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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1936

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New Farmers and Settlers’ President

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 20 August 1936 · page 3

No organisation has been more fortunate in its presidents than the Farmers and Settlers’ Association. Apart from their ability and…

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Spring Cattle Sale

The Western Herald · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Ltd. and H. M. Ware & Whittaker, have received instructions from the owners to offer…

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Wool Report

The Western Herald · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 7

The Country Producers' Selling Company Ltd. reported on the 13th August, 1936:— With only a few weeks left ere…

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Wool and Weaving

The Western Herald · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 2

For some time the Country Women's Association has interested itself in hand weaving as a means not only of extending the uses of…

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The Wool Outlook

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 August 1936 · page 5

Schute, Bell & Co., Ltd., report:— The wool suctions in New Zealand opened up strongly, and the "top" market in Bradford is on a firm…

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Dairying Results

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 August 1936 · page 2

It is frequently said that dairying is such a tie-down job that, no matter what the returns might be, it is not worth engaging in. It is also…

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ARTHURVILLE Wheat Crops Flourishing

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 4

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Giddings are holidaying in the city. Light rain, is again falling, after having threatened for several days…

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Wonderful Wheat

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 2

There is no question about it. Wheat crops at this period of this year look far healthier than at the Same period in any of the last five…

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The FARMER & His Markets Wool Report

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 12

The Country Producers’ Selling Company Ltd., report as follows:— The demand for “passed in” wools and local fellmongered lines by…

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DRIPSTONE Sheep to Queensland

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 4

DURING the past week, nice spring weather has been with us. A change came up on Monday, with a strong wind and a few light showers…

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The Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 6

Schute, Bell and Co. Ltd. report: Tt has been another quiet week in the wool trade, and all interest is centred on the opening sales at the…

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Million Mark More Sheep Than Ever

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 7

For the first time the number of sheep in the Bathurst P.P. Board district has reached the million mark, the official census…

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Wool Trade Commonwealth Sales Values

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 12

The following information has been taken from Dalgety’s Annual Wool Review for the year ending June 30, 1936…

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Analysis of Season’s Wool Purchases

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 3

An analysis of the season’s wool purchases, based on data courteously supplied by wool-buyers operating in Australia and New Zealand,…

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Good Prospect for Wool Will Values Hold?

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 12

The most favourable wool market indication is supplied by the continued buoyancy in prices for tops in Bradford. In June, the opinion…

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Wheat Milling Test Judge’s Report. “High Standard of Quality.”

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 4

The Flour Mill Owner’s Association of N.S.W. has forwarded the following information in respect to the wheat classes at the last R.A.S…

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Wheat Root Grub Menace at Gular Pest That is Hard to Fight

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

As reported is our last issue, grubs that attack wheat have been found on the property of Mr. A. Ferguson near Gulargambone, where they are…

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Local Stud Border Leicesters (Reprinted from "Farmer and Settlen")

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 5

An outstanding stud flock of Border Lcicesters belongs to Mr. P H Wake, of Gilgandra, who judged the breed at the 1936 Sydney Sheep…

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Skeleton Weed Spraying Demonstration Farmers Interested

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 6

"Know Your Weeds," is a slogan that is sent out by the Department of Agriculture, and it is a very good one. So much has been written a nd talked of in recent months of the spread of skeleton weed, that all farmers in the…

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Boys Available For Farm Work

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 16

The Child Welfare Department directs the attention of orehardists, bee and poultry farmers, mixed farmers, vegetable growers, and…

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