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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1935

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Shark Takes Cattle Dog

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Something of a shock was caused to residents of Woronora River late on Monday afternoon when a big cattle dog was taken…

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Home Price for Wheat Recommendation By Commission Farmers Need Help

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 1

The institution of a home consumption price for flour, by an excise duty on flour used within the Commonwealth, is the…

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Compulsory Wheat Marketing

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday.—The ActIns Prime Minuter. (Dr. Earle Page) told the House of Representatives today that the Government's advisers…

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Milk Prices Unchanged DairymenHand Feeding Herds

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 1

The increased prices to be charged for chaff will impose an additional burden on dairymen who because of the dry conditions are now using a…

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Purchase of Australia's Tobacco Crop

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday. — Last year the Government arranged with the tobcaco companies for the purchase of the Australian tobacco crop, and…

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Kabinga Farmer's Suicide

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 4

WAGGA, Thursday.—Joseph Francis Bull, a well-known farmer of Kallinga, was seen by.his wife walking away from his house with a rifle in his…

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Grass Fire Menaces Sheep

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday—A fieree grass fire is raging on Langley Downr, Queensland. It is feared it will result in heavy loases of sheep, as…

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Grass Fire Menaces Sheep

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday—A fierce grass fire is raging on Langley Downs, Queensland. It is feared it will result in heavy losses of sheep, as…

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Greece Wants Our Wheat Inquiries For Trade Treaty MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 March 1935 · page 2

Greoce wants a commercial treaty with Australia. Instructed by his Government to sign an agreement as soon as possible, Mr. Jean Kokotakis,…

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Grazier Acquitted of Sheep Stealing

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1935 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— At the trial of Forbes of George Limbers, grazier, who was charged with sheep stealing, the accused was found not…

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Latest Wool Sales Slightly In Favor Of Sellers MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1935 · page 2

The third week of the March serin of wool sales began with offerings totalling 8900 bales. Catalogues were representative, embracing a wide…

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Average Price of Wool

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 3

The average price for greasy wool sold in Australia for the season was 9.58d. a lb., according to statistics supplied by the National Council of…

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"Sheep-like Mentality" of Well-to-do Women

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 5

"The well-to-do woman has a sheep-like mentality. She patronises an establishment for snobbish motives rather than because she is…

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Partial Failure of Tobacco Crop

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thursday.—Owing to disease and bad weather, the Australian tobacco leaf production this year is not likely to exceed 1,500,000 lb…

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Straying Cattle in Hospital Grounds

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 3

Following a statement at last night's meeting by Mr. H. T. Kelly that straying cattle were giving trouble in the Hospital grounds, the…

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Germany's Huge Wool Purchases

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 3

LONDON, March 19.—The "Yorkshire Observer" says that Germany's recent huge wool purchases are undoubtedly linked with her…

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Relief for Farmers. £100,000 Favored CANBERRA

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 1

Of the £678,250 provided by the Commonwealth Government for the relief of necessitous farmers, £100,000 is recommended for…

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Farmer and Wife Killed

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 March 1935 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—In a head-on collision between a motor van ami a big lorry on Princes Highway, near Traralgon, R. Clarke, a…

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Farmer and Wife Killed

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 March 1935 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—In a head-on collision between a motor van and a big lorry on Princes Highway, near Traralgon, R. Clarke, a…

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Farmer for Trial for Forgery

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 March 1935 · page 3

ALAWOONA, Saturday.—In the Alawoona Police Court Julius Cecil Stein, farmer, of Paruna, waa committed for trial on two charges of…

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