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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1903

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. the Merits of Different Breeds of Poultry

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 18 December 1903 · page 6

AN interesting record was recently made known concerning the Partridge Cochin breed of fowls. A careful record was kept of nine…

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Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Monthly Committee Meeting

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 2

The usual monthly meeting of the committee of the Murrumbidgee. Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held in the association's committee rooms last evening…

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The Argentine Farm

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 4

Some very interesting and important information with regard to the Argentine appears in "Macmillan's Magazine." A description is given of the apparently sterile…

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Farm and Station Equine Manners in the Show Ring

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 4

When an owner takes to a show a horse that is not thoroughly broken to do just what ought to be done in it, he is deliberately imposing a serve…

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Wheat Market Report

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

Messrs. A. Cumming & Co. Report: — Purchases have been made from 2s 6d to 2s 9d, according to time of delivery, for 3000 bags. Market tendency is downward,…

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An Interesting Wheat Experiment

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 4

Mr. W. H. Oliver, naturalist, of Wangaratta, has shown us samples, of wheat grown by him in Mr. Albert Dale's paddock at North Wangaratta illustrating his…

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Late Commercial. Wagga Wheat Market

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

A Cumming & Co., report P[?]es have been made from 2s 6d, according to time of delivery for 3000 bags. Market tendency is downward, millers…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Markets

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 4

The Australian Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., John Bridge and Co., Ltd., [?]gety and Co., Ltd., Golds[?], Mort and Co., Ltd., Harrison…

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Commercial. Melbourne Wool and Grain Market. [?] Thursday, Dec. 17

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 4

[?] [?] Woolbrokers' Association [?] [?]t nad Co., Ltd., [?] [?] and Mer[?]ntile [?] [?]td., Dalgety[?]…

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Bush Fires. Big Blaze at Ganmain. Over 200 Acres of Wheat Burnt

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

A fire broke out at Ganmain about 2 o'clock on Friday afternoon (writes our Coolamon correspondent), four miles south of that place and about nine miles…

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Address on Dairying

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

MR. O'Callagan, Government Dairy Expert, delivered an address to the public in the School of Arts, Tumut, on Thursday night. Mr O'Callagan…

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Farm and Station

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

A project has been set afoot for the erection of a co-operative butter factory at the Tumut terminus of the railway, and we are given to…

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Dairying Industry

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

Our district is singularly fortunate in having several gentlemen of undoubted energy, perseverance and ability settling down in it lately to push ahead the…

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Lecture on Dairying

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan, lecture in connection with the Government Agricultural Department arrived in Tumut on Wednesday last, in attend in some…

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WHEAT

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 23 December 1903 · page 2

Wheat, primest, 2/11. MR. O'SULLIVAN. Inquiries this morning go to show that Mr. O'Sullivan, Minister for…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Temora Star · Wednesday 23 December 1903 · page 3

The Government Statistician Mr. T. A. Coghlan has furnished the Premier with the following reports-- An estimate of the probable yield of…

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CATTLE. Large Purchases in Queensland

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 23 December 1903 · page 4

Never in the history of the State have such extensive purchases of stock been made in North Queensland, and never probably in the annals of…

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The Wheat Crop. Enormous Yield Expected. an Average Return of 19 Bushels Per Acre

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 23 December 1903 · page 2

THE Government Statistician, Mr. T A. Coghlan) has furnished the Premier with the following report:-An estimate of the probable yield of…

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Glad to Oblige. How the Weather Expert Enlightened the Farmer

The Junee Democrat · Wednesday 23 December 1903 · page 3

In the course of a visit to the metropolis a farmer called at the Meteorological Office and looked curiously about the place…

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Farm and Station Wheat Experiments

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 24 December 1903 · page 4

For the past six or seven years experiments have been conducted at he Hawkesbury Agricultural College for the purpose of producing the most suitable…

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