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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

1,673 stories in Riverina's papers · page 55 of 84

DAIRYING. The Herd and the Tester. Where the Owner's Picked Cows Really Were

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 3

The New Zealand Department of Agriculture has given currency to the following letter from a dairy farmer in the Dominion:—…

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A Farm Tragedy. Attack with Tomahawk. Laborer Shot Dead. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 7

The Inspector-General of Police has received word that George Thorpe, a farmer at Wongarbon, near Geurie, reported to the police that he show a…

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Floods on the Hawkesbury Many Farms Submerged. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 6

The heavy rains in the Hawkesbury River district have caused serious floods. Many farms are submerged and the stock has been removed to…

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Wool Sales. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 July 1912 · page 2

A good selection of good merino wool was forward at yesterday's London wool sales. Competition was very keen…

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Live Stock. Sheep and Wheat. in Conjunction at Bathurst

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 July 1912 · page 3

The value and the importance to farmers in the wheat districts of the state of raising sheep in conjunction with growing wheat has been…

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Commercial. WOOL

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 July 1912 · page 2

A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd. Report:—In the local market small auctions will take place next week. With few expectations, however, the selection will…

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Farmers & Settlors' Conference

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 30 July 1912 · page 2

IT must seem clear to even the most superficial observer that the case for the man on the land, as advocated by the recent Farmers…

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Visit to Shirley's Superphosphate Works. by Interested Delegates From the Farmers and Settlers' Conference

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 July 1912 · page 4

Taking advantage of the holding of the annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, the proprietors of George Shirley, Ltd., invited the…

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The Best Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 July 1912 · page 2

If the Minister for Works doth not know any more about his own department than he does about farmers and farming, on which subject he sets…

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Wool Sales. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 July 1912 · page 2

At the wool sales prices were generally maintained. There was no change in the market for merino wools…

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Notes' for the Dairyman

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 31 July 1912 · page 3

The greatest source of los in the dairy industry is the feeding on unprofitable cows. Every silo user is an enthusiast…

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The Farm. How to Conserve the Moisture in the Soil

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 31 July 1912 · page 3

"The greatest evils of drought are due to ignorant treatment of the soil." The fanner who has been practising a haphazard system of…

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Boree Creek Farmers' Union. an Irrigation Scheme Mooted

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 31 July 1912 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the F. and S. A. branch was held on Monday. Mr. A. Moffat (Vice President) presided in the…

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Farmers and Sellers Association

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 July 1912 · page 2

The usual monthly meeting of The Rock branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held on Saturday last, there being a good…

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Farmers and Settlers

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 July 1912 · page 2

Mr. P. Heffernan, Millbank, Junee, writes:—The members attending the late conference in Sydney, who by a slight majority, carried a resolution in…

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The Dairy. Sweet Cream Butter. How to Make It

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

In the course' of an instructive article on the manufacture of butter from what Is known as sweet cream on English expert states that the general…

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Sydney Wool & Skin Market

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

The Co-operative wool and Produce Co. report:—At our wool sale this week the market was very firm and prices were decidedly in seller's favour…

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Wool Sales. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 August 1912 · page 2

At the London wool sales a considerable number of withdrawals took place owing to the high price placed by speculators on their wool…

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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 2 August 1912 · page 6

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

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For the Man on the Land. [Issued by the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture.] Agriculture. Rotation Crops. the System at Bathurst Farm

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 2 August 1912 · page 2

The rotation is such an important and integral part of the system practised at Bathurst Experiment Farm that it cannot…

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