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Farming & the land, 1909

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Butter News

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 2

Superfine New South Wales butter has a fair sale in Sydney Host factory butter is soiling in Gundagai at 1s. per lb. This time…

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Wool Notes

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 2

Bangus shod will cut out out to-day. Local wools are selling woll in Sydney. Mr Turner's (Adelong Crossing)…

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Samples of New Wheat

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 2

Picked samples of new wheat are to hand in Sydney from Tamworth, Manilla, Narra[?] and a [?]ber of localities in the north-west of N.S.W…

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First Wheat of the Season

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 2

A truck of wheat, the first of the new crop, was submitted at auction by Messrs. Sheppard, Harvey and Walker, at the Sydney railway sales…

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The Wheat Market. Buyers Cautious. Fear of Strike Effects. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 2

The "Evening News" to-night says that Australian shippers are very dubious about offering to buy new wheat on forward delivery, as a cessation of…

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Farm Laborers' Union. Another New Organisation for Wagga

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 2

A meeting of farm laborers to consider the wages question and conditions of labor, was held last night at the Protestant Hall, Mr. J. Kelly…

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The Industrial War. Western Miners Come Out. Stock and Wool Sales Affected. Miners' Request for Conference Declined Offer by Proprietors. Will Submit Case to Industrial Court. Financing the Strike. Mr. Bowling's Scheme. Identity of the Collieries. Newcastle

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 2

News came to hand to-night which shows that there may yet be a possibility of giving, effect to Mr. Bowling's scheme for financing the strike…

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Wool Reports and Sales

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1909 · page 2

The Sydney Wool-selling Brokers' Association reports:—The market [?] week was exceptionally strong [?]oughout, all the best features…

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Good Wheat and Lots of It

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 November 1909 · page 3

There was a time not long ago when the growing of wheat was none too profitable a venture—a time then came when, by an expenditure of half a crown per acre on…

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Now Big Wool Catalogues Are Handled. the Famous Table Top Clip

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1909 · page 4

THE eno[?] amount of work and enterprise required to successfully conduct a large wool sale is scarcely realised outside of those closely…

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Railway Traffic Suspended. Wool Trade Paralysed. Unionist's Opinion. Believes Men Opposed to Strike. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1909 · page 2

All the railway traffic is suspended on the West Wallsend line owing to the strike. All the Unionists in the Newcastle…

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Farm and Station

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 16 November 1909 · page 3

The whole of Sir Rupert Clarke's landed property in the vicinity of Melbourne has been placed under offer to the Goverument for closer settlement…

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On Farm and Station

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1909 · page 3

An extraordinary clip was cut by Kime Estate this shearing, as the ful[?]grown sheep averaged 25 bales per 1000 sheep, the whole clip returning…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Murrumburrah

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 November 1909 · page 2

The first annual meeting of the Murrumburrah branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held (in Saturday afternoon, Mr. Neville Graham…

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Farm Laborers' Union. What Local Farmers Think of the Scheme

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1909 · page 2

The decision of the meeting of farm laborers on Friday night last to form a union for the purpose of keeping up the rate of wages, reducing the hours…

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Wool Notes

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 17 November 1909 · page 2

Shearing has almost finished in this district. A number of district clips will be offered in Sydney this week…

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The Organisation of Farm Hands

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 November 1909 · page 2

There can be no objection to the organisation of rural workers, even among the farmers themselves, providing the aims of the movement are…

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Farmers and Unionism. To the Editor Wagga "Advertiser."

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 November 1909 · page 4

Sir.—Allow me a few remarks in reply to Mr. R. T. Dunn and his fellow comrades in the farming life, who state that eight hours are not…

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Farm Laborers' Conditions Union Formed at Coolamon

The Worker · Thursday 18 November 1909 · page 18

A meeting of farm laborers was held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Coolamon, on Saturday, November 6. The attendance was about 100, among whom were a fair…

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Farm and Station Our Butter in London

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 19 November 1909 · page 3

The particulars of the awards at the recent London Dairy Show furnish food for reflection. Contrasted with Queensland, this State cuts a…

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