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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

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Heavy Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 January 1926 · page 5

Wagga wheat having firms comment on the very fine sample of grain being delivered by district farmers, and they state the crop has been the most…

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China's Seventy Million Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 January 1926 · page 8

China, with Tibet, is said to 70,000,000 sheep, and the output of wool from these is about 200,000,000 lb. in weight or something like a twelfth…

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The Old Pool. Wheat Corporation's Activities

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 January 1926 · page 3

The Victorian 'Wheatgrowers' Corporation [?] with the [?] port accorded to it. It is evident that growers appreciate that they have…

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Snake Farming

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 January 1926 · page 11

The present craze for snakeskin shoes and handbags has given a filip to the snake-farming industry. In the United States, principally in Arkansas…

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The Wheat Market. Advantages of Pooling

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1926 · page 1

Int[?]rmation received by the Wheatgrowers' P[?]oling and Marketing Company Limited from London indicates that the wheat market is…

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Goulbturn Sheep Sale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 28

On Tuesday, January 19, at Goulburn, W. H. Wheatley will hold a special sale of 20,000 store sheep of good breeding. Particulars are…

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Wool Trade

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 20

In its circular dealing with the November-December London series of wool sales the firm of H. Dawson and Co., wool brokers, covers generally the…

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Wheat Harvest Crop Prospects. Reduced Yields Probable

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 31

Preliminaries in connection with the marketing of the coming wheat crop of the Commonwealth are already well in hand. A start will shortly be made…

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Important Shorthorn Cattle Sale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 18

The Scottish Australian Investment Coy. Ltd.'s famous Darbalara herd of stud milking Shorthorn cattle will be sold on the estate at Darbalara, near…

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Bulk Wheat Trucks

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 3

The Hon. R[?]. T. Ball, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following official correspondence:-- Department of Agriculture…

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Co-operative Wheat Conference

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 23

The wheat co-operative and pooling interests in Victoria have not yet decided the question of representation at the conference of co-operative…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 45

Wool sales for the current year were opened in Melbourne to-day before a large attendance of buyers. The catalogue, which was submitted by Dalgety…

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Dehorning of Cattle. Methods Recommended by the Department

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 16

The object of dehorning is to prevent cattle from injuring one another. Such injuries in a dairy herd not infrequently invole the udder, the flanks…

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Artificial Wool. Successfully Manufactured in Italy

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 2

Information has been received at Melbourne that artificial wool experiments, carried out at Turin by the largest company in Italy, have…

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Synthetic Wool. Growers Undisturbed. [?]Mbating German Patent

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 43

[?]oolgrowers, to the present, are not [?]rbd by the cabled advices re[?]ing new discoveries in the manu[?]re of synthetic wool. Similar…

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Six Month's Wool. a Record Half Year

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 34

The total volume of wool sold in Sydney during tho half-year constitutes a record for the Sydney market, viz., 534,957 bales, and it is the first time…

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Alleged Sheep-stealing a Tallangatta Charge. Accused Committed for Trial

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 4

At the Tallangatta Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, before Mr. T. M. Williams, P.M., William Carlton Boyle, of Warracknabeal and formerly…

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Homestead Farm Near Ardlethan

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 31

R. O. Drummond, local agent, Coogec, directs attention in this issue to an attractive homestead farm proposition. The area is 870 acres agricultural…

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Origin of Share Farming. The Editor "Albury Banner."

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 29

Sir.-Regarding Mr. Lindner's claim to be the first wheat-growing share farmer in N.S.W. as put forward by him at the Land Board at Lockhart on…

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Batlow Fruit. Heavy Crop Prospect

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 29

The prospects for the coming fruit season in the Batlow district are very good. There was a fine show of blossom, and a comparatively small drop in…

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