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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

2,134 stories in Riverina's papers · page 11 of 107

Wheat Lumpers' Strike. Old Junee Dispute Settled

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 3

The dispute between the agents and the wheat lumpers at old Junee has been settled. Mr. J. White, A.W.U. organiser,…

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A German's Wheat. Bags Partly Filled with Diet

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 4

The following is taken from the "Corowa Free Press":— It is an old saying that "there are tricks in all trades," but we never…

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Good News for Farmers

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 2

Go and haye a look at the Massay-Harris Header taking off Mr S. A. Fraser's down and tangled wheat crop on Mr J. Moncrieff's "Currajong" property,…

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Share Farming

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 4

Where an increase in the area under wheat is eminently desirable, it does not follow that those who urge farmers to put forth thier best efforts in…

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Lepers in New South Wales. Sufferers Keep Dairy

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 4

Rumors are current that there is leprosy near Casino. Officers from the Health Department have visited the place and have confirmed the…

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Wool Spinning

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 2

All exhibition of wool spinning was given in the Presbyterian School Hall yesterday to about to ladies by the teacher. Miss Stella Cocks, and pupils,…

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The Wheat Standard

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 4

The State Wheat Office still intends, apparently, to adhere to the obsolete and unsatisfactory fa[?]q. sta[?]-standard system in handling the…

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Wheat Stacks Damaged in Cyclone

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 3

A cyclone at Milvale, in the Young district, damaged a wheat stack of 21,000 bags, causing the loss of [?]. Twenty tents at a near-by navvies…

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Items of News. Patriotic Wheat Growing

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 2

Twenty-five acres of crop grown by Mr. P. H. Thomas, Mildel, in the Wynlong district, returned 115 bags of wheat; and 50 acres on Mr. John…

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Payment for the Wool. the Arrangement

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 2

When it was announced by the Prime Ministers that payment would be made for the wool fourteen days after appraisement, it apparently…

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Wool Trade Economy Endorsement of "John Bridge" Policy

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 2

Nearly twelve months ago, the firm of John Bridge & Co, Ltd, inaugurated, in the interests of Woolgrowers, their campaign of economy in the…

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Old Junee Wheat Lumpers. Resume Work at Old Rates

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 4

The wheat lumpers' dispute at Old Junee has been settled. The local organiser of the Australian Workers' Union laid the matter…

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Price of Wheat. Reply to Complaint. Getting Down to Business

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 1

Referring to complaints which have been made in some quarters that the price at which wheat had been sold to the Imperial Government was not high…

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Wheat Yields. Varying Results in Riverina. Low Average Quality. (Specially reported by our own Representative.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 3

So exceptional have been the conditions governing wheat production throughout the State during the season that it has been almost impossible…

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Science Notes a Good Onion Crop

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 4

It seems that onions can make the mouth water as well as the [?] Three hundred acres of them, which Mr. George Caldwell has under…

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Farm & Field. Original Articles. Ensilage

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 4

There are few districts where there is not a certain season of the year in which the farmer looks back with envy to the time some weeks back, when…

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Fierce Storm at Temora. Disastrous Effect on Crops. Temora

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 3

After several days of sultry weather a heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by a fierce wind, reached Temora on Monday, when 139 points of rain fell in a…

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Use of False Combs Tangled Crops Harvested

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 3

The writer accompanied Mr. H. H. Hinds, managing director of H. H. Hinds Limited, on a motor tour of Riverina and Western wheat…

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Poisoning Sheep Blowflies

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 6

The attention of the Minister for Agriculture, Hon. F. C. Grahame, M.L.A., has been drawn to the fact that quite a number of…

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Wool Report

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 6

The Australian Mercantile, Land and Finance Co., Ltd., report under date 17th January: The appraisements of four of the…

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