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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

1,630 stories in Riverina's papers · page 58 of 82

Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. No. 879. Live Stock. Internal Parasites of Animals. Some of the Bladderworms

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 6 September 1918 · page 4

The general survey of the subject of internal parasites, of live stock, to which we devoted space last week, will have prepared readers for a few remarks on…

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Banks Will Help Farmers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 6 September 1918 · page 2

The Central War Loan Committee point out that in some cases it may not be convenient for farmers and others owning property to pay in…

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Dairying Take Care of the Cans. a Wartime Economy

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 6 September 1918 · page 4

The high price of tinned goods of all Kinds is a subject in which the dairy farmer has a real interest, and an American professor suggests that…

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The Economical Cow. Compared with Other Farm Animals

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 6 September 1918 · page 4

The dairy cow not only produces more human food from a given amount of feed than any other animal, but she consumes a larger amount of…

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Dairying. Control of Contagious Abortion. a Record of Experiments

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 6 September 1918 · page 4

It has been suggested that contagious abortion "burns itself out," once an animal becomes infected, and that she eventually becomes immune. -- Records…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 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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The Price of Wheat. Conference Asked For

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 1918 · page 6

The secretary of the Primary Producers' Union, Mr. A. S. M'Kenzie, has addressed the following letter, under date September 3, 1918, to the…

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Wheat Pool. Overdraft and Stacking Figures. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 1918 · page 3

Of the bank overdraft of £14,081,000 due by the Australian Wheat Board on September 2. New South Wales is responsible for £3,995,000. Victoria…

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Surplus Wheat. Lower Price Expected. Important Statement by Mr. Watt

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 1918 · page 1

The failure of the Australian Wheat Board to dispose of the surplus grain his given cause for grave concern, and, as the outcome of a meeting of…

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Banks Will Help Farmers

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 1918 · page 8

The Central War Loan Committee point out that in some cases it may not be convenient for farmers, and others owning property to pay in cash…

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Marketing Wool

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 9 September 1918 · page 4

Under the wool acquisition scheme a most important matter to growers this season is the proper classing of wool for appraisement. Merino wool…

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Farmers' Candidates

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 9 September 1918 · page 4

Mr. Beeby referred on Wednesday to the decision of the Farmers and Settlers' Association to put forward its own candidates for Parliament, and…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 10 September 1918 · page 4

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report under data September 7: Appraisements will commence in…

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Wheat Stocks. The Grave Outlook

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1918 · page 4

The Vice-President of the Executive Council, Senator Russell, issued a statement on Thursday on behalf of the Wheat Board regarding the wheat…

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Items of News. Wool

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1918 · page 2

On account of the scarcity of shipping tonnage and the desire to have the maximum quantity of wool scoured in the Commonwealth, the Central…

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The Wheat Silos Descriptive Article

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1918 · page 2

The great nice plague of 1917, by which Australia, and particularly New South Wales, was menaced, is unfortunately extending into 1918. As wheat…

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Putting Off Hands. Botany Wool Combing Works. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1918 · page 3

Two hundred more employee at the wool combing works at Botany have been notified by the management that their work will cease next week. This…

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Wheat Pools. Wheat Sold and Unsold. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 September 1918 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly last night, replying to Mr. Manning (Albury), the Minister for Agriculture said that 15,150,000 bushels of wheat…

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Farm Manures

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 12 September 1918 · page 6

Some theoretical scientists talk as if crops could be continually cultivated by the application of artificial manure alone, being apparently under the idea…

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Farm and Held Original Articles Sulphur As a Fertiliser

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 12 September 1918 · page 6

During the past four years the Southern Experiment Station has been conducting extensive fertiliser experiments on alfalfa. During the first two…

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