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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

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Wheat Shortage. Britain's Requirements. Looking to Australia. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 2

Owing to the decline of home-grown stock, Britain must import no fewer than 750,000 tons of meat annually, and possibly more…

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Damaged Wheat. Compensation Question. Cabinet Discusses Matter. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 2

The Cabinet to-day discussed the question of the payment of compensation to the farmers on the lines of the proposals submitted by Mr. Ashford. The…

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Importing Wheat. N.S.W. Supplies. Price of Bread Will Increase, Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 2

Mr. W. G. Ashford, Arting Minister for Agriculture, says that in the event of The shipping strike being continued this week, arrangements will be made…

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Extra Burden on Producers. Protest by Farmers and Graziers' Company

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 4

THE Managing Director of the Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance & Agenocy Co., Ltd., writes:—…

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Sale of Grape Crop

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 3

Messrs. Geo. Grey and Company sold by public auction, at their depot, on Saturday last, the crop of grapes growing on Farm 87. The price…

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Farmers & Settlers' Association

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 3

A meeting of the Leeton branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held at the Leeton School of Arts on Saturday evening, the…

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Seed Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 January 1920 · page 2

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain and Agency Company, which has been appointed to control the collection and distribution of seed…

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Guaranteed Wheat Prices

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 January 1920 · page 2

It is announced that certificates for the payment of 5/ a bushel guaranteed by the State Government for wheat grown this season and put into the pool…

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Australian Wool. 3000 Per Cent. Profit. London Committee Startled. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 January 1920 · page 2

The extraordinary profits being made on Australian wool has startled the Central Profiteering Committee. It is said that the profits now being made…

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Extra Burden on Producers Protest by Farmers and Graziers' Company

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 21 January 1920 · page 4

The Managing Director of the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance & Agency Co, Ltd., writes:—…

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Pastoral Mems

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 2

There is a man named Thomas living at Budgerabong, on the Lachlan, who has not worried over the drought. He put on a 16 h…

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Payment of Wheat Guarantee

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 2

On inquiry at the banks in Wagga yesterday, it was stated that everything was ready for making the payment of the 5/ a bushel guaranteed…

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Wheat Shortage. Mr. Storey's Strictures. Government Condemned. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 2

Mr. John Storey, leader of the Labor party in the State Parliament, said to-day that New South Wales was face to face with famine. The…

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Wool Profiteering. Publishing the Report. Labor Members Pressing. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 2

The meeting to-day of the Standing Committee on Combines unanimously favoured the publication af the report as regards the wool profiteering…

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Farm and Field. Garget in Cows

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 5

Genuine cases of garget, or pus formation in a quarter are rare an compared with painful and indurated udders arising from other causes. The…

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Goulburn Special Sheep and Cattle Sale

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

W. H. Wheatley reports having yarded 37.000 sheep and 300 cattle on Friday last to a very large and representative attendance of buyers from…

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Price of Wheat. Molong Farmers Anxious. Request to Wheat Board. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 2

At the meeting of the Molong branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association dissatisfaction was expressed at the silence of the…

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Australian Wheat

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 2

The Executive of the Victorian Farmers' Union is calling a conference for the purpose, of discussing the handling and marketing of…

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COMMERCIAL. Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 1

Schute, Bell, and Co., Ltd., report under date 19th January.— Another series of wool sales has inst opened in London, and the market…

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Wheat Harvest. Preliminary Forecast

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 5

The Government Statistician (Mr. H. A. Smith) has been able to issue a preliminary forecast of the current wheat harvest…

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