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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1939

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Wool Bartered for German Goods Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 4

Officials of the Customs Department said that while several Australian firms were trading with Germany under the barter system, the…

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Wool Sales in Adelaide Local Clips On Offer

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 February 1939 · page 3

WOOL sales commenced in Adelaide today, when bales were offered by the South-Australian Farmers' Co-operative Union, Dalgety…

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Men Kill Only Fixed Number of Sheep

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 February 1939 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Henry George MacNamara, giving evidence before the full board of the Industrial Commission in an application by the…

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21 British Youths to Learn Farming

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 February 1939 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— The liner Largs Bay which arrived in Sydney today brought 21 youths from England and Scotland. They were selected…

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Adelaide Wool Sales

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 February 1939 · page 2

Adelaide wool sales were continued yesterday, when bales were offered by Goldsbrough, Mort and Company Today Goldsbi-ough, Mort and…

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Adelaide Wool Sales

Barrier Miner · Friday 24 February 1939 · page 2

Goldsbrough Mort and Company offered the balance of their wool stocks at the Adelaide Wool Sales yesterday, and Elder Smith and Company…

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Adelaide Wool Sales

Barrier Miner · Saturday 25 February 1939 · page 2

The following are some of the prices obtained for local clips sold at the Adelaide wool sales this week to the agency of Elder, Smith and…

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Chemistry Applied to Domestic Life Onions May Now Be Stored with Butter

Barrier Miner · Monday 27 February 1939 · page 3

One thing that has come out of the study of the defence precautions against gas is the application of some of its principles to the production of a revolutionary household article callad the "Alrdariaer." This amazing appliance, about the…

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Barrier Miner Tuesday, February 28, 1939. Making Profits in Wool Industry

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 2

THE bountiful rains experienced throughout the district will be woith thousands of pounds to the graziers, who undoubtedly have been…

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Sheep Feed in Drought Whaling-Fishing By-Products MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 6

BY-PRODUCTS of the whaling and fishing industries may provide a valuable source of high quality protein for supplementing the feed…

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Children Die on W A. FARM Inquest To Be Held PERTH

Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 5

ANSWERING an urgent call from a farm at Gordon River, 26 miles west of Cranbrook, a doctor discovered that two children were dead. Although the deaths are bslieved…

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Govt. Bounty On Wool Is Suggested

Barrier Miner · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—A proposal that, the Commonwealth Government should pay a bounty on wool produced in Australia was" made by the…

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Bright Pastoral Outlook All Stations Shared In Rain Best Prospects for 40 YEARS

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 March 1939 · page 1

PASTORALISTS cannot recall in the last 40 years when conditions outback have been so bright early in the season. There is not a station in the Western Darling district that has not shared in the rains, although some…

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South American Support for Wool Publicity

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 March 1939 · page 5

PROMISING results from representations made to the Argentine, Uruguay and Chile for support of the Dominions move. ment for world publicity for wool are reported in a special statement from the International Wool Secretariat in London which…

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Bounty on Wool Opposition Of Growers

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 March 1939 · page 5

THE policy of the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia, of which the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling exercises one-sixteenth of…

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Investigations Into Blowfly Strike And Footrot In Sheep Report to Wool Board

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 4

IMPORTANT results of research for the control of footrot in sheep are announced in a special report to the Australian Wool Board by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research which has been conducting the work on behalf of the board. The…

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Farmer Killed

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 March 1939 · page 4

OUYEN, Tuesday.—Bolting for the fourth time in the last few months, a team of eight horses caused the death of Mr. Edward, Victor Taylor,…

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Horse With Sore On Girth Dairy Hand to Pay £1 FINE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 March 1939 · page 4

A DAIRY hand who pleaded guilty to having ill-treated a bay mare by working it whilst suffering from girth galls was fined £1—in default, two days' imprisonment, by Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court today…

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Seasonal Conditions In Pastoral Areas

Barrier Miner · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 3

PHK following information as to the exisiting pastoral conditions in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australis, Western Australia, Victoria and Tasmania has been received by the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling from the…

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Adelaide Wool Sales Tomorrow

Barrier Miner · Monday 27 March 1939 · page 2

A DELAIDE wool sales will commonce tomorrow when bales will be offered by Dalgety and Company and Bennett and Fisher Limited…

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