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Farming & the land, 1913

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A Ratepayer's Grievance Crops and Fence Under Water

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 3 July 1913 · page 2

"My fence is falling out into the waterhole, and I cannot repair it without standing in the water." Thus Mr. J. J. Kalbrunner, a ratepayer with an old…

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Urangeline Show Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 16

As to what the standard of merino sheep will be this year at the Sydney Sheepbreeders' Show, as compared with that of Last year, I cannot say, but if it is as much…

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Sydney Sheep Show

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 2

The nineteenth show of the New South Wales Sheepbreeders' Association was opened at the Royal Agricultural Society's ground on Wednesday. The weather was…

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Fine Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 16

Professor Barker, of the Bradford Technical College, in the course of a recent lecture before the Bradford Textile Society, declared that Bradford to-day was in many…

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Albury Wool Sales

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 18

The development of Albury in the past 20 years as a wool polling centre being without precedent in any inland town of Australasia, it will be of interest to our…

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Why Wheat Is Cheap

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 4

Inquiries are to hand from some farmers in the N.S.W. wheat areas as to the reason for Sydney wheat quotations being…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 4
Also in The Berrigan Advocate

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Traf[?] Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. No. 113. AGRICULTURAL…

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Intee-state. How the Butter Quality Might Be Improved

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 32

Addressing the Dairy Factory Managers' Association conference, Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan, chief dairy expert, said there were sufficient facts and figures in the possession…

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Year's Wool Clip Worth £22,000,000

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 17

With the last fall of the hammer in the wool auction room at Brisbane last week the auctions for the disposal of the Australian 1912-13 wool clip were brought to…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Agricultural. More Reasons for Fallowing. An Ideal Seed Bed

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 6

"A farmer is only justified in crediting himself with having provided a good seed bed, when at sowing time he can dig a hole in his land, 2 feet or 3…

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Rural Workers' Log. Safeguarding the Farmer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 31

Reference was made to the demands of the Rural Workers' Union at a conference of the Dairy Farmers' Association in Sydney this week…

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Linseed for the Dairy

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 16

Crushed linseed used in conjunction with separated milk for calf feeding probably surpasses all other substitutes. U[?]ed in reasonable quantities it is quite equal in…

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All's Well with the Crops. Malroubie, Bull Plain

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff.—We have had very wet weather here, but I suppose it will do the crops good. My sister and I drive 3 1/2 miles to school. Our teacher's name…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association. Oaklands

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 5

A meeting of the above association was hold on Saturday evening last. The chair was occupied by Mr. G. R. M'Lellan, and Mr. J. A. Dando acted as…

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Practical Agriculture Original Articles. Specially written for this column. All Rights Reserved. Making Farm Butter

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 July 1913 · page 3

The following will be found to be the ideal temperatures for butter-making They are perhaps more interesting than actually useful because the farmer’s…

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The Wheat Market. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 5 July 1913 · page 2

Little or nothing is doing in wheat today locally, and the market may be quoted at 3/8 alongside. Private cable advices report London as fiemer, and that…

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London Wool Sales. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 5 July 1913 · page 2

The fourth series of London wool sales was continued yesterday. The sale was spirited, prices for good wools ruling very firm at opening rates…

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The Farm. Saving the Surplus

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 5 July 1913 · page 3

A Riverina dairyman, who does so well with lucerno under irrigation also has an eye to the surplus grasses which in the flush of the…

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Crop Rotation and Bacteria

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 July 1913 · page 3

That a change of crop, as in a rotation, is of advantage, may be regarded as an agricultural truism, and the reason is considered to be that crop…

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