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Farming & the land, 1920

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Stock Sales at Wagga. Increase in Sheep, Pigs and Horses. Decrease in Cattle

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1920 · page 4

The report of the Inspector of Nuisances, Mr. Robert Shaw, to the Wagga Municipal Council at its meeting last night contained the following:—…

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Wheat Pool. Price for Seed. Increase of One Shelling. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1920 · page 2

The Rural Industries' Board has agreed to advance the price of first grade seed wheat from 6/ to 7/ a bushel. Later…

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Damaged Grain. Payment to Farmers. Nothing for Scrip Buyers. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1920 · page 2

Mr. Ashford, Acting Minister for Agriculture, was recently reported to have stated that the Government would take the responsibility for…

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Farmers' Home Races. To-day's Programme

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1920 · page 4

The following are the handicaps and weights for all events to be decided at the Farmers Home Racing and Trotting Club meeting this afternoon:—…

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First-cross Sheep Tests. Conclusions Reviewed

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 January 1920 · page 7

The exhaustive experiments in the cross-breeding of sheep which the Department has been conducting at Bathurst, Cowra, and Wagga since 1910…

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Dairying. the Effect of Soiling on Breed

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 2 January 1920 · page 3

How it Prevents Reversion to Type. The advantages to the dairy favor of the soiling system—that under which a succession of fodder crops is…

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Farm Engineering. the Motor Tractor. Its Possibilities In Australia

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 2 January 1920 · page 2

When during the war the necessity of increasing the home food production faced the British Government, the motor tractor came as a solution…

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Suicide in Coolamon. Death of a Well-known Marrar Farmer

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 2 January 1920 · page 4

A particularly [?] discovery was made on Sunday morning last in a [?]cluded portion of the Coolamon cematery when the body of Mr. John Corney…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1920 · page 2

These notes are issued every week. [?]der the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Grahame, M.L.A., Minis[?] of Agriculture, and are based…

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Wheat Harvest. Prospects Improved. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1920 · page 3

Mr. Ashford, Minister for Lands staled to-day that there would be enough old wheat in the State to keep the mills gristing until the middle of…

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Wheat Shortage Shipping Difficulties Dearer Bread Probable

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1920 · page 7

The opinion was expressed on Thursday in Sydney shipping circles that the probability of the Government securing sufficient tonnage to transport enough…

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BUTTER 5/ Per Pound. Prospects in England. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1920 · page 4

It is said that the official control of milk and British cheese and butter is to close shortly. It is anticipated that butler will cost 5/ a pound when…

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The A.B.C. of Cotton. Crop Worth the Farmers' Consideration

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1920 · page 2

Queensland "Agricultural Journal" ticks off a few of the principles to be observed in cotton growing : When preparing the land plough…

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Wheat, Flour and Pollard. Increase in Price. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1920 · page 5

The secretary of the New South Wales Flour Mill Owners' Association announced to-day that the Federal Government had raised the price of…

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Post-War Wool Trade. Difficulties Ahead. Australian Position Explained

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1920 · page 1

Mr James Kidd, Vice-President of the Producers' Central Council, which represents the Graziers' Association, Stockowners' Association…

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Farmers in State Politics

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1920 · page 4

There is no time to be lost in the organisation of the farmers' interests for the State elections, and in no electorate is the need for promptness and…

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Farm Engineering the Motor Tractor Its Possibilities in Australia

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1920 · page 2

When during the war the necessity of increasing the home food production faced the British Government, the motor tractor came as a solution of the…

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Wheat Pool

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 5 January 1920 · page 4

The Rural Industries' Board has agreed to advance the price of first agreed to from 6/6 to 7/6 for first grade, and for second grade 6/…

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Darbalara Cattle for South Africa

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 5 January 1920 · page 2

A further shipment of five yearling Milking Shorthorn bulls has been made from the Darbalara Estate, Gundagai, to Mr Mathson…

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Avoiding Reparation Germany's Cattle Deals London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1920 · page 2

The Reparation Commission, interviewed in connection with large, sale of German horses and cattl[?] states that the discovery of these…

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