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Farming & the land, 1912

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Sydney Wool Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 3

Dalgetty and Company report:—The wool market is quiet at all the Australian control practically all business being suspended until after the holidays. There…

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Experimental Wheat Plots. Results at Harden

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 1

The Following are the results on the 10-acre experimental plot on Mr. B. J. Stock's farm at Cunningar, near Harden:—…

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The Oats Crop

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

PARTICULARS of the oats crop for 1911-12 show a very satisfactory state of affairs as regards the proportion of the estimated yield to the…

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Farmer's Flock

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 3

[?] been said by historians" that [?]roduction of sheep into any [?] has always been accompanied [?]reat increase of wealth and…

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Scientific Farming

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 2

An expert writing on the subject of soil cultivation points out that it is practically waste of labor to fallow land unless the work is followed up…

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Ercial Sydney Wool Market

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson and Co. Ltd. report under date January 2nd:— Up to date 481,110 bales wool have been sold in the Sydney market, and…

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Queensland Maize Crops Prospects Slightly Improved Good Rains Registered. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 2

[?] scattered thunderstorms which [?] experienced during the past [?] all[?]tly improved the [?] crops within…

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Local and General News Forest Hill Crops

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 2

The harvest in the Forest Hill district is now all gathered in, and on the whole is most satisfactory. The bulk of the best crops was cut for hay,…

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Pasture Grasses Experiments at Glen Innes Farm

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 4

At the Glen Innes State Experimental Farm some good work has been done in demonstrating how exotic grasses may be introduced and…

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Wheat

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 2

Sheppard, Harvey and Co. report:—Since we issued our report a few days ago, there has been in the London market a continuance…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 2

Dalgety and Company report:— The wool market is quiet at all the Australian centres, practically all business being suspended until…

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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 5 January 1912 · page 6

These Notes are Issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. T[?], Minister of Agriculture, and are [?] mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can give many problems concerning the land and production which would be impre[?] to the individual producer…

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Wheat. Fixing the F.a.q. Standard

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 2

We have been asked by the show committee to request the farmers in the Cootamundra district to forward a fair average sample of the…

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The Dairy. Bacon Curing. a Farm Method

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 3

Information is often required by small settlers and farmers regarding the method of killing pigs and home-curing of bacon. The following hints may…

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The Dairy. Healthy Pigs. Effect of Food

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 2

Two factors which largely conduce to disease among pigs are overcrowding and injudicious feeding with more or less unsuitable food. Wheat is at the…

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PLOUGHING 25 Miles a Day. The Work a Farmer Really Does

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 6

The acre is about the most ancient measure in existence. The word means a cultivated field, and all the nations of antiquity had a similar measure. The acre,…

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Experiment Farms

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 2

There has been a loss of some thousands of pounds on one of the Government experiment farms in Victoria. The Minister for Agriculture,…

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Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 4

Private cables state that the London and Liverpool wheat markets show a slight improvement because of reported damage to the Argentine…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 7

These notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the H[?] J. D. Tre[?] Ministers of Agriculture and are based mainly on the…

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Skilful Wheat Growing a Student Scholarship

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 5

To encourage the furtherance of those objects which were the life study of the late William Farrar, wheat breeder, "The Daily Telegraph"…

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