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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

2,134 stories in Riverina's papers · page 72 of 107

Settling Soldiers. Farmers and Settlers' Resolution

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 18 July 1917 · page 2

The Farmers' Conference on Saturday morning discussed the question of settling returned soldiers on the land. A number of motions from ten…

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Women's Farm at Cowra

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 July 1917 · page 2

Two women from the pitt Town Women's Farm left on Monday evening for the Government Experiment Farm at Cowra. They have been…

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Special Cattle SALE.s

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 July 1917 · page 2

A special cattle sale was held in the Wagga Municipal yards yesterday by Messrs. Wheatley and Cullen, when all save one or two lots of the 1400 head…

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Australia's Butter. Large Sale Possible

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 July 1917 · page 4

If negotiations which are now in progress mature as desired, the problem of disposing of the Australian butter which will be ready for market…

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Australian Wheat Board. Grower's Representative. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 July 1917 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture states that the ballot papers have now been circulated throughout the State for the election of a wheatgrowers'…

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Federal Parliament. Wheat Storage Bill. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 July 1917 · page 4

In the House of Representatives, leave of absence was granted for the remainder of the session to Colonel Abbott, Brigadier-General Ry[?]ie…

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Convict Days. (Copyright.) Vivid and Realistic Pictures of the Past. the Affair of Eagle Farm Part 1

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 19 July 1917 · page 2

The shooting of Captain Logan by mistake was very keenly felt by the convict Sidney Sampson. Petrie had taken summary vengeance on his…

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The Dairy Rich and Poor Milk As Food

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 19 July 1917 · page 6

Why should milk chat contains a great deal of cream be accounted the best? Cream is only fat, and we do not rate the food value of meats…

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Fodder Crops for Cows

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 19 July 1917 · page 3

One of the best of these crop mixtures is 1 bushel oats, 1 bushel rye, half-bushel tick beans, half-bushel peas. This works out at a nutritive ratio of…

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Farm & Field Original Articles Making Ensilage

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 19 July 1917 · page 3

Ensilage is the term applied to grass and other succulent foods preserved by storage in pits or stacks, termed silos for use when such foods are not…

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Pastoral Sheep-maggot Flies. The Government Experiment Station

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 3

Farmers Bulletin, No. 113, just issued by the Government Printer, brings up to date the published records of the work of the Government…

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PASTORAL. Sheep-Maggot Files. The Government Experiment Station

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 4

Farmers' Bulletin, No. 113, just issued by the Government Printer, brings up to date the published records of the work of the…

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Sheep's Head

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 3

Take two shecp's heads, three carrots one onion, one pint Maitre d'Hotel sa[?]ce. Soak the heads in cold water; scrape and clean them thoroughly: remove the…

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Wheat Storage. SYDNEY

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 3

Messrs. Fuller and Grahame left for Melbourne to further confer with Mr. Hughes on the subject of wheat storage. The present proposals of Federal…

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Wheat Pool. Ballot for Growers' Representative

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 4

As announced yesterday, the ballot papers have been circulated throughout the States for the election of a wheat-growers' representative on the…

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Wheat Stacking at Goulburn SYDNEY

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 3

Trouble has arisen in connection with the wheat stacking at South Goulburn. The men were hot at work yesterday…

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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 20 July 1917 · page 2

These Notes are issued every weak, 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. 324…

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Dairying. the Middle Northern Rivers. a Progressive Movement

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 2

The improvement in the quality of the butter produced in the State during the past season has been mentioned in a good many ways of late, and an…

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Federal Income Tax. Farmers' Returns

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 4

As there appears to be some misunderstanding is the minds of farmers concerning the requirements of the Federal Income Tax Assessment Act as to the…

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Farmers' Union

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 2

A general meeting of the Farmers' Union will be held to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the Leeton School of Arts, to receive the…

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