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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

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Wheat and Flour. Working the Oracle

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 4

The wheat and flour market just now is a brown and black study for any artist, anxious for a good subject with big splotches of strong light and owl like shade. At the…

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Wheat Stocks in Riverina. Statement to the Star

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 2

A Rosewood correspondent writes as follows concerning recent statements in the Sydney Star, which sets forth that a farmer of Ganmain advocated a duty of 3d per bushel…

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Wagga Experiment Farm. the Wheats for Riverina

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 5

A VISITOR to the Wagga Experiment Farm at the present time will find as much activity there as is displayed during the seasons for sowing and reaping. Mr. Valder has no slack…

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The New Dairy Expert

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 4

Mr. O'Callaghan, the dairy expert from the old country, who came to Australia by the R.M.S. Parramatta nearly a fortnight ago, arrived in Sydney on Wednesday by…

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London Wool Sales. London, 2nd April

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 6 April 1897 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day bidding was brisk and [?]hafty crossbred wool sold especially well. LONDON, 4th April…

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London Wool Sales. London, April 1

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1897 · page 2

At the London wool sales to-day the market was firm, American buyers operating freely. The following prices were obtained for the…

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Wagga Experimental Farm. the Wheats for Riverina

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 7 April 1897 · page 3

A visitor to the Wagga Experimental Farm at the present lime will find as much activity there as is displayed during the seasons for sowing and…

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Butter and Fruit

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 2

GOVERNMENT experts are becoming numerous in the colony, and it is not unusual to see same of them about Wugga, but it may be mentioned that on Wednesday two of the…

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Wagga Experiment Farm. Scientific Dairying. Visits of Experts

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 2

The Minister of Agriculture has, with commendable foresight, obtained the services of specialists is the various branches of agriculture, with a view to perfect the…

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Wheat Prospects

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 2

THE following extract from a letter by Mr. J. M. Sinclair, the commercial representative of Victoria in England, to Mr. E. H. Lascelles, Melbourne, will be of interest to…

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Agricultural Farms

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 2

SPALING at Tamworth on Wednesday, Mr SYDNEY Smith said that the Government intended to establish a sumer of small expreimental farms…

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The American Tariff. the Wool Duties. London, 10th April

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 13 April 1897 · page 2

The United States Senate still has under consideration the Republican Tariff Bill, already passed by the House of Representatives, which largely increases the duty on…

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Wheat Outlook

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 6

THE season is a trying one, and wheat growers in this and the other Australian colonies are showing much anxiety. It is feared that the rain is not going to fall…

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The Wheat Markets

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 2

Sydney.—There has daring the past few weeks (says the Herald) been a steady clearing up of cheap lots of both wheat and flour, which have for same time been…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 3
Also in Wagga Wagga Express, Wagga Wagga Advertiser, Cootamundra Herald

We hare much pleasure in drawing the attention of our readers to the advertise ment of the Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association, which appears in another…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that sales of wool were held on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, when, considering the season of the year, fairly…

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Wheat and Flour. London, April 13

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 4

The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 1,680,000 quarters as against, 1,730,000 quarters last week, and 2,380,000 quarters a…

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