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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

1,431 stories in Murray's papers · page 69 of 72

Wheat Pools Advances Being Made

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 December 1926 · page 4

The Secretary, Wheatgrowers' Pooling and Marketing Company writes: Re 1st Advance Voluntary Pool…

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Champion Crops Jerilderie Farmer Successful

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 December 1926 · page 2

The judging of the crops for the Royal Agricultural Society's Championship field wheat competition in the Riverina division was completed…

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Price of Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 47

The Butter Retailers' Central Committee has recommended the retail trade to increase the price of butter, in view of the increased wholesale…

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Victoria's Wheat Export

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 27

Shipments of Victorian wheat for consumers abroad are beginning exceptionally early this year. It is 10 years since a vessel received a full load of…

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Brisbane Wool Sale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 45

Dalgety and Co. Ltd., Albury, report having received the following telegram from their Brisbane Office commenting on wool sale held in that centre on…

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Stains on Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 33

Further tests by the Dunedin chemist who discovered a means of removing tar branding and other stains from wool, fully confirms him in the…

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Commercial Sheep and Lamb Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 2

At Newmarket this week 39,520 sheep an 25,315 lambs were penned the figures bring slightly smaller in each case than those of last week…

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Commercial. Special Sheep Sale at Albury

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 5

Dalgety and Company Limited, report having held a large special sheep sale at Albury on Wednesday, the 1st inst., when they submitted to auction…

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Cultivation of Wheat. the Improvements in Machinery

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 4
Also in The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express

Great improvement has recently been effected in the machinery necessary for wheat production, and these improvements (writes a…

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Harvest at Finley Wheat Going to Storage

The Independent · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 4

The Filey "Mail" has the following harvest jottings:—Most of the wheat is still going into the storage. There has only been…

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Dairy Season Activities Reviewed

The Independent · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 4

While Australian dairy farmers have been facing adverse seasonal conditions in recent years, their competitors in N.Z. Argentine, and all the dafrying…

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Irrigated Farms

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 35

The development of irrigated farming in New South Wales, while undoubtedly a successful venture in many cases, would appear, under certain…

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Soy Beans. Their Place in Crop Rotation

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 17

Leguminous crops are valuable alike in maintaining (or increasing) soil fertility and in providing stock with food of high protein value, and where soy…

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A Point in Farm Planning

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 17

The design of a farm must be determined to a very large extent by the character of the soil. Attention must be given to minor as well as to major…

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Riverina Growing Crops. First Place to Finley

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 34

With the judging of the winning entry of the Henty Society's competition the Riverina field wheat championship of the Royal Agricultural…

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Harvest Time. Windella Farm, Cootamundra

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 12

Dear Uncle, Jeff,—This is my first letter to the "Banner," and I hope you will accept me as one of your many nephews. I take great interest…

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Development of Sheep Industry by the Aid of Farming

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 11 December 1926 · page 4

In a paper on "The Development at the Sheep Industry by the Aid of Farming," read before the sheepbreeders' section of the Animal Husbandry…

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Melbourne Markets Tuesday December 7, 1926 Sheep and Lambs

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 11 December 1926 · page 1

during the past fe[?] weeks the annual off shears [?] have as usual augmented the supply of [?] sheep at Newmarket. In this week's…

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Wool Market

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 December 1926 · page 4

Melbourne Woolbrokers' Association report on 9th December:—Sheepskins.—Aggregate totals on offer at tales to-day were somewhat…

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