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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

2,253 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 3 of 113

Homebush Sales Cattle Market Unchanged SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson report that this morning at Homebush Twenty three hundred cattle were yarded. Prices for prime sorts were…

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The Wheat Fiasco Conference May Help

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 2

A conference was held in Melbourne yesterday between wheat shippers and the Acting Minister for Markets. Some misunderstandings were…

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Sheep Blow-fly Control Value of Trapping and Poisoning

National Advocate · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 3

Discussing in a recent report the prevalence and need for control of sheep blow-fly, the Chief Veterinary Surgeon of the Department of…

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Wool Report Increase in Exchange a Market Help

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 7

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: The increase in the money exchange rate to £115 7s 6d, is the best development the wool trade has…

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Sydney Wool Sales Market Remains Firm Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 2

A good selection comprising 10,462 bales was offered at the wool sales to-day and of this number 0,654 were sold at auction. An additional 1010 hales…

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Wheat Pool Mr. W. F. Dunn's Opinion. Amendment Contemplate

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 22

Interviewed in Sydney recently, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr W. F. Dunn, declared that it was a sorry day for the wheat growers of…

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Mr. D. Carson Death on Monday. Forty Years in Wool

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 22

The death occurred on Monday, January 5, of Mr. Duncan Carson chairman of directors of Winchcombe, Carson Ltd…

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"Callous Government" Knocking The Farmer SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 2

Mr S. H. Tout, president of the Graziers' Association, said it is unthinkable that the State Government is not aware of the desperate…

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Homebush Sales Sheep Cheaper; Cattle Dearer Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 1

The sheep penning at Homebush to-day showed an increase of 10,000 on last day's offering. The quality was only fair, well grown sheep forming…

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Wheat Farmers Thankful

Leader · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

“Halt a loaf is better than no bread.” was the remark passed to a “Leader” representative, yesterday, by a district wheatgrower, when asked what…

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Larras Lake Wheat

Leader · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

Member C. W. Reld and Son, of [?], Larraa Lake settlement, who won the Royal Agriculture Sociely’s wheat championship for the…

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Sheep Skins Slump Melbourne

National Advocate · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

French buyers representing Mazamet firms did not operate at the sheepskin sales to-day owing to the export duty on skins. Out of a catalogue of…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Leader · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

Jagan, [?] many were keen congra[?] at our Sydney went another to-day [?]…

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Canadian Wheat Huge Surplus Expected Winnipeg

National Advocate · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 3

"With wheat at ruinously low levels no alarm should be felt if there is a carryover at the end of July," states Mr. L.J. McFarland, manager…

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Wool and Money Exchange a Market Help

National Advocate · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report—The increase in the money exchange rate to £115/7/6 is the best development the wool trade has experienced for…

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Sydney Wool Sales Market Unchanged Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

A good selection comprising 10,792 bales was offered at the wool sales to-day and of this number 9,613 bales were sold at auction and an additional 1156…

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Hobart Wool Sales a Good Price Hobart

National Advocate · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 3

At the wool sales which opened this morning 21,000 bales were offered on the same lines as last year's catalogue. The top price obtained for small…

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Mr. Fenton Anxious. Bank and Wheat Position. MELBOURNE

Leader · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 4

The Commonwealth took Board has [?] vet replied lo the letter in which Mr Fenton asked whether the bauk would be able to finance a guarantee…

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Handling the Wheat. Looks Like a Hold-Up. SYDNEY

Leader · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 4

The manager of the Government grain elevators, Mr. Harris, said today that, when all the trucks now [?] at country nllos returned to…

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N. Z. Wool Sales Good Clearances Wellington (N.z.), Thurs

National Advocate · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

Good clearances were made at the Wellington wool sales to-day, bidding being active. The market was firm at December rates for good and super…

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