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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

1,965 stories in Murray's papers · page 19 of 99

Over-production of Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 12

Orange graziers have cause for some concern as the coming lambing season, threatens to bring their flocks to such numbers that the land will not feed…

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Pastoral Outlook Melbourne Firm’s Review

The Pastoral Times · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 2

The Austrian Mercantile, Land and Finance: Co; Ltd., Melbourne in a wool-trade review just issued, in addition todealing with the commodity, devotes…

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Necessitous Farmers Men Who Tried to Grow More Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 10

THE most immediate problem confronting the governments in connection with wheat industry relief is the provision of sustenance for those…

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Commercial Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 2

Messrs. Younghusband, Rowe [?] Younghusband. Ltd. repoet: [?] were resumed on 23rd inst, when brought forward a good catalogue…

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International Wheat Conference Paris

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 5

The wheat conference passed a resolution expressing the opinion that a system for the control of the marketing of the surplus wheat crops…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 45

The average price of wool sold at Sydney last week was 9.6d. per lb. There was very keen competition at to-day's sales, especially from the…

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Wheat Loadings 32 239 Bags Delivered

The Independent · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 1

The wheat loading season is almost completed. During the last week, up till Wednesday evening, 518 bags had been delivered over the weighbridge,…

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Telegrams Price of Wheat. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 5

Bulk wheat is quoted in Sydney today at 22; bagged wheat, 23½…

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Paris Wheat Conference London, February 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 35

The Australian Press Association understands that the chief interest of Australia in the Paris Wheat Conference, to be held on Monday, will be…

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Under Quality Wheat Use As Pig Feed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 27

The heavy accumulation of under-quality wheat in the State us a result of adverse harvesting conditions ia some districts, has drawn attention to…

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Control of Sheep Blow-fly Use of Poisoned Carcases

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 24

THE systematic poisoning of blowflies and maggots by treating tho carcases of dead animals with a poison in solution is an important factor in…

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Sydney Wool Sales. a Strong Market. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 2

A good selection, comprising 10,910 bales, was offered at the wool sales, to-day, of which 10,764 were sold at auction and an additional 506…

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The Wheat Loan. For Bounty Not Broad Acres. MELBOURNE, Tuesday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 1

It was stated in Federal circles, at Melbourne, yesterday, that there would be no alteration of the Federal Ministry's decision to provide a…

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Get Back to the Simple Life "Huge Wages for Very Little Work" Political Humbugs Bishop Squire's Lenten Pastoral

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 6

IN a pastoral letter to the people of his diocese Dr. J. W. Dwyer, the Bishop of Wagga Wagga, makes a vigorous attack on some of the evils…

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The Farmers' Burden Effect of Heavy Taxation

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 11

IN wheat production, as in many other things, the United States loads the world. Like the Australian farmer, the Yankee agriculturalist has…

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Britains Oldest Man Death Op Farm Laborer at the Great Age of 115

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 28

At the great age of 115, and in the quaint Irish cottage where he spent the greater part of his life, Patrick Flood, the oldest man in the British…

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Fruit Fly Protection of Late-ripening Crops

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 25

APPICATION of foliage poison spray for control of fruit fly should commence about five weeks before the fruit is harvested, but growers of late…

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Canowindra Conference "Farmers Must Produce" Canowindra

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 4

The eleventh annual conference of the central western district of the Agricultural Bureau of New South Wales was opened here. Mr. G…

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500 Henty Farmers Demand Self - Government and Abolition of State Parliaments Mr. Kilpatrick, M.L.A., Forecasts End of Langism

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 5

HELD in the School of Arts and convened under the auspices of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, a great meeting of farmers and business men of the Culcairn, Yerong Creek, Cookardinia, Holbrook and surrounding districts, met at Henty on Tuesday, when resolutions…

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Farmers and Settlers' Renewed Interest at Rand

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 33

At a meeting held at the Rand School of Arts on Saturday afternoon last it was unanimously decided to reform the Rand branch of the Farmers…

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