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Farming & the land, 1909

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Western Canada. the Great Wheat Belt

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1909 · page 4

Not every home-keeping Briton realises the magnitude of the Western wheat lands. The great stretch between middle Canada and the…

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Commercial. the Wool Market

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 April 1909 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co., wool and produce brokers, Sydney, report under date 27th April: The advance in wool values recorded in the Sydney market on…

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J[?] Wheat. Its Superior Milling Qualities. New England As a Wheat Centre

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1909 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture is in receipt of reports from his officers giving particulars of milling and baking trials which have been made with New…

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The Wheat Boom. Further Fall in Chicago. London, April 27

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1909 · page 2

In the Chicago wheat market on Monday there was a further fall in prices. May deliveries fluctuated from 121 cents a bushel to 118 1/4 cents. and…

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Tumut Butter Factory Ltd

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 3

THE annual mooting of shareholders of the Tumut Butter Factory, Ltd., was hold on Wednesday afternoon in the Oddfellows' Hall, Dr. Mason…

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Dingoes and Sheep.—a Fable

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 2

ONCE upon a time, when the world was younger than it is now, a great flock of sheep were feeding on rich and abundant pastures spreading far and…

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Commercial, Wool. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co. Ltd., report :— The advance in. wool values recorded in the Sydney market on Monday and Tuesday last was f ally reflected at the Brisbane sales…

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Coolamon’s Wheat and Chaff Returns

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 6

It will be interesting to our readers to know the amount of chaff and wheat that has been sent forward from this railway…

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Stomach Worms in Sheep the Disease Described an Official Report

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 7

Mr Sydney Dodds, M.R.C.V.S., Principal Government Veterinary Surgeon and Bacteriologist in Queensland, in dealing with the…

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Hillston Police Court. (Tuesday, 27Th April. Before Mr. A. Ormonde Butter, P.m.)

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 2

Robert Arthur Wills was charged "That he did falsely pretend that a certain cheque for £12 10s, purporting to be signed by Arthur Hollis Botts,…

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On Farm and Station

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 2

It is estimated that the wheat acreage of Canada is fully 20 per cent. above that of 1908. At the local land office, A. A. Paton,…

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Farm and Field. The Lamb Export-Trade

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 4

The South Australian Government a few months ago commissioned Mr F. W. Ralph, when on a visit to England, to inquire into the distribution of…

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Vegetable Fibre in Wool. Important Recommendations

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 6

LONDON, March 26—The Committee on Vegetable Fibre in Wool, comprising representatives of every branch of the wool industry, both the producing and…

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The Wheat Market. Revival of Prices Expected. the World's Shortage. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 5

Some holders of New South Wales, Victorian and South Australian milling wheat expect a revival in prices here owing to the world's shortage. This view…

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District Dairymen's Association

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 2

A meeting of district milk vendors called with the object of forming some organisation to further their interests and [?]tally to improve the breed…

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Queensland Farms

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 2

Messrs. Weaver and Gleason, Ltd., of Queensland, announce that they are subdividing in areas to snit purchasers two noted Queensland estates viz…

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Science on the Farm

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 4

The well-known writer, "Home Counties," bus commenced an important series of articles in the "world's Work" on the land problem. In the…

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Wagga Dairymen's Association

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 2

A well represented meeting of dairymen was held at the Pastoral Hotel on Thursday evening. Mr. Mackaway was appointed chairman. The meeting…

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Dry Farming. Experience with the Packer

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 3

One of the most important features of the system of soil-culture for and regions which has come to be called the Campbell system of dry farming, is the…

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