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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

9,236 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 250

Farm Machinery. London, Tuesday Evening

Evening News · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 5

[?] branch of [?] will deal with the manufacture of…

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The Farmers' Strike Threat. Mr. Campbell's New Movements

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 7

the farmers would refuse to grow wheat if not represented upon the board governing the pool, a statement made by the secretary of the Farmers and Settlers…

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Queensland Farmers' Union

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 4

Eight Mile Plains and Kuraby. A successful meeting was held at Eight Mile Plains (Q.) on New Year's evening to form a branch of the Queensland Farmers Union. Mr…

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Women Farmers. Work at Pitt Town Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 8

The N.S.W. Minister for Labor and industry (Mr. Beeby), accompanied by the Under-Secretary (Mr. Holmes) and the Superintendent of the State Labor branch…

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The Farm Table The Hot Weather Dietary Foods to Select and Foods to Reject

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 8

In planning the summer diet—and it should be planned as scientifically as the rations for stock—the housekeeper ought not to lay down hard and fast…

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Keep the Apples Clean. a Short crop this Season

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 7

[?] spraying is seasonable work everywhere. The apple shop this year is not as large as usual and this should encourage growers to endeavor…

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Season Reports. State of the Crops in New South Wales

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 7

Harvesting at Coonabarabran is almost completed and some of the yield are turning out wells Mr. [?]ley, of Made[?], has ha[?] twelve bags per [?]. Most of the farmers,…

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Farmers Enlisting. May Enter Camp it Own Convenience

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 2

Speaking in regard to the recruiting scheme as it affects farmers, the chairman of the N. S. W. Recruiting Committee (Professor Macintyre) said on Saturday…

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Dairy Factory Reports. Cinnabar

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 6

The Cinnabar (Q.) cheese factory is now nearing completion and it is expected that operation will commence easily this month…

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N.S.W. State Herds Specialisation In Breeds State Farms and Their Stock

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 6

Reference was made in a departmental review, recently published, to the concentration of breeds that hat been in progress some time on the state…

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Farms at Furraca[?]a[?]. On Very Easy Terms

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 3

In the Furracabad Estate, about six miles from Glen lones, in the famous New England district, there are three farms for sale that should prove…

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Farm Training for Soldiers. Pill Town Farm to be Used

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 3

Owing to the failure of N. S. W. women to take advantage of the training facilities offered at the Pitt Town State farm, it has been decided that this area shall be…

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See Australia Tasmania's Rich North-West Thriving Towns and Fertile Farms

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 3

"God made the country and man made the, town," said the poet Cowper and Cowley wrote; "God the first garden made, and the first cuy Cain." Yet such…

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Canada's First Farmer. Tercentenary Celebrations

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 5

Canadians [?] preparing to [?]rate nest year the tercentenary of the first former settler in Cananda. He was Louis Hebert, a Paris apothecary, who landed…

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Dicontented Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 5

Mr. J. H. Wason, peag [?] (N.S.W.), writes— Farmers are very discontented with their [?] and to matter where you so you liner [?]…

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Farm Workers in England

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 5

The National Agricultural Laborers Union in Great Britain is is asking the Government to fig a minimum wage of 30/ per week for farmworkers…

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Tommy Uren, Farmer Place at Penrith

Referee · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 9

Tommy Uren, welter and middleweight champion boxer of Australia, called in on Monday lo tell, me that he had purchased a farm, spread over SO acres of ground, lock, stock and barrel,…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 13

Heavy supplies of case eggs were on hand yesterday Generally speaking, business was becoming brisk again after the holidays, and though one or two firms…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Border Stock Tax

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 9

It is not suprising to learn from our Tenterfield correspondent that strong feeling has been aroused in the tableland districts at the action of the Queensland Government in…

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