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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

1,630 stories in Riverina's papers · page 66 of 82

POULTRY. Feeding With Bluestoned Wheat. Has it any Ill-effects?

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 22 October 1918 · page 4

An interesting experiment has been conducted by the Department of Agriculture, at the suggestion of the Poultry Expert, to determine the effects, if…

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Wool-pack Profiteering

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 23 October 1918 · page 2

John Bridge it Co. write:— "We are moved to make our acknowledgments and shanks to the anmerous producers who have been…

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Australian Wheat. New Zealand Shipment

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 October 1918 · page 4

The Vice-President of the Federal Executive Council (Senator Russell), who is also chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, referred on Monday to…

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Gloomy Outlook for Crops. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 October 1918 · page 1

The dry weather which has been experienced lately was responsible for phenomenal prices being obtained in the Sydney markets for produce of…

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Riverina Crops Need Rain

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 October 1918 · page 2

Mr. H. C. Stening, Agricultural Inspector, returned last week from a visit to Ungarie, in the Wyalong district. The crops there were failing…

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Wool-Pack Profiteering

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 24 October 1918 · page 2
Also in The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate

John Bridge & Co. Ltd., write— "We are moved to make our acknowledgements and thanks to numerous producers, who have been…

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Price of Butter Goes Up. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 October 1918 · page 1

Mr. Massy Greene stated to-day that the price of butter had been increased to 154/ per cwt., in order to give the producer the benefit, of the difference…

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Farm and Field Original Articles Skim-milk for Pigs

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 24 October 1918 · page 6

Protein, and particularly digestible, protein, is the ingredient in which nearly all the common home-grown foodstuffs of the farm are more or less…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. No. 385. Pastoral. Classing Merino Wool. Farmer's Flocks and the Appraisement System

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 1

In pursuance of the suggestions made by the Sheep and Wool Expert about the classing of wool from farmer's flocks of merino sheep for the require…

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Wool-Pack Profiteering!

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 2
Also in Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser

John Bridge and Co., Ltd. write:— “We are moved to make our acknowledgements and thanks to the numerous producers, who have been good enough to…

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Wool-pack Profiteering

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 4
Also in The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser

John Bridge & Co. Ltd., write ;-- '" We are moved to make oar acknowledgments and [?] to the oumerans producers, who have been…

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Growing Grass with Wheat?

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 3

Something like the discovery that two telegraph messages at once may be sent over the same wire, which startled the scientific world a good many years ago, is the announcement…

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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 25 October 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 [?] mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 390…

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Dairying. the Value of Herd-testing. To Dairy Farmers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 6

One direction in which farmers' practice will probably move rapidly forward immediately the war is over is the individual testing of cows. At…

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Settlement of Returned Soldiers. Farms on the Irrigation Areas

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 2

The Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission has made available for our perusal a copy of it pamphlet setting one the conditions under which…

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Dairymen

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 2

On our fourth page we print an article by Mr. Pitt, of the Yanco Experiment Farm, on suitable crops to cultivate on the Irrigation Areas. It…

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Agricultural Notes for the Man on the Land Crops to SOW—Suitable for the Irrigation Areas

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 4

The author of the following article, which is published at the instance of the Department of Agriculture, is Mr. J. M. Pitt, of the Yanco Experiment…

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