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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1902

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Junee Democrat · Friday 31 October 1902 · page 2
Also in The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser

DALGETY AND CO., LTD., der date October 28th We continued auction sales today, offering twenty two hundred bales comprising…

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A Destructive Hail Storm. 10,000 Acres of Crop Affected. Immense Hailstones. Birds Killed and Windows Smashed

Coolamon Echo · Friday 31 October 1902 · page 2

AGAIN, and for the third year in succession, has Junee district been visited by a most destructive hail-storm, which appears to have taken nearly…

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Sheep in River[?]na

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 6

Representatives of the stock board's couocil of advice on Wednesday asked the railway commissioners for special arrangements for the removal of starving Btock from the…

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A New Wheat

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 4

A new wheat called Emmer nil introduced from Russia from the United Stales Department of Agriculture is reported as promising to become an important…

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Twelfth Wagga Sheep Test Prize

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 2

The result of the twelfth Wagga sheep test prize competition for three merine ewes, 18 months old or under, when first entered in 1901, the awards for which amounted in…

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A New Cross Breed of Sheep

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 2

In a paragraph which appeared in our last issue with reference to experiments proceeding at the Wagga Experiment Farm in crossing Shropshire rams and…

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A New Cross-Breed of Sheep

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 3

Gratifying success is attending the experiments which are being conducted at the Wagga Experimental Farm with the object of producing a serviceable farmer's sheep,…

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Prospect for the Wheat Harvest

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 2

So dismal [?] seem the prospects for the next wheat harvest that an [?] has already been ventured by a Sydney paper that the shortage in this State…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and Me[?]ile Agency Co. Ltd. [?] their second sale of the season this afternoon, when they submitted a catalogue of about 3500 bales. There is no…

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Wheat Prospects. Anticipations for the Season

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 4

How far New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia will be able to supply themselves with wheat for the coming season is at present being anxiously…

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On the Land. the Wool Market

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 3

The wool sales in Sydney this week closed with great firmness for all wools showing more than medium quality and fair condition, a hardening tendency for such lines…

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Henty. Crops

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 4

Some of the farmers have already started cutting self-sown crops for hay, and although the crops in general are very short, still there in every prospect of a good sample…

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Developing a Dairy Herd

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 4

Several years ago, writes Mr. J. D. McCleary, a successful dairy farmer in Canada, I received the appointment of manager at Annadale farm,…

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For the Farmer. Resuscitation of Pastures

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 4

Those who have followed the occupation of graziers in this for any great lenght of time must [?] no[?] [?] been convinced that a large [?] [?] [?]…

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Farmers' Column

The Temora Star · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 2

A new wheat called Emmer, introduced from Russian by the United States Department of Agriculture, is reported as promising to become an…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 4 November 1902 · page 2

All the host features of the week's sales were produced at the closing auction on Thursday. Wools above medium quality in the grease met…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 4 November 1902 · page 3

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. offered at their sale today 2800 bales, including some well known Riverina and Victorian clips. The market was very firm for all…

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Terrific Hailstorm at Daysdale Houses. Sheep and Dogs Killed. Several Men Injured. Great Destruction of Crops and Fences

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 4 November 1902 · page 3

Further reports to hand show that the recent storm in the Daysdale district was more serious than at first imagined. Although only lasting a couple of hours,…

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The Season's Wool. Decided Evidence of Drought

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 4 November 1902 · page 4

The further offering of large wool catalogues in the Sydney market has given a better insight into what the nature and condition of the season's clip is likely…

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