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Farming & the land, 1910

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Wool Clip. Returns Well Above the Average

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 4

The official figures issued by the Wagga District Pastures Protection Board, relative to the wool clip for the 1909 season prove interesting reading…

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The Wheat Market

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

The hardening tendency of the market given promise that wheat values will reach a higher level than has yet ten attained this season, and those…

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Experimental Wheat Plots

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

The experimental wheat plot established by the Department of Agriculture on Mr. G. Laidlaw's farm, Elm Park, near Albury, has been…

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The Locked-up Wheat

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 3

Mr. T. I. Campbell, general secretary F.S.A, states that he has forwarded a letter to the parties interested advising that no objection having…

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The Wheat Market. Continues Firm. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson and Co., Ltd., report:— The wheat market is very firm, and buyers are operating freely to 4/5…

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Farm and Station

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 3

Several small grass fires occurred in the district last week. Two broke out almost simultaneously on Messrs K[?]ll's, at Lacmalac caused by light:…

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On Farm and Station

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

"I didn't use fertilisers this year," said a farmer to us this week. "Result, ton bushels per acre. My neighbour, on the same quality land, fertilised…

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Rotation of Crops

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

IN the "Agricultural Gazette" of January 3rd, Mr. J. Wrenford Mathews writes as follows on the above subject:—…

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Farmer's Awful Death

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

On Wednesday last George-Wykes, a farmer, near Kildary, whilst carting wheat, was getting off s waggon to open a gate six miles from Beckom, when he…

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Farmers' Fair

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

The attention of all classes of the community and farmers in particular is directed to the Farmers' Fair and Autumn Show, which will be held in…

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The Butter Industry

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 2

What is practically a new and also a profitable, industry has been introduced to Wagga and district farmers and stock-raisers by the enterprise of…

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Margarine Masquerades As Butter

The Worker · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 19

Margarine is being dumped in Hobart and sold as butter, according to the statements of speakers at a meeting of live stock owners held at Hobart on…

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Sydney Wool Market

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., wool and produce brokers. Sydney, report under date 10th January:—Sales were resumed to-day in the presence…

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Treating Wheat for Smut

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 2

Mr. M'Alpine, Victorian Government Pathologist, reports that the experiments at Longerenong Agricultural College in connection with the…

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Wheat and Flour Brisk

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 2

During Tuesday forenoon a considerable aggregate of milling wheat changed hands (on direct country purchase) at equal to 4/4 1/2 per bushel (on trucks…

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The Wheat Market. SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 2

The demand for N.S.W. milling was irregular, approximately buyers offered 4/4 to 4/4 1/4 (Sydney), sellers 4/4 1/2. Business almost at a standstill…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. MELBOURNE

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., held their first sale of the current year, to-day, submitting a good catalogue of 3215 bales, including a…

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Preference and Wheat. Prices and Supplies Discussed

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 2

Hon. A. Lyttelton, who was Secretary of State for the Colonies in the last Balfour Government, in an address at Wolverhampton, said the sole obstacle urged…

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Commercial. Melbourne Wool Sales. Improvements in Prices

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 4

The Melbourne wool sales were resumed on Monday after the adjournment caused by the Christmas holidays. Younghusband, Row, and Co.,…

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The Price of Wheat. Britain's Resources. Fear of Taxation. London, Jan. 12

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 2

The Hon. A. Lyttleton (U.) at Wolverhampton said the sole obstacle to a closer knotting of the Empire in a commercial bond was the belief that…

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