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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

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Wheat-growing Competitions Factors in Increased Yields

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 15 March 1929 · page 4

Frequent and judicious working of the fallows, coupled with liberal use of graded seed and superphosphate, are the factors largely contributing to the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Western Herald · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 2

On Tuesday last Wichcombe Carson sold 8000 bales of Wool at their auctions that day. There was good competitions Yorkshire and Russia…

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Decentralising Wool

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 6

The hollowness of most of the voices which have supported the political parrot call for Decentralisation has been made obvious by the storm of protest…

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Goulburn Special Sheep Sale

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 5

W. H. Wheatley report Just on 50,000 sheep were yarded at our special sale on Tuesday last, all of which were sold at auction with the…

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Wool Values. On Lower Basis

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 4

THE Secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., writes:— On the 13th March we offered 7,590 bales which included many…

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Wool Values On Lower Basis

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 5

The secretary, Farmers and Graziers Co-op. Co. writes:- On the 18th March we onered 7,000 bales, which included many attractive…

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On the Land. [?]Ney Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 5

[?], Bell and Co., Ltd., report [?]raging feature of our sale [?]ay last was the decidedly inactivity of operators on…

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Wheat-Growing Competitions. Factors in Increased Yields

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 5

FREQUENT and judicious working of the fallows, coupled with liberal use of graded seed and superphosphate, are the factors largely…

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Wellington Police Court. Wool Stealing Case. Two Young Men Convicted

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 4

AT the police court on Friday morning, two men named R. Bishop and L. A. McBride were charged before the P.M., Mr. Bromhead, that they…

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Local Jottings. Farmer Injured

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 2

On Thursday last, while Mr. H. S. Anderson, of Suntop, was engaged carting a load of fencing posts to a haystack, he slipped and fell,…

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Lucerne Growing As A Growing Crop Increased Areas in the West

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 5

Lucerne growing is extending largely in the Trangie and Narromine districts as a grazing crop, very greatly increased areas having been planted…

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The Price of Wheat. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1929 · page 1

The price of wheat ex trucks to-day in Sydney is 4/7 1/2…

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Wool Values on Lower Basis

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1929 · page 4

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers Coop. Co." writes:— On the 13th March we offered 7,500 bales which included many attractive…

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PASTORAL Toxic For Sheep a Warning Concerning Kerosene

Western Age · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 3
Also in Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent

Experiments carried out at Glenfield Veterinary Research Station show [?] kerosene given internally may be fatal [?] A warning is therefore…

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America and Wool

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 10

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: America has been the most disappointing purchaser of wool in Australia this season. Even the lower…

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Wheat Prices Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 1
Also in Western Age

Wheat, ex trucks Sydney, was quoted this morning at 471…

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Export Tax on Wool?

Western Age · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 4

A suggestion was made at a conference of the Storemen and Packers Union that a tax be placed on the export of certain classes of wool and…

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Big Increase. Canowindra's Wheat Harvest

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 7

This season's wheat for Canowindra is a big' increase on the previous year's, and has exceeded all anticipations. Following are the…

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