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Farming & the land, 1919

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Queensland Sugar Crop

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 14

The "Australian Sugar Journal" of February 6, in its report on the Queensland sugarcane crops, states that although the outlook for the…

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Record Crops. Tobacco in the North-west

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 3

A start was made last week in the Tamworth district and other north-western centres to cut the tobacco crop. The harvest is earlier than usual owing to the dry weather hastening the…

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Dairy Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 7

Deep milkers are scarce, with ready sale at full prices, as dairymen are trying to keep pace with the brisk demand, both for milk for distribution in the…

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Butter

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 3

Sydney.—Unfortunately the good rains which, have prevailed in this State during the last week have not to any extent fallen in the dairying…

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The Pastoral Industry

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 3

Mr. Ashford, N.S.W. Minister for Lands, says that the price of meal must rise, and that meat will be dear for many years to come. In New…

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Beauty of Butter

Evening News · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 6

There has been a raging conflict of opinion over at Tuncurry Forster and the lakes vicinity over the future of the islands thereabout. Evidently, from the…

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Inverell Butter Factory

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 9

The Inverell Butter Factory has received a cheque from the British Government for £784, representing the difference between the fixed price…

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Wheat Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 9

Australian wheat, aggregating 18,600 tons, has been sold to Britain, Sweden, and India. Eleven thousand six hundred tons has been purchased by the British…

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Coraki. Butter Output Decreased

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 13

As an indication of the severity of the drought oh the mid-Richmond, it is interesting to note that Coraki butter fac[?]…

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Sugar Beet for Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 31

C. M. S.: This root possesses a value as a digestive for other. foods that deserves the fullest recognition by stock feeders. It is specially valuable for…

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Australian Wheat Board

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 4

Statistics supplied by the Australian . Wheat Board show that during the three seasons ended 1917-18 the quantity of wheat handled throughout…

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The Wheat Industry

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 3

At the request of au influential meeting of wheat-growers, held at Harden, the Mayor of Murrumburrah, and the President of the Demondrille…

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Temora Wheat Burnt

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 16

Seventy-eight, thousand hags of 1916-17 wheat, valued at £40,000, was destroyed by fire at Temora. The stacks are still smouldering…

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Wheat for the Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 9

Despite the fact that the average yield of wheat in N.S.W. this season is small and disappointing, the samples harvested by farmers have in many cases been…

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"Crowded Like Cattle." Overtaned Illawarra Line

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 8

Complaints arc rife as to the stale of affairs on the overtaxed illawarra line. Aid. Martin Ald the Rockdale, Council on Monday night that, instead of fewer trains on Sundays, more…

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Wool Trade. British Stocks Low

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 3

Sir Arthur Goldfinch, chairman of the Wool Supplies Committee, presiding at a meeting of the Wool Council on Thursday last, said that, owing to…

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Wheat Entries for the Sydney Show

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 32

ALTHOUGH the average yield of wheat in New South Wales this swam is small and disappointing, the samples harvested by the fanners have in many cases been excellent. This is…

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Deal in Sheep Question of Ownership Appeal to Full Court

Evening News · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 8

John Bridge and Company Limited, stock and station agents, were the defendants in an action heard before Mr Justice Pring and a jury in November…

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Record load of wheat at Ganmain, N.S.W.

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 4

In the Riverina towns wheat and hay carting is in full swing, and at times some exceptionally big loads come in. Ganmain has the proud distinction of having the Commonwealth record for a load of wheat -- 357 bags, 28 tons 17cwt 2qr -- beating all records by 2 tons 2cwt. This load was drawn into town by Mr. Mangelsdorf, with a team of 16 horses…

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A Pictorial Miscellany: at Home and Abroad. a Wool Trophy

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 15

ONE of the attractions of this year's Royal Agricultural Show will be the wool…

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