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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

2,094 stories in Riverina's papers · page 6 of 105

Ships for Wool Carriage. Shortage Stops Sales. Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1916 · page 4

A shortage in the shipping tonnage has necessitated an indefinite postponement of all wool sales in New Zealand…

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Wool Trade Reforms. "John Bridge" Leads This Way. No More Travellers

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 20 January 1916 · page 2

The attention of the pastoral community is invited to an important announcement in this issue, signed by John Bridge & Co Ltd. Since this firm has been identified with the…

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Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 6
Also in Cootamundra Herald

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers Association report under dots of January [?]—The second had of the wool selling season opens on Monday, 17th…

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Wheat Certificates

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 3

J. Jeremy and Co., district agents for Messrs. Brunton and Co., Sydney., millers, write as follows:—"Many farmers are still in doubt as to the procedure to…

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Big Wheat crops. Success of Federation

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 3

The Temora harvest, it is expected will be cut out in a weeks time. This year's crop has been very satisfactory, and as the area under the crop…

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Government Wheat Liens

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 5

In connection with the liens signed by farmers who received seedwheat and fodder from the Government last year, the Minister announced that he did not…

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The Wheat Crop. Government Guarantees and Liens. Important Statement

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 3

In connection with the liens signed by farmers who received seed wheat and fodder from the Government last year, the Minister announced that he did not…

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Wheat Estimate, 1915-4916

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 7

The compilation of the returns of the Estimated Wheat Harvest in this State is advanced sufficiently to admit of the publication of the following particulars for general information. Since the publication of the July estimate of the area sown with wheat, an additional 28,000 acres have been placed…

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High Wheat Price. First Financial Adjustment

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 4

MR. HAGELTHORN, Minister for Agriculture, stated that two cargoes of wheat had been sold for the United Kingdom at 6s a quarter…

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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 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. 246…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne, Jan. 19

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 4

For their initial sales of the year Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. brought forward a very attractive catalogue of some 5000 bales, including a…

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Commercial. Good Price for District Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 2

Wool growers with offerings forward at this week's Sydney auctions had no cause for complaint in values ruling. Winchcombe, Carson's a system…

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Sale of Seed Wheat. the Present Restrictions

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 3

It is found [?] the Victorian Minister for Agriculture that a good deal of misapprehension exists in the country districts regarding the sale of seed wheat…

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Sheep and Lamb Sales "John Bridge" Record. Average of 19s 9d

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 2

John Bridge and Co. state that there has lately been decided activity in the market for store sheep, the recent fine rains probably being the…

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Strong Demand for Store Sheep. Big "John Bridge" Sales. Record Results

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 4

THE recent general rains in the North-west have invested the market with unwanted activity, and we learn that Messrs John Bridge and…

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Sheep and Lamb Sales. "John Bridge" Record. Average of 19s 9d

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 3

John Bridge & Co. state that there has lately been decided activity in the market for score sheep, the recent fine rains probably being the reason. The…

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Wool Travelling Discontinued. John Bridge & Company Limited. Avoiding Useless Expenditure

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 6

There appears to-day an important announcement by John Bridge & Co., Ltd., who have foreseen that the ever-increasing taxation, and cost of labor and material,…

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Wool Travelling Discontinued. John Bridge & Company Limited Avoiding Useless Expenditure

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 2

There appears to day an important announcement by John Bridge & Co Ltd., who have fore seen that ever increasing taxation and cost of labor…

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Preparing Farmlets for Soldiers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 3

Trifling incidents as everybody knows often lend to great discoveries. It was from observing an apple fall that Newton discovered the law of gravitation. In a similarly inconspicuous fashion a…

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