It was first published on Thursday 19 May 1888 as the official organ of Chaffey Brothers, founders of the irrigation settlement.
[1] The paper later went to bi-weekly, published on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The Mildura Cultivator, Merbein Irrigationist and Mildura Telegraph were amalgamated in 1920 to be replaced by the Sunraysia Daily,[2] whose managing editor was Harry J. Stephens, well known as "Uncle Wiseman" of the Farmer and Settler.
[4] (Samuel) Gifford Hall (1864–1952), who wrote as "Steele Blayde", was a noted horticulture and features writer, whose first article for the Cultivator was published on 24 August 1912.
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