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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1936

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Wool Sales The Week's Record Average Sydney, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 22 February 1936 · page 1

Wool sold at auction in Sydney this week averaged £20/3/5 per bale, or 16.8d pence per lb., a new high record for the season…

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Sheep and Cattle Sale

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 3

On Saturday the 29th, the last day in February for four years, at 2.30 p.m. Abel Wilkins & Co. will sell 1,000 sheep already booked and 20…

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Extra Cattle Yards

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 3

The committee have decided [?]lat the present rodeo yards on [?]he showground obstruct the [?]iew of patrons, and are making…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 4

The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd. report:—Values during the week were well sustained for all descriptions, and were fully equal to…

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Coming Sales Young Sheep at Orange

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 3

Included in Messrs Leeds Bros. yarding of sheep at the Orange weekly sales next Wednesday will be 2000 very good, early-shorn…

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Cyclonic Storm Damage in South Queensland Farms Destroyed: Roofs Off

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 1

Telephonic and telegraphic communication between Brisbane and the South Coast was disorganised by a…

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Half a Million Damage to Wheat Crop Auckland

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 1

According to the official estimate, the Canterbury (New Zealand) wheat crop was damaged to the extent of £500,000 by last week's floods…

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Wool Marketing Vital Question

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 2

This selling year has undoubtedly been a merino wool season, reports Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. For months authorities in all parts or the world…

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Trade Barter Japan and South Africa Effect on Australian Wool Canberra, Feb. 21

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 4

The Eastern trade section of the Department of Commerce publishes an interesting account of the trade bartering arrangements made between Japan…

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Growing Crops for Feed Instead of for Sale David Kelly's View

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 4

There are few better formers in the State than David Kelly, once of Wongarbon, now of Quandialla. A hard worker, he also is a great…

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Coming Sales Sheep and Cattle Sale

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 1

On Saturday the 29th, the last day in February for four years, at 2.30 p.m. Ahel Wilkins & Co, will sell 1,000 sheep already booked and 20…

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Nyngan Sheep Sale

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 1

On Saturday, March 7, at 2.30, Dalgety & Co. Ltd., in conjunction with A. Lyne & Co., Nyngan, will offer 20,000 sheep at the Nyngan…

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The FARMER & His Markets Record Wheat Entries

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 8

Record wheat entries have been received for t[?]e wheat section of [?] Royal Show and, in view of the State’s [?]igh f.a.q. for this season’s…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 2

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report: For our seventeenth sale of the season we submitted a catalogue somewhat above the average…

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Bulk Wheat Export Activity

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 8

Activity prevails in the export of bulk wheat. Last year shipping did not commence till April, but already this season 2,737,235 bushels…

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Commercial News Sheep and Lambs Dearer

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 2

Sheep and lamb values showed improvement at Homebush on Monday, only 18,700 being penned. Cattle values were easier, the offering being 2400…

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Fallow, Fodder, Grazing and Wheat

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 8

An excellent rotation strongly recommended by Mr. Judd (senior agricultural instructor) in areas infested with skeleton weed is as…

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Improperly Packed Wool Mr. Thorby's View

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 3

The Acting Minister for Commerce (Mr. Thorby) spates that his attention had been directed to theo manner in which quite a number of…

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Wool Sales Record Price For Season

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 7

The average price of wool in Sydney last week was £20/3/5 a bale and 16.8d per lb., which is a new bigh record for the season…

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Worms Cause Unthriftiness in Sheep. Importance of Good Feeding

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 8

Most sheep breeders have had some experience of the extent to which the health of sheep can be affected by worms, whenever sheep…

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