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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

1,431 stories in Murray's papers · page 29 of 72

District Sheep for Sydney Show and Sales

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 2

For some little time past the Hay office of Messrs. Wilkinson & Lavender, Ltd., has been busily engaged in despatching district sheep to the…

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Sheep Dips. Different Types and Their Arrangement

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 6

A sheep dip consists of a long, narrow swimming bath about 2 feet wide and five feet deep. At the entrance are the forcing p[?]s and rave, and at…

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Wheat in Riverina. Sowing Nearly Completed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 2

Reporting on the conditions in the southern and Riverina districts Mr. E. S. Clayton, H.D.A., senior agricultural instructor, states that sowing operations…

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Wheat Varieties. Characteristics that are Detrimental

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 16

To the average man there is a sameness and uniformity about the appearance of a wheat field, the only thing to break the monotony of a well…

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What of Sheep Prices? Outlet Fob Surplus. Export Market and Queens Land

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 4

What are sheep going to he worth next summer ? A great many stockowners would like to know for certain!…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, June. 28. (Before Mr. C. A. Arnold, P.M.). Travelling Sheep Case

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 22

George, Johnston was charged with failing to travel 668 sheep six miles, at least per day, between April 23 and 26. Mr. F. B. Gavan-Duffy (of…

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Some Football Team. "Lindis Farm," Binya

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—This is my third letter to the "Banner." We have started football again this year, and our Binya team played Beckom, also…

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Tasmanian Crop Prospects

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 39

The Tasmanian crops are generally, fair, and provided the weather is not particularly cold the recent rains should have beneficial effect…

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Farmers' Liability

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 39

A point of considerable interest to rural employers was the basis of a small debts case heard at Armidale Court, before the P.M. P. St. Moir…

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Research in Dairying

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 39

At the twenty-first annual conference of the Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries' Association of New South Wales in Sydney, the…

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Workers' Compensation Act Unfair to Farmers State Insurance to Operate

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 2

There were important developments in the week-end in connection with the State Ministry's new Workmen's Compensation Act, which operates from…

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The Farm Separator. Conditions Which Reduce Its Efficiency

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 16

Many dairy-farmers fail to realise that for a separator to do its work efficiently the bowl must spin evenly at the designed speed, without any…

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Dairying Industry. Effect of Paterson Plan

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 11

In opening the annual conferences of the Co-oporative Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries' Association of New South Wales, Mr. Patrick…

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The Dairying Industry

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 11

At the annual meeting of Milawa Herd-Testing Association, Mr. R. Cook, M.P., deplored the apathy of the Governments in regard to improving the…

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Crop Rotation and Soil Fertility

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 17

In the practice of crop rotation a farmer has at his command a means whereby he can materially reduce acre costs or increase the output of his land,…

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Country Edition Telegrams. the Workmen's Compensation Act. Disastrous Effect Upon Industry. Sawmills Close Down and Dairy Herds Turned Loose. SYDNEY. Tuesday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 1

The State Cabinet to-day discussed the question of postponing the operation of the Workers' Compensation Act, and also the creation of a State…

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Measuring Crop Yields

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 2

Measuring the yield of a standing crop before harvesting is more or less guesswork with most farmers, but there is a fairly accurate and simple method…

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Share Farmers to Quit

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 5

An Albury correspondent writes:--The serious view that is taken by land owners with regard to the effects of the Workers' Compensation Act was…

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Farming and Grazing Foot-rot in Sheep Bacon & Pigs

The Independent · Saturday 3 July 1926 · page 4

Foot-rot in sheep being a [?] to the development aun spread of which rains and moisture are most conducive, it is not surprising that the weather of…

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Local & General Unbranded Sheep

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 3 July 1926 · page 2

For having unhanded sheep for sale at Homebush yards, G. F. Oram was fine £10 at the Burwood Court. It was stated that defendant was the…

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