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Farming & the land, 1897

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Poetry. a Skein of Wool

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 1

I am holding her wool in an Attitude quiet, Fooling just like a wooden-armed, stained [?] window saint. She is sitting at case in a negligent pose,…

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Wagga Experiment Farm. a Field Day

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 2

A VERY successful "field day" was held at the Government Experiment Farm yesterday. There is nothing more interesting to the district existing than the…

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Wagga Experiment Farm Annual Field Days

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 2

Despite the heat and dust which prevailed yesterday, there was a muster of about 130 persons at the Wagga Experiment Farm, the occasion being the first of the annual field…

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Producing Interests. Victorian Crops and Irrigation

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 3

[?] extremely hot and oppressive her, culminating in a violent [?] that was experienced towards [?]lose of last week, has had a very…

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Farm and Graden Original Articles

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 2

NO. 9. RYE -- IRS GRAINS AND STRAW -- HOLLANDS ON GENRVA -- HORNED RYE OR ERGOT -- DIFTRERNCES [?] BARLLEY AND WH[?] -- A CALENDER OF…

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Wagga Experiment Farm. Another "Field Day."

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 30 November 1897 · page 2

SATURDAY was another "field day" at the Wagga Experiment Farm, when, as on Friday, there was a good contingent of visitors. The programme was similar to…

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Wagga Experiment Farm. a Field Day

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 1 December 1897 · page 2

A very successful " friday "was held at the Government Experiment Farm on Friday. There is nothing more interesting to the district existing then the…

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Tee Wee at Crop and Tee Markeis

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 1 December 1897 · page 2

Soke anxiety naturally exists at the present moment amongst our farmers as to what the opening price of wheat is going to be for 1898 particularly…

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An Experimental Farm Problem

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 December 1897 · page 3

THE estimated wheat returns for the forthcoming harvest (says the "Daily Telegraph") show a very wide range of variation, the highest yield forecasted being…

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Lalla Rookh (From Our Correspondent.) the Weather and Crops

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 December 1897 · page 2

THE weather still remains very dry, the thermometer living been up to klo deg, in the shade. The prospects are not very encouraging to the farmers who are depending…

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Wagga Dairy Company. Pasteurised Milk

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 December 1897 · page 2

THE process of sterilising milk discovered by M. Pasteur, assumes a local interest in view of the adoption of the world famed chemist's method by the Wagga Butter…

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The Wagga Dairy Company. Pasteurisation of Milk

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 December 1897 · page 2

The pasteurisation of milk which has occupied the attention of scientists for some years, and which method of treatment has been successfully adopted in Sydney and…

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Letter to the Editor. Wheat Growing

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 2

SIR,—Two seasons ago I directed the attention of your readers to a prolific and hardy sample of wheat grown in the Scone district, where the result, in a bad season, from land that was not…

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Wheat

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 5

Since last report English and American markets show general advance of 6d to 9d, and continental markets firming. No. 1 milling San Francisco wheat c.i.f. Sydney…

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Allora Spring Wheat

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

IN the Assembly on Thursday, Mr. Hayes asked the Minister for Agriculture whether he had seen a letter written by Mr. White, of Sc[?]ne, stating that he had procured…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that at late auctions very heavy catalogues have been submitted to buyers. Those districts which…

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The Price of Wheat

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 4

From a buyer's standpoint the present season is admittedly a difficult one (says the "Sydney Herald.") Will it be most profitable 10 purchase largely at the opening…

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Wagga Experiment Farm

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 2

Mr S. M. M'Keown, the new manager, arrived at the Wagga Experiment Farm on the 26th ult., and his duties were to begin on the 1st inst. He. however, being very…

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