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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

1,630 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 82

Weevil in Wheat

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 6

Professor H. Maxwell-Lefroy has forwarded the following memorandum to the different State Governments in regard to…

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COMMERCIAL. Wool Insurance

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 4

Winehcombe, Carson, Ltd., write:—"Owing to the particularly wet weather which has been experienced this season an…

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Successful Cattle Sale at Goulburn

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

[?] H. Furner and Co. and The Pastoral Finance Association Ltd. (Goulburn Branch), report having held a very successful…

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"The Fire Bug." Big Fires at Jellingro. Wheat Crops Destroyed. Phosphorus Baits Picked Up

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 3

ROLLING clouds of smoke on Saturday afternoon denoted a big bush blaze out Jellingro way (says the Gundagai "Independent.") The fire started in…

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Returned Soldiers and Wool Classing

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

The question of providing instruction in wool-classing for a returned soldier has been the subject of correspondence between Mr. C. Hardy, of Wagga, and…

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Wheat or Stock ? Conference in Sydney

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

The Minister for Lands (Mr. W. G Ashford) opened an important conference of pastoralists and farmers at Parliament House on Tuesday to discuss [?]…

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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 January 1918 · page 2

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. No. 350…

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Wheat or Stock? Wheatgrowers' Meeting Minister for Lands Disappointed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

The Minister for Lands to-day expressed disappointment at the tone of the discussion at the meeting of wheat growers held yesterday. Mr…

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The Idea Hot a New One. Every Grain-of Wheat Will Be Wanted. How Coolamon Would Be Affected

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

Knowing that there was no person in the Coolamon district whose opinions on all matters appertaining to the man on the [?] is of more value than that of Mr…

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Farmers' Conference. Important Resolutions

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

A conference of between 60 and 80 wheat growers met at Aarons Exchange Hotel on Wednesday [?] the situation…

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Higher Freights. Farmers' Alleged Advantage

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 6

In a statement which Mr. Larkin, general manager of the Commonwealth line of [?] has furnished to the Prime…

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Live Stock. Barbed Wise Cuts. Some Suggestions for Farmers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

Unsightly scars, the results of barbed wire cuts, materially depreciate the value of colts and horses when the time comes for them to be sold. These scars…

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Farmers' Union

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

The Murrumbidgee irrigation Farmers' Union will henceforward be known as the Leeton branch of the Farmers and Settlors' Association…

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Travelling Sheep

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 4

The Stock Inspector reported to the Wagga P.P. Board yesterday that a farmer at Stockinbingal had trucked sheep for market with a statement…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 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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Meat and Wool Versus Wheat. Some Notes on the Sydney Conference

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 4

The primary industries were all thoroughly represented at the conference held at Parliament House on Tuesday, at the instance of the Minister for Lands, to "consider a scheme for the expansion of the live stock industry in place of wheat-growing." "That was the wording of the invitation as issued by the…

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Agricultural. Cost Wheat Production a Basis of Calculation

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 8

In the articles of the past two weeks under this heading, it has been admitted that the operations incidental no the production of a crop of wheat…

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Wheat Silo Tenders. Ministers Deny Rumor. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 5

New South Wales Ministers profess themselves to be in entire ignorance of the reported intention of the Commonwealth Government to interfere with…

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Wheat or Stock? Meeting of Producers to Be Called

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 2

The New South Wales Cabinet on Monday approved of a scheme submitted by Mr Ashford (Minister for Lands) for the expansion of the live…

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