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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1919

1,572 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 14 of 79

General Wires. Farmer's Suspicious Death

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 3 March 1919 · page 2

The body of a farmer has been found in the Murray River near Bethungra (Vic.) in circumstances which suggest foul play…

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Necessitous Farmers Mr. Ashford’s Scheme

The Gulgong Advertiser · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 3

Mr. Ashford’s scheme for assisting-farmers who are suffering from the effects of drought and bush fires is now in working…

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Share Farmers Mr, Ashford’s Intentions

The Gulgong Advertiser · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 3

Mr- Ashford’s scheme for a conference to consider what is best to for share farmers is nearing completion…

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Sheep Supplies Short

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 19

Offerings were not equal to the demand an the sheep section at Homebush last Monday. Prices advanced 1/ to 1/6 per head. Ever…

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Thousand sheep Burnt

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 19

A bushfire at Camp Bay, near Lyttleton, New Zealand, destroyed three thousand acres of tussock country. Nearly a thousand sheep…

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Wheat Payments. Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 2

The members of the country committee of the National Party discussed a motion by Mr. A. J. Manning to the effect that the Government be…

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Sheep Fat Dead Rabbits Result of the Drought

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 24

On the pastoral country between the Cootamundra and Tumut districts sheep are eating the carcases of dead rabbits, and are…

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Potato Crop fails. Orange Farmers Lose Heavily

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 3

All hope that the 1919 potato crop in the Orange, Springs Hill, and Millthorpe districts will be even a partial success has now…

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P.P. Union. and Wheat Handling. (To the Editor)

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 11

Sir,—Will you kindly allow me space to comment on the report of the P.P. Union in your issue of February 20, under the heading of…

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Pastoral Pit Silage. Carting in and Filling the Pits. (From the Department of Agriculture,)

The Gulgong Advertiser · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 3

Previous articles have pointed out the value of a large to the wheat and sheep farmer and the pastoralist, the most suitable crops, the ease with which…

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Distress at Cobar Street Procession “Men Driven to Sheep Stealing.”

The Gulgong Advertiser · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 4

Three hundred unemployed, headed by Alderman Hutchinson and other leading unionists marched through the streets on Tuesday morning to the…

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The Show Success Assured. One Thousand Entries Received on Tuesday. Cattle the Only Weak Section

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 20

The success of the show is assured and with the number of entries already to hand a splendid exhibition of live stock and…

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Damaged Wheat. for Starving Stock. How Things Are Done at the Orange Depot. (To the Editor)

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 11

Sir.—After reading the advertisement in the "Guardian" re the above, which stated that samples would be sent on application to the…

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Tainted Wheat Coercing the Millers. Attack on Public Health Where Is the Pure Food Act? From the “Sun.”

The Gulgong Advertiser · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 4

For some time the Government, through the medium of the State Wheat Office has made a determined effort to compel the distribution for…

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Mysterious Fatality. Farmer's Body Found in River

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 27

Particulars reached Albury on Monday (as already reported in the "Guardian.") of a mysterious fatality near Bethanga, an old…

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The Farmer’s Vote Organising for Elections. Progressives’ Reform Suggestions

The Gulgong Advertiser · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 4

The Country Progressive Party is organising in the western districts, and the Farmers and Settlers’ Association branches are…

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Confiscated Sheep

Leader · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 6

At the Dubbo P.P. Board meeting last Week a letter was received drawing attention to the frequent arrival at Flemington of sheep with half an…

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The Wheat Pool. Molong Farmers' in Favor of Its Continuance

Molong Argus · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 7

A public meeting, convened under the auspices of the local branch of the F. & S. Association, was held at the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon…

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Wheat Varieties in Riverina

Leader · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 4

The report of the judge (MT. H. C. Stenning, inspector of agriculture) on the growing crop competition of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and…

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Wool Appraisements. Prices Under the Scheme

Molong Argus · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd, report:— The amended roster provides for the offering of 115,000 bales of wool in Sydney between February 26th and March…

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