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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

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Commercial. WOOL

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson. Ltd., report, Compared with last year a comparively limited quantity of the season's wool clip is on hand at the Sydney…

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Lien on Wheat Crops. an Official Letter

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 2

The Under-Secretary and Director for Agriculture, State Wheat Office, has addressed to the wheat firms a communication stating that numerous cases…

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Price of Wheat

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 4

The Necessary Commodities Commission has decided to recommend the payment' of 3d per bushel in addition to the 5/- paid under the…

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Millers and Wheat Scheme

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 2

A deputation of flour millers waited upon the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Grahame) on Wednesday, to place be: fore him several matters in connection…

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The Wheat Pool. Bungling Administration. a New Farmers' Union at Tamworth

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 6

N.S.W. farmers are making loud complaints concerning the hardships being inflicted upon them under the wheat pooling scheme. Although the…

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Impressive Wool Prices. CROSSBREVS [?]

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 3

[?] teen able to report [?] sales by John Bridge [?]closing sale of the [?]…

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Development in Wheat Freight and Labor

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 7

In the fifth article of this series the propositions set out were:—(1) That war prices for wheat ore a patent inducement to Australia to put a much greater area of land under…

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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 7 January 1916 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 244…

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Organise Primary Production the World and Its Wheat

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 7

A series of articles under the beading 'Organise" will appear in our columns. They are reprinted from the "Sun," Sydney, and have been prepared by a writer who has…

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Agricultural. Wheat-breeding. What Is Meant by Selection

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 1

Selection is sometimes understood to mean the use of graded seed or plump well-developed instead of pinched grain, but the Plant Breeder of the…

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Miscellaneous. Meteorology. Forecasting for Farmers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 6

A useful paper on the above subject was read by Mr. H. L. Lane at a recent meeting of the Pento branch of the Agricultural Bureau, the object…

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Dairying. Udder Diseases. Preventive and Curative Measures

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 6

"Caked and spoiled udders are the bane of the milk producers' business," says Dr. A. S. Alexander, in a current article. Generally they do not…

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Leeton Farmers' Union. Report on Deputation to the Minister

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 4

Mr. P. McGarry, M.L.A., forwards us the following report of a deputation which waited on the Minister for Agriculture on…

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Dairying Pastures. Some Yanco Problems

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 2

There can be little doubt that dairying is going to account for the occupation of the bulk of the second and third class land on the…

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Donation of Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1916 · page 4

Recently the Wagga Allie' Day Committee published appeal to the farmers of the district asking for donations of what for the starving…

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Wheat Pool. Good Prices Realised. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1916 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. H[?]gelthorn) to-day announced further sales of wheat abroad. He said they had sold a cargo of wheat to…

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Wheat Bags Scarce. Serious Position Created. Situation in Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1916 · page 3

The scarcity of wheat bags is creating an acute in the harvesting business. Importers in Sydney and Melbourne…

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Haystack Building. Farmers' Experience

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1916 · page 8

The subject of stack building is always of more or less interest to the farmer, hence this reference to at discussion at a recent meeting of the…

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Agricultural. Practical Irrigation Farming. Cultivation

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1916 · page 8

In irrigation farming, no less than in the production of crops under ordinary "dry" conditions, cultivation is more than half the business. It is…

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Dairying. Udder Diseases. Preventive and Curative Measures

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1916 · page 8

"Caked and spoiled udders are the bane of the milk producers' business," says Dr. A.S. Alexander, in a current article. Generally they do not recover,…

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