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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

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Bush Fires Blaze on Wambidgee. Big Wool Shed Doomed. Gundagai

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 February 1926 · page 2

The big wool shed on Wambidgee Station is on fire and is burning so fiercely, that there is no chance of saving…

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Farming Accident Caught in Belting

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1926 · page 4

An accident, which at first was thought to have very, serious results happened on Friday to Mr. Ivan Sorensen, who was engaged…

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Poor Farmers Position in U.S.A. Profits Not Adequate Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 February 1926 · page 2

Mr. W C. Foster, a member of a leading Chicago investment company, who arrived from America to-day, said the agricultural conditions in that…

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Young Farmer Killed Killed by Traction Engine Narandera

The Daily Express · Wednesday 3 February 1926 · page 2

Thomas Hornerman, aged 19 years, whose father is a farmer at Finley, met with a fatal accident near Narendera on Monday…

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Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 1

At the London wool sales 10,753 bales were offered. About 9000 were sold. Withdrawals generally were frequent. Inferior greasy merinos were…

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Yesterday's Wool Sales

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson received the following wire from their Brisbane office yesterday:—"Average to good selection of wool available at…

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Wimmera Wheat Yields. New Crossbread Wheats

Ariah Park News · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 2

Interesting information regarding wheat experiments in the Wimmera district was supplied by the Department of…

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Two Fires Still Raging Sheep Losses Reported Holbrook

The Daily Express · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 1

There is less anxiety in the Holbrook district to-day because the Lankey’s Greek-Wantagong side of the big fire is now considered [?]…

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Commercial. Wool London Sales London. February 3

The Daily Express · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 4

At the wool sales today 9,000 bales were offered and about 8,600 were sold. A good demand continues chiefly for fine kings, which remain…

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The Ram's Rival Making Wool Grow on Trees

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 2

Mr. George Wilson had on view in Gundagai this week a sample of the synthetic fibre called "artfiicial wool."…

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Sheep Skins

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 8

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reported under date 29th January:— At to-day's sales 25,818 sheep skins…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 8

The A.M.L.F. Co., Ltd., reported under date 30th, January:— The fifteenth series of suctions in this centre terminated on 27th…

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Wool Report

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 3
Also in The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser

[?] [?] under date January [?] Samples have been [?] in [?] but the [?]…

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New [?] Wheat. [?] TEST

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 8

The reference made is the press to the [?] wheat Known . [?] [?] only [?] with the [?] [?] The official…

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Varieties of Wheat

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 5

Seasonal conditions are largely responsible for the pronounced success of varieties of wheat in certain years. In the two seasons 1923-24 the…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., reported on the 3rd: We received the following wire from our Brisbane office: "Average to good selection of wool…

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Commercial Wool Auctions

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 8

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd., report under date, 29th, January:— There were only two selling days this week in consequence of Tuesday…

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Monument to Wheat Pioneers

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 5

Recently the exact spot was located where Alan Cunningham grew the first wheat plot in New South Wales. It is located in the Sydney Botanical…

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Wheat Prices. Local Market Firmer

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 7

During last week-end Sydney buyers advanced their limit for bagged wheat by [?] per [?] to [?] at country [?] equal to 6/1, ex trucks…

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