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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1911

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Farmers and Settlers' Conference. Independent Political Action Favored by Majority. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 12 July 1911 · page 4

The Farmers and Settlers' Conference discussed for an hour yesterday the question of increasing the capitation fee of members and decided to…

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Farmers and Settlers' Conference. Mr. Holman Tells Governments Intentions. a Referendum Proposal Rejected. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 July 1911 · page 2

Mr. Holman (Acting Premier), told the Farmers and Settlers' Conference last night that £2,000,000 would be spent at once on the duplication of the…

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Indian Jute Crop. a Preliminary Forecast. Adelarde, Thursday.n

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 July 1911 · page 3

A cablegram was received from Calcutta in Adelaide to-day stating that a preliminary forecast estimates the Indian juto crop at 3,015,700 acres,…

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Farmers and Settlers' Conference. Chair of Dairying Recommended. Country Party's Fighting Platform Adopted. Sydney.Saturday

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 4

The Farmers' and Settlers' Conference yesterday dealt with agriculture, irrigation, and education, and recommended the establishment of a chair…

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Australian Immigrants. "Farmers" Who Are Costermongers. Why We Get the Wrong People. Some Serious Allegations

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 2

An Englishman who recently arrived in Sydney on July 8 gave a "Sun" reporter some startling information on the immigration question explaining…

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A Dairyman Fined. Milk Not Up to the Standard. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 4

Frank J. Vincent, jun., a dairyman, at the Collingwood Police Court yesterday, was fined£50 for having sold milk not up to the standard…

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Farm Institutes. London

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

The Development Grant commissioners are distributing £325,000 to establish farm institutes in the majority of the counties, similar to that at…

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Situation Unchanged at Ayr. Mounted Police Patrolling Farms. Laborers for Cairns District. Townsville

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

The situation at Ayr remains unchanged. No further fires have been reported. An unusual number of police is about and mounted police are patrolling the…

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Wheat and Superphosphates. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 July 1911 · page 4

The latest returns received by the S.A. Railway Commissioner of wheat stacked on railway property show at the stations 724,206 bags, and at the…

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Wool Harvest. Last Year a Record Clip

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 July 1911 · page 4

The principal feature of the wool year (says "Dalgety's Annual Wool Review") has been that a record clip was shorn, the oversea exports…

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New Method of Payment to Farmers. Mackay

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 July 1911 · page 2

The situation was greatly relieved at Mackay yesterday wnen the C.S.R. Company advised that sugar would be paid for on the certificate of the mills…

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Mr. Hughes and the Farmer. Application for New Trial Refused, with Costs. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 July 1911 · page 4

The New South Wales Full Court yesterday dismissed, with costs, the application of Mr. W.M. Hughes (Acting Prime Minister) for a new trial…

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Farmers and Protection

Western Grazier · Saturday 29 July 1911 · page 2

To THE EDITOR: Sir,—In the "Worker" of the 13th inst. an effort is made to show that protection is of special advantage to farmers. Now if…

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New South Wales. the Crop Outlook. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 July 1911 · page 8

The crop outlook, except in a few places, is favorable over the State generally wheat and cereals showing nost promisingly…

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A Matrimonial Club. Friendless Farmers' Hope. Scheme Rejected

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 July 1911 · page 5

The idea of a farmers' and settlers' club was submitted to tho Farmers' Conference to-day (wired the Sydney correspondent of the "Argus" on July…

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Wild Dogs' Destructive Work. Large Number of Sheep. Killed. Also Young Horses. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 August 1911 · page 2

Some idea of the extent to which wild dogs are carrying on the work of destruction in the far north may be gathered from extracts from a letter…

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Farmer Gut to Pieces. a Shocking Accident

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 August 1911 · page 3

The Ballarat correspondent of the "Age" wired on July 27:— The dead body of Archibald Kerr, a well-known farmer of Mount Weather…

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Wheat Harvest in Victoria. This Year's Estimate. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 August 1911 · page 4

It is estimated that 2,321,000 acres will be harvested for wheat in Victoria this year, as against 2,398,089 acres last year…

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S.A. Live Stock Returns. Substantial Increases Recorded. with the Exception of Sheep. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 August 1911 · page 8

The final returns of live stock in South Australia for the year ended December 31, 1910, were most favorable for all stock and substantial increases…

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Mr. Hughes' Farm. Full Court Appeal Fails

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 August 1911 · page 5

The appeal of William. M. Hughes against the verdict of the jury in June last in the action Bellinger v. Hughes, came before the Pull Court yesterday…

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