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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

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Correspondence "Grow More Wheat" to the Editor

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 4

Sir--The continual cry for the man on the land to "grow more wheat" still paramount from the Governments both state and Federal. Every…

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Control of Weeds Buffalo Burr Sheep As Distributing Agent

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 6

Buffalo Burr (Solanum rostratm) is a much-branched annual plant of 1 to 2 feet in height,covered with yellowish, star-shaped…

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Money for Wheat Pool National Credit Behind It

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 3

The Minister for Markets and Transport, Mr. Parker Moloney, moved the second reading of the Wheat Marketing Bill in the House of…

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Wheat Areas Need Rain Riverina and Central West

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 9

Although wheat-growers are experiencing a very anxious time throughout the Riverina district, owing to the excessively dry period that has…

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Wool Publicity Proposed Levy of 2/6 Per £100

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 14

Mr. F. H. Tout, president of the Graziers' Association, who returned to Sydney from the Melbourne meeting of the Graziers' Publicity Committee,…

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Many Sheep Lost on Banks 0F Murrumbidgeee River Are Gates Raised Without Warning

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 4

A serious situation has developed along the banks of the Murumbidgee River owing to the rise and fall of the water due to…

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New South Wales Wool Decline of 40 Per Cent. in Value

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 11

Although 3,000,000 more sheep were shorn in New South Wales this season, the value of the clip is nearly 40 per cent, loss than that of last year. This…

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The Graziers' Conference Important Resolutions. Ban on Export of Stud Sheep Supported. Sydney, Wednesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 1

The Graziers' Conference, to-day, rejected by 63 to 39 votes, a motion that a strong protest be made to the Federal Government against the…

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Mr. Clapp Meets Farmers Railways and Producers Unfair Road Competition

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 35

At St. Arnaud (Vic.) a frank statement of the position of the Victorian railways was given by the chairman of the Victorian Railways…

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Historic Farms Sold One Founded in 1794

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 33

Two of the oldest farms in the Commonwealth, which have been the property of one English, family for 132 years, were sold by auction at Windsor…

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Leeton Rice Crop

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 4

The N.S.W. Rice Marketing Board has accepted the tender of Mr. W. H. Jones, of Leeton, for the erection of a rice storage shod at Yenda. The…

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Crop Report Drought Conditions in Riverina

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 4

The monthly crop report issued by the Department of Agriculture states that, with the exception of a comparatively small area in the Northern…

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Whitewash on the Farm a Useful Formula

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 25

WHITEWASH has a wide application to farm use, and deserves a much greater popularity than it at present enjoys. Its ingredients are…

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Apple and Pear Crop Harvesting Late Varieties

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 25

A FACTOR that accounts for a good slice of the orchardist's profits is carelessness in the harvesting of his crop. As harvesting of late varieties…

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Farm Machinery Reduced Prices Now Operate

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 6

The new reduced rates for farm implements, brought about as a result of agreement between the Federal Government and the leading…

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Empire Farmers Welcomed at Canberra "Keep Trade in the Empire"

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 9

A delegation of about 60 Empire farmers from Britain, South Africa and Canada, who have been attending a conference in New Zealand, visited…

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Dairy Cows for Wagga

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 3

Six Jersey cows from the herd of Mrs. McCrum were trucked and despatched by Monday's train to Wagga Wagga. They are Splendid milkers,…

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Maltese for Australian Farms

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 3

Mr. H. W. Potts, formerly principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, New South Wales, who arrived at Melbourne on…

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Phar Lap to Win Chipping Norton Stakes at Warwick Farm Curtain- Raiser to Big Rand Wick Carnival

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 1

'Phar Lap is chosen to win the Chipping Norton Stakes to be run at Warwick to-morrow. .But what a great race it promises…

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Corowa Crop and Fallow Competition Messrs. F. W. and O: Field Obtain Highest Points for Fallow Moisture Deficient in All Fallows Remarks by Judge

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 5

The fallows in the Corowa Crop and Fallow Competition Were Judged last week by Mr.H. H. Andrews,Agricultural Instructor…

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