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New England · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

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P.d.s. Column Investigation of Butter Transport

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 5 February 1929 · page 6

The Australian Dairy Council— though the value of its work seems to be overlooked in some quarters— does take a keen interest in the…

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Wool Scour Fire £30,000 Damage Glen Innes Man in Hospital

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 5 February 1929 · page 4

Mr. J Wilson, son of Mrs. C. Kempton, of Red Range, who is attached to the Redfern Fire Brigade, had a narrow escape from being burned to…

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PROFIT, £20 an Acre Opossum Farming Stanthorpe Scheme

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 5 February 1929 · page 3

Will opossum farming become a [?]rative industry in the Glen Innes district ? The high prices obtained in the…

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Sydney Wool Market. Some Coarse Cups Offered

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 February 1929 · page 4

Good topmakers and spinners' types were included in the aggregate of 11.578 hales of wool ottered at Monday's sales. However, same clips…

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Hail Insurance for Fruit Crops. Obstacles to Initiation of Scheme

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 February 1929 · page 3

Mr. D. H. Drammond, M.L.A., Minister for Education, has received the following loiter from the Milliliter for Agriculture (Mr.H. V. C. Thorby):—…

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Wool Sales

The Uralla Times · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 1

Still some good prices ruling in the Sydney market. The top line of W. Mitchell's clip, Nerstane, Woolbrook, brought 37d at the Farmer and…

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Reminder to Sheep Owners

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 4

Owners of fifty or more sheep who have not yet filled in and returned the special sheep and wool form posted to them in December last by the…

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Manager, Stockman Cattle Steeling Charge

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 2

For some time report of missing cattle have come to hand (says a Townsville wire). At the week-end Acting-Sergeant…

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Sheep Raising Messrs. Wickhs Bros.'Enterprise

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 2

After successfully experimenting with fairly large flocks of sheep on their main camp (Myrtle [?] property, Messrs. Widdis Bros…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Market Easier

Guyra Argus · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 5

The Secretary. Farmers' & Graziers Co-Operative Co., writes:— On the 28th January we offered a catalogue of 8815 bales, including many…

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Wool Sales a Keen Demand

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 5

There was a very keen demand for finer descriptions of merinos at the wool sales yesterday, and prices for these ruled in the sellers' favor. All…

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Pastoral Graziers and the A.w.u. Conference Probably Will Be Held. the 'Talk It Over' Attitude

The Uralla Times · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 4

Compulsory arbitration is the industrial policy of both the Graziers' Association and the A.W.U., and in the opinion of these powerful…

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Storm Damage Fierce Lightning Bridges and Fences Washed Away Hundreds at Sheep Drowned [?] GATE

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 1

A violed[?] which swept the town [?] considerable damage to[?] The Railway Hotel was [?] by lightning. Half…

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The Prospects for Maize Heavy Crop In Queensland

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 3

The prospects for Glen Innes maize grower appear to have undergone a change in the past week or two…

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Wool Report

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 8 February 1929 · page 4

Goldsborugh, Mort and Co. Ltd. report:—For our last sale we submitted a catalogue of 6600 bales, which included a good selection of…

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Wheat Weevil Pest

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 8 February 1929 · page 2
Also in The Inverell Times

Recently the Queensland Wheat Board brought some wheat into the wheat shed in Toowoomba, from dumps situated at country…

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Pastoral Stomach Worm in Sheep. Method of Treatment

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 10

W[?] and moisture are necessary for the development [?] the stomach worm, and a wet summer is generally followed by its [?]…

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"6 Sheep to the Acre" Grass Land Farming New Zealand Method

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 3

Sheep men in the districts he had visited assured him that as a result of grass land farming they could run from six to eight…

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P.d.s. Column Butter Values

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 6

A review of the P.D.S. statistical records of butter valdes which have ruled in the Sydney market for the past 20 years reveals that only on…

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