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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

2,676 stories in Riverina's papers · page 28 of 134

Cheaper Butter. Drop of 6d a Pound. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 March 1921 · page 2

Victorian traders consider the time when butter will be cheaper is drawing near. A drop of sixpence a pound is considered certain…

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The Show Dinkum Diggers. Fight & Farm

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 14 March 1921 · page 2

Diggers who ploughed their way in Palestine and France, and who have taken to ploughing a different furrow since getting back…

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Poor Tobacco Crop

Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 March 1921 · page 2

The State's tobacco yield this season is still dependent upon results from late planted crops—areas that were if planted after blue mould had devastated…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd reported on 11th March: Demand at our sale on Monday last was most disappointing, there being…

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Cattle Slaughtering at Yenda

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 2

Mr. Flannery, M.L.A., has received the following communication from Mr. Evatt, sec W.C. and I.C., dated Mar 7:—…

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The Wool Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 2

The keen competition ruling for fine merino fleece wools at last week's Sydney sales was fully experienced on many limes from…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day 3011 bales were offered. Japan continued to compete for the best clips to the exclusion of other countries, and…

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The Case for the Country. a Last Word—"Tell the Boys to Pull Together"—What the Dairying Trouble Teaches—The Economic Dependence of the City— Need for Greater Rural Organisation—What is meant by the Com munity Spirit—The Home-Centre Movement in America. Final Article. No 7

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 4

When Tom Price, Premier of South Australia, lay dying, he sent a message to his successor in the leadership of the party for which he had…

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Tobacco. a Profitable Crop Hints for Intending Planters

The Daily Express · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 4

The tobacco crop is not yet a very appreciable from in New South Wales’ but it would not appear from the comment of the Tobacco Expert of the…

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The Wool Outlook

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

The wool outlook appears to be more precarious than ever. each series of sales, whether in the Commonwealth or in England, furnishes the…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

At the Sydney wool sales to-day 3162 bales were offered. Japan again competed keenly for the best clips, whilst a good deal of support was received…

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Crippled Sheep. at Flemington Yards. Charge of Cruelty Fails. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

George Bell was charged at the Burwood Police Court to-day by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for cruelly ill-treating sheep…

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Australia’s Butter Work of the Pool. Provision for the Winter. Sydney

The Daily Express · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 1

The Commonwealth Dairy Produce Pool Com[?]tee concluded its sittlngs late this afternoon when a scheme to establish concerted action was…

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The Railways. Tribute by Mr. Dunn. Farmers Would Be Down and Out. But for Help of Railways. Dubbo

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

Mr. J. Estell, Minister for Railways, speaking at a railway banquet in Dubbo last night, said the Government was crying to do its best by the men in…

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Economy a Fiscal Issue Farmers Favor Protection. Sydney

The Daily Express · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 1

The Taxpayers’ Conference was continued to-day. It was proposed that opposition should be given to any…

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GREEDY FARMlNG the Maligned Drought

The Daily Express · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

He would be a [?] farmer indeed who could learn to look upon droughts with fever, but if such periods of trial same day bring home…

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Donations of Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 2

The recent appeal or the Wagga District Hospital for donations of bags of wheat has met with a liberal response. At Marrar Mr. R. J. Cuppies already…

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Wool Profits. Remarkable Decline. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 1

The official committee has reported that one Bradford top making firm earned in 1919 more then 88 per cent on the capital employed, after payment…

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Second Wheat Payment

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 3
Also in The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser

Farmer view with pleasure the Wheat [?] to make the second payment in connection with the Wheat [?] available on the 4th April…

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