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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

1,630 stories in Riverina's papers · page 45 of 82

The 1915-16 Wheat Pool. Question of Cleaning Up

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 4

In a statement issued by Mr. Watt on Monday, it was made clear that there was no intention on the part of the Government or…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. No. 870. Agricultural. Seed Maize for Next Year. More Desirable Characters

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 4

Dealing further with the subject of choosing cars of maize desirable for seed purposes, Farmers' Bulletin, No, 116, states that ears should not have a…

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Dairying. Lessons in Cow Testing. a Feature of a Fair

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 6

That the dairy farmer should know exactly what each cow in his milking nerd is doing in the way of milk and butter production was illustrated in a…

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Dairying. Process of Milk Production. An Animal Factory

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 4

The process by which the fat, sugar, casein and ash are formed in the udder of the cow is one of the most delicate and obscure things that could well be…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 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 Department…

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Pastoral. Rabbit Destruction. Fumigation

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1918 · page 1

Fumigation is a method, of destruction that, if carefully, attended to, accounts for many rabbits. The best time of the year to fumigate is the…

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Cross-breeding in Sheep

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1918 · page 8

The sheep from the various Government experiment fauns, used in connection with the cross-breeding experiments in wool and mutton, formed an…

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Sheep Inspection. Quarantining at Wagga Saleyards

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1918 · page 6

At Thursday's meeting of the Wagga Pastures Protection Board, a letter was received from the Stock Branch, Department of Agriculture,…

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Pastoral. Rabbit Destruction. Making And Using Poison Baits

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1918 · page 2

Last week, the suggestions of the Rabbit Inspector at Moree with regard to the laying of poison baits for rabbits were given at some length in…

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Centralisation. Cost to Wool and Wheat Growers. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 July 1918 · page 4

A statement which has been prepared for the delegates at the Pastoralists' conference, which meets on Wednesday, says that owing to wool…

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Pastoral. Rabbit Destruction. Making and Using Poison Baits

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 8 July 1918 · page 2

The suggestions of the rabbit inspector of Moree with regard to the laying of baits for rabbits were given at length in these columns; and…

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Wool Freights. Shortage Anticipated. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 July 1918 · page 4

The authorities of the Federation on British Industries anticipate a shortage in tonnage for wool and some metals. They recognise that the Government…

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Tumut Butter Factory, Ltd. Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 9 July 1918 · page 2

AN extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Tumut Butter Factory, Ltd., was held at O'Brien's Hall on Saturday morning last. There was a large…

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FARMERS & Settlers Annual Conference. Government Policy Criticised Wheat Guarantee and Board of Trade. Hints of Trouble to Come. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 July 1918 · page 2

The annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was opened in Sydney to-day. Over 300 delegates were present, representing 190 branches…

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Share Farming

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 July 1918 · page 2

According to a return received by the Minister for Lands (Mr. W. G. Ashford) the gross profit made by the Government in its share-farming…

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Wool Appraisement Wool-Classing Pamphlet

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 July 1918 · page 2

We arc asked by John Bridge and Co., Ltd., to notify woolgrowers that they are prepared to send, post free, on application, a copy of their…

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FARMERS & Settlers Operation of Wheat Pool. Some Trenchant Criticism. Support Withdrawn From Nationalists. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 July 1918 · page 3

At the Farmers' Conference Mr. Clement Giles, referring to the operations of the Wheat Pool, said that Mr. Hughes had turned him down as a…

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Items of News. Re-conditioning Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 July 1918 · page 2

All along the Coolamon line, the Corowa and Oaklands lines, the work of re-conditioning the old wheat stacks is in full swing and a Start has been…

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Wool Appraisement. Wool-classing Pamphlet

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 July 1918 · page 3

We are asked by John Bridge and Co., Ltd., to notify woolgrowers that they are prepared to send, post free, on application, a copy of their "Practical…

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Wool Appraisement Wool Classing Pamphlet

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 11 July 1918 · page 4

We are asked by John Bridge and Co., Ltd., to notify woolgrower's that they arc prepared to send, post free, on application…

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