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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

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The Cattle Show Up to Previous Years

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 2

The display in the cattle, section, was quite up to that maintained, in previous, years. The condition of the bovines good considering the sea[?]…

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"Use More Wool." Suggested Campaign

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 11

THE recent annual conference of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales appointed a wool publicity committee to inquire into the…

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Wool Market Down Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 8

The President of the Gras[?] Association, Mr. Tout, says, on [?] conservative estimate, the wool [?]ket is down 27 per cent., yet [?]…

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Wheat Prospects. Conditions in the West

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 10

ALTHOUGH April started well with sufficient rain to germinate the early-sown crops in the western portion of the wheat belt, much more is…

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Current Wool Values Effects on Consumption

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 11

THE strong general demand for wool experienced at the closing series of Australian sales, supplies evidence of a sound selling position…

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Wool Down But Wages Up Sydney

Western Age · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 3

The President of the Graziers' Association, Mr. F. H. Tout, of Young, has something to say concerning the basic wage…

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Wool Down But Wages Up President Tout's View SYDNEY

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 1

The President of the Graziers' Association, Mr. F. H. Tout, of Young, has something to say concerning the basic wage…

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Crop Conditions. In Western District

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 7

Wonderful steady soaking rains, varying from one to three inches, and spread over three days, were recorded early' in April' over the…

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Ex-sweep Owner of a Village. 35 Farms and Nearly 200. Houses

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 6

Mr. William Henry Nightingale, a former chimney sweep who died Ht Goventry, England, aged 89, was the owner of virtually the whole village…

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Farm Tractors Free Lecture on

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 9

ONE of the most interesting subjects which appeals strongly today to farmers, is the subject of power farming. The John Deere…

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Cattle

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 5

There were many empty pens in the Cattle Section, due no doubt to the dry weather prevailing in Dubbo district. Cattle generally were of a fine class…

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Sheep

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 5

The sheep pens were well filled, with some film studs. In many classes the competition was so keen and the quality so even that the judges experienced…

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Sydney Wool Sales Firm Rates Ruling Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson advise having 8400 bales of wool at their Sydney auction to-day. Continent and Yorkshire were very keen bidders. Fine Wools…

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Farm Yard Pearl

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 2

Fowl obituaries are not customarily recorded, but it was some hen that went to happy scratching grounds recently (says our Armidale exchange)…

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Farmers & Graziers Co-operative Big Yarding of Cattle

The Western Herald · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 3

At Flemington on 22nd April the Farmers & Graziers Co-Operative Co. Ltd. yarded no loss than 835 fat cattle There were some excellent prices…

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Wool Report

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 4

Goldsborough, Mart and Company Ltd., report:--For our sale on May we brought forward a catalogue of 6,396 bales…

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Cattle Fodder From Wood

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 3

A diet of chemically-treated wood as food for cattle and, perhaps, even for human beings, is foreshadowed as a probable development of science by Dr…

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The Wool Market

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 6

Schute, Bell and Co. Ltd. report under date of Thursday:--Little variation has been recorded at the wool sales this week,…

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The Wool Season

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 2

THE wool trade his experienced periods of almost unprecedented stability and unexpected variations in values during the past season. From October, 1926, to the end of January, 1929, sales proceeded under what was probably the most stable range of rates ever seen in the history of…

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Wool Season Winchcombe's Review

The Wellington Times · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 4

A season of periods of almost unprecedented stability and then of unexpected variations in values is how Winchcombe Carson Ltd, in its…

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