat Board Opposes Change

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 4

At a meeting in Melbourne of the Central Wheat Board the proposal to abandon wheat growing in favor of sheep raising Was rejected. There…

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Experimental Wheat Plots. Fair Yields at Berrigan

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 3

The wheat experimental plots sown by the Department of Agriculture on Mr W. Thornton’s property at Berrigan have been harvested,…

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An Unstatesmanlike Proposal. Sacrificing the Wheat Industry

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 3

The proposal for the production of meat as against wheat made [?] [?] by Parliamentarians in New South Wales and Vitoria has…

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Wheat or Meat? Conference of Wheatgrowers Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 2

At a conference to consider the Wheat question to-day about 80 wheat growers met at Aaron's Exchange Hotel, Sydney, to discuss the situation…

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Grain or Live Stook ? Suggested Suspension of Wheat Production

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 4

Mr F. [?], ex-Minister of Agriculture, stated last week that the Victorian Government bad approved of a proposal which he had…

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The Pastoral Award

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 32

The pastoral award made by Mr. Justice Higgins last year—which aroused very bitter criticism and opposition from the country landowners—after a six…

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Wheat Crops Destroyed by Fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 30

Rolling clouds of smoke on Saturday afternoon denoted a big bush blaze out Jellingro way (says Gundagai "Independent"). The fire started in a large lucerne…

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Farmers and the Wheat Pool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 33

The Perth Farmers and Settlers' Association has protested aginst the payment of any compensation to the wheat-acquiring agents displaced under the new…

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