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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

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Farmers and Settlers Platform. Objective

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 March 1913 · page 4

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

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Hand-feeding Sheep. Alternatives in a Dry Season

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 March 1913 · page 3

The problem of feeding the sheep at Wagga Experiment Farm is a frequently recurre[?] one, and during the past ten years hand-feeding has had to…

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Wharf Lumpers Strike. Wheat Loading Delayed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 March 1913 · page 2

The strike at Darling Island continues. There are now soo true loads of wheat stationed there. It is understood that a considerable…

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The Japanese Farmer

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 March 1913 · page 4

From time immemorial the farms have furnished the chief productive power of the Japanese people Agriculture still constitutes, the basis of…

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Fat and Butter Fat

The Worker · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 18

A recant criticism in THE WORKER appears to have excited the wrath of the Mudgee Dairy Company. The matter has been discussed at a directors' meeting,…

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Hand-feeding Sheep. Alternatives in a Dry Season

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 3

The problem of feeding the sheep at, Wagga Experiment Farm is a frequently recurrent one, and during the past ton years hand feeding hag had…

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Wheat Shipping Stopped Casual Hands' Demands. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 2

Wheat shipping at Darling Harbor has been brought to a standstill by a strike of the casual men employed by the Railway department for…

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Wheat Lumpers on Strike. Loading Operations in the Country Stopped

The Worker · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 17

No wheat is being sent to Darling Harbor. The casual hands employed by the N.S.W. railways to load wheat at Parling Harbor have ceased work in a…

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Items of News. Are Dairymen Slaves?

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 2

"Dairymen are slaves," heatedly remarked a witness before the Food Commission. "I work 14 days a week." It was a dairyman who was…

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Agricultural Notes Green Fodder Trials. South Coast Farmers' Experiment

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 3

Reporting on the trials of green fodders which were made on the farmers' plots on the South Coast last year, the inspector for the district remarked…

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Pastoral. Sheep on the Clarence. An Experiment

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 6

A good deal of interest is being taken in North Coast districts, in the experiments with sheep which are being conducted at Grafton experiment farm…

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Commercial. WOOL

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 4

A. M. L. and C. Co., Ltd report:—The arrivals of wool recently have been on a very small scale, in consequence, and in view of the small…

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Handfeeding Sheep. Alternatives In a Dry Season

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 6

The problem of feeding the sheep at Wagga experiment farm is a frequently recurrent one, and during the past ten years hand-feeding has had to be…

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London Wool Sales LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 2

At the London wool sales prices were fully maintained. Coarse cross breds were in keen domand at 7½ per cont, advance…

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Closer Settlement Wheat Lands, Dellapool Estate

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 1

This well-known property situated about 6 miles from Crong Grong, to miles from Narrandera and 12 miles from Boree Creek railway station, is now…

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Sowing "Dry," When to Plant Wheat

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 8

Is a man likely to get a better crop, all things being equal, if he waits till rain before sowing, than if he sows with the land dry ?…

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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 7 March 1913 · page 6

These Notice are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trafic, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department…

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Practical Agriculture. Original Articles Specially written for this column All Rights Reserved Hard Butter

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 3

During the summer the chief trouble of the butter-maker is to make firm butter, while in winter just the reverse is generally experienced, the trouble…

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Farm Produce

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 3

It is years since such a splendid collection of farm and horticulture produce was put into the pavilion annex, and certainly not a finer lot of…

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AGRICULTURAL. 96 Green Fodder Trials. South Coast Farmers' Experiment Plots

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 6

Reporting on the trials of green fodders which were made on the farmers' plots on the South Coast last year, the inspector for the district…

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