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Farming & the land, 1911

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Farmers Who Will Not Vote

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 6

A proposal to make voting compulsory at Parliamentary elections; was discussed by the Fanners and Settlers Conference in Sydney on Wednesday, in a strongly hostile…

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Challenge to Mr. Nielsen, Farmers Fight for Free Hold “Let Him Try It On.”

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 2

At the Farmers Conference. at the [?] Hall Philip-street Sydney the president Mr. R. Patten M. L. C. said in reference is the executive’s report that they [?]…

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Dairying. the Man and the Cow

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 4

A dairy of cows may have the high pedigree and the most perfect mil development yea we will go farther and give them the best stables and pastures…

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London Wool Sales. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 July 1911 · page 2

The fourth series of London Wool sales was continued on Friday. All good wools showed a hardening tendency. American buyers displayed activity in bidding for…

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Murder of a Farmer

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 July 1911 · page 2

On February 9, Patrick Sheehan, aged 64, a small farmer of Ballindereen, who had had police protection for some years on account of his unpopularity in the…

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The Tenure of Land Minister at Farmers' Conference. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

Mr. Nielsen, the Minister for Lands. speaking at the Farmers' and Settlers' Conference to-night, said he was determined to put land users before land…

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Syrian Farmer Killed. Parkes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

A Syrian fanner named Ferris, who recently, purchased a property at Adavale, was killed to-day by a falling tree, while he was engaged burning off timber…

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Irrigation at the Farmers' Conference

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 3

At the Farmers and Settlers' Conference on Friday, the following motions respecting irrigation were brought forward:—…

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Ovens and Murray Dairy Co

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

There was a full attendance at the board meeting. The secretary reported an output of 18,613lbs of butter. The price paid for butter-fat for the month of…

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Farming As a Career

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

There are everywhere signs that the long-sustained chorus against farming as a career has at length exhausted itself. Instead of the…

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London Wool Sales. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 July 1911 · page 2

The fourth series of London wool sales fur 1911 was continued yesterday. Good merinos are telling exceedingly well, but prices for crossbreds remain unchanged…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 19 July 1911 · page 4

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon J. L. Trefle), and are based…

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The Cattle of N.s.w. "Deteriorating Year After Year."

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 July 1911 · page 3

Mr. Pitt, of Messrs. Pitt. Soil, and Bedgery, when giving evidence before the Public Works Committee as to the expediency of constructing yards in the…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Conference Rural Workers' Claims

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 July 1911 · page 3

At the airing of the coherence in Sydney on Monday, Mr. J. Wetherspoon, M.L.C., moved:— "That this conference is totally opposed…

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London Wool Sales

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 July 1911 · page 2

The fourth series of London wool sales for 1911 was continued yesterday. The market was firm for all sorts at late rates…

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Australia As a Cattle Country Its Prospects Doomed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 July 1911 · page 3

Some alarming statements concerning the stuck trade of Australia were made before the N.S.W. Public Works Committee on Tuesday, when evidence affecting the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Dairying Unprofitable Herds

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 July 1911 · page 17

As showing the disparity between the milking powers of dairy cows, the report of the Queensland Dairy Expert (Mr. Graham) respecting the first six months of…

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Braxy in Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 July 1911 · page 16

At Shepparton last week Mr. Norman M'Donald read a paper on the "Braxy Type of Sheep Disease in Australia." The paper was prepared by Professor Gilruth, with…

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American Wheat Supply

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 July 1911 · page 2

The visible supply of wheat in North America east of the Rocky Mountains, is estimated at 42,625,000 bushels, as compared with 29,058,000 bushels for the…

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London Wool Sales

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 July 1911 · page 5

Competition was keen and prices generally firmer at yesterday's wool sales in London…

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