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

Farming & the land, 1939

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Sheep Sale At Lake Cargelligo

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 9

Messrs Paech Benson & Co., Lake Cargelligo in conjunction with Dalkety & Co. Ltd., Narandera, report having held a successful sheep sale at Lake…

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Canadian Wheat Guaranteed Initial Price

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 1

A guaranteed initial price of 60 cents a bushel for wheat is provided in a bill which was introduced in the House of Commons by the Minister…

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Wheat Bounty Payable Direct to Farmer Premier's Assurance Closer Settlement Scheme SYDNEY

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 1

The proceeds of the wheat stabilisation bounty were payable to the farmer himself, said the Premier (Mr. Stevens), replying to…

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Slightly Lower Sheep Market at Forbes Tuesday's Sales

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 9

The Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co., Ltd., of Sydney, and W. K. Garnsey, Senr., Pty., Ltd., of Forbes, agents in conjunction report holding…

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The Wool Outlook Artificial Fibre Position

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report on March 28th:—Until European conditions are more settled wool values in common with prices for other raw…

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Wool Sales Sydney Market Shows Decline

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 10

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. wired us yesterday that they offered, at their Sydney Sale on Wednesday, 3418 bales of wool of good to average selection…

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Rural Bank Action Farmers Treated Unfairly So They Allege

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 9

Alleging that they have been treated unfairly by the Rural Bank in regard to the repossession of their farms, and that they…

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Junior Farmer Honored

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 1

Dudley Matheson, a member of the Billimari-Winnefield Junior Farmers' Club, via Cowra, has been selected as one of the three junior farmers in the…

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Country Conditions Farm & Weather Notes Bedgerabong, Wed

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 9

The weather at present is fine and warm, with cold nights. Only 16 points of rain has fallen since my last budget, and all herbage is wilting. In all…

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Wool Reports

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 1
Also in Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd., report under date 28th March:— Our concluding catalogue of the…

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Wool Report

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 2

Schute, Bell, Badgery, Lumby Ltd. report:— This company will bring forward its next catalogue on the 20th April…

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Impoverishment of Wheat Soils. Mixed Farming As a Solution

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 3

Discussing at a conference of southwestern district farmers the problem of depletion of the fertility of wheat soils, the manager of Condobolin…

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Sheep Sale Report

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 2

Messrs R. N. T. Ridley & Co., West Wyatong report having held a su[?]ce[?]ul sheep sale last [?]day th[?] 31st March when they y[?]ded 2000…

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Price of Wheat

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 2

Wheat was quoted at West Wynlong to-day (Monday) at 1/8 5-8d. per bushel[?]…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 5

Mr. K. G. Anthoness, West Wyalong, advises having received the following wool report from Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Sydney, under…

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R.A.S. Sheep Trials

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 5

The "Peters' Ice Cream" £100 [?] dog trials, which were inaugurat[?] [?] succes[?]lly at the 1938 Royal [?] will prove even more attractive [?]…

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Old Season's Wheat How the Silos Were Cleared

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 4

How the remnant of last season's wheat in the terminal silos in Sydney was disposed of to make room for the new season's crop was…

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Wool Situation Influence of World Affairs Easter Recess in Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 3

The close of sales last week will be followed by a brief recess during the Easter period. Sales will open again in Sydney on the 17th…

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South-west Farms Problem of Rural Reconstruction What the Government Is Doing Statement by Minister

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 5

The problem of rural reconstruction was no easy one. While he yielded to nobody in his sympathy for the producers, if the…

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