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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

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Agricultural Seeds. Depths to Sow Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 January 1912 · page 4

At the Roseworthy Agricultural College, South Australia, experiments extending over three years were carried out respecting the best depths to plant…

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Hurricane at Fiji. 20 Per Cent of Crops Destroyed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 January 1912 · page 2

The reported hurricane and floods in Fiji are confirmed. Much damage was done to the crops, 20 per cent. being destroyed…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 February 1912 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. held their usual weekly sale this afternoon. Although the season is now far…

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Commercial Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 1 February 1912 · page 3

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., held their usual weekly sale this afternoon. Although the season is now far…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes. For the Man on the Land. Agriculture. Depths to Sow Wheat

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 2

At the Roseworthy Agricultural College, South Australia, experiments extending over three years were carried out respecting the best depths to plant…

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Hillston Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 5

The annual meeting of subscribers to the above was held in the Royal Mail Hall on Wednesday last, there being about 30…

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Chapman's Wool Store

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 2

Messrs. Chapman Co., have recently purchased the ground and premises in Russell-st., opposite our office, previously owned by Mrs. Bennett and…

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Sydney Wool Market

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

The Pastoral Finance Association reports:— At our last sale we experienced a strong market for all lines, while the demand was particularly keen for the…

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Production of Milk and Butter

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 6

It is generally believed, with great reason, that a ration consisting of a certain portion of succulent matter is necessary for the most economical…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 3

The Australian Estates and Mortgage Co. Ltd. held their usual, sale yesterday afternoon and offered a full catalogue of average wools. The…

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To-day's Telegrams. Wheat and Chaff

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 2

Wheat, 3s 8d to 3s 9d; chick at auction, 3s 8½d. Chaff: Wheaton, 4s 3d to 6s; oaten, 4s 3d to 5s 7d…

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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 February 1912 · page 6

Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the [?] J. L. Trefie, Minister of Agriculture, and dare leased mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can give many problems concerning the land and production which would by 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. Wheat-growing

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 1

In the January number of the Agricultural Gazette, Departmental officers give some very useful and practical information…

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The Dairy. Points of Dairy Cows. Milking Characteristics

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

There are many distinguishing features in the most profitable dairy cows. The tall, udder, wedge-shaped shoulders, and eyes express milking…

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Maize at Bathurst Experiment Farm

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 6

The experiments in maize-growing carried out by Mr. R. W. Peacock, manager Rathurst Experiment Farm, should be interesting to farmers…

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The Dairy. Milk Production. Effect of Food

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 4
Also in Tumbarumba Times

In England recently a paper was read by Mr Ginningham, of the University of Bristol, at a meeting of the Lydney and District Farmers' Club. The points…

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Poultry. Great Poultry Farm. Industry in America. Mammoth Undertaking

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 4

The following report of an American poultry farm may be of interest. It is from the pen of Mr Randolph Meech an English poultry breeder and writer…

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Motive Power on the Farm

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 2

Machinery is the order of the day; there is no sense in doing by hand that which can be done better and quicker by the aid of machinery. The…

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Agricultural Education. Records of Wagga Farm Students

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 3

The 1912 session has opened up with a record attendance of 58 students. Prominent among those who did not return were full term students…

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