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Farming & the land, 1923

1,970 stories in Riverina's papers · page 77 of 99

Boxing. Experiment Farm Students. Annual Tournament

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 October 1923 · page 2

The students annul boxing tournament at the Experiment Farm opened last night. For months past students have been training, both for the sports…

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Boxing at the Farm

The Daily Express · Tuesday 23 October 1923 · page 2

The annual boxing tournament conducted by the students of the Wagga Experiment Farm, began last night, when three preliminary bouts…

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Russian Wheat

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 October 1923 · page 3

A few days ago a cable message in the press stated that a Russian-British company, with an equal number of Russian and British shareholders,…

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Overseas Wheat Position

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 October 1923 · page 3

Lindley Walker Co-operative Wheat Co., Ltd. report under date of 22nd October, that their cable of that day reads as follows:…

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Wool Still Rising

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 October 1923 · page 2

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: The wool sales opened at London yesterday. Our agents cable that the prices of merino wools are expected…

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Wool Up. London

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 October 1923 · page 1

As the sales of wool, the offerings, chiefly crossbreds, opened at 5 to 7 per cent. higher…

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Growing Crop the Abandoned Contest

The Daily Express · Wednesday 24 October 1923 · page 2

Last week’s decision, of the Murrumbidgee . Pastoral and Agricultural Association to abandon, this year the annual growing crop contest has…

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The Wheat Crops Absolute Failure

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 25 October 1923 · page 2

"There is absolutely no crop whatever west of Webb's Siding. That heavy windstorm a for night ago put a finish to even the most…

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Commercial. Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 25 October 1923 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. wire that they sold yesterday 5000 bales of wool at their Sydney sales. 95 per cent. of the lots offered were cleared at…

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Colonial Butter London, October 23

The Daily Express · Thursday 25 October 1923 · page 4

At the Islington Dairy Show Colonial Butter competitions, the first price in the salted and unsalted [?] were won by the casino and…

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Wheat Silos—Charges of Operating

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 25 October 1923 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture stated last night that the Silo Control Board had furnished him with a report recommending a scale of charges for…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 October 1923 · page 4

Messrs. Winchcombe Carson and Co. report have sold 5000 bales of wool at the Sydney sale to-day. Ninety-five per cent. of the lots offered…

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Commercial Overseas Wheat. Lindley Walker Report

The Daily Express · Thursday 25 October 1923 · page 2

Tho Lindley Walker Co-operative Wheat Co., Ltd., roports under date of October 22:—Our cable reads as follows:—…

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Wheat Silos. Charges of Operating. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 October 1923 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture stated to-night that the Silo Control Board had furnished him with a report recommending a scale of charges for the…

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To Cleanse Wool a New Process London, October 23

The Daily Express · Thursday 25 October 1923 · page 4

Colin Rougers, of sydney, has acquired the Australian rights of Youlte[?]‘s process of treating wool for the removal of dirt, grass and other…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Lockhart District Council Sir George Hits Out

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 October 1923 · page 2

The Lockhart District Council met in the School of Arts on October 18. under the chairmanship of Mr. H. P. O'Neil Mr. C. Coghlan, district Speaking to a Nationalist gathering at Sydney on Tuesday Sir George Fuller said— It is something of a reproach to us that our American…

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Sugar Crop a Very Bad Season Brisbane

The Daily Express · Thursday 25 October 1923 · page 1

The coastal belt from Townsville to Bundaberg, 600 miles, has experienced the worst sugar season ever known. The average rainfall of 40…

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Pastoral. the Sheep-maggot Fly. Factors in the Devolpment of a Serious Pastoral Pest

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 October 1923 · page 2

It is frequently stated, and with a certain amount of truth, that the "blow-fly" pest was known in New South Wales forty years ago. But it…

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COMMERCIAL. Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1923 · page 3

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report under date 19th October:—The N.W. and W. districts continue to provide the bulk of the offerings in…

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Wool Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1923 · page 3

The A.M.L. & F. Co. report that at their sales on 16th instant, greasy brought to 32[?]d. Competition was strong for all merino wools shewing…

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