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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1910

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Record Milk Supply. to N.S.W. Butter Factories. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 May 1910 · page 8

The supply of milk to the N.S.W. butter factories this season has in most instances been a record…

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The Farm and the Body

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 May 1910 · page 2

There is a wonderful similarity in the processes of Nature. The highest productivity of a farm and the highest capacity of the body are…

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Impounding His Own Sheep

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 May 1910 · page 3

A farmer at Yorketown (S.A.) loaned two rams to another farmer living some distance away. After a few days the rams got out and returned to the…

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Heavy Grain Crops in Russia. London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 May 1910 · page 2

The prospects of heavy grain crops in the Caucasus and Don Territory (Russia), has necessitated the ordering of 2000 extra trucks to facilitate…

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The Wheat Season. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 May 1910 · page 4

Owing to the big rainfall which fell this week, it has been confidently asserted that the wheat season in South Australia has been assured. Mr. John…

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Sheep Dog Trials

Western Grazier · Saturday 28 May 1910 · page 2

The most interesting event on the morning of the second day's show was the Shop Dog Trials, in which Mr Fits gerald won by bine ribbon with a very…

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Misleading the British Public. Margarine Packed in Australian Butter Boxes. a Criminal Prosecution Recommended. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 May 1910 · page 4

Sir John Taverner (Victorian Agent-General), Mr. Robinson (Queensland Agent-General), and Mr. Coghlan (New South Wales Agent-General) yesterday…

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General Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] Wheat Speculators' Losses. London

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 May 1910 · page 4

Mr. James Patten, the American wheat and cotton Speculator, on the eve of retirement, was compelled to abandon a big deal in September wheat,…

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Chicago Wheat Quotation. London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 June 1910 · page 8

The financial failure of speculators who attempted to corner the wheat supply, has demoralised the prices quoted for July deliveries…

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Fall in Price of Wheat. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 June 1910 · page 2

The price of wheat locally fell to 3s. per bushel yesterday…

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The Following Appeared in Yesterday's Second Edition. Late Gabie News. [Reuter's Messages.] Prohibited Cattle Exports. London

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 June 1910 · page 8

Cattle exports from the South American ports of Corrientas, Fortosa, and Northern Santa Fe, have been prohibited on account of foot and mouth…

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Inferior Butter. in New South Wales Butter Boxes. English Firm Prosecuted. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 June 1910 · page 4

Victoria and Queensland are associated with New South Wales in the prosecution of Coopnmn Brothers on a charge of selling N.S.W. butter boxes…

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A Farmer's Death

Barrier Miner · Monday 13 June 1910 · page 2

Adelaide, Monday. John H. Schwarz, a farmer of Walton, some miles from Tanunda, died in a private hospital at Tanunda on…

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Valuable Cattle Poisoned. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 June 1910 · page 2

Sixteen valuable cattle owned by F. G. Waley, of the Mowbray farm, Picton, were found poisoned yesterday. The bran and ensilage upon which they…

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Farmers and Producers' Political Union. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 June 1910 · page 2

At the conference of the South-Eastern branches of the Farmers and Producers' Political Union to-day, a circular from the Central Union, advising…

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A Butter Prosecution. London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 June 1910 · page 4

The New South Wales Agent-General has instituted proceedings against a London firm for, it is alleged, using Australian butter boxes to pack…

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Wheat Crops. N.S.W. and Commonwealth Returns. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 June 1910 · page 5

The revised official returns of the N.S.W. wheat crop give the total yield as 28,532,029 bushels, or nearly 3,000,000 bushels in excess of the…

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South Australian Cereal Crops Preliminary Official Figures. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 June 1910 · page 6

The preliminary official figures dealing with the crops in South Australia for 1909-10 give the wheat yield at 24,798,831 bushels, the quuntity of hay…

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May Labor Market. an Unchanged Position. Farm Lads More Plentiful

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 June 1910 · page 3

In May (says the "Telegraph") the State Labor Bureau registered 312 persons as being in need of employment, and there were 445 names on the…

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Radium and Agriculture. Experiments in Wheat Growing

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 6

The carnotite deposits at Radium Hill, near Olary, promise to have a commercial value quite apart from their metallurgical importance…

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