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

Farming & the land, 1931

2,461 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 48 of 124

Wheat Test Case Miller Sues Farmers

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 2

A number of farmers in the Forbes district secured advances of 3- to 36 per bushel on their 1929-30 wheat and held for a rise in the market. Instead…

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Wool Auctions Final Sales

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 1

The Secretary Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Coy. reports:-- On 29th April we offered 6,358 bales of wool, being, for this time of the…

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Sheep Stealing Father and Son Sentenced

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 5

At the Police Court last Wednesday, before Mr C. A. Arnold, P.M., Charles Martin (82) and August Charles Martin (44) were charged that, on the 4th…

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Live Stock Wheat as Stock Feed

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 6

Discussing the feeding of wheat to live-stock, a question of considerable interest just now, an officer of the Stock Branch of the Department of…

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Cheaper Woollen Goods Wool Production & REVENUE

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:-- Despite the depressed condition of trade generally, the sheep's staple has commanded a wider range of users…

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Crop of Wheat Farmer Sentenced

Western Champion · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 1

Judge Thomson heard an interesting case at the Coonamble Sessions last week when a G[?]largambone farmer, Alfred Eyre, was indicted…

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Pastoral. Foot-rot of Sheep. Owners Should Watch for Its Appearance

Western Champion · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 13

Very useful rains have fallen over most of the State, and the feed will last well into the Winter, writes the Chief Veterinary Surgeon of the…

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Wheat Prices

Western Champion · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 6

The local prices for wheat to-day were 2/3 for bulk and 2/4 for bagged lots…

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Wool Report

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 1

Goldsbrough, Mort and Company Ltd., report under date 30th April:-Sales have been in progress during the week in this centre, and the…

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Wool Report

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 2

The A.M.L. and F. Co. Ltd., report under date 30th April, 1931:-We offered a catalogue of 5491 bales to-day, which comprised mostly…

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Wheat Ready Reckoner

Western Champion · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 14

Very often wheatgrowers are confronted with the difficulty of determining the number of bushels of wheat contained in a given load…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Western Champion · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 13

These notes are issued every week, by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. Should any farmer desire information relevant to his work on the…

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Faith in Sheep. Stock for Carraboblin. Bogan Gate

Western Champion · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 12

Quite a number or sheep and cattle have been arriving on account of D. T. Herbert, Ltd., of Condobolin, per train…

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Flour Tax. Wrong kind of Help. Farmer's Complaint

Western Champion · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 6

A district farmer complained to the "Champion" yesterday that Mr. Dunn's solicitude for the man on the land was the kind which…

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Price of Wheat

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 1

Wheat was quoted locally on Thursday afternoon at 2/12 f.a.q., 1/8 sec ond grade…

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KEEN Wool Buying

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 2

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:-- Although it is proposed to hold a short series of sales in the middle of…

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WOOL Competition Keen

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 8

Schute, Bell and Co. Ltd. report:--At our sale on Thursday last, we experienced a very strong demand, competition being keen from all…

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Second Dubbo Special Cattle Sale

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 8

McNeilly, Crampton & Martin, Ltd., of Orange, and H. Wheatley, of Dubbo, will hold their second special cattle sale at Dubbo on Friday next the 15th…

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Special Store Cattle Sale At Dubbo

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 4

Messrs. H. Wheatley, Dubbo, and McNeilly, Crampton & Martin, Ltd., of Orange, report having, in conjunction, held a large special cattle sale…

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Dalgety's Latent Wool Report

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 4

We offered 5070 bales at the close of series to-day. No further auctions will be held until June. The market was firm with values unchanged as coui…

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