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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

1,673 stories in Riverina's papers · page 42 of 84

Pastoral motes

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 3

The statement is often made that "it does not pay to class small farmers' clips." That is an argument best answered by the man…

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Cropping Systems. Continuous Wheat-growing Against Fallow & Rotation

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 4

The management of the soil in the way that will prove most profitable to the farmers is one of the problems to which the…

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Wool and Skin Reports

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 5

The Co-operative Wool and Produce Co. report:—Wool: Judging by the demand for scoured skin wools, the outlook for the next sales to be held on June 10th…

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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 31 May 1912 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Tr[?], Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve many problems concerning the and production which would be impracticable to the individual producer…

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The Dairy. the Tuberculin Test. an Exhaustive Inquiry

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 7

Prejudice against the tuberculin test dies slowly, but a recent statement issued in England by the "International Commission on the Control of Bovine…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association Hillston Branch

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 8

The ordinary monthly meeting of the above was hold at the Council Chambers on Saturday evening, Mr. B. W. Doyle presided, and there were…

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Careful Farming

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 4

With the terrible depression prevailing, owing to the severe season and high price of fodder, it is refreshing to find that there are…

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Stockinbingal Farmers and Settlers' Association

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the above was held at Mr. J. Neville's on Saturday night, 25th May. Present—Messrs. J. Corby, J.P. (chairman)…

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For the Man on the Land [Issued by the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture.] Agriculture. the Farm Apprentices. Those at Cowra—for Example

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 4

As mentioned in these notes a week or two ago, there is still room for a few apprentices at several of the Government Farms…

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Steam Traction Ploughing. Trial at the Wagga Experiment Farm

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 4

A field trial of Messrs. J. H. M‘Laren’s Compound Ploughing Engine was given at the Wagga Experiment Farm on Thursday…

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Work on the Farm

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 3

Wheat sowing is pretty well over now for the present season, but the majority of fields planted require something or other doing to them, and on that…

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Practical Agriculture. Original Articles. Specially written for this column. All Rights Reserved. Crazing Forage Crops

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 3

In consuming forage crops on the land where they grow more especially autumn ones, offers a good chance to give the soil a fertilising. Troughs…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 7

These notes are issued every week, under, the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the…

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Trees that Yield Butter

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 2

Butter, as the term (from a Greek, word meaning "ox cheese") implies was originally a name for a product obtained from the milk of the cow,…

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PASTORAL. Silage.—A Somewhat Rare Use

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 7

Clear evidence of the value of silage is offering at Cowra Experiment Farm just now. In common with other inland districts, Cowra has…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Market

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 5

Schute. Hell ami Co., Ltd., report under date 27th May that the moderate rainfall last week over a considerable area along the coast and up to a…

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AGRICULTURAL. The Farm Apprentices. Those at Cowra—for Example

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 7

As mentioned in these notes a week or two ago, there is still room for a few apprentices at several of the Government farms. At Cowra…

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The Farmers Association and the Government

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 4

It as not surprising, when the character of the annual report to be presented at the forthcoming conference of the Farmers and Settlers…

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Yanco Irrigation Farms

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 2

The first subdivision of the Murrumbidgee Northern Irrigation Settlement at Yanco was gazetted on Wednesday. The farms and blocks notified numbered…

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A Canadian Lottery. Farming in the Western Dominion

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 June 1912 · page 4

Farming is not one of the worst occupations, but it is one of the lotteries in Canada. A farmer never knows when he is going to have his…

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