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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

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Wool Press Wanted

Western Age · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 2

Any reader wanting to sell a good second-hand wool press cheap, please apply to Jack Le Lievre. general agent, Louth…

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Wheat Market Today's Prices

Western Age · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 3

Bulk wheat was quoted to-day at 2/- and bagged at 2/2½ per bushel…

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Commercial Market Rfports and Topics of Interest for Farmers Wool Sales

Western Age · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 4

"It is pleasing to report a slight improvement in wool market condition this week," write Schute, Bell and Co., in a report of last…

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Wool Values Falling in London

Western Age · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 4

There was no sale in Sydney last week as the buyers were in Brisbane, the Farmers and Graziers Co-Operative Company advise the "Dispatch."…

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Farmers' Plight Mr. Bavin on Government's Promises Tax on Floor Suggested

Western Age · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 2

Mr. Bavin says it is impossible to exaggerate the seriousness of the position of farmers, not only from the point of view of the farmers…

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Sheep and Wool Class. To be Established in Wellington

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 2

AS the outcome of an agitation for the establishment of a Sheep and Wool Class at Wellington, Mr. C. S.Middleton, of the Technical…

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Growing Less Wheat

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 2

SPEAKING on the Marketing Bill, the Minister for Agriculture advocated the growing of less wheat as a means of overcoming the…

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Pastoral Improvement Some Points in Grazing

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 12

DISCUSSING in the Agricultural Clazette the importance of proper management in relation to pasture, improvement, the Assistant…

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Wool Press Wanted

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 4

Any reader wanting to sell a good second-hand wool press cheap, please apply to Jack Le Llevre, general agent, Louth…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 6

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report: At our auction on Tuesday, we offered 5,360 bales, which provided a very representative offering from…

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Advances on Wheat Action Against Farmer Bearing on Other Cases

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 5

Applications, of importance to certain farmers were disposed of by Mr. Justice Stephen in the Supreme Court Chambers on Tuesday. They…

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Butter Factory Government to Be Approached

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 1

A MEETING of directors of the Wellington Co-operative Dairying Company was held at the office of the secretary, Mr. J. G. Muir, on…

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Local Jottings Second-grade Silo Wheat

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 2

Messrs Abel Wilkins and Co.beg to announce that they are buyers of second-grade silo wheat. It may be started that this firm is the first…

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Sowing of Wheat The Question of Variety

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 12

THE popular varieties of wheat change so frequently, one being superseded by another of more recent introduction, that it is perhaps…

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Brighter Wool Outlook Has Bedrock Been Touched?

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 9

FOR the first time since early December, prices for tops have moved upward. A short time ago average 64's merino tops were quoted at 20d…

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Sheep Blow-fly Methods of Control Use of Poisoned Carcases

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 3

The systematic poisoning of blowflies and maggots by treating the carcases of dead animal with a poison in solution is an…

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London Wool Sales Late Rates Maintained LONDON

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 1

At the wool sales 10,405 bales were offered and approximately 9,715 were sold. There was a large offering of super style merinos and a limited…

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Agricultural Notes Control of Sheep Blow-fly. Use of Poisoned Carcases

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 12

THE systematic poisoning of blowflies and maggots by treating the carcases of dead animals with a poison in solution is an important…

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Brighter Wool Outlook Has Bedrock Been Reached ? Improved Prices Likely

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 3

For the first time since early December, prices for tops have moved upward. A short time ago average 64's merino tops were…

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Wheat Standard F.A.Q. 59½lbs Bushel Lower Standard Grain

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 6

THE Grain Section of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce to-day set the f.a.q. standard for wheat at 59½ lbs. a bushel. Over 300 samples of…

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