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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

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Price of Wheat

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 1

Messrs E. and A. Grellman were Quoting this afternoon: Bagged wheat 4/11/4; in silos, 3/111/4…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., wired as on Wednesday as follows:—We sold 7,700 bales of wool at our Sydney Sales to-day. Competition was…

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Carting the Wheat Modern Transport

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 6

During the wheat season, Mr. E. H. Grellman covered 5,900 miles in [?] weeks, carting wheat in the Weethalle district with a motor lorry. The…

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Will Wheat Pay to Grow Answering with Still More Acres A Farmer's Lead

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 8

Many complaints have been made this season regarding the unsatisfactory prices offered for wheat, (says the "Daily Telegraph Pictoral") With…

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Beef Industry Improving Same. Aberdeen Angus Cattle

Cowra Free Press · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 3

Mr. Grant, Herd Master of the Agricultural Department, has recently returned from Canada, where he has selected and purchased for the State…

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Sydney Wool Sales Market Easier

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 1
Also in Cowra Free Press, The West Wyalong Advocate

The Secretary, Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co., writes:-- On the 28th January we offered a catalogue of 8815 bales. including…

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Wool Report Distribution of Demand

Cowra Free Press · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report under date January 29th as follows : A world-wide conviction appears to exist that wool values are likely to…

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Wheat Pool Use for Surplus Funds

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 5

The undisturbed sur[?] [?] from the wheat pool [?] £20, 000 and £30,000 are to be devoted to agricultural reason…

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Compulsory Wheat Pool Wattamondara Farmers Want Another Poll. Cowra Farmers to Be Asked to Call a Meeting to Discuss the Matter

Cowra Free Press · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 7

The members of the Wattamondara branch of the Agricultural Bureau are not satisfied that the result of the recent wheat poll was…

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Wheat Harvest 12 Bushel Average (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 1

It is stated that the wheat yield this season is officially estimated a 49,797,200 bushels, or an average o. 12.2 bushels to the acre…

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Sydney Markets Western Stock Sold The Wool Sales SYDNEY

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 6

About 30,000 sheep and lambs were penned for Thursday's sales, and the general quality was superior to that of Monday last. The market opened…

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Wheat Silos Season’s Deliveries Total About 15,000,000 BUSHELS

Cowra Free Press · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 4

Wheat Silos throughout N.S.W. have closed down, the delivery having finished at least two weeks earlier than in previous years. The total…

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Wheat Entries For Royal Easter Exhibition A Record in Numbers and Excellent Quality

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 5

There was a time when the wheat entries at the Royal Show failed to typify the quality of the crop, but in recent years the student, miller, or…

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PROTECTION As Farmer Sees It (To the Editor "Edvocate")

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 11

Sir.—I noticed a letter in your issue of the 22nd inst., from Mr. Paul Cheyne endeavoring to bedittle the Economic Mission by sneering at their…

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Money Inland. Farmer's Chance Meeting Conspiracy Charge Case from Quandialla

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 5

A [?] on [?] and deal was [?] against three men at the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Friday…

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Fat Lambs Opportunity For Farmers Timely Advice Lessons For Australian Graziers

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 3

A drowning man will clutch at a straw, and wheat farmers to-day are in a clutching condition. With high costs and low prices they are anxious for an avenue of relief and the present is an opportune time to show that…

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Better Oats Plant-breeder’s Work at the Cowra Experiment Farm

Cowra Free Press · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 4

Important work with the object of improving the type of oats to suit the wide range of climate in New South Wales is about to be…

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Canadian Wheat Record Crop

The Forbes Advocate · Monday 4 February 1929 · page 1

Canada's wheat crop in 1928, of 500,613,000 bushels, as given in a revised estimate recently issued by the Canarian Government Bureau of Ssat…

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