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Farming & the land, 1913

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The Wheat Market. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 15 November 1913 · page 2

Locally the market is somewhat unsettled. A sale of nearly 100 bags for prompt delivery was made to-day, at 3/5 3/4 dongaide a suburban mill; while about half…

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Agricultural Farm Selection

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 15 November 1913 · page 5

Two hundred mid two (202) portions in the parishes of Bunerba, Bandalba, Don, Dundee, and Greyclific, comprising a total area of about. 88,000 acres, in areas…

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QUEENSLAND, Crown Land for Selection. Dawson Valley Lands, First-class Dairying and Agricultural Lands

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 15 November 1913 · page 5

The undermentioned Land, comprising the second section of the well-known Dawson Valley Lands, will be open for Selection at 11 o'clock a.m., on FRIDAY,…

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Farm Hands Cease Work at Wagga. Serious Trouble Feared. Wagga

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 15 November 1913 · page 5

As the result of a visit of an Australian Workers' Union organiser, a number of hands engaged on Mr. Bruilskill's Allonhy farm have ceased work. Of the 45…

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Farm and Field. Original Articles. Specially written for this column. All Rights Reserved. Living and Dead Soils

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 November 1913 · page 3

Soils without bacteria are dead soils, and as such unfit to support profitable crops.” Every farmer, in his opinion, should…

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English Wheat Market

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 November 1913 · page 2

The Department of Agriculture has received the following report on he state of the English wheat market: London, November 13.—Wheat market steady : no…

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Wool Sales. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 November 1913 · page 2

Dalgety and Co. Ltd. held their sixth sale of the season to-day, when they offered a good representative catalogue of over 5000 bales. There was a full…

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Latest by Wire. Wheat Market. Sydney, Monday. Wheat, 35½ to 36. Sly Grog Selling

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 November 1913 · page 2

A well dressed woman named Maggie Davies was fined £60, in default four months' hard labour, for having sold liquor without a license at a house in…

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GENERAl Cable News. English Cattle Not Allowed Ito Argentina. Buenos Ayres

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 November 1913 · page 2

A Government order has been issued prohibiting the entry into the Argentina of English and Wolsh cattle…

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Culcairn. Farmers' & Settlers' Meeting

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 November 1913 · page 4

A meeting of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association, Culcairn branch, was held at the Waverley Hotel on Saturday night, when there were present Mr. H. J…

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Crop Prospects. No. 1

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 November 1913 · page 3

Over the whole of the Corowa and surrounding districts crops are good, and farmers predict satisfactory returns. There was a critical time just a…

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Butter Market. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

The butter market locally is quiet and rather weak in tone at the reduced price 11 1/2d per lb, now in force. London buyers are not operating here. They can…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 1

Younghusband, Row and Co. Pty Ltd. continued their wool sales on November, 10th, when they brought forward a catalogue of 3723 bales and succeeded in…

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The Farm. a New Method for Determining Fat and Salt in Butter

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 3

Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Agriculture, calls attention to a new test for fat and salt in butter. This test was invented by Roscoe…

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Wool Sales. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report: We again submitted to-day a large and attractive catalogue, comprising some 6100 bales…

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Selling Wool After Hours. Usual Farcical Prosecutions. "Hardy Annuals."

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 6

Expected wool sale prosecutions took place at the Albury Police Court yesterday, when Charles Evans (Dalgety & Co. Ltd.), Henry Farrington Jackson (Jas…

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Victorian Wheat Harvest 36,000,000 Bushels Probable. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

Mr. T. Langdon, M.L.A., Chairman of the Council of Agricultural Education, who has for some years given interesting forecasts of the harvests, estimates that the…

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Farmer Gets £250,000. Fortune of a Man at Orange. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

Courtney Vasia Hatfield, the young farmer of Orange who has inherited a quarter of a million pounds through the death of an uncle, a ranch owner of…

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Wealthy Jeweller's Bequests. £250,000 to Farmers' Sons. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

A Belfast jeweller named William Gibson, who died recently, has bequeathed £250,000 to sons of farmers in counties Antrim and Down…

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Demands of Farm Hands

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

An open-air meeting of the rural workers was held in Ganmain on Sunday. An address was delivered by an organiser, who urged the men to demand the log of wages…

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