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Farming & the land, 1898

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Experiment Farm Cricket Club

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 November 1898 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Wagga Exporiment Farm Cricket Club was held on Wednesday last. The usual business was arranged satisfactorily. A special vote of…

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Wool Traffic

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 16 November 1898 · page 2

So far the wo I traffic from Gundagai this year, has been somewhat high, and, although it is not expected to reach last season's record, it must be…

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Station and Farm

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 16 November 1898 · page 3

Up at Maryborough, Queensland, labor cannot be got to cut down the standing corn, though 10s a day is offered. There are swagmen to be seen about the district, but…

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Intercolonial. Sydney. Wednesday. Proposed Duty on Wheat

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 November 1898 · page 2

At a meeting of the Narromine Farmers and Settlers' Association, it was decided to write to the Premier, through Mr. Phillips, member for the district, that in…

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The Co-operative Movement the Farmers and Settlers' Association. Meeting of the Executive. a Co-operative Produce Company Proposed. in Sympathy with the Cooperative Wool Co. Separate Companies with a Commercial Alliance. [By Telegraph.] [From Our Special Reporter.] Junee, Wednesday Night

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 November 1898 · page 2

A MEETING of the Executive Couucil of the the Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held here to-night to further consider the proposal to establish a co-operative…

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Tooyal. (From Our Correspondent.) the Crops

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 November 1898 · page 2

The young stuff, which, as I mentioned last week, was growing up through the original crop in this district has now come out in car, and has grown from six to eight…

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Victorian Wheat Crop

Coolamon Echo · Friday 18 November 1898 · page 2

DURING his tour of inspection of the railways of the north-western district and the mallee railway, the Victorian Commissioner made a special effort to…

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Refractory Sheep

Coolamon Echo · Friday 18 November 1898 · page 4

The other day three men had about as tough a job as ever they had to got towards the railway gates about fifteen or twenty sheep who got it into their heads…

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The Wool Market

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 2

At Monday's wool sales, best greasy woos, though selling no bettor than previously, sold very firmly at the improvement recently shown for them…

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Wheat—Grading for Export

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 6

THE Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Cook, is in receipt, through the Board of Exports, of a communication from a large business firm in London to their agents in…

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Fire on a Farm Wheat and Hay Burnt. Valuable Machines Lost. Peak Bill

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 2

Information has been received that a fire broke out on Asbary's farm at Bulgandramine. Before the flames were got under 100 bags…

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A Railway Fire. Trucks and Wool Destroyed. Tamworth

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 2

Two trucks, loaded with wool, were standing on the Mooobi Siding, when the wool became heated and fired the truck. The whole of the contents were destroyed…

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Wheat Harvest Prospects. the Estimated Yield. Exportable Surplus of 667,000 BUSHELS

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 3

AN estimate of the wheat crop of the colony, compiled by the "Sydney Morning Herald," gives the area under grain this season as 1,043,000 acres, from which an…

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The Farmers' and Settlers' Association. Proposed Co-operative Company. Meeting of the Executive

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 5

A MEETING of the executive committee of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held at Junee on Wednesday evening, and as briefly reported in our last issue it was…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association. Executive Council. Co-operative Company

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 8

THE committee met at Junes on Wednesday night. Present—G. F. Plunkett (president), of Yerong Creek: J. J. Miller (Mimosa and Cootamundra), J. L. Trefle (Temora), J…

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For the Farmer. From Various Sources

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 6

The bulk of the New Zealand frozen rabbits shipped to London by the steamer Rakaia from Bluff Harbour on September 14 has been found to be rotten. A…

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The Crops

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 4

Alter all it appears as if the cloud has, at least, a tinge of the proverbial silver lining, for the crops are not expected to be so bad as was thought a lew weeks back. That is…

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Wool and Produce Reports

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 November 1898 · page 4

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers Association (Austraiasian Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd.; John Bridge and Co., Ltd., Dalgety and Co., Ltd.; Goldsbrough, Mort and Co…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 November 1898 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Ltd, sold to-day about 2,300 bales of wool, and repot a further improvement for all merinos up to good average quality, which were one…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing. a Lengthy Case. Bardwell V. Cheney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 November 1898 · page 2

John Cheney was charged before Mr George Martin, P.M., at the Wagga Police Court yesterday, at the instance of Charles Darby Bardwell, with having stolen during…

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