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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

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The Compulsory Wheat Pool Ballot the Danger of Monopoly

The North Western Courier · Thursday 2 August 1928 · page 6

It is claimed by the advocates of the proposed compulsory pool that it will enable the farmers to secure higher prices from the local…

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Wool Marketing. Zone System Defined. Expected to Benefit the Industry

The North Western Courier · Thursday 2 August 1928 · page 6

As recently announced in this column, the "Zone System" of selling wool in the Sydney market will be tried out during tho coming season…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes Farm Book-keeping

Manilla Express · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 1

Book-keeping is a task not very much to the relish of the average farmer, but some system of accounts is necessary if…

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Manilla Sheep Sale

Manilla Express · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 2

Attention of our readers is drawn to the advertisement in this issue of a special sale of 16,000 woolly sheep in the local…

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Sheep & Lambs

The North Western Courier · Monday 6 August 1928 · page 2

26,900 penned, aggregating 48, 679 for the week, comprising all descriptions of Merinos and Xbreds, good quality predominating. The…

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The Coming Wool Season

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 6 August 1928 · page 1

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Co. writes:— It has been decided to give the new "Zone' system a trial this coming…

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Wheat Pool Ballot Enrolment of Voters. 50 Acres Qualification

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 6 August 1928 · page 4

Following a petition by 175 growers, wheat has been proclaimed a commodity under the Marketing ot Primary Products Act, a poll is to be…

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Wool Reports Price of English Wools a Contrail to Trade Reports

The North Western Courier · Monday 6 August 1928 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—The wool trade is never without some remarkable features. For the last month or two every trade…

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A Well-known Grower Discusses Some Phases of the Compulsory Wheat Pool

The North Western Courier · Monday 6 August 1928 · page 2

Mr. T. J. K. Fitzpatrick, of Warre Warral, Junee, writes:— With the prefatory statement that I have no interests in any wheat…

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The Wool Market Price of English Wools. a Contrast to Trade Reports

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 6 August 1928 · page 4

Winchlombe. Carson, Ltd., report, under date 1/8/28:— The wool trade is never without some remarkable features. For the…

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The Coming Wool Season

Manilla Express · Tuesday 7 August 1928 · page 1

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Co. writes: It has been decided to give the new "Zone" system a trial this…

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Wool Market Wool Auctions

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 9 August 1928 · page 8

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report under date 3rd August:— The general shearing is now well under way and wool is beginning to…

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Wool Reports

The North Western Courier · Thursday 9 August 1928 · page 4

Rains over a wide area of pastoral country whilst doing on immense amount of good have interfered somewhat with shearing…

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The Alsatian Alleged Sheep-killer

The North Western Courier · Thursday 9 August 1928 · page 4

The question for or against the Alsatian dog is not whether he is wolf or dog, but whether or not he is a danger to sheep. The fears…

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The Coming Wool Season

The North Western Courier · Thursday 9 August 1928 · page 3

The secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co. .writes:—It has been decided to give the new "Zone" system a trial this coming…

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Wheat Poll Growers Should Enrol

The North Western Courier · Thursday 9 August 1928 · page 4

Until August 16 wheat-growers have the opportunity to secure enrolment to vote at the poll to be taken on September 14; on the question of…

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Wheat Pool. Growers Should Enrol

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 9 August 1928 · page 2

Until August 16 wheat-growers have the opportunity to secure enrolment to vote at the poll to be taken on September 14 o nthe question of constituting…

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The Truth About Compulsory Wheat Pools

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 9 August 1928 · page 6

"The Compulsory Wheat Pool," says its advocates, "Will enable the farmers to enjoy reduced cost of marketing, raise the price on the local market,…

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The Demands of Successful Wheat-growing

The North Western Courier · Thursday 9 August 1928 · page 4

Farming to-day is a science and a profession, and it is only those who are prepared to make a study of the soil and its requirements who will…

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Pastoral

Manilla Express · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 1

A series of articles under the above heading, specially written for the "Manilla Express" on current topics of interest to the…

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