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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

2,327 stories in Riverina's papers · page 56 of 117

World Wheat Shortage Rising Prices in Chicago. Good Prospects for Australia. American Farmers Make Fortunes

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 July 1924 · page 1

According to cabled reports from New York, wheat has made a further advance in price in the United States. On this side it is worth 6/ a bushel, an advance of 1/6 since January. The cause of the boom is, of…

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Sheep Displacing Cattle

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 1

A marked change is being brought about in the Tumbarumba district, where cuttle are, to a certain, extent, being displaced by sheep. Hitherto the…

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Riverina Wheat Silos

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 1

The completion of the wheat silos in Riverina is being expedited. Those at Balldale were to be finished by July 31. It is expected that all the…

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Australian Butter Dumping. Capetown

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 2

In the Assembly at question time the Minister for Finance said that it had been represented that Australian butter was being exported to the Union…

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Oversea Wheat Lindley Walker Report

The Daily Express · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 2

The Lindley Walker Co-Operative Wheat Co., Ltd., reports under date July 28. We have received several cables…

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Cattle Bounty Bill. Second Reading Passed. Melbourne

The Daily Express · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 2

In the House of Representatives to night, Mr. Pratten moved the second reading of the Cattle Export (Bounty) Act providing for a bounty of 10/…

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A Picked Wheat Area. Rush for Land. Sydney

The Daily Express · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. Flannery asked whether, in view of the fact that 1900 applications were received for 32 homestead farms on…

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For the Man on the Land New South Wales Crop Prospects Dust Treatment for Bunt Wire Netting Distribution

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 1

The recent rains in the Riverina were just what was wanted by the man on the land and, if the season continues as favorable right up to harvest time, there should be bumper crops. Useful advice and interesting…

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Wheat

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 1

At the F. and S. District Council at Young, I mentioned that for the two months preceding June 9, about 1630 crop Hens had been registered…

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COMMERCIAL. Wheat

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 5

The Lindley Walker Co-op. Wheat Company report as follows under date of 28th July: "We have received several cables…

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Wool Report

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 1

Se[?] Bell and Co., Ltd report The most satisfactory [?] of [?] week has been the splendid general rain that has [?] over all but…

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Excited Wheat Market Unfavorable Conditions in America. Shortage of the Northern Crops. Six Shillings Wheat Forecasted

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 2

Mr. George Walker, of the Lindley Walker Co-operative Co. Ltd., wheat shippers, who recently arrived in Britain from Australia, has been making a close personal study of the state of the world's wheat…

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Wheat Market Excited

The Daily Express · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 1

The Lindley Walker Cooperative Wheat Company Ltd. telegraphed yesterday to the "Daily Express":—…

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Oversea Wheat Position

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 5

Lindley Walker Co-Op. Wheat Co.'s special wheat report. We have received several cables during the week as follows:…

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Voluntary Wheat Pool

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 3

Statements having been made that members of the committee did not pool their wheat, Mr. R. Herbert, non-secretary of the Sandigo Branch…

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New Zealand's Wheat Shortage

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 7

Cabled news anticipates that New Zealand will be compelled to import Australian wheat to the value of £1,500,000 this year, owing to a fifty…

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Local and General. Wheat Market Excited

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 4

The Lindley Walter Co-operative Wheat Company telegraphs "International markets excited due unfavorable crop conditions in North…

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District News Barellan. Weather and Crops

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 5

The recent rain falls here, though not as heavy or prolonged as some would have desired, have been of [?]nanifest benefit to the crops. The…

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Tobacco Crop. Adelong's Record Price. Flue-cured Leaf

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 6

The highest price guaranteed by the British-Australian Tobacco Company for flue cured tobacco is 2/6 a lb. Despite being the only buyer…

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Labor's Boast. Assisting the Farmer. How They Did It

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 7

Captain Dunn, M.L.A., and other Labor members are constantly boasting of how they assisted the farmer when in power, and how they would…

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