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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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Wagga Wheat Market

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 February 1907 · page 2

The Wagga wheat market continues firm. Since last report it has risen ½d, the present price being 2/9…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 February 1907 · page 4

Messrs. Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Ltd., report, February 26, having submitted at their last sale of the weekly series a catalogue of about 800 bales…

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The Farmers' Fair

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 28 February 1907 · page 2

Mr. G. Maurice M'Keown, the manager of the Wagga Experimental Farm, has informed the secretary of the Farmers' Fair (Mr. Crouch) that be will take up…

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Sundry Sports. Racing. Worker Forecasts. Warwick Farm (Sydney), Sat., March 2

The Worker · Thursday 28 February 1907 · page 11

Liverpool Mile—Victoria Cross of Felicia. Farm Stakes (6f.)—Change or Sloe Gin. Nursery Hdcp. (5f.)—Orzil's Daughter…

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Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 6

Dalgety and Co., Limited, Golds-brough, Mort and Co., Limited, Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Limited. Hill, Clark and Co., Shute, Bell and…

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The Butter Factory

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 2

WE are in receipt of a fetter from Mr Bennett, the [?] of the Co-operative Butter Factory for Coolamon, which states that he…

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The Markets. WOOL

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 2

Dalgety & Company, Limited, Sydney, under date 22nd February, report as follows:—Satisfactory selling con­ditions have prevailed since our last…

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Should Cattle Judges Be Trained?

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 5

Disagreements are common among judges at agricultural shows (writes "Spero" in the "Live Stock Journal"), especially as regards animals which…

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Influencing the Percentage of Butter Fat

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 6

When a cow is in full milk and full flesh, she will give her normal quantity of milk for at least a limited time, even although the quality and…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Plougning by Steam

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 2

HITHERTO there has been two systems of cultivating land by steam—first, that of the traction orgine, drawing implements behind it; and second, the double…

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On Farm and Station

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 2

The Jersey cow is becoming very popular in the Queensland dairies. Daring the past fifty years Australia has produced £670,000,000 worth of…

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Farm and Field. "Bishoping" A Horse's Mouth

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 5

In these days of s[?]relty in the horse supply, various artifices, writes the "Chicago Breeders' Gazette," are resorted to in order to make the animal…

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Applying Farmyard Manure

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 5

When farmyard manure is carted from the heap to the field, it is best, if possible, to distribute it over the land without delay. Care should be taken to…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 2

At the Howlong Police Court Peter Stewart and Paul Reinhold Greschke were charged with having stolen 165 sheep, valued at £100. The property of…

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Local Wheat

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 2

The local wheat market yesterday had a buoyant tendency and the all round quotation was 2s 9d firm. The farmers will hail with satisfaction a return to a higher…

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The Wheat Market

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 2

The wheat market has shown a firming tendency since last report. In Wagga to-day it is firm at 2/9 per bushel…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 8

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report having held, on February 26th, what may be considered the closing sale for the…

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London and Metropolitan Wheat Markets

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 2

London cables received in Sydney on Thursday stated that the wheat market was, if anything, slightly easier; those received in Melbourne stated it was…

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Correspondence. We do not necessarily endorse the opinions of our Correspondents. the Rise in Wool. (To the Editor Wagga "Advertiser.")

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 7

On,—The high price of wool no doubt makes the lucky sheepowners in this district anxious to show their gratitude in acts of charity, and the Old…

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Farmer Heavily Fined

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 2

A farmer at Hay for neglecting to suppress or destroy rabbits was fined £18/10/. His case, although his first, was regarded as a very bad one…

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