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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

2,002 stories in Riverina's papers · page 51 of 101

Co-operation. Appeal to Farmers and Settlers. [To the Editor.]

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 June 1915 · page 3

Sir,—On perusing the business paper for the forthcoming Farmers and Settlers' Conference I note with pleasure the following resolution No. 5 on the list: "That…

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Wheat Off New Land

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 June 1915 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture stated in Parliament last night that he has decided that farmers who desire to take advantage of the Government guarante[?]…

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WHEAT. Sydney, (Standard 60½lb)

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 30 June 1915 · page 2

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

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Alleged Shortage of Butter Union Secretary's Statement

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 June 1915 · page 3

According to Mr. Galloway, secretary of the Cold Storage Employees Union, the scarcity of butter is not due so much to a natural shortage, as to…

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Late Sowings of Wheat! Use Suitable Varieties

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 30 June 1915 · page 2

The Vicissitudes of the season have delayed sowing to such as extent that the area of late sown wheat will probably be greater than…

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Agricultural Feeding Off Wheat the Best Time

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 30 June 1915 · page 2

A farmer who had about 600 acres of wheat in one rock but prated at different times has asked the Department of Agriculture whether…

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The Farm and Dairy. Jack London As a Farmer. a Sensible Talk

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 30 June 1915 · page 4

The noted author and story writer, Jack London, evidently has very close-fitting ideas about good farming. In a recent Interview ho said:-…

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Yanco Inquiry. Farmers' Unions to Be Represented. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 June 1915 · page 2

Mr. Carmichael has decided to allow the combined unions, also the associations to elect one representative to watch the interests of the farmers and…

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State Parliament. the and Wheat Supplies. the STATE's Wheat Farm. Norton Griffiths Company. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 July 1915 · page 3

In the Assembly to-day the Attorney General stated that James Bell and Co. had been paid £1949 in commission as purchasing agents for the purchase…

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Sheep Show. Falling Off in Merings Wagga Farm Not Represented Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 July 1915 · page 4

Although there was a falling off in the number of merino entries at the Annual Sheep Show of the Agricultural Ground to day compared with last year,…

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German Wool-buyer Fined

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 July 1915 · page 4

Paul Schlesinger appeared at the police court to-day charged with having attempted to trade with the enemy, and also with trading with the enemy…

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Sonoma in a Gale. Big Cargo of Butter and Oats. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 July 1915 · page 4

The mail steamer Sonoma, which arrived this morning from San Francisco, after a record run, encountered a furious gale on Friday last, during which…

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Foolish Farmers

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 1 July 1915 · page 4

Australia's quainty-illogical "backbone" has been at it again. The Tweed, N.S.W., Dairy Farmer's Association met in solemn conclave…

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Dairymen to Strike

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 1 July 1915 · page 3

The South Coast farmers have decided that if the price of milk is not increased by Friday they would decline to send further…

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Dairying. a Review of Work on the Irrigation Areas

Irrigation Record · Thursday 1 July 1915 · page 1

A lecture on the above subject was delivered by M. A. O'Callaghan, State DairyExpert, in the Leeton School of Arts on 12th June last, under the auspices of the…

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Successful Orchard Trees. Results From the Yanco Experiment Farm

Irrigation Record · Thursday 1 July 1915 · page 3

One of the primary objects in view in establishing the Yanco Experiment Farm was the obtaining of data in regard to the growth of fruit trees which would be…

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Pruning Demonstrations at Yanco Experiment Farm

Irrigation Record · Thursday 1 July 1915 · page 10

It is understood that up to the present time settlers generally have not availed themselves of the opportunity of visiting the Experiment Farm for the purpose of…

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217 Pastoral. Sorub Cutting for Sheep Feed. Some Reasons for Varying Results

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1915 · page 6

The droughty conditions that for three years have prevailed over practically the whole of the Western Division of the State have once more turned the…

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High Pride Cattle. SYDNEY

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 2 July 1915 · page 2

Cattle yesterday reached phenomenal price. Prime beef realised 65s per 100lbs…

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Feeding Off Wheat. the Best Time

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1915 · page 6

A farmer, who had about 600 acres of wheat in one block, but planted at different times, asked the Department lately whether he should feed it off…

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