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Farming & the land, 1913

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DAIRYING. Two Handy Contrivances

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 7

The farmer who desires a handy and inexpensive gear for making silage stacks will find the September "Agricultural Gazette," contains two…

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Growing Crop Competition

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 2

On Thursday last the Farm, [?] sub-committee met to arrange details and decide date for commencement of judging. The secretary was directed to…

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Bean Culture for Farmers Planting Climbing Beans

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 1

One of the most profitable crops in the vegetable garden is the bean. More weight can be grown from a small area than can be had from any…

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Sheep and Cattle

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 October 1913 · page 3

Messrs. Hill, Clark and Co., Ltd., report:— Sheep: Only one sale this week, about [?]8,000 sheep and lambs forward…

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Dairy Cattle Test. Win for Darbalara

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 14 October 1913 · page 2

AT a meeting of the United Purebred Dairy Cattle Breeders' Association, held in Sydney on Friday the President (Mr. J. T. Cole) was…

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Commercial WOOL

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 October 1913 · page 3

Messrs. Hill, Clark and Co., Ltd., report:— For our sale on Wednesday we submitted [?] large catalogue, some well…

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Tumut Butter Factory, Ltd

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 14 October 1913 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Tumut Batter Factory, took place on Tuesday last, Mr. J. Elliot, chairman of…

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Wool Sales. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 October 1913 · page 2

Dalgety and Co. held their opening wool sale of the season to-day, when they offered a fairly representative catalogue of 3300 bales,…

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Deliveries of Maize and Wheat Resumed. Dublin, [?]day

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 14 October 1913 · page 2

The grain merchants have obtained enough labor to resume the deliveries of maize and wheat. The strikers have smashed the…

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The Season. Crops and Grass

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 14 October 1913 · page 3

If a recent issue we published details respecting the crops around. Lockhart, urana, and Oaklands. Last week Mr. Byrnes, of Byr[?]es…

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Wool Scours

The Worker · Wednesday 15 October 1913 · page 4

The minimum rate fixed by the award for working at a wool scour is as follows:- Adults, 38/ per week with keep; boys between 18 and 21, 30/ per week;…

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Lockhart Farmer's Association. Monthly Meeting

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 15 October 1913 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the F & S A branch was held on Saturday, There were present Messrs W. Weedon (president), J Montgomery…

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Growing Crops Competition

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 October 1913 · page 2

Yesterday the committee who have charge of the Growing Crop Competition, arranged by the M.P. and A. Association, decided to cancel all…

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Registration of Water Supplied to Farms

Irrigation Record · Wednesday 15 October 1913 · page 11

IT appeals that in many instances settlers are greatly perturbed over the registration figures displayed by the meter attached to their Dethridge outlets. It is…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 16 October 1913 · page 5

Schute, Bell and Co. Ltd., Sydney report under date 13th, October:— A strong market rules for all good quality wool, crossbred meeting with…

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Wool Sales. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 October 1913 · page 3

The Australian Mercantile, Land and Finance Co., Ltd., report:— We held our second sale of the season to-day, when we brought forward…

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Argentine Wheat Industry a Great Advance

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 16 October 1913 · page 1

Argentina, in spit of poor marketing facilities and a backward farming population, already ranks third among the three wheat-exporting countries…

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The Markets. Wool and Produce Reports

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 16 October 1913 · page 5

Messrs. Schute, Bell and Co. Ltd., report under date of 13th October:— Marsupial Skins: The demand proved slack, and whilst values for kangaroos…

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Growing Crops

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 16 October 1913 · page 2

On account of this weeK's raintall, the judging of the growing crops in. connection with the M. P. and A. Association has been postponed. It is…

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A Farmer's Forecast Failures in Central West

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 16 October 1913 · page 1

Mr. A. Whalan, of Mimosa, via Coolamon, writes:—"I am very sorry, indeed, to have to state that of the crops in our district, which is the biggest wheat…

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