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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

2,094 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 105

Items of News. Farmers and Their Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 4

Much inconvenience is being caused by the delay on the part of the Government in issuing the necessary certificates of delivery of their wheat (Says…

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Wheat Pool. Concerning Payments. Ministerial Explanation. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 3

Mr. Ashford, Minister for Lands, interviewed to-day in the absence of the Minister for Agriculture, reforred to some of the comments in the…

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Liens on Farmers' Crops

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 3

In response to numerous inquires from persons and firms liens over farmers' crops as to their position, the State Wheat Office announces…

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Embargo on Crossbred Wool. Prospect of Re-imposition. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 3

A rumor was circulated in Sydney wool circles to-day that there was every prospects of a re-imposition of the embargo upon the export of crossbred wool…

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Appeal to Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 4

An appeal that should not. fall on deaf cars is being made to the farmers of. Wagga and district by the Wagga branch of the Allies' Day Committee,…

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Drought Lessons. a Farmers Opinions

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 3

At a meeting of the Cordgery branch of the Agriculture Bureau on interesting paper on the lessons of the drought was read by Mr. W. E…

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Slaughtering of Female Cattle

Irrigation Record · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 10

Question of Slaughter.—Mr. A. H. Whittingham and Mr. Harry Bracker, two of the best-known men in the pastoral world of Queensland recently made inquiries into…

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Wheat Scheme. Scarcity of Tonnage. Acute Difficulty Experienced

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 3

Acute difficulty has been found in obtaining tonnage for the transport of a large quantity of Australian wheat sold to the Anglo-French Governments…

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Poultry Farms for Soldiers. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 3

Over 100. men journeyed to French's Forest today for the purpose of clearing land intended to be net apart as poultry farms for soldiers. Among the…

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Instructional Notes. General Farming

Irrigation Record · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 4

Weeds.—All weeds should be destroyed before the seed ripens; if they are not there will be increased trouble stored up for the future. Thorough cultivation…

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The Sale of Wheat. (To the Editor "Daily Advertiser.")

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1916 · page 3

Sir,—The wheat market abroad seems to be fairly good just now and I would suggest that all farmers should meet at once and see if the Government could…

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Wheat Train Breaks Away at Clyde Station Passengers' Narrow Escape. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1916 · page 2

A train of 22 trucks of wheat, which had been detached from an engine broke away at the clyde station. If crashed into the buffer stops, which…

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Record Load of Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 2

What is stated to be the record load of wheat delivered at the railway yard, Ganmain, was carted by Arthur Hetherington from Mr. John Cosgrove's…

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Wheat Harvest. Advances to Farmers. Official Certificates Available. Situation in Wagga. Position of Some Banks

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 3

According to advices received in Wagga during the past few days by local sub-agents acting on behalf of the Government wheat burying firms,…

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Price of Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 January 1916 · page 2

The price of wheat for the ensuing fortnight has been fixed at 5/3½ on an [?] (Sydney) basis…

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Wheat Harvest. a Peculiar Development. Recalcitrant Firms. Question of Mortgages. Advice From Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 January 1916 · page 2

Messrs. Williamson and Harrison, of Wagga, agents for Messrs. Louis Dreyfus and Co., of Sydney, who are acting for the Government in connection with…

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A Psalm of Farm Life

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1916 · page 2

Tell me not in broken measures Modern farming does not pay, For the farm produces chickens, And the hens— do they not lay?…

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System in Dairying

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1916 · page 6

The increasing demand for milk products indicates that there is money ahead for the wise dairyman. There are cities to be supplied with…

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Farmers and Speculators

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 January 1916 · page 2

It is reported that numbers of farmers in the Western district are selling their wheat to private speculators for 3/ per bushel. The Minister for…

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Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 6

John Bridge & Co., Ltd., report under date, of 3lst December. 1915.—Holiday conditions are being observed in the Sydney wool market, and active…

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