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Farming & the land, 1919

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The Dry Spell Crops and Stock Affected Extensive Damage by Bush Fires

Evening News · Monday 13 January 1919 · page 3

The following summary of [?] of stock crops [?] South Wales during the [?] member is taken from the reports for…

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Wagga Experiment Farm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1919 · page 5

Mr. Hugh Ross, chief inspector in the Department of Agriculture, has been appointed manager of the Wagga Experiment Farm, in succession to Mr. M'Keown, who has retired…

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Help for Farmers. Savings Bank Advances

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1919 · page 6

Inquries made of State Ministers show that the necessitous circumstances of many farmers throughout the State owing to the drought, which has been severe in many…

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Homebush Sales a Heavy Yarding of Sheep Realises Advanced Prices. Rates for Cattle Lower

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 5

There was another exceptionally heavy offering of sheep at the Howebush (Sydney) saleyards yesterday (Monday), when 45,920 sheep were…

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Australian Wheat Board. Amount of Wheat Handled

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 10

Figures compiled by the Australian Wheat Board show that the quantity of wheat handled throughout the Commonwealth for the past three seasons…

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Field, Orchard and Garden Crops the Wheat Pool Co-operation of Farmers in Grain-producing States. a Conference in Melbourne

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 7

A conference of representatives of the farmers' co-operative grain companies of the four wheat-producing states is to be held in Melbourne on…

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Duquesne to Load Wheat

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 14

The French ship Duquesne, now at Lyttelton, has been fixed to load a cargo of wheat at Port Pirle for the United Kingdom or Continent…

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New Zealand Wool Sales

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 14

The December valuation of the Otago wools commandeered on behalf of the imperial Government. has lust been copleted. About 3,500 bales were…

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Nasal Fly in Sheep in Queensland

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 2

Mr: W. G. Brown (sheep expert of the Queensland Agricultural Department), who has recently returned from a visit to the Maranoa, states that the…

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Wheat Pool. Review of Operations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 11

operations of the Australian Wheat Interesting facts concerning the Pool are contained in a special review of its operations, issued on Saturday…

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Opuntia for Sheep Prickly-pear Tested As a Drought-time Ration. Prickly-pear As Sheep Feed

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 6

Trials conducted by the Queensland Department of Agriculture recently have proved that prickly-pear can be used in a drought as an emergency…

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Loading Ports of the Wheat Fleet

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 12

It is announced from Melbourne that 32 steamers and four sailers arc listed to load wheat in the Commonwealth during January and February on…

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The Wheat Case Arrest at Parramatta

Evening News · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 6

Something of sensation was caused in Parramatta yesterdy, when Detectives Gallagher, Develin, and Jackson, in compny with Constable sheeby, arrested…

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Wheat-stackers' Strike. Settlement In Victoria

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 5

The strike of members of the A.W.U. engaged in stacking wheat at the Victorian depots has been declared off by the union after a conference between…

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Death of Mr. W. C. Hill Well-known Man in Pastoral World

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 7

The death occurred at his residence Rancliff. Ocean Street. Edgecliff, at noon on Saturday, in his 31st year, of Mr. William Charles Hill, M.L.C., of…

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Wool for U.S.A. Import Restrictions Removed

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 5

The War Trade Board of America has ordered the removal of restrictions upon the importations of wool from non-enemy countries. The order…

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Meat and Butter Imperial Contracts Extended New Zealand's Position Wellington (N.z.)

The Sun · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 7

The Minister in Charge of Imperial Supplies has received advice that the Imperial Government has agreed to the extension of the requisition period…

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Wheat Experiment Plots Dry-season Yields Obtained at Tallewang. Fallow Again Justified

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 7

Despite the dryness of the season very fair yields were obtained from the farmers' wheat-plots sown by the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture on…

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Drought-resisters the Carruthers Wheat Experiments at Hiawatha. 'Kharkoff' Still to the Fore

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 7

Supplementing" his article on Snowy River Wheat Trials, which appeared in the "Farmer and Settler" on January 3rd, Sir Joseph Carruthers writes:…

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Control of Trade Statistics Op Wheat Pool Operations for Three Years. Extensive Operations

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 5

The wheat handled in the three pooling seasons' operations by the Australian Wheat Board totals 404,872,000 bush. Shipments from…

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