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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

2,134 stories in Riverina's papers · page 74 of 107

Wheat Stackers. Trouble at Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 July 1917 · page 2

Mr. Jack White. erganiser for the A.W.U., arrived in Goulburn from Sydney on Friday. Interviewed by a representative of…

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Butter Export. Shortage of Shipping Space. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 July 1917 · page 3

Messrs. C.J. M'Rac (president) and S. M'Kenzie (general secretary) of the Primary Producers' Union, leave for Melbourne to-night to represent…

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Save the Sheep. Campaign in U.s.a

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 July 1917 · page 4

The position in regard to the outlook for beth wool and mutton supplies was evidently being taken very seriously in the United States when the last…

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Live Stock. Farm Slaughtered Animal. Economical Methods of Skinning

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 25 July 1917 · page 4

The heaviest loss that most farmers suffer in connection with the Killing of animals and preparation of meat on the farm is due to bad…

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Bread From Underground Wheat

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 26 July 1917 · page 3

An ingenious method of dispensing with a large part of the labour, hitherto considered necessary before grain can appear in the form of…

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Robbing the Wheat Grower. Question of Reduced Price

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 July 1917 · page 4

Reference was made on Tuesday by the Victorian Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hagelthorn,) to attempts which are being made to have the…

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The New Wheat. Good News for the Farther

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 26 July 1917 · page 5

On Wednesday next, 1st August, the first 6d per bushel, since delivery payment, is to be given farmers on the 1916-17 wheat…

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Federal Parliament. Wool Pool. War Time Profits. East-west Railway. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 July 1917 · page 2

In the House of Representatives the Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, told Mr. Atkinson that the Government had asked the Trades Hall it its…

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Convict Days. (Copyright.) Vivid and Realistic Pictures of the Past. the Affair of Eagle Farm PAllT 2

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 26 July 1917 · page 2

Stooping down he began to quickly wrap small pieces of kangaroo skin round the leg-irons, to prevent them clanking, and, this done, he took…

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Firm and Field Original Articles Feeding Dairy Cows

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 26 July 1917 · page 4

The custom of feeding all the cows in a herd alike, irrespective of the yield of milk, is a source of considerable loss. The capacity of every individual cow…

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Pastoral. Sheep-maggot Flies. Destruction of Offal and Carrion

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1917 · page 2

The destruction of all carrion, offal and animal matter was among the first matters taken into consideration when the Sheep-fly Experiment Station was…

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Wheat Statistics

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1917 · page 2

The quantity of wheat shipped during the last week was 115,198 bags shipped during the preceding week, a decrease…

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Cheese Instead of Butter

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 July 1917 · page 2

Some little time ago we announced that tho Leeton Butter Factory would probably be converted temporarily Into a cheese factory owing to the…

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The Wheat Ballot

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1917 · page 1

The Complaint made by the general secretary of the farmers and Settlers Association (Mr. T. I. Camphll) that a member of ballol paper's for the election of…

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Wheat Board Election

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1917 · page 2

The Victorian Wheat Commission has received many inquiries from farmers as to the qualifications of the candidates for the farmers' representative on the…

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What is a Wheat Pool?

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 27 July 1917 · page 3

A Wheat Pool is a receptacle, entirely unprotected, into which a producer is perforce obliged to deposit his wheat. On placing his produce in the pool 2s 6d…

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Has the Wheat Board Eyes?

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 27 July 1917 · page 2

Now that the wheat stacks have been built a second time, and we hear from many that they are infested in other districts, we must sound another warning to…

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Wheat Storage Silos. Costs and Charges

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1917 · page 4

The report of the Royal Commission upon Wheat Storage, which made the recommendations upon which the Wheat Storage Bill was based,…

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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 27 July 1917 · page 2

These Note 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 325…

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New Zealand Wool Clip. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1917 · page 4

The Imperial Government has offered to purchase the coming season's wool clip in New Zealand…

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