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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

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Murrumbidgee Irrigation Resumption of Holdings. the Positions of Farmers. Government Intentions. Statement by Mr. Beeby. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 4

Mr. P. M'Garry, M.L.A., interviewed Mr. Beeby to-day in connection with the Government's intention are Burrinjuck irrigation resumption…

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DAIRYING. Lice on Cows

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 7

Lice on cows seem to be troublesome in many of the dairying districts, judging from the number of inquiries received by the department…

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About the Season Stock and Crops

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 5

The general trend of the reports received from the observers for the month of December was that the season had been a good one, especially…

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Oversea's Trade. £30,000 Increase in Two Years. Less Wool and Wheat Exported. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1912 · page 2

The oversea trade of the Commonwealth for the last year shows that the exports were nearly £5,000,000 in excess of the previous year,…

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Farmers and Settlers. Association and Arbitration Proceedings. Labor Bureau for Workers. a Sharpened Axe for Sundowners

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1912 · page 2

The claims of the Rural Workers' Union were under discussion at a meeting of the Wagga Branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 3

Mr. R. W. Bath's clip from Muttama was among the offerings at Winchcome, Carson, and Co's wool sale on Thursday. The fleece sold to 10[?]d…

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Wheat Despatch

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 5

The Railway Commissioners are responsible for stacks of old season wheat, containing nearly 5000 bags, being still on hand in the Henty…

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Wheat Figures

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 5

There are at present on hand at Henty railway station 56,943 bags of wheat, and the deliveries of the present season's grain amounts to 63,943…

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Albury Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 3

Younghusband, Row and Co. Ltd. report:—We continued our series of wool sales at Albury on 18th January, when we offered a catalogue of 1042…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 2

Harrison, Jones and Devlin, report:— we submitted on Wednesday a Catalogue of 4194 Bales comprising a representative selection of varying standards of quality…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 3

John Bridge and Coy,, report under date 19th January:— The present has been a busy week in the wool…

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Wheat. a Rising Market

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 2

Last Saturday morning some thousands of bags of New South Wales prime, bright, unbleached wheat were bought at equal to 3/9, Sydney, a…

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Fall From a Wheat Stack

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 5

A wheat lumper named Stewart, whilst stacking at Henty on Saturday afternoon, fell from the top of a high stack, and it was expected had been…

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Australian Stock for Java Good Milking Cattle Wanted

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 4

Dr. L. de Blieck, Director of the Veterinary School at Buttenzorg, Java, is visiting the several Australian States inquiring into the…

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Two strikes. Wool Combers and Journalists. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 2

The wool combers at North Botany came out on strike to-day on the question of overtime, but resumed work this afternoon…

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Five Hundred farms by April

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 2

MR. L. A. B. WADE, officer in charge of the Murrumbidgee irrigation scheme, has returned to Sydney from a visit to Barren Jack favourably…

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Change of Method in Farming

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 4

AN exchange writes:—The scarcity of labor and the aggressiveness of that which is available is having a very definite effect upon the agricultural…

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Fearful Fall. Rescued by Farm Lads. PARIS, Friday night

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 3

Lieut. Boerner, while aeroplaning at Senlis, fell 1000 feet. His condition is hopeless. Boerner's aeroplane swerved and the petrol took fire in…

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Farmers and Settlers

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 2

We have to acknowledge receipt on behalf of the Stockinbingal branch, of £1 as a contribution by Mr. James Dawaon—one of Cootamundra's most…

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Progressive Farming

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 5

The varieties of wheat cropped in the Henty district were numerous, and though some were merely sample lots, it goes to prove that the district…

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