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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1932

3,295 stories in Riverina's papers · page 14 of 165

The Advance in Dairying Direction's for Future Development

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1932 · page 6

Big improvements have been made in the dairying industry in the last 10 years, but they have been mainly on the manufacturing and marketing side,…

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Dairying for Sustained Production Value of Conserved Fodder

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1932 · page 6

Conservation of fodder is essential to sustained production in dairying. Silage making is simple process, and there need be no fear of spoilage…

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Failing to Destroy Rabbits Settlers on New Farms Fined

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 29 January 1932 · page 7

On Tuesday afternoon last, Mr. Sheridan, P.M., spent Australia Day holiday, in the stuffy little Whitton Courthouse, dishing out fines to those…

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Yam Farmers We Can Learn From Papuans Why They Are Cannibals

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 29 January 1932 · page 4

The Papuans in some ways are more primitive than the Australian aborigines according to the Rev. F. Lane, who lectured on the subject in…

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A Farmer’s Point of View

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 29 January 1932 · page 1

Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Last week i had a letter from a Ganmain correspondent. It was a very nice letter but largely because…

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Farmers’ Debts. W.A. Bank’s Action

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 29 January 1932 · page 3

Perth, Monday.— The State Agricultural rural Bank despite the Federal [?] [?] has decided not to [?]…

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Boom in Batlow Potatoes Record-crop Entries

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 29 January 1932 · page 4

The Batlow Agricultural Society Ms received a record total of 17 entries for the district potato crop competition. The first inspection is…

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Export Butter Nearly Doubled

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 19

The Minister for Markets (Mr. C. A. S. Hawker) on Monday issued a statement complimenting butter factory managers on the success which…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 3

The Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. Ltd., Melbourne, report that the January series of Victorian wool sales was continued on…

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London Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 16

Dalgety and Co. Ltd., head office, London, cable as follows:--Wool salts continue active. Black competition. Sales close 30th inst…

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Wool-Leather a New Fabric

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 16

A new fabric called wool-leather, has been introduced in Sydney. A small proportion of leather only is used in the material. The fabric…

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Grain Wheat Dundee and Ford Best

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 8

Dundee, a new wheat of great promise, topped the yields in the early-sown variety trials. These trials have been in progress for…

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The Wool Position Evidence of Soundness

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 16

Recent wool marketing events, states Winchcombe Carson Ltd. in its weekly review, offer evidence of soundness in the selling position of…

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Wool Record 29d Paid In Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 16

At the wool sales on Monday bidding opened spiritedly, with competition fairly general. 16d was paid for five bales of wethers and ewes…

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61½ lbs. F.A.Q. Wheat Standard Higher

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 16

The fair average quality standard for this season's N.S.W. wheat was fixed on Wednesday afternoon by the Grain Trade Sectional Committee of…

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Wheat Loading 7965 Tons in Seven Hours Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 7

The steamer Dallington Court began leading wheat in Sydney Harbor at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, and by 5 o'clock last night had 7965 tons in…

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Fire in Cargo Wool Alight Vessel Arrives at Wellington Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 1

The steamer Port Fremantle arrived here this morning from Wanganui with a fire burning in her wool cargo. When the outbreak was observed all…

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Land For Poultry Farming Most Suitable Types

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 8

It is the usual thing to consider any class of land suitable for poultry keeping, observes a departmental publication, but as in the case of…

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Italian Farmer Shot Dead at Griffith

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 11

An Italian former, Rocco Tremarchie, 50, of Henwood, four miles from Griffith, was shot dead on Tuesday night on the verandah of his home…

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Hay Wheats Wagga Farm Experiments New Firwhill Tops the Yields

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 8

In the season's wheat for hay experiments af Wagga farm, excellent yields were obtained from early- sown varieties on fallow. Sixty…

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