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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1899

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The Coming Wheat Tax

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 2

DESPITE the glowing accounts of the revenue returns as communicated officially to the daily press, there is a very uncomfortable feeling current in…

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A New Wheat Cultivator

The Temora Star · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 2

MR. VALDER, Principal of the Hawksbury Agricultural College, has frequently lectured on the superiority of single grain-sowing in preference to…

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Novel Experiment in Wheat Sowing

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 4

Mr. J. J. Piper, writing to the 'Tamworth News,' gives the following particulars of an experiment in wheat sowing:— "For the last two or three years I have…

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Commercial. Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne, Thursday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 3

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report:—We held our first sale after the Christmas and New Year vacation this afternoon, when we brought…

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FARMERS and DUTIES

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 4

FARMERS of this district are convened to meet this day week to consider matters of importance to them. Now is a fitting time for them to consider their position…

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For the Farmer. From Various Sources

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 6

The man who owns the cows is the one who makes the milk (says Hoard's Dairyman) He can make little or much of it he can make it clean or dirty cheap or expensive…

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The Coming Wheat Tax

The Junee Democrat · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

Despite the glowing accounts of the revenue returns as [?] officially to the daily, press, there is a very uncomfortable feeling current in…

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Sales by Auction. Pastoral Hotel Yards. Thursday, 19Th January

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

Messrs. Tompson, Manning, and Jeremy. —Fat cattle. Messrs. A. A Mcurant and Co.—Fat cattle, buggy, buggy horses, draught…

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Junee Farmers and Settlers' Association

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

A well-attended meeting of the Junee branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association has been held. Mr. P. Heffernan, of Clear Hills and Millbank stations, presided…

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Mixed Farming

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

WE are accustomed now-a-days to hear the lament that the great pastoral industry does not pay. This cannot be the fault of the industry itself…

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Junes Farmers' Union. the Co-operative Movement

The Junee Democrat · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

A MEETING of the above was held in [?] Hotel on [?] last. Mr. [?] occupied the chair and the [?] was fair…

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The Pastoral Industry. Lambing Returns

The Temora Star · Wednesday 18 January 1899 · page 2

THE Agricultural Department have furnished returns of Spring larnbirig and the average percentage for the whole colony for the year 1898…

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A Sheep Transaction. Claim for Commission. on the Sale of Sheep

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1899 · page 2

At the local Court on Monday, John McNamara and Thomas Besnard George and Thomas Field for £18 11s, commission on the sale of 2172 sheep…

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Later Cables. London Wool Sales. a General Advance. London, Tuesday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 19 January 1899 · page 3

The London wool sales for January opened to-day. There was brisk competition and a general advance of fire per cent, on prices ruling during the December sales…

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The Coming Wheat Tax

Coolamon Echo · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 5

Despite the glowing accounts of the revenue returns as communicated officially to the daily press, there is a very uncomfortable feeling current in…

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Junee Farmers’ Union. the Co-operative Movement

Coolamon Echo · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 2

A MEETING of the above was held in O’Don[?] Hotel on Saturday last. Mr. Heffernan occupied the chair and the attendance was fair…

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Sheep for Farmers Merinos the Best

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 6

As to the kind of sheep that farmers should buy, a correspondent in an exchange states that he has tried several, but has always had the best returns from…

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Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural association

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 2

THE ordinary monthly meeting of the committee was held last evening. There were present:—Messrs. T. W. Hammond (president), T. S. Gardiner, A. Smith, E…

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Filling Wheat bags

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 9

A NEW bag rammer, lately patented by Mr. J. Brown, of Lubeck, is thus described:—It is about 3ft long, funnel shaped, the stem being about the size of an ordinary gas-pipe…

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The Coming Wheat Tax

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 4

DESPITE the glowing accounts of the revenue returns as communicated officially to the daily press, there in a very uncomfortable feeling current in…

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