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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

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Sheep on the North Coast. Government Expert's Advice

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 6

A correspondent on the Macleay River recently asked the Department of Agriculture for some advice on the following problem:— He had purchased 425 sheep as an experiment…

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Big Prices for Stock. £3000 for [?] shorn Sheep

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 6

A Forbes message states that at present passing through the district is a mob of [?] sheep now owned by Mr. Whitehall, bound from Travesdale to Urana…

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Wool Sales. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 11

At the third wool sale held in Christchurch American buyers refrained from operating owing to the Government refusing permission to ship. Extra super half-bred advanced to 19¾d. while all other values…

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Homebush Fat Stock Sales. Yesterday's Market. Sheep--practically Unchanged

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 8

Competition for sheep at Homebush yesterday was not quite so keen as it has been of late, but values did not show material alteration. Now and again during the progress of…

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A World's Champion Cow. Year's Output 1205-lb. of Butter

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 6

A new world's champion dairy cow of all breeds is reported by "Hoard's Dairyman." This is the Holstein Duchess Skylark Ormsby, whose record for the 305…

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"Waterside Shylocks." Wheat Hold-up. Victorian Minister's Denunciation

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hagelthorn) to-day brought before the Cabinet the strike by members of the Willlamstown Waterside Workers' Federation,…

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Pine Hills Wheat Plots. Federation the Bag-filter

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 7

The Government experimental wheat plots on the farm of Messrs. Ryan Bros., at Pine Hill, Riverina, have been harvested under the supervision of Mr. H. C…

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Cattle King As Pugilist One Round at Abattoirs Adelaide

The Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 5

An exciting scene was enacted at the abattoirs yesterday, when the cattle king, Mr. Sydney Kidman, and another well- known dealer, Mr. T. Macdonald, of Naryileo…

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Wheat. Part to Be Milled in Australia. Valuable Concession

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 4

It was announced by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) on Saturday that the British Government had agreed to take part of the 200,000 tons of wheat…

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Victorias Wheat Yield. Minister Says 60,000,000 Bushels

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 8

The Victorian wheat yield, in the opinion of the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hagelthorn) will be between 55,000,000 and 60,000,00 bushels, which…

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Wheat Lumpers' Still Idle Serious Railway Congestion Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 5

Owing to the strike of wheat lumpers there were 1689 railway trucks assembled at Williamstown this morning. There were also 500 on the road to Melbourne, which had…

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The Gulf Country. Where There Is Room for Cattle. Scarcity Ok Stockmen

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 4

"It is going to be hard to get stockmen. There is a scarcity coming." The speaker was Mr. R. H, Thornton. manager of Kamilaroy Station…

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Wheat Sales. NEARLY 6s Per Bushel. Good News From Melbourne

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 4

The Victoria Minister for Agriculture announces some very satisfactory sales of wheat. On Thursday he said: "We sold a cargo of wheat to South…

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The Law of Stock Drovers and Lost Sheep the Responsibility for Losses

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 5

A drover recently brought an action against a grazier claiming £34 for droving a mob of about 1,200 sheep. THe grazier put in a counter claim for £60…

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Wheat Harvest a Serious Bag Shortage Results of Experimental Crain Plots

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 7

The wheat experimental plots conducted by the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture on the farm of M. E. G. Wenke. Sunnyside, Walla Walla, Cuteairn, were…

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Australia's New Army Recruiting Still Active. Farmers and Railway Men

Evening News · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 5

There [?] an unusually large [?] country men at Victoria [?] this morning who [?] they arrived…

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Condition of the Country. Stock, Crops, and Pastures How the Rain Saved the Situation. Good Season for Bees

Evening News · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 3

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Fruit Fly Infestation. The Citrus Crop as a "Carrier."

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 7

It is stated by a writer in the Sydney Morning Herald that the districts where the citrus fruits are not grown are freer from the fruit-fly pest than the localities…

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Land Settlement Taxation and Monopoly N.S.W. State Share Farming System

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 4

Among the properties recently resumed by the t N.S.W. Government under the Closer Settlement Act was the Forest Vale Estate, near West…

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Farmers' War Relief Fund

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 11 January 1916 · page 8

The acre-of-wheat donations to the Farmers and Settlers' Association War Relief Fund for the week ended Tuesday represented 20½ acres of crops…

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