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Farming & the land, 1938

3,066 stories in Murray's papers · page 84 of 154

Special Sheep Sale

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 2

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Echuca, and Robert Bradshaw, Deniliquin, agents in conjunction, announce in this issue…

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Tbe Wheat Market Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 5

Sydney wheat market was weaker to-day and prices eased three-farthings a bushel to the lowest level for some time. Buyers quoted bulk parcels at…

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Wheat Market Depressed Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 10

Wheat sold in Sydney to-day at 3/5 ¼ a bushel, plus 2¼d a bushel storage charge. This was the lowest quotation since May 31. Buyers later…

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Overseas Wheat Market London, July 28

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 5

The rally of the North American markets overnight and some complaints concerning crops in the north-west and in Canada imparted a steadier tone on…

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Bradford Wool Tops Market London, July 28

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 5

The Bradford wool tops market Is tending to harden. Yarns are firm. Quotations: Merinos, 70’s, 2Bd; 64’s, 26½d; 60'S, 24½d. Crossbreds, 58’s, 22d;…

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Europe Uses Staple Fibre Because She Cannot Buy Our Wool Sydntsy

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 4

Increased use of staple fibre as a substitute for wool was due to the fact that most countries were unable to export sufficient goods to obtain the…

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Control of Dairying Equalisation Committee Important Court Verdict Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 1

The Full Court to-day delivered a verdict of great importance to dairy farmers when it set aside a verdict for £204 against Martin McCabe, cheese…

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Educating the Farmer Surest Way to Prevent Soil Erosion Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 7

Unless the man on the land was educated and made to realise that he alone should perform the work voluntarily, the iner[?]iors of the Soil Erosion Bill…

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Seven Acres an Hour Wheat Sowing Record Big Farm Planted in Five Days Sea Lake

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 August 1938 · page 4

Working a high-speed tractor night and day, in shifts of six hours, four men have just completed the sowing of a 920 have acre from at Nyarrin, in 129…

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Large Wheat Yield Estimate for World Figures Rome, July 29

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 August 1938 · page 8

The International Institute of Agriculture estimates that the European wheat crop, excluding Russia, will be 4,500,000 metric tons, and exports…

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Stabilising Wheat Mr. Nock's Plan

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 2 August 1938 · page 4

A plan for stabilising the home consumption price of wheat at 4/8 per bushel has been prepared by Mr. Nock. M.H.R. (U.C.P., Riverina)…

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Still Hope for Wheat Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 August 1938 · page 5

A quiet, but confident, feeling of expectancy seems to permeate the atmosphere surrounding the Australian wheat market says a statement issued by the…

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Melbourne Sheep Show. All States Represented. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 August 1938 · page 3

Sheep valued at £72,000 were sent from all the States to the Australian Sheepbreeders' Association's' show, which was opened to-day. For the…

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Late News (Special to the "Pastoral Times") Won't Intervene Labor's N.S.W. Faction Dispute

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 2 August 1938 · page 1

MELBOURNE, "Tuesday. The general secretary of the Australian Labor Party, Mr. McNamara, said to-day that the Federal executive was…

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60th Sheep Show 800 Entries in Annual Breeders Exhibition Several District Successes MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 August 1938 · page 8

Considering the difficult season which has been experienced [?] most, parts of Australia, particularly in the Riverina and…

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Commercial To-day's Sheep MARKET(Supplied by John McNamara and Co.Pty. Ltd.) NEWMARKET

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 2 August 1938 · page 1

Sheep and stores, 1/ to 2/ dearer. Lambs, 2/ dearer…

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Our London Letter Mosley’s Men Still Marching; Revolution Ary Food Scheme; Congestion at the Law Courts; Electricity on the Farm

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 August 1938 · page 3

Sir Oswald Mosley, after months of comparative silence, is making himself heard again. Recently he marched his Fascist cohorts through North…

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World Wheat Crop Rome, August 1

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 August 1938 · page 6

The International Institute of Agriculture expects the largest wheat crop in the northern hemisphere since the war, and an increase…

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GEORGE V’s Nurse Honored Visit To Australia Her First Real Holiday “I Roughed It Or Sheep Stations” LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 August 1938 · page 4

Sister Catherine Black, who has just been invested by the King in private audience at Buckingham Palace with the M.V.O…

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Quarrels Alleged Son-in-Law and Father Poultry Farmer and Wife’s Illness Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 August 1938 · page 2

Evidence that her father had quarrelled with Camilleri because he suspected him of poisoning his poultry and also his family, was…

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