Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Farming & the land, all years

Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

1,574 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 18 of 79

Pastoral Graziers' Annual Conference. Comprehensive Agenda Paper

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 5

Ninety or more delegates will discuss over 130 resolutions at the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Grazlers' Association which is to be held in Sydney…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Sowing of Lucerne. Use of the Wheat Drill

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 2

Farmers generally prefer to broadcast lueerne seed where the area is small, but sowing through the grass seed attachment of the wheat drill is a…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Sheep Classing. An Important Operation With Even the Smallest Flocks

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 2

Sheep classing--the operation of grading the breeding Mock and selecting the sires for use in mating, with the object of gradually raising the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Biggest Selling Centre. Sydney Leads in Wool Sales. SYDNEY

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 6

Wool sold in Sydney during the present season was valued at nearly £26,000,000. For the third successive season over a million bales have been…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Tariff and the Farmer. Complaints in the United States. (Reprint from "Sydney Morning Herald," 30th December, 1927)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 2

The assertion that a high tariff seriously affects the primary producer who has to depend upon an oversea market for the disposal of his surplus is not…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Sheep Sale

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon next, Mr. George Paul will sell by public auction, at the Commercial Saleyards, 3,000 splendid store sheep, which will…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wool Report

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 4

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited report:—We held our final sale of the regular wool selling season on…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Wool Report

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 4

Pitt, Son and Bodgery, Ltd., report:—The selling season for the 1927/8 clip practically concluded with last Wednesday's sales, when…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Local Jottings. Sheep Prices

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 2

Messrs A. Wilkins and Co. report a successful sheep sale at the yards on Saturday last, when 2300 were disposed of at prices satisfactory to…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wool Values Holding

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 1

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., writes:— On 20th March we offered a catalogue of 3,979 bales, a miscellaneous…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Secure Wool Outlook

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—No wool market in history has ever been without some defects But the selling season existing over…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

On the Land. the Sydney Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., re­port:—"The end of a perfect day." Allowing for the large proportion of crutchings and oddments included…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Well-known Farmer Suicides Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 3

Arthur John Paul (56) a well-known farmer committed suicide at Pittown. It is believed the act was due to worry over the serious illness…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Alleged Stealing Wool

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 6

George King and Gordon Kelly were indicted on a charge of having a quantity of wool in their possession reasonably supposed to have been stolen…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Sheep Smash Shop Window at Balyney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 8

An unusual episode was witnessed at Bluyney, at Mr. Bembrick's now stove, resulting in, the complete destruction of one of the big plate glass windows. A…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Pastoral Notes. Graziers' Conference. Problems of the Hour

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 3

The big pastoral event of the week is the Annual Conference of the Graziers' Association. Nearly 100 delegates have been discussing over 130…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Wool Values Holding

The Western Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 2

The Secretary, Farmers & Graziers Co-op, Co. writes :— On 20th March we offered a catalogue of 3979 bales, a miscellaneous…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Important Sheep Sale

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 7

Some particularly choice lines of sheep have been definitely booked for George Paul's sheep sale at the Commercial saleyards on Saturday…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Wool Values Holding

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 4

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co. writes:— On 20th March we offered a catalogue of 3,970 bales, a miscellaneous…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Another Sheep Sale on

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 7

A. Wilkins and Co. will offer at the Commercial saleyards on Saturday next at 2.30 p.m. 2000 sheep including merino wethers and ewes…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →