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Farming & the land, 1912

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Brookong Farmers' Union

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 13 March 1912 · page 2

A meeting of members of the above Farmers' Union was held at the School of Arts, Lockhart, on Saturday last. Therewere in attendance…

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Farmers' and Settlers'

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 March 1912 · page 2

A general meeting of the Wagga Branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association is to be held this weekend. The subject of dairies…

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Education in Agriculture. Vacancies for Apprentices on Government Farms

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 March 1912 · page 4

Commencing from February the Department of Agriculture will have this scheme of training farm apprentices in full going order…

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London Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 3

It has been decided to open the next series of sales in London on the 11th April, by which time it is hoped that the coal strike difficulties will have…

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Northern Territory Explorer's Return. Good Pastoral Country

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 6

Mr. R. H. McPhereon, second in command of the exploring expedition under Captain Barclay, sent to the Northern Territory by the…

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Wheat Ship Wrecked. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 2

A private cable message received to-day, states that the barque Wender, from Port Pirie, with wheat, has been wrecked off Land's End…

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Boric Acid in Butter an Interesting Test

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 5

For the purpose of bringing information regarding the use of boric acid in butter as a preservative up to date, the butter factories of Victoria were on…

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Rural and Pastoral Workers Excluded From Arbitration Bill. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 2

The Legislative Council having further considered the Industrial Arbitration Bill in committee, decided on a division by 15 votes to 4 that pastoral…

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Frightened Dairy Farmers

The Worker · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 15

THE great cow country of the Richmond River district is in a very disturbed state at the present time and many of the farmers gloomily talk of the…

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Visitors from Albury. at Wagga Experiment Farm

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 3

The annual excursion of the members of the Albury Vine and Fruit Growers' Association to the Wagga Experiment Farm was made…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report:—It has been decided to open the next series of sales in London, the 11th April, by which time it is hoped that the coal…

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Butter Making. Causes of Inferiority

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 2

Some of the causes of inferior quality in butler are a want of cleanliness in dealing with the milk, leaving the cream no long on the milk that it…

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Commercial. Wool. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd. report:—The wool market has been quiet throughout the past week, no doubt…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 3

Dalgety and Companp report:— There has been a very quiet wool market since our last report; comparatively few sales having been…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 4
Also in The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser

These Notes are issued every week, under tile personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Tretle, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve many problems concerning the land and…

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Poultry. Fowls on the Colony System. the Methods on a Large Farm

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 2

For the ordinary farmer keeping a few [?] or hundreds of fowls, with plenty of grassland to run them on, the colony system will always take first place…

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The Dairy. Breeding Pigs. Question of Rations

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 2

The feeding of pigs, with special reference to their development for breeding purposes, is the subject of a special report which has Just been issued by…

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Profitable Dairying

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 2

A very interesting paper has been published by Mr. A. M. Draper, of Bannockburn, near Inverell. New South Wales, giving the result of dairying on…

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The Dairy Shorthorn

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 3

A writer in the "Field" (England) recently stated that had the Shorthorn classes at the great competition at Chicago and St. Louis been composed…

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