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Farming & the land, 1923

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Show Sales. Sheep and Horses Sell Well

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 12 March 1923 · page 4

Messrs. McGregor and Bloxham who held the sole selling rights during show week report having held comparatively successful sales. They sold…

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Lower Wool Market. Super Merinos Easier Other Descriptions Firm

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 12 March 1923 · page 2

The Secretary Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co. reports: -- On the 26th February we submitted to auction an attractive…

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Training Immigrants. Can the Glen Innes Experiment Farm Be Turned to Account Minister's Help Asked. Local Committees Advised

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 12 March 1923 · page 6

Matters affecting the question of immigration in general, and the training of men at Government farms in particular, were…

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The Reprieve. a Grateful Farmer. Financial Extinction Averted

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 12 March 1923 · page 3

A farmer, writing from the country, pe[?] the following reflections, and introduces them in this way :—"The enclosed little…

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Water for Sheep

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 13 March 1923 · page 7

Grass is dear enough in dry weather, but water appears to be dearer. A traveller informs us (Baloune Beacon) that a grazier near Mungunyah, on…

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Commercial Wool Report

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 13 March 1923 · page 2

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—Quantities and allocations for the forthcoming series of sales in this market are now…

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The Wool Outlook Top Prices and Wool Values

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 13 March 1923 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:— For the moment, the trend of wool prices is in buyers' favor…

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Old Time Wool Prices

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 13 March 1923 · page 4

Mr. W. N. Rees, stock inspector, yesterday unearthed a copy of the Sydney Mail of February l8, 1899. It contained a reference to wool prices…

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Armidale and District Show. Magnificent Exhibition. Opened in Glorious Weather, Horses, Sheep, and Cattle. Strong, Products of a Fertile District. Displayed to Admiring Gaze of Visitors

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1923 · page 3

The productivity of a district is not exemplified by a record show in the best of a season, but rather when the district from which the exhibits are…

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Dreadnought Boys Start Life the Farm All-round Efficiency

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1923 · page 8

The best, class of immigrant and prospective settler is the selected lad who comes to Australia with the definite object of gaining experience in [?]…

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Pastoral. Worms in Sheep. Importance of Early Drenchings

Guyra Argus · Thursday 15 March 1923 · page 4

Losses caused by worm infestation of sheep were particularly heavy last winter, and with the advent of the wet months serious mortality may again…

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[?]ural and Pastoral Notes. Fr the Man on the Land

Guyra Argus · Thursday 15 March 1923 · page 4

[?]otes are issued ever week under the personal supervision of [?] of Agriculture, and are based largely on the experience of [?] No. 619…

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Armidale Show Local Exhibitors to the Fore. Horses, Sheep and Poultry

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 15 March 1923 · page 4

Glen innes was again well represented at the Armidale Show, both by exhibits and visitors. Mr. B. C. Charles was conspicuously successful…

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Pastoral. Worms in Sheep

The Inverell Times · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 6

Losses caused by worm infestation of sheep were particularly heavy last winter, and with the advent of the wet months serious mortality may…

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The Wheat Market

The Inverell Times · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 4

The following cable was received by Messrs Lindley Walker Co-operative Wheat Co. Ltd., on 12th march, relative to the wheat market viz:—…

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Lure of Wheat Some Advantages

The Inverell Times · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 7

Would you feel satisfied with your prospects if you could be certain that in say, fifteen years' time, you would have, after paying your way, a…

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Farm Notes What Fallow Can Do. Evidence from a Wheat-Grower in the North-West

The Inverell Times · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 6

An average of 19 1/2 bushels per acre over a period of eighteen years—not a bad record for a wheat grower in the north-west. It is the figure…

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Bees and Honey. The Future of Bee-Farming. Some Important Factors

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 3

Although the bee farming business is small compared with such industries as wool and wheat crowing, writes the Senior…

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A Career of Folly. Fall of the A.W.U. Pastoral Industry Disruption Blamed

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 7

Twelve months ago, the A. W. U. bosses, then cockawhoop, boasted that their organisation had 113,163 memzers. At the recent annual…

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Commercial Brisbane Wool Market

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 19 March 1923 · page 8

Pitt, son and Badgery, Limited, report under date March 8. The periodical wool sales held in Brisbane are taking place in that…

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