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Farming & the land, 1913

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Wool Values. Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 December 1913 · page 4

Good competition reigned at the Adelaide wool sales. Prices compared favorably with those ruling at preceding auctions…

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Rural Workers. Trouble in Wheat Centres. Organisers Still at Work

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 December 1913 · page 3

The policy of the A.W.U. as applying to rural workers is being applied to other States as well as to New South Wales…

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Farm Laborer's Exploit Constables Defied. Sensational Street Incident. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 December 1913 · page 2

A farm laborer, armed with a knife, raced up William-street, Bathurst, this morning, and threatened to use the implement on anyone who came…

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Shelter Belts at Yanco Experiment Farm

Irrigation Record · Monday 15 December 1913 · page 14

The illustrations in this issue of various growths of treets forming shelter belts at the Yanoo Experiment Farm are intended to impress settlers with the…

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Correspondence. (These columnsare open for the discussion of any question touching the development of the irrigation settlement. Letters must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication. Matter intended for publication in the succeedingissue must reach the office, Leeton, not later than the 10th and 15th of the month. The Irrigation Record is published on the 1st and 15th day of each month.) Boundaries of Farms

Irrigation Record · Monday 15 December 1913 · page 13

With reference to Mr. Frank H. Brewster's remarks on above in your esteemed paper of December 1st, would that gentleman kindly give me…

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Commercial. WOOL

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 3

Messrs Schute Bell and Co. Ltd. report:— Recent Sydney quotations were maintained at the Brisbane sales last week,…

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Wheat Lumping Trouble

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 2

Arising out of the rural workers strike, some little trouble was anticipated at the railway yards yesterday morning, that lumpers would…

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Wheat Markets. Australian Grain in Europe

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 4

"The overseas position has not changed since last week, but there is an undercurrent of strength in the cables to-day, due, chieliy, to a Continental…

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Butter to Be Dearer. Increased of Four Shillings. SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 2

An unexpected increase of 4s per cwt, was decided upon in the price of butter in the wholesale markets at Sussex-street on Saturday to take…

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State Farming at Wagga

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 2

THE accounts for demonstration area of 377 acres at the Wagga Experimental Farm for 1912 are published in the "Agricultural…

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Liabilities of Share Farmers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 4

PEOPLE who make arrangements that are enforceable at law, must observe them, and this injunction is specially applicable to share farmers…

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Mobbed. Strike Breakers New Zealand Farmer's Experience

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 2

"I have been under fire in South Africa, but I never said a prayer so quickly in my life as I did this afternoon," said one of the victims of a…

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Farmers Power. Eleven Seats Secured

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 4
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Mr. T. I. Campbell General Secretary of the Farmers and Settlers; Association, said on Friday that whilst the the ultimate state of parties…

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The Crops Coolamon

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 1

Operations has now so far advanced as to justify the anticipation of only a moderately good yield for this district. The average is not much over…

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Soil Fertility. Maintain It by Mixed Farming

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 4

Reference is often made to the value of mixed farming as a means of maintaining the fertility of the soil. Professor Snyder, of the…

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Wool Sales. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 December 1913 · page 3

Dalgety and Co. Held their 10th and last sale of the series to-day, when they offered a truly representative catalogue of 6000 bales. There was a…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 December 1913 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co., Sydney, report under date 15th December:—Recent Sydney quotations were maintained at the Brisbane wool sales…

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The Wheat Market Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 December 1913 · page 4

The Sussex-street wheat market was extremely quiet to-day and shippers lowered their quotations by a farthing. They were not prepared to give beyond…

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Meeting of Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 December 1913 · page 2

District farmers, whether members of the Farmers and Settlers' Association or not, are invited to attend a meeting this evening at the M.P. and…

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