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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

3,255 stories in Riverina's papers · page 48 of 163

Melbourne Cattle Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 8

At the fat bullock sales at Newmarket to-day, the demand was keen for prime quality of all weights at prices showing advances. Medium and light…

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COMMERCIAL The Wheat Market SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 1

A private wheat agent in Sydney received the following cable from Liverpool: "May, 42/; sold yesterday to Italy part cargo Westralian afloat,…

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Stud Sheep Exports Export Embargo Futile MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 1

The secretary of the Pastoralists' Association of Victoria and the Pastoralists' Union of Southern Riverina, Mr. S. L. Officer, said that the…

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Stud Sheep Export Embargo Not Favored Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 4

The Secretary of the Pastoralists Association of Victoria and the Pastoralists' Union of Southern Riverina, Mr. S. L. Officer, said today that…

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The Wool Trade June Sale Prospects

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report that the Continent has quite recently displayed more interest in the purchase of local fellmongered wools sales…

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Homestead Farms

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 5

Land District of Hillston.—Setting apart eleven portions ranging, from 800 to 1123 acres, parishes of Kikiora and Blairgowrie, county of Dowling…

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Dairy Cow's Record

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 7

A dairy cow owned by Mr. R. Clymo, a settlers in the Bamawm irrigation area, Victoria, has established something in the nature of a record. Her…

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Alleged Poisoning Arsenic in Stew Farm Worker Arrested Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 4

A message from Uralla to-night states that the police have arrested a 16-year-old farm hand for attempted murder. It was alleged last night that two…

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Markets Decline Millions Involved Farmers' Losses in U.S.A. CHICAGO

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 4
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Farmers suffered an additional loss of millions of pounds owing to the drastic declines in commodities in the last few months. In the collapse of…

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A Cheap Rug for Dairy Cows

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 4

The rugging of dairy cows in the winter, by reducing the demand for support of bodily heat from the food they receive, helps appreciably in…

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Wheat

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 2

Pouring the early part of the current wheat season, December to February, India bought a considerable quantity of Australian wheat, as her own…

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Wool Market

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 2

Schute, Bell, and co., Ltd., reported on May 30:— Apathy best describes the attitude of wool buyers at the moment, due no…

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Winter Cereals. for Sheep

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 6

To ascertain the preference whom[?] by sheep under [?] conditions, for [?] important [?] of oals. [?] compared with [?] another and…

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Wheat Yield. 49,182,000 BUSHELS

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 6

The wheat harvest in N.S.W. to the [?]…

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Sheep Stealing Charges Taralga Grazier Acquitted TARALGA

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 1

Two charges of sheep stealing were preferred against Amos Wheatley, 59, a well-known grazier, residing at Curraweela, in the Taralga district,…

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AGRICULTURAL Our Mallee Lands Their Wheat-growing Possibilities

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 6

The part which mallee land seems destined to play in New South Wales wheat-growing, the peculiar problems which such land presents and the…

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Agricultural Bureau Departmental Campaign Co-operation in Farming

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 3

At the meeting of the Albury and Border P.A. and H. Society committee, on Tuesday, Mr. H. C. Stening, Chief Instructor of the Department of…

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The Skilled Farmer

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 4

Farming is a highly skilled occupation and the first class farm laborer a skilled worker. The fact is being recognised more clearly wherever farmers…

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CORRESPONDENCE (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents) Tuberculosis in Dairy Herds (The Editor, "The Daily Advertiser")

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 7

Sir,—The information that is alleged to have been supplied by an official of the Veterinary School of the Sydney University, to the effect that there…

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