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Farming & the land, 1912

1,673 stories in Riverina's papers · page 57 of 84

AGRICULTURAL. Harrow the Wheat. Why and When

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 3

"Harrow your growing wheat, and harrow it now." That is the burden of a short paper in the Agricultural Gazette" for…

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Farmers' Wheat Plots. Wheat Experiments for 1911

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 4

Several features of importance will present themselves to farmers who carefully peruse the results of the farmers' experiment plots in 1911, as…

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Commercial. WOOL

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 3

A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd. Report:—There is no change to report since last week, the market continuing very quiet, owing to absence of supplies…

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Sydney Wool & Skin Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 2

Hill, Clark and Co report:—The Sydney wool business as far as actual sales are concerned, has now reached the quietest period of the year Practically…

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Wool and Produce. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 3

Messrs. Schute, Bell, and Co., Ltd. report:—Rabbit Skins.—Supplies this week were much less than last, the heavy…

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Agricultural. Harrow the Wheat. Why and When

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 4

"Harrow your wheat, and harrow it now." That is the burden of a short paper in the "Agricultural Gazette."…

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Wool Tariff Bill, To be Vetoed by President Taft. London

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 2

President Taft has decided to veto the Wool Tariff Bill on the ground that the duty is so low that it will injure the industry and…

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Farm and Station

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 2

BUTTER took a fall of 4/ in Sydney yesterday. DURING THE PAST 30 years over 3,000,000 oxen have been received…

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The Income Tax and Farmers

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 4

A correspondent writes:—I am a "bona-fide" farmer, but I am far from being free from income tax. I work the farm with the help of my own…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Platform. Objective

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 4

(a) The return of members to Parliament having a practical knowledge of country districts and requirements generally…

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Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 August 1912 · page 2

Sales took place during the forenoon of about 30,000 bushels of milling wheat at 4/3 per bushel, Sydney, a rise of a halfpenny on the day,…

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[?] Farm. Stack Ensilage

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 14 August 1912 · page 6

Some of its Virtues Described by Mr. Dibble, of the Agricultural Department of Now Zealand. Best Methods to Employ, And the Crops to Use…

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His Ridiculous Highness, the Sheep

The Worker · Thursday 15 August 1912 · page 3

AUSTRALIAN CONSUMER.—"I must investigate this phenomenon, for he's getting beyond my reach, and will soon be but a memory. Can it be the result of abundance of food and a plentiful supply of water ?"…

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Women in Male Attire. Works As a Farm Hand. Then Taken Billet in the City

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 August 1912 · page 3

Occupying one of the stone cells at Carlton watch house on Tuesday evening was a young woman dressed in man's attire. Her name is Maria…

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Farmers and Children

The Worker · Thursday 15 August 1912 · page 11

There was a very angry conference in Sydney the other week, to wit the Farmers and Settlers, and it was easy to see who hit them hard and what pleased…

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Great Cattle Sale

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 16 August 1912 · page 2

The heaviest yarding of cattle that has ever been seen in Tumut is to take place tomorrow (Saturday), when Messrs. [?] E. Wallis & Co. (the leading auctioneering…

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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 16 August 1912 · page 6

These Notes are final every week under the personal supervision of the Hon. J.L. Trefic Minister of Agricultere and we based on the mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve many problems concerning the land and production which would be impractical to the individual producer…

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The Horse. Feeding on Wheat. Treatment Recommended

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 August 1912 · page 7

At the Warrnnmbool Farmers Convention, Dr W. T. Kendall, D.V.Sch.,etc, road an informative paper on "Effects of Wheat Eating 'by Horses."…

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AGRICULTURAL. No. 67.. Cultivating for Wheat. When to Start

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 August 1912 · page 6

Mr. A. E. V. RioHARDSON, in an article in the Victorian Journal of Agriculture discusses two points of consider-able interest to those who are…

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A Cat and Rat Farm

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 August 1912 · page 4

A correspondent of the "Mark Lane Express" writes to the editor of that journal as follows;—One of the most amusing letters I have read for…

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