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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

1,346 stories in Riverina's papers · page 43 of 68

The Wheat Market. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 3 September 1908 · page 3

Already city interest in the unsold balance of last N.S.W. wheat harvest has began to waver. Only a few small sales of old milling grain were effected…

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Sydney Wool Sales. SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 3 September 1908 · page 2

At the wool sales to-day, the market was strong for superior qualities, but easier for faulty lots…

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Junee Snow. First Day. a Record Sheep Display

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 3 September 1908 · page 3

OFFICIALS—President, Mr. J. F. Quilter. Vice-Presidents, Messrs. A. McKinnon, C. A. Macdinald, N. MacCallum and P. Heffernan. Treasurer,…

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Yanco Irrigation Farm. New Experiment Station

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 3 September 1908 · page 4

Under the guiding hand of Mr. W. J. Allen, Government fruit export, the new irrigation [?]erperimental farm at Yanco is rapidly being brought into…

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Champion Farm Prize

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 3 September 1908 · page 2

The special prise donated to the recent Wagga Show by the Wagga branch of the Farmers and Settlors' Association, for the most successful…

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New Zealand Notes. Farm Laborers and the Arbitration Act. No Award Made

The Worker · Thursday 3 September 1908 · page 19

The cables will have informed yon of the refusal of the Arbitration Court to make an award governing the industrial conditions of the farm workers in the Canterbury…

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"Physical and Economical Compensations." "S.m. Herald's" view of Farm Laboring

The Worker · Thursday 3 September 1908 · page 18

As a makeweight for the bad condition under which the farm laborer works, the "Sydney Morning Herald" says his life "has many physical and economical…

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Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 2

Dalgety and Co. Ltd., Barrison, Joues and Devlin Ltd., Hill, Clak and Co., Goldsbrough, More and Co. Ltd., winebeombe, Carson and Co., Ltd.,…

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The Dairy. Casein in Butter. a Simple Test

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 9

A new test has recently come to light in the United States to determine the casein in milk. The inventor is Professor E. B. Hart, of the University of…

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The Markets. WOOL

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 2

Messrs. Harrison, Junes & Devlin wired us, on Wednesday, as follows:— We submit ted to auction to-day 1,700 bales, which were principally the new…

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Mottled Butter. the Cause of the Trouble

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 9

“When mottled butter has been produced” (writes an American paper) “the blame is usually laid to improper salting, but tests show that salt cannot…

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Farm and [?] Leguminous Crops

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 9

In an article on “The Present Status of the Nitrogen Problem” to the Year Book of the United States Board of Agriculture, it is stated that the value of…

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On Farm and Station

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 2

There is more chance of success with the autumn sowing of lucerne than with spring sowing. Any grain d[?]il with grass seed attachment will…

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New Zealand Farm Laborers' Dispute. Arbitration Court's Judgment

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 2

The New Zealand Arbitration Court's award in the farm laborers dispate has been issued. It extents over four columns of an ordinary…

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Wool Report

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 September 1908 · page 4

Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Limited, offered at auction on Wednesday an attractive catalogue of 1736 bales, principally new season's clip, which was…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 September 1908 · page 4
Also in Wagga Wagga Advertiser

Dalgety and Company, Ltd, wool, grain, and produce brokers, report as under: The fortnightly auctions commenced in Sydney on Wednesday, and…

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Commercial. Wool. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 5 September 1908 · page 3

Schute, Bell and Co. Ltd., report:—During the next two days a considerable quantity of new clip wool will be submitted at auction, and in all probability such clips as…

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The Song of the Cattle Hunters

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 September 1908 · page 3

While the morning light beams on the fern-matted streams. And the water-pools flash in its glow. Down the ridges we fly, with a loud…

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The Wheat Market. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 September 1908 · page 2

The rains io N.S.W., Victoria, and South Australia have induced most wheat buyers to hold aloof. Buyers in Sydney offer 4s 2d for farmers' lots of 200 to…

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