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Farming & the land, 1937

1,874 stories in Murray's papers · page 23 of 94

Turning Back the Files... 10 Years Ago: (From the "Pastoral Times," March 18, 1927)

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 2

PRESENTATION Member of the Golf and Tennis Clubs on Saturday presented a leather suitcase to Mr. J. S. Turnbull, in appreciation of his…

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Price of Wheat Rises to 5/103/4 Per Bushel

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 1

Prices of Wheat in Melbourne on Wednesday increased by 1 1/2 d to [?]d, a bushel compared with the closing quotation before the Easter holiday Sales…

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Wheat Up to 5/10¾ 10 Year Record Outlook Promising

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 3

Prices of wheat in Melbourne on Wednesday increased by 1½d. to 1¾d. a bushel, compared with the closing quotation before the Easter holidays…

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Poultry Industry Affected by High Price of Wheat Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 5

The secretary of the Poultry Farmers' Association (Mr. W. W. Baker) sold to-day that the rise in the price of wheat had caused a critical…

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Veterinary Sulphur and Iodine in Sheep Licks Use Not Warranted by Results

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 25

From time to time various claims are made regarding the value of adding sulphur to licks for sheep with a view to increasing wool production. Work…

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Australian Wool Wanted by Japan Trading Restrictions Resented Tokio, March 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 14

According to the "Nichi Nichi Shimbun," wool industrialists are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the Government's policy of restricting…

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A Menace to Wool. a Visitor on South Africa. SYDNEY, Friday Afternoon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 3

Mr. Maurice O'Brien the New Zealand Commissioner to the Empire Exhibition, at Johannsburg, who arrived in Sydney to-day on his way…

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Scientific Poultry Farming Is It Wrongly Applied?

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 38

The application of science to aid the primary producer is a subject which one has heard much of in recent years. That the best results may…

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Dairy Produce Export Control Board Appointments Announced

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 14

The Chief Electoral Officer (Mr. V. F. Turner) announced that the following persons had been elected unopposed to the Dairy Produce Export Control…

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Incompetent Farmers Nazi Plan to Displace Them

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 14

Plans designed to increase farm production were outlined by General Goering in a broadcast heard by farmers throughout Germany. He said…

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Best Varieties at Wagga Experiment Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 46

The annual report on the operations at the Wagga Experiment Farm indicates that the revenue was £4778 and the expenditure £10,928. Since the…

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Starting a Poultry Farm Factors to Consider

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 18

For those who may be contemplating making a start in poultry farming in the new year, the Department of Agriculture in Victoria makes some good…

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Power on the Farm Helps Farmer to Increase Profits

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 4

During the depression, primary industry, with other forms of trading, experienced periods of great difficulty. Today, conditions have improved and…

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Commercial Echuca Sheep and Cattle Market

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 1

New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co. Ltd., Echuca, report having held their usual weekly sale at Echuca on Friday, when they brought forward 700 sheep and 20…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 1

Dalgety and Co. submitted an average catalogue of 3600 bales in Melbourne yesterday There was keen general competition and a 99 per cent…

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Research in Wool

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 1

A national station for research, in problems affecting the wool industry will he established in Southern Queensland as the…

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“Nurses” for Sheep Women’s New Role

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 3

Fifteen hundred American sheep and goats under the watchful eyes of seven Russian women have left England by steamer for Russia, Where they will be…

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Wool and Substitutes Competition is Formidable

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 2

An inquiry into the probable extent of the competition of rayon and staple fibre against natural wool is being conducted by the Imperial…

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Orders for N.s.w. Hard Wheat

The Independent · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Main) announced last week that as a result of the good reception by the baking trade in Batavia of…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Market Advances. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 3

Compared with the closing rates of last series, there was an advance of 5 per cent, at the wool market today. An active market ruled in all…

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