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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

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Irrigation Area Crops. Rice and Peanuts

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 22

Harvesting on the large area farm on the Griffith section of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area has been ca[?] ried on under favourable conditions…

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Origin of Share-Farming. the First Share Farmer

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

The question of when share-farming was inaugurated as a branch of the farming industry has often been discussed, but so far as the Rlverina…

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Co-Operative Wheat Pool. an Australian Wide System That Commends Itself to Growers. It Receives 50 Per Cent of the Total Arrivals at Seaboard. No Government Interference and No Costly Administration

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 4

The co-operative pool does not trade for profit. It does not speculate. It does not deduct one eighth of a penny per bushel to create a reserve fund…

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Sheep for Russia

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 2

According to an official American report representatives of the Soviet Commiss[?] of Agriculture, before their capture from the United…

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Straying Cattle and Dogs

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 2

“Wayback” writes to us ventilating what is unquestionably a real [?] which should have the immediate attention of the Municipal…

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Bulk Wheat Trucks

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 3

The Hon. R. T. Hall is in receipt of the following official correspondence from the Department of Agriculture: "From Parliamentary records I…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Ltd. report: At our opening January sales on Monday, we submitted 600 bales, sold 95 per cent Competition was…

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Traction Engine Tax Effect on Farming Community

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 1

Chaffcutting Plant Owners Indignant Indignation is felt by chaffcutting plant owners and farmers at the tax recently levied on traction engines…

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Riverina Wheat Crop Competition

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 January 1926 · page 2

When the Judges of the Riverina Crop Competition awarded Mr. E. Douglas, of Walla Walla, third prize for his crop, their estimate of the…

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The Artificial Wool Industry Its Rapid Development in Italy. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 12 January 1926 · page 3

"The Yorkshire Post's" special correspondent at Turin, Italy, who was cent chiefly to investigate the artificial wool discovery, says that…

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Sheep Stealers

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 3

One evening last week Mr. B. Keats, of Cobramunga station, near Gonn Crossing, while riding round one of his paddocks saw two men mustering and…

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Sheep Brands. Minister's Decision

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 3

The Graziers Association has received replies from the secretary of the Stock and Brands Brands to several resolutions passed at the last…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 2

At the Sydney wool sales, 11,321 bales were offered, and the sales, including private transactions, amounted to 11,936. The brokers report that at…

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Origin of Share Farming the First Share Farmer

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 5

The question of when share-farming was inaugurated as a branch of the farming industry has often been discussed, but so far as the Riverina is…

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Pleuro Cattle

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 2

A mob 22 cows consigned to local agent from the Home P.P. district and trucked at Cudgewa for Springhurst, and travelling by road to…

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Wool Sales

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 20 January 1926 · page 4

Deanys, Lascelles Limited, Geelong, port:— Our first sale of this year was held [?]ay (13th inst.) when we…

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The Old Pool. Wheat Corporation's Activities

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 20 January 1926 · page 4

The Victorian Wheatgrowers' Corporation Ltd. is gratified with the support accorded to it. It is evident that growers appreciate that they have…

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Who Was the First Share Farmer? A Local Claimant

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 20 January 1926 · page 3

Mr. J. D. Rhodes, a well-known farmer at Daysdale, writes:—"I notice that in a paragraph you[?]led from the Berrigan "Advocate"…

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Origin of Share Farming

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1926 · page 5

The following interesting letter has been written by Mr T. J. Gorman. “Plentyana,” on the above subject:—Regarding Mr…

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Riverina Wheat Crop Competition

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 4

When the judges of the Riverina Crop Competition awarded Mr. E. Douglas, of Walla Walla, third prize for his crop, their estimate of the…

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