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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1937

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Pastoral Wages Increase to be Asked for Hobart

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 1

At the Annual Convention of the A.W.U. at Hobart it was unanimously agreed that in view of the vapidly rising price of wool, the…

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Wool Sales Local Prices Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 3

Messrs. Goldsbrough Mort, and Co. Ltd., report having offered at auction yesterday 6151 bales, the market under improved competition…

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Noogoora Burr Menace to Wool Industry

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 6

The chairman of the Dubbo P. P. Board (Mr. F. W. Gavel) stated recently that if Noogoora Burr was not eradicated it would…

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Level of Wool Values Trade Factors Abroad

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 7

Prices for the choicest 74/80's spinners fleece wools have recently been 10 per cent dearer than at closing December auctions, reports…

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Pastoral Wages Substantial Increase Urged by Union Against Sound Advice Hobart

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 1

The annual convention of the A.W.U. unanimously agreed to a motion that, in view of the rapidly rising prices of wool, the Arbitration Court should be…

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The Level of Wool Values Trade Factors Abroad

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 10

Winchcombe, Caron Ltd. report: —Prices for thor choicest 74/80's spinners fleece wools have recently been No per cent dearer than at…

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Waste or Profit? Farm Side Lines Value of Pigs And Dairying

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 4

Stability of income can be achieved on the farm, not by replacing all the eggs in one basket, but by so…

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Three-day Fever Acute Febrile Disease Little Known Disease of Cattle

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 9

This disease has a very high incidence in infected herds and has already gained widespread distribution in Queensland. Serious mortalities have not so…

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Place Wheat Growing on a Sound Basis Coonabarabran - Gulgong - Mudgee District Uneconomic System Cannot Go On Indefinitely

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 2

Until recent years a most common practice among wheat growers in the Coonabarabrar—Mudgee—Gulgong district was to crop the land continuously to wheat for a period of years, until such time as it became unproductive, due to excessive…

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Farmers and Settlers "Yes" Voters in Campaign

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 2

The F. & S. Association, in branches and Sydney meetings, has strongly supported the "Yes" campaign in the March referendum…

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Doings in the Garden More Shade Loving Subjects Stone Paving Crop Rotation for Vegetables

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 14

Everyone becomes troubled sooner or later regarding the handling of portions of the garden which are of too…

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The Garden. More Shade-loving Subjects Stone Paving. Crop Rotation For Vegetables

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 7

Everyone becomes troubled sooner or later regarding the handling of portions of the garden which are of too shady a nature to grow the rank…

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Bunt in Wheat Worth of Seed Treatment

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 4

Treatment of seed wheat for the prevention of bunt is almost a routine procedure with most progressive growers, but there are still those who, on…

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F.A.Q. Standard of Wheat For Current Season Prospects Favorable Sydney, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 1

F.A.Q. standard for wheat, for the current season, was fixed to-day at 621b an imperial bushel, by the Grain Trade Sectional Committee of the…

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Wheat Standard

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 4

The f.a.q. standard for wheat for the current season was fixed at 62lbs. to the imperial bushel by the Grain…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 5

The Country Producers' Selling Company Ltd. report:—Values during the previous week's auctions showed, numerous fluctuations…

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Prices Right And Wheat Market Firm Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 1

The local wheat market to-day was a fraction steadier. Bulk wheat sold at 5/3¾ per bushel, and bagged, nominal, at 5/5…

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Butter Pay

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 2

At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Macquarie Valley Co-operative Dairy Society Ltd. yesterday the pay for the month of…

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Freak Sheep

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 11

Thus the “Wellington Times”:— “Some time ago, Mr. C. Cosier, senr., Curra Creek, had a ewe which gave birth to a freak lamb. The lamb…

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BURRENDONG Sick Cattle

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 4

SCHOOL reopened Tuesday of last week with a new teacher, Mr. Stephens, who was transferred from Westella to Burrendong. Our late…

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