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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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Wheat and Wool. Middlemen Speculators. How to Check It. Mr. Taverner Interviewed. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 December 1908 · page 4

Mr. J. W. Taverner (Agent-General for Victoria), when interviewed yesterday expressed hopes of the speedy and universal publication by the…

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A Farmer Killed. Thrown From His Dray While Returning Home. Adelaide, Tuesday Night

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 9 December 1908 · page 1

A farmer, named Phillip McInerney, while returning to his farm near Kadina, on Monday, driving a horse and dray, and accompanied by his daughter…

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Fire Near Manoora. Valuadle Crops Destroyed

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 December 1908 · page 5

A large fire between Manoora and Saddleworth on Monday destroyed many crops. The fire started from the railway and burnt 50 acres of Mr. Leeder's…

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The Wool Sales. London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 December 1908 · page 2

The wool sa1es to-day were very goods although prices remained unchanged…

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Gratifying Wool Figures

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 December 1908 · page 3

Very gratifying (says the Sydney "Mail"), are the wool figures to date for the season. For the season, so far. 578,188 hales were received in the…

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Diseased Dairy Cattle. Government Anxious To Safeguard Public Health. the Tuberculin Test. Perth, Friday Night

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 12 December 1908 · page 1

Recently an order was issued by the Central Board of Health to the effect that all cows which had undergone a tuberculin test, and had been…

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Westralian Farmer Killed. Crushed by a Chaff Cutter. His Neck Broken. Perth

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 December 1908 · page 4

A fatality occurred at Kelmscott yesterday under peculiar circumstances. George Armstrong, a farmer resident in the district for years, took delivery…

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London Wool Sales. London

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 14 December 1908 · page 1

At the close of the wool sales yesterday, the market was very arm, and competition more brisk than on Friday. Merinos were five per cent, above October…

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Victoria's Harvest. Big Barley Crop at Dookie Experimental Farm. Melbourne, Monday Night

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 15 December 1908 · page 3

Dookie College has obtained 21 to 56 bushels per acre of barley, the heaviest yield being from the Galla variety…

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America's Tariff Revision. Newspapers Take a Plebiscite of the Principal Manufactures on Wool. London

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 15 December 1908 · page 1

American newspapers, which have been inviting the opinions of manufacturers as to the best lines of tariff revision, have now tabulated the replies, in so far…

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Dry Farming in South Australia

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 15 December 1908 · page 2

On land in Smith Australia, having a rainfall of from 14 in. to 20 in., where fallowing and summer cultivation are being carried out the so-called…

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The Wheat Harvest

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 December 1908 · page 2

Sydney, Thursday. The official forecast of the wheat harvest, gives the total probable yield for the State at nearly 14,500,000…

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Mexico Importing Wheat. London

Barrier Miner · Friday 18 December 1908 · page 8

Mexico has suspended two-thirds of its duty on grain until April. It is importing from eight to sixteen millien bushels of hard Canadian wheat…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 18 December 1908 · page 4

The Sydney wool sales for 1908 closed yesterday, the number of bales sold being 423,746, an increase of 38,485, as compared with 1907…

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Mexico Short of Wheat. London

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 18 December 1908 · page 1

Mexico has suspended two-thirds of its duty on grain until April. It is importing from eight to sixteen million bushels of hard Canadian wheat to mix with…

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Dry Farming Congress. Federal Government Declines to Send Any Representative. Melbourne, Thursday Night

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 18 December 1908 · page 3

The Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) and Mr. Batchelor (Minister for External Affairs) to-day told Senator McColl that the Government declined to alter…

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Labor Market Overcrowded. Some of the Immigrants to Be Put Off on Farmers. Melbourne, Thursday Night

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 18 December 1908 · page 3

The officer in charge of the Government Labor Bureau states, that since the beginning of the month 279 men and 23 lads were engaged through the Bureau…

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Dry Farming. the American Congress. Australia Not to Be Represented. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 18 December 1908 · page 5

Federal Ministers yesterday afternoon. had an interview with Senator M'Coll in reference to the "dry farming" congress to be held in America next year…

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Arrival of Immigrants. Chiefly Farm Hands and Domestics. Addelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 December 1908 · page 4

The Federal liner, Dorset, arrived at Port Adelaide from Liverpool on Saturday night with 382 passengers on board, of whom about 300 are…

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A Farmer Killed. His Neck Broken. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 December 1908 · page 4

A farmer named Hardt (38) was loading hay to-day, when the horse bolted, and Hardt was thrown out and killed instantly. His neck was broken…

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