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Farming & the land, 1906

1,376 stories in Riverina's papers · page 4 of 69

Remarkable Butter Yield

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 3

A most remarkable account of butter production from a Jersey cow is being published in the American papers, to which a few references may…

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Closer Settlement. Byron Estate Subdivision. Dairy Farms, Lucerne & Maize Flats, Wheat Lands. 19,000 Acres of Magnificent Country

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 1

It has often been remarked that Australian soil and Australian climate seem to delight in providing the very opposite extremes of…

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A Satisfactory Crop

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

Mr. J. Broadribb, of Bomen, has been offered much satisfaction as a result of his splendid harvest this year. He had 700 acres under crop altogether, and from the…

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Crops Nurtured with Blood

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 3

War-ridden Southern Manchuria is not such a desolate waste after all, as the enormity of the battles fought on its bosom tended to lead the world to…

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Dry Farming. Further Report by Mr. J. H. M'ooll, M.p

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 4

The Hon. George Swinburne, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture and Water Supply, Melbourne. Sir,—I lately sent you a report on…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Brookong Branch

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

The monthly meeting was held in the School of Arts, Lockhart, on the 1[?]th instant. The president (Mr. A. Crawford) occupied the chair. The minutes…

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The Wheat Harvest. SNDNEY

The Temora Star · Wednesday 17 January 1906 · page 2

The wheat harvest in the Werris [?] shows that the [?] yield is seventeen bushels to the acre…

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Store Wheat Advised. SYDNEY

The Temora Star · Wednesday 17 January 1906 · page 2

As the laborers handling grain on the wharves decline to accept the agreement recently arrived at the Stevedores Association will advise that grain…

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Wheat Exhibition

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 4

An exhibition in illustration of the wheat harvest of the State was opened at the Royal Exchange, Sydney, on Monday. It is not on so ambitious a…

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Wheat Loading Difficulty

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 2

Owing to the refusal of the wheat loading section of the Wharf Laborers' Union to accept the terms agreed upon between that body and the Stevedores'…

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A Wool Packer's Suicide

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 2

A young man named Richard Campbell, a wool packer, committed suicide by taking poison to-day. No motive can be assigned for the deed…

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Sydney Wharf Trouble. Wheat Loading Suspended

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 4

The trouble among the handlers of wheat at Darling Island was not settled, in Sydney, on Monday. Members of the executive of the Wharf…

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Escape of a Wheat Stack. Corowa

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 2

A fire broke out on Kentucky station on Saturday last. The attention of a man named John King, was attracted tot he conflagration. He mounted on…

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Victorian Wheat Traffic. Record Loading at Railway Stations

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 4

A Victorian official memorandum states that 82,538 bags, or over 350,000 bushels of wheat were loaded at Victorian railway stations on…

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Trouble in the Wheat Trade at Darling Island

The Worker · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 6

The members of the S.W.L. Union engaged on Darling Island carrying wheat refused to go on working for less than 1s. 6d. per hour in the day and 2s. at night…

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Death from Burning. Farmer's House Destroyed

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 4

A shocking burning fatality occurred at Teddywaddy (Vic.) on Sunday night to Mr. John Healy, aged 65 years, a farmer. Mr. Healy, an old…

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The Wheat Crop

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1906 · page 3

The price oE wheat is (the writer of " On the Land " in the " S. M. Herald" says), much more eagerly discussed in the country than the…

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Big Wheat Crop in America

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1906 · page 3

A special report from Chicago to the Boston "Herald" of 23rd October, says that people who have of late been through the wheat-growing States in the…

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Agriculture and Pastoral Pursuits

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1906 · page 2

AN interesting discussion is proceeding as to the relative value to the State of agricultural and pastoral pursuits. There are numerous…

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Commercial. WOOL

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1906 · page 4

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., Harrison, Jones, and Devlin Ltd., and Winchcombe, Carson and Co-, Ltd., report: Auction sales were resumed during…

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