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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1923

1,094 stories in Murray's papers · page 16 of 55

Women and Child Labour on Farms

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 13

That better prices for all farm products would lessen unpaid farm lab[?] by farmers' wives and children, ami greatly improve living conditions…

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Farmers and Broadcasting

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 1

Sir Joseph Carruthers, addressing the Chamber of Agriculture, said he considered the radio-phone system of communication should be placed with…

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China’s Seventy Million Sheep. Enormous Output of Wool

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 March 1923 · page 2

China, with Tibet, is said to possess 70,000.000 sheep, and the output of wool from these is about 200,000,000lbs. in weight, or…

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Sheep Market

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 March 1923 · page 2

At the Melbourne market on Tuesday about 36,000 sheep were yarded. There was an all round improvement in the general tone of the market…

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Wool

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 April 1923 · page 4

The Secretary Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co. under 24th. March writes:—Two thousand six hundred bales of…

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Sheep Guessing

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 5 April 1923 · page 4

The sheep which formed the subject of the guessing competition at the sports on Saturday turned tho scale at 67[?] lbs…

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Wool

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 5 April 1923 · page 1
Also in The Berrigan Advocate

The Secretary Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co., trader date 24th March, writes: 2,660 biles of wool have been…

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Wheat Growing Romance of the Wimmera

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 5 April 1923 · page 5
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser

Will Temora and district eventually furnish a record of progressive wheat production per acre us has been achieved…

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Farmers, Wake Up!

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 5 April 1923 · page 4

Will you be proud of your vote, or otherwise, when tho final numbers go up on Saturday night ?…

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Sheep-beeeding in Japan

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 17

That there is little possibility of developing sheep-breeding in Japan to any extent is the opinion of Mr. J. W. Robertson Scott, in his book entitled…

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Deciding the Age of Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 16

As a seller of rams, many of them past the stage of having only two teeth. I occasionally meet people (writes Mr. James Sloane, Mulwala…

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Sheep-fly Control. New Method Suggested

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 26

For many years there has been a growing recognition of the need for the fullest investigation into profitable methods of either preventing the…

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Suffocated by Bulk Wheat. Compensation for the Victim

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 2

Compensation, £350. was today awarded the parents of the late Andrew Downes, who was suffocated by an inrush of bulk wheat last July…

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Protecting Fruit Crops. Birds That Prey on Insect Pests

The Independent · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 4

We often feel annoyed with blackbirds and thrushes for spoiling fruit, but if there were no birds, insect pests would increase so rapidly that…

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Farmers and Settlers. Urgent Appeal to the Government

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 28

Resolutions carried at the last conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association were introduced to the Acting Premier on Wednesday by a…

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Farm and Station Shows to Come. Lockhart.—September 4, 5. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 16

The Flower Garden.—Sowings should be made of Dianthus, Polyanthus, Primrose, Stocks and Sweet Peas. If a warm position is available sheltered…

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Strikes in Britain. Violent Farm Hands. Many Coalminers Idle. London, April 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 47

The prospects of the Norfolk farm trike are still gloomy. Owners of land are not prepared to negotiate on the present offer, and thus a deadlock has…

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Using Shells to Crow Crops

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 28

Three hundred and fifty thousand tons of shells. When the war ended such was the amazing quantity of ammunition on hand in Prance, where it…

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