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Farming & the land, 1908

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Lecture to Farmers. Lessons From America. Irrigation and Dry Fabm[?]

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 August 1908 · page 4

Under the auspices of the M.P. and A.A. an interesting and instructive lecture to farmers was given in the town hall on Thursday night. The Chair…

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Irrigation and Dry Farming. Lecture by Senator M'coll. the Future of Australia

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 August 1908 · page 2

Senator J. H. M'Coll delivered an instructive lecture on "Irrigation and Dry Farming in America," at the Wagga Town Hall, on Thursday night. The…

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Dear Butter

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 August 1908 · page 2

The Melbourne Trades Hall suggests that the public should "go on strike" against the high price of butter. It is proposed that the people…

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Butter and Railways

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 11 August 1908 · page 2

IT was never expected that once dairying was entered upon on a large scale in the various States butter would again reach the old…

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Farm and Station

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 11 August 1908 · page 2

For last month's cream supplies the Tumut Co-operative Butter Factory paid 13⅛d per [?]b while the Gundagat Co-operative Butter Factory paid 15d…

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On Farm and Station

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 11 August 1908 · page 3

Mr. McMasters, manager of the Brungle estate, is a firm believer in the efficacy of newspapers as a means of coping with the rabbits. "Being…

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The Farmers in Politics

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 August 1908 · page 2

The Farmers and Settlers' Association, at the annual conference which concluded in Sydney last week, decided to proclaim itself a straight-out…

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Trucks for Sheep

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 August 1908 · page 3

The Railway Commissioners have decided to carry sheep to Flemington on the southern and western lines in "D" waggons. Owners who are…

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Very Latest. Butter Down. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 August 1908 · page 2

A great fall occurred in the butter market this morning—by forty pounds per ton, which means that the wholesale price of superfine butter is 1/5½,…

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Lecture to Farmers. Lessons From America Irrigation and Dry Farming

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 August 1908 · page 3

Under the auspices of the M. P. and A. A. an interesting and instructive lecture to farmers was given in the town hall on Thursday nigh. The chair was…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Market

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 August 1908 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co. Wool and produce brokers, Sydney, report under date 11th August:—Wool sales reopen in Sydney to-day, and continue…

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The Wheat Market. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 August 1908 · page 2

The report of a bountiful wheat harvest in Australia is stopping millers from buying wheat, and business in Sydney is almost at a…

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Sydney Wool Sales. SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 August 1908 · page 3

At the local wool sales to-day, greasy reached 9½d. scoured 18¾d…

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Wet Wool Is It Injurious? Pastoralists' and Workers' Conference. Experts to Investigate

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 August 1908 · page 3

A joint conference of representatives of the Pastoralists' Association and the Australian Workers' Union was held on Monday in Melbourne to…

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"Horrible Understanding." South Australian Wheat Commission. a Merchant's Statement. "Bluffed" by Sydney Witnesses

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 August 1908 · page 4

The Wheat Commission sat at Parliament House on Monday. Mr. J. Darling, the well-known miller and wheat merchant, gave further…

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Wheat Commission. Merchants' "Honorable Understanding." Was the Commission "Bluffed" in Sydney? Adelaide

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 August 1908 · page 4

The Wheat Commission sat at Parliament House to-day. Mr. J. Darling, milter and wheat merchant, gave further evidence as to the method of…

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Wet Wool Conferernce. Cost of Investigation to Be Borne by the Australian Government

The Worker · Thursday 13 August 1908 · page 17

The wet wool conference, composed of members of the Australian Workers' Union and the Pastoralists' Association, resumed its deliberations on Monday in Melbourne,…

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British Grain Crops. "Times" Second Estimate. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 August 1908 · page 2

The "Times" has issued another report on the British wheat crops, and estimates their condition at 91.1 per cent., as against 87.92 estimated a…

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Warwick Farm Races

The Worker · Thursday 13 August 1908 · page 25

Backers turned Up in good numbers at Warwick Farm last Saturday. The weather was fine when the trains left, but there was heavy rain at the course, before the…

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A "Farmers'" Fighting Fund

The Worker · Thursday 13 August 1908 · page 16

WITH the advent of the Rural Workers' Union there is a prospect of the man on the land having to pay moderately decent wages and work his men moderately…

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