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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

2,293 stories in Riverina's papers · page 69 of 115

Canadian Wheat Crop. Far Below the Estimate. American Registration Idea Unpopular. Ottawa

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 August 1914 · page 2

The Canadian wheat crop will show far below the estimate, and it is probable that the Moratorium will be declared throughout the dominion…

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Danish Cattle. to Feed German Army. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 August 1914 · page 2

The Copenhagen correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" reports that there is an enormous export of live cattle to Germany through Jutland…

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Chamber of Commerce Fund. Dairymen Asked to Help. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 August 1914 · page 2

At a largely attended meeting of the dairy sectional committee of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, it was unanimously decided to invite the whole…

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Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 August 1914 · page 2

The wheat market was in a strong position to-day. Buyers freely offered 4/3½ for old grain on spot, but the majority of holders displayed…

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Canadian Wheat Crop Below the Estimate. Ottawa

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 20 August 1914 · page 3

The Canadian wheat crop his shown to be for below the estimate…

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The Markets. Sydney Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 20 August 1914 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co. Ltd., report under date of 17th inst as follows:—Export of all lines except foodstuffs is practically at a standstill, and whilsh…

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The Wheat Market Strong Position Still Maintained. Sellers Asking 4/4. SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 20 August 1914 · page 4

A few drops of rain fell over Riverina and the western district wheat-belts on Tuesday, but it was not nearly sufficient to benefit the crops…

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England's Hop Crops. Above the Estimate. London, Tuesday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 20 August 1914 · page 3

Tho Board of Agriculture estimates the hop crop in Kent to be well above the average…

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The Wheat Crop

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1914 · page 4

It is regrettable, especially at the present time. when food production must remain a matter of first importance for some [?] to come, that the prospects…

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Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1914 · page 3

The Sydney wheat market opened with business at 4/4 for spot grain. There was practically no new wheat offering. For January, February…

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Wool Is King

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1914 · page 3

"New Zealand's greatest industry is wool-growing, since this staple constitutes more than a third of the Dominion's export, almost equalling in…

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Tumberumba Co-op. Butter Factory Co

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 21 August 1914 · page 3

The annual meeting of the above was held on Wednesday afternoon last, Mr McMicking (chairman of directors) in the chair;…

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Special Notice to Wool Growers

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1914 · page 8

The outbreak of war in Europe, involving almost all the great nations, and certainly Australia's best wool customers, has completely dislocated…

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Agricultural Ami Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1914 · page 6

Those Note are issued every week, the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 172…

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Permanent Common Farms

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1914 · page 4

The following letter has been received by Mr. J. B. Elworthy, from the Department of Lands, with reference to the road to the…

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Farm Boy Who Made Fortune Left Half a Million. £150,000 for Poor

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1914 · page 7

A will suit opened in the London Probate Court revealed the career of an entirely self made man, whose life from the day when he was a poor Irish farm boy to the hour when…

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Farmers' Social

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 August 1914 · page 2

About eighty couples attended the Farmers and Settlers' Social in the Town Hall on Tuesday night. Considering the effect the war is having…

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Belgian Cattle Herded. Antwerp

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 August 1914 · page 1

Securing meat for tac Begin numbers of cattle are being diven in from the country districts, and are being herled in the parks…

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War and Wheat Sacks

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 August 1914 · page 2

At the Wagga branch of the Farmers and Settlers Association on Saturday last the Secretary. Mr. Halloran brought forward the matter of the scarcity of…

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English Wool Sales. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 August 1914 · page 3

The Bradford wool market shows a more cheerful tone. Crossbreds are hardening, and there is a strong demand for wool suitable for khaki…

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