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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

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Hospital Wheat Drive Generosity of Wheat Farmers

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 9

ON New Year's Day there was a very successful wheat drive, held for the Hospital, and the results were splendid, and showed that the farmers,…

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Agricultural Notes Fashions in Sheep

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 6

IN many ways the pastoral industry in Australia is passing through a period of transition, the importance of which it is difficult for the…

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Silos Full Wheat Handling Problem

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 12

NEWS from Sydney on 31st December stated that owing to the trade in wheat haying practically ceased in New South Wales, a serious…

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The Wheat Guarantee. Conditions of Payment

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 7

IN order to make the position as clear as possible, the Acting Minister for Markets (Mr. Forde) has issued the following statement…

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Australia's Wool Clip. Its Size of National Benefit

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 1

IF wool markets could recover as quickly as the Australian pastoral industry can revive after a drought, prices for the staple would not be…

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The Wheat Industry What Does 1931 Hold in Store?

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 9

AFTER a year of vicissitudes and misfortunes unequalled in its history, the wheat industry of Australia stand's upon the threshold of a new…

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Wheat Trade Hold-Up. Plea to Merchants to Carry On

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 7

COMMENTING on the position in the wheat industry, and the Commonwealth Government's guarantee under the Wheat Advances Act, a…

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Crop Fires

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 8

Considerable damage was done to wheat crops at the farms of Messrs M. E. Madden and Harvey at Terra-bella, when it is estimated that close…

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Standardised Farming F.S.A. Supports Movement. Aiming at Reduction in Costs

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 9

IN these clays, when Australia is facing an economic crisis, there is heard on all sides a plea for efficiency of production. Meeting in…

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Australia's Wool Clip Its Size of National Benefit

Western Age · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—It wool markets could recover as quickly as the Australian pastoral industry can revive after a drought…

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Bulk Wheat

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 2

The terminal silos in Sydney will be overflowing this week. The last lot of bulk wheat trucks left Sydney on Tuesday, and when these return full, no…

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"Miracle" Wheat

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 5

The heading on this par has a sweet sound, and is just what the farmers need in these days of distress. Says the "Ariah Park's News"…

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Sheep. Avoid Unnecessary Handling

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 9

DURING the hot weather (writes the Sheep and Wool Expert of the Department of Agriculture) the flock should be handled as little as…

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Dubbo Wheat Silo

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 1

Colonel Holborough, Assistant Manager for the Government Grain Elevators, is in town to-day, and when interviewed regarding the local wheat…

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Dubbo Wheat Silo

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 4

The Dubbo branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association and the Duhho Wheat Growers' Committee recently made…

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The Wheat Question. Farmers Discuss the Situation. Something Must be Done

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 5

THE serious situation in which the primary producers of the State find themselves to-day is an absorbing topic, which the man on the land wishes to clear up at once. A public meeting of farmers and…

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Wool and Money Exchange

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: The increase in the money exchange rate to £115/7/6 is the best development the wool trade has…

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Agricultural Notes Our First Wheat Crop Where Australian Agriculture Had Its Beginning

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 9

TO most, visitors the Sydney Botanic Garden represent something essentially ornamental—a leafy retreat from the bustle of the city,…

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On the Land. Sydney Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 5

Pitt, Son and Baogery Ltd. report:—The second half of the selling season opened on Monday, when three catalogues, totalling 10,844…

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Wool and Money Exchange. a Market Help

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:--The increase in the money exchange rate to £11576 is the best development the wool trade has experienced…

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