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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

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N.s.w. Voluntary Wheat Pool

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 2

The voluntary wheat pool, committee expects to make a final payment on the 1922-23 pool about the middle of January…

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Higher Wool Values. a Boom Market

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 2

The secretary Farmers and Graziers' Co, reports:-- At our last wool sale (i.e., the last in this year) we brought forward an…

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Farmer Burnt to Death

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 2 January 1924 · page 2

Charles Smith, aged 70, a farmer living alone near Goroke, was burnt to death in his own home on Saturday, the pelvis bone was the only relic obtained…

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Higher Wool Values a Boom Market

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 1

The Secretary, Farmers & Graziers' Coop. Co. reports :— At our last wool sale (i.e. the last for 1923) we brought forward,…

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N.s.w. Wheat Pools. Arrangements for Final Payments

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 3

The Minster of Agriculture, Mr Chaffey announced on Friday that he had completed arrangements with the State…

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Bush Fires. Some Crop Destroyed

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 3

Since our last issue several out-break of fire have been reported, two in wheat crops, and tone very close to a field of wheat. The…

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Disastrous Fire at Hill Plain. Farmer Loses Heavily

The Independent · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 1

As the outcome of the fire which occurred on Mr. John [?] property, known as "Mafeking," Hill Plain on the 13th December last, Mr…

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Prolific New Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 3

The yield from one of the stud plots at the Cowra experiment farm recently harvested appears to herald the discovery of a wonderful variety of wheat…

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Price of Wheat Advances

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 2

We received the following massage yesterday from Messrs. Lindley Walker and Co., Sydney:--"Our cables to-day report wheat London advanced…

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The Wheat Harvest. Good Yield Expected

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 2

The present indications are that the Commonwealth wheat harvest, though not a record, will exceed that of last year by nearly 20,000,000 bushels…

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Wool Sales in Sydney. Satisfactory Prices

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 2

At the Sydeny wool sales yesterday Messrs. Goldsbrough Mort and Co. being the only selling brokers, merinoss ruled at 5 to 7 1/2 per cent, above the…

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German Dairy Farmer. Returns After Ten Years

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 2

After being ten years in Germany, a dairy farmer, alleged to have served in the German army, returned to Tuckombil, Richmond River. It is…

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Wheat Growers- Claim. That £549,213

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 3

A meeting of the executive council of the Farmers and Settlers Association was hold last week when the wheat growers…

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A New Wheat. White From Red

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 6

A wheat that has yielded well in South Australia and parts of this State is Ked Russian. But now that there is an official…

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Farmers Fully Paid. Auditor’s Finding

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 4

The Auditor-General (Mr F. A. Coghlan) has found, in the reference to him by Parliament, that the farmers who placed wheat in…

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Big Farmers

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 6

Messrs N. A. Kerr and Sons have shown their faith in the Southern Riverina districts by recently purchasing about 4000 acres of Mohonga…

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Remarkable Wheat Crop

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 2

Mr. R. McLean, of Hillview, South Parkes, has a novel wheat crop on his property. In July he put in a crop of soft Federation on ground which had…

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Sheep Dipping. Farmers Co-operate. Forbes Leads the Way

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 4

A co-operative sheep dip, recently put down in the Forbes district, has proved quite a success from every point of view. As this was believed…

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Rinderpest. Hundreds of Cattle Shot

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 6

Dairymen in the areas suspected of being affected by rinderpest are resisting the authorities. A serious position has arisen, and the supply of milk…

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Wheat Yield. in the Commonwealth

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 2

The present indications are that although the wheat yield throughout the Commonwealth will not be a record it will exceed last year by nearly twenty…

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