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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

1,249 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 43 of 63

Dairying. Machine Milking. The Problem of Difficult Cows

Manilla Express · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 2

Milking machines have a wide range of adaptability to unevenly shaped udders, and to teats of different sizes, but in most ordinary herds there are…

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When to Out Lucerne. Effect on Next Crop

Manilla Express · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 2

The Wisconsin experiment station U.S.A., has shown, by actual trial, that where, lucerne was, cut on 2nd September, 1914, the stand on 12th May,…

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Wool Report

The North Western Courier · Monday 4 September 1916 · page 1

The A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd., report under date 30th August:—Business has been very quiet during the past week, actual transactions…

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Wheat Pool. Advance Available Immediately. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Monday 4 September 1916 · page 2

The Prime Minister announced yesterdat that the Commonwealth Government had been able to make financial arrangements which would enable the…

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Financial Position of the Wheat Board. Sydney

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Monday 4 September 1916 · page 2

Statistics issued by the Wheat Board show that to August 28 the total receipts amounted to £12,800,000, and the shipments now drawn for the valued at…

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Want to Advance Price of Butter. Sydney

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 2

Sussex-street merchants to-day lodged an aplication with Mr. Ackerman for permission to advance the price of butter by a penny per 1b…

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Wheat Pool

Manilla Express · Wednesday 6 September 1916 · page 2

The Prime Minister has announced that the long-awaited advance of 6d per bushel on wheat will be available almost immediately…

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The Wool Market

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 6 September 1916 · page 4
Also in Manilla Express

Wool is now coming forward more freely from the country. Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report that 12,244 bales arrived in Sydney during last week…

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Telegrams Brisbane Wool Sales. Sydney

The North Western Courier · Wednesday 6 September 1916 · page 2

Winchcombe, Canton and Co's. Brisbane wool sales have opened. Good fleece and bulky shirtings were in sellers' favor; medium lines firm, faulties…

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State Parliament Extra Wheat 6d Payable This Week. Ill-treatment of State Children. Police Investigation Disproves Charges. Bulk Handing of wheat Scheme. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 6 September 1916 · page 2

In the Assembly to-day, the Minister for Agriculture, replying to Mr. Boston, said the extra 6d would be paid to farmers from the wheat pool either on…

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The Latest Story of Western Battles French Win Great Part of Glory. Australians in Fierce Fight at Mouquet Farm. Rush on Guillemont and Ginchy. Thiepval Will Be Next. (Published in "The Times.") LONDON

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 6 September 1916 · page 2

The "Times," in a leader, says: Guillemont is of the utmost importance. The situation on the Somme continues to have far-reaching possibilities…

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Brisbane Wool Sales. Sydney

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 7 September 1916 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson wire that the Prisbane wool sales opened with good fleece and bulky skirtings in sellers' favor, medium lines firm, faulties…

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Want to Raise Price of Butter. Application to Federal Commissioner. Latter Unsympathetic. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 7 September 1916 · page 2

Application was made to-day to the commonwealth Commissioner for an increase of a penny in the price of butter in order to permit of that commodity…

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Patriotic Farmers. Plough Two Hundred Acres. In Aid of Tamworth Returned Soldiers' Fund

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 7 September 1916 · page 1

Tamworth district has once more in a practical manner led the way in a big enterprise to raise funds on behalf of the Returned Soldiers' Association…

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Wheat at Pallamallawa

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 3

Mr, R. W. McDiarmid, Inspector of Agriculture in the north west, reports that the experiments with wheat at Pallamallawa this season are attracting…

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The Wool Market

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 6

Schute, Bell and Co. Ltd. report under date 4th September:— Further heavy rains in many districts have again retarded shearing…

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Importation of Cattle. Litigation Against Queensland Government

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 4

Mr. C. H. Hay, secretary to the State Premier, has informed Mr. G. R. W. McDonald, M.L.A., that respecting the question without notice asked by…

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Brisbane Wool Sales. Brisbane

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 5

Dalgety and Co., Ltd.. Brisbane, report: The second series of the Brisbane wool sales opened on the 5th and closed…

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Mouquet Farm Won and Lost. Handful of Australians in a Tight Corner. Give Way to Superior Forces. London September 6. British Headquarters France, September 4

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 2

At dawm yesterday the Australians attacked Mouquet Farfin and the ridge north-west of it. The farm was taken at the first rush and the line swept 200…

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