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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1937

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District Cattle for Kalgoorlie

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 March 1937 · page 2

Messrs. Bennett and Fisher Ltd. advise having consigned to Kalgoorlie this morning 28 trucks of fat cattle. The cattle were purchased by…

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Adelaide Wool Sales

Barrier Miner · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 3

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd. reported that prices for good and average wools at the Adelaide wool sales to-day were from 5 to 7½ per…

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Big Clearance at Wool Sales Best Results for Eight Years in S.A. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 3

THE seventh wool sale of the 193637 series was concluded in Adelaide yesterday, and all the best features associated with the opening…

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Big Clearance at Wool Sales Best Results for Eight Years in S.A. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 3

THE seventh wool sale of the 1936-37 series was concluded in Adelaide yesterday, and all the best features associated with the opening…

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Sheep Dogs at Work

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 3

HOW A TRIO OF SHEEP DOGS work together to bring their charges into any required position—ven when driving the sheep through a 3ft. gap in hurdles is involved—was seen recently by viewers of the B.B.C's. television programmes from Alexandra…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 6

Dalgety and Co. Ltd. have received the following advice, from their Sydney office, dated March 15: — "There was keen competition at…

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Cattle Station Brings £80,000

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — The purchase by Bluff Downs Pastoral Co. Ltd., of Bluff Downs, a well-known Charters Towers cattle holding in…

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Today's News In Brief Sheep Losses In Floods

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 March 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY, Saturday.—Sheep losses in the north-west as a result of floods are believed to be more serious than at first expected. While it will be…

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To-day's News In Brief Sheep Losses In Floods

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 March 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY, Saturday.—Sheep losses in the north-west as a result of floods are believed to be more serious than at first expected. While it will be…

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Melbourne Wool

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 March 1937 · page 4

Dalgety and Co. Ltd. have received the following advice from their Geelong office, dated March 18:—"Ninetysix per cent, of the total offering of…

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Barrier Miner Tuesday, March 23, 1937. Bradford Tries Out a Wool Substitute

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the hue and cry in wool producing countries about the danger of wool substitutes replacing wool has partly died down,…

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Barrier Miner Tuesday, March 30, 1937 Australia's Position in the Wool Field

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 2

MOST of the current season's supplies of South African, New Zealand, and South American wool have now been marketed. This leaves…

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Wool Research Programme Meeting This Week MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 2

PLANS for spending nearly £20,000 a year for five years on wool research in Australia that may result in big savings to the industry will be…

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S. Africa Could Retard Our Wool Industry

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Maurice O'Brien, New Zealand Commissioner to the Empire Exhibition at Johannesburg, who arrived in Sydney…

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Vic. Premier in Europe Concerned At Wool Substitutes BERLIN, April 1

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 1

VICTORIA'S Premier (Mr. Dunstan), who is on his way to London, visited the textile exhibition in Berlin and inspected the synthetic…

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Sheep Station For Research Proposal of Wool Board Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 3

ADOPTION of a proposal for a research station on which scientists will seek remedies for pests and diseases afflicting sheep was expected…

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Sheep Station For Research Proposal of Wool Board Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 3

A DOPTION of a proposal for a research station on which scientists will seek remedies for pests and diseases afflicting sheep was expected…

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The Farmer's Best Friend

Western Grazier · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 4

In co-operation with the botanist the bio-chemist in making marked progress in producing struma to be injected into the sap stream of…

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Pastoral Conference At Wilcannia

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 3

TO attend the annual conference of the Pastures Protection Board and graziers of the western division at Wilcannia to-morrow afternoon,…

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Penalty Not Inflicted Wrong Particulars About Sheep

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 4

TAKING into consideration the extenuating circumstances of the case, Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Police Court to-day refrained from…

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