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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

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WHEAT. Sydney. (Standard 30 1/2lb)

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 19 May 1915 · page 4

Wheat, 5/- per bushel at stations, Government buying price; and 5/6 Government selling price, on rails at mill siding…

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Price of Butter, Application for Increase Judge Edmunds' Remarks. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 May 1915 · page 3

Fifty dairy farmers from the Tweed and Richmond Rivers district appeared before the Necessary Commodities Commission to make application for an…

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Wool Deadlock Removed. Sellers and Buyers Agree. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 May 1915 · page 2

A conference of woolbrokers and woolbuyers was held today. After a full discussion of the dispute everything was amicably arranged. The…

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Wool Sales

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 20 May 1915 · page 3

Sydney Wool sales will be resumed on Tuesday next…

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Bulk Handling of Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 May 1915 · page 2

Victoria was the first State at discuss the question of bulk handling; it looks as if it would be the last to give…

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Near a Famine. No Chaff or Butter

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 20 May 1915 · page 2

"No we can't do you any chaff. to-day," said the head produce man in Gundagai's biggest business to a prospective buyer…

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Items of News. Wheat and Fodder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 May 1915 · page 2

Since the issue of the proclamation by the Necessary Commodities commission, compelling farmers to forward particulars of the quantity of seed…

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On the Land. Heavy sheep losses this week

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 20 May 1915 · page 2

A butter famine threatened in N.S.W. Several towns are now without supplies. Maybe, butter will have to be imported from…

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Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 6

The Sydney Wool Selling Broker Association report:— There has hern Refresh development in the position of the dispute which is causing a…

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Wool Reports

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson wired as follows on Wednesday:-Despite the amicably settled auctions to resume next Tuesday, the demand for both…

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Commercial. Fat Cattle. F. R. Sparre, Cootamundra, 5 steers avg £9/13. Wool Sales to Resume

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report that the wool sales dispute has been amicably settled. Auctions are to resume next Tuesday. The demand for…

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Ploughing Wheat In. a Question

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 6

Could wheat be ploughed in with a disc plough, and what should be the the depth if it could Briefly, that was a question put…

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STOLE £130 Worth of Butter. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 3

Ernest Holmes was committed for trial on a charge of stealing butter valued at £130, the property of the Fresh Food and Ice Company…

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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 21 May 1915 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W, G. Ashford. M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, N.S.W., and are based mainly on the experience of the Department No. 211…

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Agricultural Wheat. Flour, and Offal Them Relative Values

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 6

In an interesting statement in the current Agricultural Gazcite, the Government Stalistician indicates the extent to which the cost of Producing…

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Live Stock. Shoulder Lameness a Common Trible in Farm Horses

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 6

[?] of the musters of the shoulder [?]year way commonly experience [?]by the farm house. It is [?] [?]happen to a colt doing his first…

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Hawkesbury Agricultural College. Winter School for Farmers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 6

Arrangements have been made for the 1915 Winter School for farmers to commence at Hawkcsbury Agricultural College on Tuesday, 22nd June, and to…

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Dairying. Rabbit-infested Land. Dairying on 100 Acres

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 6

How may the best use be made of land in southern districts that is becoming unproductive owing to infestation by rabbits…

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Lads for Farm Work. Pitt Town Training Farm

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 3

The facilities offered at the Government Agricultural Training Farm, Pitt Town, near Windsor, for training youths for agricultural work, are neither so well…

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The Proposed Farmers' Union. To the Editor

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 6

Sir,—An attender at the Farmers' Union meeting on the 16th could not fail to notice two things; the apologetic manner of the promoters, and the thinly…

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