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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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Experimental Farm

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 27 October 1908 · page 2

The annual visit of the Farmers and Settlors' Association to the Experimental Farm will take place to-morrow, when it is expected that a…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Secretary of Wagga Branch Denies Child-sweating

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 27 October 1908 · page 4

Although numbering some 110 strong, only seven of the members of the Wagga Farmers' and Settlers' Association attended at the monthly…

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Dairying on Darbalara Estate. Its Rise and Progress. I.

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 28 October 1908 · page 2

Since Mr. W. J. Cole assumed the management of Darbalara estate for the Scottish Australian Investment Company, intent on subdividing the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 3

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy. held their opening tale of the season on Tuesday afternoon, when they brought forward a…

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Sydney wool sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson and Co. Ltd. report, October 26 :— Close on six thousand bales of wool were included in our to-day's…

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Wheat Prizes at Shows

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 4

From a farmer's standpoint the practice of offering prizes at agricultural shows for the best bag of wheat, irrespective of any other condition,…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Animated Bidding. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 2

At the wool sates to-day competition for all description was again keen, animated prices continuing fully equal to those of the best part of the…

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Commercial. Albury Wool, Hide and Skin Market

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 4

Colouhoun, Burt, Antill end Co. report holding their monthly sale at Albury of station and butchers' produce on Friday last. The attendance of…

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Wagga Experimental Farm Visit of Farmers and Settlers. an Interesting Gathering

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 2

The annual visit of the members of the various district branches of the Farmers and Settlers' Association to the Wagga Experimental Farm took…

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Visit to the Farm

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 2

The invitation extended to and settlers by Mr. G. M. M'Keown, manager, to visit the Experimental Farm, was largely availed of…

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Wagga Experimental Farm. Annual Visit of Farmers and Settlers. an Instructive Day at the Agricultural College

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 3

Several members of the different branches of the N.S.W. Formers and Settlers' Association, together with their families, amounting in all to about 160…

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"A Little Farm Well Tilled." Object Lesson at Cowra

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 4

Evidently Mr. Jas. Grant, pf Glen Elgin, Holmwood, near Cowra, believes that there it some profit in a little farm well tilled in a district where nothing…

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The Farmers and Their Interests

The Worker · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 18

Dear Worker,—The people, for the most part, sympathise with the dairy farmers in their trouble with the companies. What with…

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A Just Wage for Farm Laborers

The Worker · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 17

A Victorian clergyman in a recent lecture on a just wage, reported in a Ballarat journal, said he had worked out, with the aid of an expert, that a just wage for a farm…

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Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 5

The A. M. L. and F. Company report offering 2282 bales, selling 1929 at auction. The market was buoyant and the selection of wools…

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Goulburn Special Cattle Sale

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 3

W. H. Wheatley reports:—Owing to the continued dry weather prices were not too good, although the presence of a couple of outside buyers who operated freely enabled…

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The Wheat Yield

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 2

The wheat yield for Australia at he coming harvest is estimated at 70,000,000 bushels…

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Very Latest. The Cattle Drivers. LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 2

During an affray between cattle drivers and the police in Ireland one of the former was killed and several of the police were injured…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 3

Dalgety and Company Limited report:— We submitted over 5,000 bales at the wool auctions of the previous day, including a number of well known brands. A very…

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Mount Horeb Estate. Modern Farming Methods. Lessons in Up-to-date Management

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 3

On Wednesday last we paid a visit to Mount Horeb Estate, the property of Messrs Davies & Kershaw, where we were most courteously received by Mr…

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