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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

1,761 stories in Riverina's papers · page 67 of 89

The Wool Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 30 September 1913 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association, report:—The wool sales were resumed in the Sydney market last week when…

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Homebush Stock Sales. Cattle Advancing. Sydney, Monday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 September 1913 · page 4

At the Homebush sales to-day, 41,332 sheep were penned of all descriptions. Competition was keen and quality good, Hardly any quoted rise in…

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Maintaining Soil Fertility. a Farmers Advice

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 September 1913 · page 1

Speaking on the above subject before the Leech's Gully branch of the Agricultural Bureau. Mr. J. Ditzell of that district urged farmers there to avoid…

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Farmers' Trip to Yanko Special Train From Wagga Suggested

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 September 1913 · page 2

Wagga district farmers have been keenly disappointed to learn that seats available on the special train from June to Yanko Settlement have been early…

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Are Farmers Born or Made?

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 September 1913 · page 2

This query is prompted by a comparison of the efforts of farmers of[?] and these of the present day. [?]tist would have us be[?]ve that…

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The Wool Clip. Good Pastoral Returns

The Worker · Wednesday 1 October 1913 · page 2

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. estimate the Australasian production for the current months at 2,407,000 bales, an increase of 160,000 bales on the output in the…

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Sheep Prospects

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 October 1913 · page 3

Sidney Kidman, the Australian "cattle king," has declared that sheep will be very high in price this year…

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Items of News. Wheat in Riverina

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 October 1913 · page 2

Mr. T. Spring, speaking at Junee on Monday night, on the question of decentralisation, said that at the present time there were 268,000 bags of…

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General Cables. Wool Sales. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 October 1913 · page 2

Competition at the London wool sales caused prices to be well maintained…

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Dairy Farming under Irrigation. Visit of Minister for Agriculture

Irrigation Record · Wednesday 1 October 1913 · page 3

On 13th September the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Trefle) visited Leeton to formally set going the milking plant installed by Mr. O'Callaghan, Chief Dairy…

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Shearing at Wool Stores. Conference Between Employers Co and A.w.u. Settlement of Melbourne Depot Dispute

The Worker · Wednesday 1 October 1913 · page 3

A conference between the managers of the Melbourne Wool Stores and representatives of the A.W.U. was held at the office of the Principal Registrar of the…

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Crops that can be Grown during the Coming Month

Irrigation Record · Wednesday 1 October 1913 · page 12

DURING the coming month a few French beans may be planted for home use, care being taken, to have the land ploughed and worked to a fine [?]ilth. The ground must…

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Sheep Will Be High

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 October 1913 · page 4

"Sheep will be very high this year behave me; I know what I am talking about, for I have been around this country more than any other man who knows…

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The Family System of Dairying

The Worker · Thursday 2 October 1913 · page 24

If there is one branch of the dairying system which the Rural Workers' Union should press most strongly upon the Arbitration Court is the cursed "family"…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 October 1913 · page 2

The Australian Mercantile, Land and Finance Company, Ltd., has received the following cablegram from London:— "Prices for greasy wool are on a par…

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Doctor's Bread and Butter

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 October 1913 · page 7

Processor Harvey Cushing, of Harvard University, one of the world's greatest surgeons, recently gave a general address in the Albert Hall an surgery. He said…

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The Wool Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 October 1913 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Sydney, report, that at their wool sale held on Tuesday lost, the keen…

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An Early Wool Season

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 October 1913 · page 2

From shearing point of view weather conditions generally have been exceptionally favorable this year. As a result shearing operations have…

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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 3 October 1913 · page 6

Three Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervinon of the Hon J.L. Trefis, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly so the experiments of the Department. No. 120. AGRICULTURAL…

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For the Wan on the Land [Issued by the N.S.W Department of Agriculture.)AGRICULTURE. Seeding Wheat.the Quantities to Use

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 3 October 1913 · page 4

One of the interesting features of the recent tour of western districts was, the different ideas which we found among farmers…

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