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Farming & the land, 1934

2,557 stories in Murray's papers · page 16 of 128

Sydney Wool Sales. Market Closed Unaltered. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 2

The wool market closed to-day, with prices showing no change. The irregularity recently noted in the case of crossbreds was again in evidence…

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Wheat Industry Case for the Grower Plea for Home Consumption Price

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 4

Reduced railway freights and taxation, lower interest charges, and a Federal marketing organisation to secure a home consumption on puce for wheat,…

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Wheat Commission Case for the Growers F.S.A. President Ready

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 3

The Royal Commission on the Wheat Industry commenced its public sittings in Sydney on Monday, February 26. The principal evidence on behalf of…

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Wheat and Bread. Statement fay F. and S. Officers. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 2

The President of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, Mr. E. Field, told the Wheat Commission, to-day, that the farmers were supplying the…

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Wheat Commission Inquiry General President of F. & S. Assn. Gives Evidence Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 5

Giving evidence before the Wheat Commission to-day Ernest Field, general president of the Farmers and settlers' Association said he would not…

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Helping the Farmer Expert Advice on Various Subjects Factors in Fertility the Limitations of Fertilisers

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 1

Valuable as they are, there are limitations to what fertilisers can accomplish. Want of plant-food is, of course, a common cause of infertility,…

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Good Sheep Prices

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 3

At the Newmarket sheep sales last week, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. (Mr. Roy Malcolm local agent), sold a draft of fat…

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Wheat Lumping Feat

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 1

A wheat lumping feat is chronicled by an exchange which should, take some beating, and it was performed by a man who three years ago could…

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Sheep Sale at Hay Good Prices Realised

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 4

On Friday the A.M.L. and F. Co. conducted a special sale of merino sheep, and cattle, at Hay. The yarding comprised about 30,000 sheep and…

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Special Sheep Sale Best Held at Swan Hill

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 3

Edward Trenchard and Co. Swan Hill held one of the most successful auction sales for many years when they sold 23,986 sheep averaging 15/3½ per…

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Pastoral Award Present Position

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 2

Mr. J. W. Allen, general ,secretary of the Graziers' Association, returned to Sydney from Melbourne after having attended the basic wage proceedings…

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Wheat to Pigs

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 4

A district wheat grower some time ago decided to raise pigs on his wheat instead of sacrificing it at the current market price. He has…

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Wheat Growers' Relief Claims Not Properly Filled in

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture stated on Wednesday last that several claims received for the wheat bounty had not been completed by the wheat…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Market Firm. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 2

Under strong, general competition the market at the wool, sales' to-day was fully equal to the rates ruling last week for all description…

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The Wheat Commission. Some Interesting Evidence. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 2

Giving evidence at the Wheat Commission, to-day, the N.S.W. Director of Agriculture, Mr. A. McDonald, said that unless the mortgagees could…

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Contraction of Wheat Areas Will Not Affect Government's Silo Programme Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 3

Mr. A. H. E. McDonald, giving evidence before the Wheat Commissioner, said that a contraction of the wheat areas would not affect the…

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F. and S. Association Annual Corowa District Council Meeting Officers Re-appointed Compulsory Sheep Dipping Advocated

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 3

The quarterly and annual meetings of the Corowa District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association were held at the Carnsdale Hotel,…

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The Leeton Inquiry. a Farm Officer's Evidence. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 2

The inquiry into the administration of the Yanco Welfare Farm, which has been in progress at Leeton for nearly five weeks, produced a…

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Farmers Want Carpet Snakes Protected

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 2

A conference of the Primary Producers' Union at Kempsey carried a motion that the State Government be requested to protect carpet snakes…

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To Fail at Dairying Practices that Help

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 2

There are a variety of practices conducive to failure at dairying. The following were were enumerated in an American paper some years ago but they…

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