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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

1,630 stories in Riverina's papers · page 13 of 82

Selling the Farmers' Goods

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1918 · page 2

There is small consolation to be obtained from Professor Lefroy's criticism of wheat-stacking methods in New South Wales, and the farmers of…

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Butter Factory

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 2

Suppliers are requested to note an [?] in another column of an important meeting to be held at the butter factory on Monday morning…

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COMMERCIAL Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 4

[?] Bell, and Co., Ltd report under date 4th February:— We submitted another catalogue on the 28th ult., several…

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Hard luck at Nangus. Wheat crop gone

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 4

Mr. Ted. Jamieson, jun., was stripping his wheat crop at Nangus on Friday, when a blaze started up under the harvester, and quickly ran…

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Wheat Crop. Estimased Yield—43,557,000 Bushels

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 5

The Government Statistician, Mr. John B. Trivett, reports that the wheat harvest for the current season is much lates than usual due mainly to xceessive rainfall…

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Commercial. Wool Report

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 2

The A.M.L. and F. Co., reported on 6th: Our first appraisements under the new conditions whereby the size of…

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Prize Wheat at Shows

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 5

Doubt has often been cast on the genuineness of samples of grain put forward in the wheat sections at country shows. Trueness to name is a feature to which…

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Pastoral. Destruction of Prickly Pear. Spraying Experiments

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 2

Of the numerous specifics that have been tried for the destruction of prickly pear, it can safely be said that none has yet come under the notice of the…

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The Wheat Crop. Official Estimates of Yield. 43,557,000 Bushels

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 6

The Government [?] Mr. John B. Trivell, reports that the wheat harvest for the current season is much later than…

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Bush Fires. Gobarralong Again. 1,400 of Wheat and 250 Acres of Crop Gone

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 4

It was about the, same hour as the Tarrabandra fire started that Gobarralong again felt the effects of a bush blaze. Starting in a wheat…

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Blaze at Mt. Horeb. 20 Sheep burned

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 4

Mr. P. Richardson was the worst sufferer by the fire in the vicinity if Mt. Horeb and Calafat on Saturday—nearly all his grass country…

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Wheat and Weevils. the Cleaning Process

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 4

The prospect of the British Wheat Commission refusing to take delivery of the New Smith Wales quota of the 1916-17 wheat crop because of its…

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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 8 February 1918 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal super[?] of the Hon. W. C. Grahame. M.L.A. Minister of Agriculture and are cased ma[?] on the experience of the Department. No.352…

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Sydney Wool Market. Regular Supporters Side Tracked. Emphatic Protest from "John Bridge

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 4

JOHN BRIDGE and Co. LTD., write: "We have never failed, when the true interests of wool growers have been assailed, to utter timely…

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Sydney Wool Market. Regular Supporters Side Tracked. Emphatic Protest From “John Bridge.”

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 3

John Bridge and Co. Ltd. write:— We have never failed, when the true interests of wool growers have been assailed to utter timely…

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Sydney Wool Market Regular Supporters Side Tracked. Emphatic Protest From "John Bridge."

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 3

John Bridge and Co, Ltd, write:-- We have never failed, when the true interests of wool growers have been assailed, to utter timely…

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State Parliament. Soldiers and Sailors' League. Coastal Shipping. Conference on Wheat Question. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 1

In the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Cann (Canterbury) asked the Premier if the Government intended to liquidate the debt of the Returned Sailors…

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Teaching Soldiers to Farm

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 4

A conference is being held at Parliament House between the Minister for Lands and Country Producers' representative with the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1918 · page 8

These notes are issued ever; week, under the personal supervision of the Minister for Agriculture, and are based on the experiments of the…

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Sheep-Fly Pest

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1918 · page 8

The work the pastoral committee for the investigation of the blowfly pest has had in hand for the past few years has to a great extent been…

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