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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

1,761 stories in Riverina's papers · page 80 of 89

Local and General News Rise in Wheat

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 27 November 1913 · page 2

Our Sydney correspondent wires good news for the farmers. There is a feverish anxiety to secure supplies. and the wheat market is up to 3s 7½d, whilst…

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Items of News. Farmer and Qrganiser

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 November 1913 · page 2

At the police court yesterday the charge against a district farmer, W. C. Mendham, for an alleged attack with a k on Felix Woods.an…

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Farmers From Canada Vancouver

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 27 November 1913 · page 3

[?] A. Fricke, Victorian Immigration Commissioner in San Francisco, in an interview on Tuesday, said that there was now considerable…

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Who Is the Farmer's Friend?

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 27 November 1913 · page 2

Mr. H. C. Hoyle, M.L.A. writes:— Mr. Wade says he is sand the men behind Mr. Wade—the squatter, the wheat buyer, the machinery manufactures, the…

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Farmers Co-operation

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 27 November 1913 · page 2

Wangaratta, Tuesday.—At a large meeting of farmers at Milawa on Saturday, Mr. Robert Cook presiding, serious consideration was given to the demands…

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Federal Court Refuses Conference Farmers Association Opposed to It. Sydney Wednesday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 27 November 1913 · page 2

The registrar of the Federal Arbitration Court states that the President of that Court has decided to refuse the application of the rural workers for a…

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Wool

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 2

Wind combe Carson Ltd. have received the following cable from their London agents:—"London November wool sales opined with prices for…

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Cruelty to a Sheep

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 3

Joseph H. B. Rawlingson, cruelly ill-creating a sheep at Yanco on 10th November Plea not guilty…

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Nest of a Sheep's Back

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 3

During sheep shearing operation on Gournwood Farm (near Bideford), which is occupied by Mr. Cox, one of the shearers cut in to a fleshy substances,…

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A Record in Wheat Stacks

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 6

The longest authentic period for which a wheat stack has been kept unthrashed is forty years. The story of this forty-two-year-old stack if briefly…

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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 28 November 1913 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal experriston of the Hea. J. L. [?] of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department…

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Diseases in Horses and Cattle. How to Cure Them. Heat Prostration

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 3

This condition is brought about by sudden changes in temperature and overwork, or by lack of judgment on the part of the party using the horse…

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Poll of Farmers' Wives

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

David F. Houston, Secretary for Agriculture, U.S. wants the women on American forms to tell what the Department of Agriculture can do to beat serve their needs…

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Lease of a Farm

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 8

A cass of interest to farmers, respecting fradulent misrepresentation in the lease of a farm, was recently in evidence in a Victorian…

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Farmer's Fruit Cakes

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 3

One cupful of dried sour apples. One cupful of golden syrup, one cupful of sugar, a third of a cupful of butter, half a cupful of sour milk, one…

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Mr. Tom Spring. Candidate for the Farmers and Liberals

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 5

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Farmers and Settlers

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 2

We are glad to find that there is a desire to resuscitate a branch of the above in Cootamundra, after harvest time. We shall be only too happy to…

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62 Farmers. Testimonial to Mr. Holman

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 2

The circular which has been distributed throughout the Coolamundra electorate, purporting to be signed by 62 local farmers, in support of Mr…

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Farm and Field. Original Articles. Specially written for this column. All Rights Reserves. Living and Dead Soils

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1913 · page 4

"Soils without bacteria are dead soils, and as such unfit to support profitable crops." Every farmer, in his opinion, should…

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