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Farming & the land, 1911

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Dairy Produce

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 August 1911 · page 5

The dairy produce section is as yet in its infancy at Wagga, but when the butter factory is going and the dairying industry is one of the leading ones of the…

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Dairying. White Scour in Calves

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 August 1911 · page 1

A dairy farmer in the Richmond River district has had trouble in rearing his young calves through their being attacked with "white scour."…

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Disastrous Floods. Farm Houses Destroyed. Many Lives Lost. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 August 1911 · page 2

Serious, floods have occurred in the Valley of the Marrino, Switzerland. A torrent rushing, down from the mountains destroyed eight farm…

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The Shearing Dispute. Wet Sheep. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 August 1911 · page 2

Hugh Croft, manager of Booralong station, giving evidence in the shearers' case, said he bad frequently worked among wet sheep, but never…

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Farm and Station

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 29 August 1911 · page 2

ON Saturday next W. E. Kyle and Co. will auction Mr. J. McInerney's dairy cattle at Hawthorne's yards…

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Farm Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 August 1911 · page 2

Bacon and Company, Gunnedah, report having sold in conjunction with Messrs. G. Thompson and Company, Cootamundra, account Mr…

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Dairying

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 August 1911 · page 4

Here we have a specific example of the relative merits of cows in one herd. Out of the 141 cows comprising the herd, nineteen returned a…

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Drought in India. Crops Withering Over Half the Country. Precautions Against Famine. Calcutta

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 August 1911 · page 2

Severe drought conditions prevail throughout the northern half of India. The crops are all withering in the United Provinces, Central Provinces,…

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The Prick of Wheat

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 30 August 1911 · page 2

Sales of wheat opened in Sydney on Monday at 3s 61/2d for millers primes. Shippers at Darling Island gave up to 3s 6d for f.a.q. wheat…

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The Wool Market

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 31 August 1911 · page 6

Schute, Hell & Co., Ltd., Sydney, report under date 28th August:—Opportune rain over a large area of the Stale has steadied arrivals of wool in…

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The Wheat Market. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 31 August 1911 · page 2

Private cables state that the London wheat market is quiet. Apparently the "Canadian frost scare" is ceasing to act in the "bulls'" interest. It is…

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Wheat-growing in New South Wales

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1911 · page 3

The attention of farmers is directed to several useful "Farmers' Bulletins" issued by the Department of Agriculture on the above subject, namely,…

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The State's Wheat Areas. Estimated at 2,798,930 Acres. an Increase of 186,000 ACRES

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1911 · page 2

The area sown for wheat in New South Wales this year shows an increase of 7 per cent, compared with last season's acreage, This is…

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Victoria's Bad Roads Results of Wet Winter. Farmers Unable to Cart Produce. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 31 August 1911 · page 2

Owing to the wet winter the country shires are faced with the heavy work of repairing their roads, and applications for assistance from all parts of…

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Victorian Territorial Claim a Riverina Farmer's Comment

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 31 August 1911 · page 3

Mr. D. F. Blyth, president of the Barham Branch F.S.A., and secretary of the Moulamein District Council of the same body was in Melbourne…

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Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1911 · page 8

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report:—The past week has been a quiet one in the Sydney market, so far as sales are concerned, owing to the…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1911 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson and Co., report:—The regular weekly sales open on Monday, September 4th. Our first sale takes place on Wednesday, September 6,…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1911 · page 1

The Melbourne wool brokers held one of their periodical sales on Tuesday afternoon when there was a full attendance of bayers, including some…

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Chicago Wheat Market. Chicago

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1911 · page 3

The wheat market is weak under the pressure of selling caused by the failure of the market to respond to the had frost reports earlier in the…

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