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Farming & the land, 1911

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The Dairy. British Butter Consumption

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 2

LARGE IMPORTATIONS NECESSARY Great Britain consumes nearly 300,000 tons of butter a year. The amount of butter, or rather its value, exceeds…

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Sale of Sheep

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 2

Watts, Clark and Co., Henty, New South Wales, report having sold privately on account of Mr. Win. Todd, "Bellevue," Trundle, 3700 mixed…

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Wool Reports

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 8

Winchoombe Carson and Co. report:—Our Wednesday's catalogue consisted of over 6000 bales, including many well-known clips. Among other, the PF/G in…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Balancing Production

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 4

It is now generally recognised by formers throughout the agricultural world that it is not economically possible to grow a certain crop year after year on…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 6
Also in The Tumut and Adelong Times

Those Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales. (Wednesday, October 4th)

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 2

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., wool salesmen, telegraph that they offered 5000 bales at last Wednesday's auctious, including some superior…

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Methods of Farming

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 2

There are several methods of farming that are wrong, but there are none that are absolutely right—is one of the pithy remarks of Mr Hall of…

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In the Old Days. Farmers Go a Fishing

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 7

How well I remember when I was a young chap that a party of farmers, of whom my father was one, went on a fishing trip to Lily Lake early in May…

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The Dairy. Food for Pigs. Authorities Differ

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 3

In a recent Issue of the English "Live Stock Journal" It is stated that on few matters In connection with pig-fattening does there appear to be…

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Mill Dairy

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 6

There are few dailies up country conducted on more up-to-date or cleanly lines [?] is the Mill Dairy, under [?] supervision of Mr. Walter [?]…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Varieties of Cowpeas

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 7

Experiments by the Department with five varieties of cowpeas—Black, White, Clay-colored, New Era, and Whip-poor-Will—showed Black and…

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The Wheat Market. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 2

There was practically no demand for wheat to-day, owing to the quietness of the London market Quotations are without variation. Millers have…

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Shearers' Claims. Mr. Justice Higgins' Decision New Rates All Round. the Question of Wet Sheep. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 3

Mr. Justice Higgins, in the Arbitration Court to-day, delivered his award in the shearers' dispute. His Honor paid the case had taken…

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Shearing Dispute. A.W.[?]. v. Pastoralists' Union. Mr. Justice Biggins' Award. the Wet Sheep Question. an Indefinite Ruling. Preference to Unionists Refused. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 4

Mr. Justice Biggins delivered judgment in the matter in dispute between the Australian Workers' Union and the Pastoralists' Federal Council. At the…

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Cricket Wagga V. Experiment Farm

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 7

This match will be played at Experiment Farm this afternoon. A 'bus will leave the Commercial Hotel at 2 p.m. sharp…

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Blowering. Pastoral and Agricultural

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 10 October 1911 · page 2

Dairying is now in full swing and dairymen are reaping a golden harvest. Farmers have almost completed ploughing operations and several have…

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Tumut Butter Factory Ld

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 10 October 1911 · page 3

THE monthly meeting of the Board of Di rectors of the Tumnt Butter Factory, Ltd was held on Friday last, Dr Mason (chairman), Mews J Elliot, H H Crouch, T…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 10 October 1911 · page 2

Hill, Clark and Co. report:—On Thursday we submitted a catalogue comprising clips from the western and north-western districts, the selection being principally…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 10 October 1911 · page 3

Messrs. Hill, Clark and Co., Ltd., report:—On Thursday we submitted a catalogue of 1,688 bales of west and north western wool,…

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