Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Farming & the land, all years

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

Farming & the land, 1930

2,583 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 75 of 130

The Wheat Pool. Minister to Confer with Bank Authorities

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 11 August 1930 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) will confer with the Commonwealth Bank authorities this week on the subject of financing the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Correspondence Proposed Compulsory Wheat Pool. (To the Editor "Grenfell Record.")

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 11 August 1930 · page 3

Sir,—The present position of the wheat industry in this State, and indeed throughout Australia, is such as to cause the gravest concern to…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Miscellaneous How They Make Rain in Texas. Big Farmer Who Dynamited the Heavens and Broke the Drought

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 11 August 1930 · page 1

When the possibilities of artificially producing rain were discussed in "The Land" recently, the experiments of a Texas (U.S.A.) rancher…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Miscellaneous Advances to Farmers. Money Now Available

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 11 August 1930 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) stated on Thursday that funds are now available to enable the Department of Agriculture to make…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Price of Wheat

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 1

Wheat was quoted locally on Monday afternoon at 3/4 in silos…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Prospects Bright For Wool and Wheat Mr. R. M. Pitt's Opinion (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 1

Mr. R. M. Pitt, Managing Director for Pitt, Son and Badgery, on arrival at Perth from a trip overseas, said he was optimistic regarding the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Wheat Poll Are You Enrolled

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 2

The poll on the question whether a Wheat Marketing Board for the State of New South Wales shall be constituted will be taken by post on…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wheat Poll Lists of Growers

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 6

The poll on the question whether a Wheat Marketing Board for the State of New South Wales shall be constituted, will be taken by post on…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

What a Wheat Pool Will Mean

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 4

The wheat growers of New South Wales are to be asked by the State Government--as they have been left so lamentably in the lurch by the Federal Government--for their endorsement or otherwise of a wheat pool…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

P.P. PROSECUTIONS Sheep and Rabbits Landholders Fined

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 4

At Forbes Court to-day Peter Matterson was charged with trespassing on a travelling stock route. Mr. Mcillon, for the P.P. Board, said…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Wheat Pool For and Against LOCKHART

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 4

At a meeting of the Lockhart Wheat Growers' Defence Association, it was unanimously agreed that a State Wheat Pool would be disastrous to…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Guarantee of 4/ Parkes Wheat Proposal (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 1

Wheat-growers at Parkes formed a Defence Association and have decided in ask a guarantee of 4/- per bushel from the State Government 3/- as…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Drought in U.S.A. Wheat and Corn Prices Soon A National Calamity

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 5

The following appeared in Thursday's issue of the Sydney "Sun":— CHICAGO, Wednesday. The grain pits were filled today…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Payment for Bags Necessitous Farmers Benefit SYDNEY

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) says that the statement that the, Government will guarantee payment for all bags supplied during the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Cost Per Bushel Acre Yields Not Everything When Bigger Crops Give Lesser Returns. Article No. 3

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 6

I have suggested that efficiency in wheal growing is not difficult in attainment, and this view is prompted by the widespread adoption of…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Wool Reports

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 August 1930 · page 8

Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd. report:-- The past week has been one of inactivity in every centre and everyone is marking time until the new season's…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land Pastoral Conservation of Herbage

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 August 1930 · page 3

Good Feed that is Largely Wasted Good feed can be too precious for it ever to be justifiable to allow it to go to waste, and in districts where the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Wheat Pool Are You Enrolled?

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 August 1930 · page 3

The poll on the question whether a Wheat Marketing Board for the State of New South Wales shall be constituted will be taken by post on 20th…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Wool for Russia Price Prospects

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 August 1930 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:-- During the last few weeks some sales of local fellmongered wool for use in the Russian mills have been made in…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Sheep

Western Champion · Thursday 14 August 1930 · page 11

Ram, 8-tooth and older.—John Larkings and Sons 1, A. R. Rathbone 2. Ram, showing 4-tooth only.—A. R. Rathbone 1, W. A. Rathbone 2…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →