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Farming & the land, 1934

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Boosting Australian Butter in England

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 4

Trade organisers, (seven in number), made 530 calls on wholesale and retail traders in London and cities and towns in the Midlands recently. Special window…

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Butter at the Royal. Wingham Wins

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 2

First prize and the R.A.S. gold medal went to Wingham Rural Co-operative Society in the continuous grading butter for export class. The only…

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Stud Cattle Sales Best for Years

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 2

The stud cattle sales, which opened on Tuesday, were the most successful for years. In the Hereford section, Mrs…

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Sheep's Homing Instincts. Muswellbrook Man Tells

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 2

"Sheep may be foolish in a lot of things—but at least they don't have to be shown the way to go home," said Mr A. Dollar, Muswellbrook, in a talk…

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The Wool Outlook. Fashions and Consumption

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 6

Present indications do not lead to the belief that the world is wool hungry. A season's clip has passed into millmen's hands, and…

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Wool Shortage in United States of America

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 7

Sir John Vicars, who has returned to Sydney after a trip to California, said that only small wool stocks were on hand in the United States…

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Wool and Germany. Reassuring Statement. London

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 2

The London Imperial Economic Commission's wool report states that in view of Germany's stocks being heavier than in 1932 the…

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Wheat Price World Committee London Report London, March 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 1

Mr. McDougall is already at Rome for the meeting of the International Institute of Agriculture, and…

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Sheep Tracked Alleged Theft of Flock Woman Grazier and Sons Charged

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 2

Allegations that sheep had been stolen from a station and had been tracked to an adjoining pastoral property, were made at the Cobar Police…

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Wool Sales Germany's Absence London View London, March 26

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 1

The Imperial Economic Committees wool report states that in view of Germany's consumption being heavier than in 1932, the prohibition of…

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Cattle Throwing R.S.P.C.A. Protests at Show Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 4

A protest against the camp draft and other contests being staged at the Royal Show was entered by the Royal Society for the Prevention of…

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Wool Trade the German Embargo. Effect on Australia. London, March 27

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 5

The obvious deduction from Germany's restriction on imports of wool and cotton is that she desires to use them as a bargaining point for debt…

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Goverment Will Not Control Marketing! POLICY Minister Explains Farmers' Jobs Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 1

A statement that it was not the policy of the Government to control the marketing of primary products, was…

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Dairyman Fined

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 8

For falling to register a dairy which he had leased for a fortnight, Walter [?]espic was fined £3, with 8/ costs, at the Forbes Police Court,…

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Welfare Farms Abuses to Be Removed

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 2

The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) said on Tuesday that he had not yet received a report on the recent inquiry into the administration…

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PASTORAL Lucerne for Grazing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1934 · page 8

Some years ago the idea existed that lucerne would only grow satisfactorily on deep, rich, alluvial, flats, but to-day it is considered to be one…

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Valuable Sheep SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1934 · page 1

The Waiko jaiti, which arrived from New Zealand to-day, brought a consignment of high grade…

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Stockman Fined Cattle, Straggling WARIALDA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1934 · page 5

At the Warialda Court, before Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M., Patrick McTaggart was proceeded against by the Yallavol Shire COuncil for driving stock…

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Dumping Duty New Zealand Butter OTTAWA, March 31

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1934 · page 1

An Order in Council has been passed whereby the exchange dumping Cuty is applied to the importation of New Zealand butter on and after…

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Field Farm & Dairy Notes by Government Experts Agriculture Contour Drains

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1934 · page 8

Although hill land on the far South Coast was not flooded by the recent deluge in many instance it suffered greater damage than did…

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