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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

2,094 stories in Riverina's papers · page 3 of 105

Milling the Wheat

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 10 January 1916 · page 3

The British Government has agreed to take in flour part 200,000 tons of wheat ordred by Britain and France this season…

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Albury Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 January 1916 · page 3

The next Albury wool and produce sales will be held on January 20 when [?] broken will offer consignments…

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Wheat. British and French Parcels. Portion to Be Milled Locally. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 January 1916 · page 3

Mr. Hughes announced to-day that portion of the Australian wheat sold to the British and French Governments will be milled locally…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 4
Also in Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser

Goldsborough, Mort, and Co, report: Business in connection with wool selling has been practically at a standstill sinde the close of the 1916 sales,…

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Late Commercial. WOOL

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 3

Messes. Schute. Bell, and Co, Ltd report: — The wool trade is marking time pending renewal of serious business on…

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Scarcity of Wheat Sacks

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 2

In an interview Mr. J Lynch, M.H.R., referring to the abnormal advance in cornsacks, remarked.—"I have attempted to find if any legitimate reason…

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Lumpers' Strike. Wheat Shipments Delayed. Appeal to Farmers to Load Ships. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 2

In view of the hanging up of the wheat shipments in consequence of the lumpers' strike, the State Government has decided to appeal to…

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Wheat Pool. a Good Bargain. Minister for Agriculture Pleased

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 2

The Victorian Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hagelt[?]torn) said on Saturday that the announcement of the Prime Minister that he had induced…

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Wheat for Sydney. Western Line Congested. Hundreds of Trucks Held Up. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 2

Last week 401,000 bags of wheat were invoiced to Darling Island and Darling Harbor, Compared with only 72,000 for the corresponding week…

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Share Farming. Novel State Scheme

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 4

AMONG the properties recently resumed under the Closer Settlement Act was the Forest Vale Estate, near West Wyalong, on the Wya-…

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Cattle Dealers Fight. Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 January 1916 · page 3

There was an exciting scene at the Adelaide abattoirs to-day, when the "Cattle King," Mr. Sidney Kidman, and another well-known dealer. Mr. T…

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Price of Butter. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 3

The Necessary Commodities Commission will, on Friday, further consider the price of butter…

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Wheat Acquisition Board. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 3

The members of the Wheat Acquisition Board have been re-appointed for three months, without fees, in order that they may clear up details…

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The Dairy Care of Milk and Cream Ok the Farm

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 2

Nearly all changes which occur in milk or its products are due to the action of bacteria. Bacteria are very Small microscopic single—called plants,…

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Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 4
Also in Cootamundra Herald

The Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co.. Ltd., report under date, 12th January:—Business was very quiet in the local market last week, several of…

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Good Butter Cooler

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 8

A woman writes:—My husband has hit upon a method to used in conjunction with the butter cooler which has turned out to be a…

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The Wheat Standard. Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 2

The standard sample wheat for the season 1915-16 was fixed at 62½lb. to the Imperial bushel…

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Wheat Scheme. Exportation of Flour

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 2

The Minister administering the wheat scheme in Victoria (Mr. Hagelthorn), answering some objection made to the export of flour to Singapore and Manila,…

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