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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

1,630 stories in Riverina's papers · page 32 of 82

Dairy Conference. Federal Control of Dairy Industry. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1918 · page 2

The Interstate Dairy Conference was opened in Sydney to-day. Delegates from Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales…

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Items of News. Payments to Wheat Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1918 · page 2

The Acting Prime-Minister (Mr. Watt) is to confer this week with the banking authorities in Melbourne and Sydney respecting the payments to be…

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Wool Packs. Central Wool Committee Urge-economy

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1918 · page 2

John Bridge & Co: Write :—" We have received a communication from the Chairman of the State Wool Committee, enclosing one from…

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Wool. Government Control

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 May 1918 · page 3

Winohcombe, Carson, Ltd., report under date May 7: Appraisements are being held in Brisbane this week, but next Monday…

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Tumut Butter Factory

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 9 May 1918 · page 3

We gave in our last issue a summary of proceedings at meeting of shareholders in above factory, held on Saturday afternoon last, up to…

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Tumut Butter Factory

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 9 May 1918 · page 2

The general meeting of shareholders held on Saturday last was an important, one in many ways. Firstly, the directors report disclosed the…

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Wool Packs. Central, Wool Committee Uzge Utmost Economy

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 9 May 1918 · page 4

John Bridge and C.[?] Ltd., write:—"We have just received a communication from the Chairman of the State Wool Committee, enclosing one…

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Wheat and Vetch Silage

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1918 · page 6

The value of wheat and vetch as a [?] crop is coming to be recog[?] more and more. Doubtless it [?] never supplant maize in this…

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The Dairy

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1918 · page 3

Investigations carried out under the auspices of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, and extending over a period of five years, have…

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Farm and Held Original Articles. Intensive Cultivation

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 9 May 1918 · page 5

The problem of successful farming nowadays, and particularly the problem of small holdings, must depend for its solution on intensive culture, which…

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Increased Wheat Sowing

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 6

The manager of the State Wheal. Office, Mr. R. S. Drummond, says that the many in-quiries received from farmers for…

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Wool Packs. Central Wool Committee Urge Utmost Economy

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 4

John Bridge & Co., Ltd. write:— “We have just received a communication from the Chairman of the State Wool Committee, enclosing one from the…

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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 10 May 1918 · 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. AGRICULTURAL…

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Farm and Held Original Articles Intensive Cultivation

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 3

The problem of successful farming nowadays, and particularly the problem of small holdings, must depend for its solution on intensive culture, which…

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The Colleen's Broom. How Galway Farm Girl Tackled Armed Raiders

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 6

The latest story of a raid for arms in Ireland gives thrilling details of the heroism of a County Galway farmer's daughter, who held up a disguised…

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Water on the Farm. Prevention of Injury to Boilers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 6

Mention was made last week of the fact that there is no certain means of preventing the formation of boiler scale, even when the composition of the…

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Dairying. Building Up a Dairy Herd. The Choice of a Bull

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 4

The upbuilding of a dairy herd by constructive breeding, was the subject of a short address by Professor J. J. Hooper at a meeting of dairy farmers…

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Water Requirements. Of Dairy Cows

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 4

Talking of the water requirements of the cow, Processor Humphrey, of Wisconsin, U.S.A., told a gathering of farmers that a cow that is producing…

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Farmers and Settlers’ Asscn

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 3

Mr. C. F. Moller, secretary of the Coolamon branch of the above, has forwarded us a letter which he received from the General Secretary. As the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1918 · page 2

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

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