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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

3,255 stories in Riverina's papers · page 54 of 163

Sheep Stealing Big Losses Alleged Braidwood Complaints Probed BRAIDWOOD

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 1

FOLLOWING REPORTS that large numbers of sheep had been dis­appearing from holdings around Braidwood for some time past,…

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Sydney Wool Sales Clearing Up Offerings Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 6

The clearing-up sale of the 1928-29 wool selling season was held at the Royal Exchange today. An inferior to average selection was on offer,…

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The Wool Clip Clearing Up Sale SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 1

The clearing up sale of the 1928-1929 wool selling season opened at the Royal exchange yesterday, when an inferior to average selection, totalling…

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Rice for Sheep New Drought Fodder On Trial in Riverina Boon to Grower and Grazier

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 3

A bold experiment has been made by Mr. D. Ross, of " Uri Park," a property on the Murrumbidgee River, near Darlington Point, the outcome…

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Monthly Horse News. a Letter From West Australia. Farm Horses Selling Well

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 6

Writing from "Tynedale," Walgoolan, W.A., Mr. C. Bernard Maughan states:—"In this State good farm horses are selling well, and the…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales Continent and Yorkshire Active Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 June 1929 · page 6

A strong average selection, totalling 7,999 bales, was offered at the Sydney sales today. Of this number 6,432 bales were sold at action, and an…

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Wool Auctions

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 2

Messrs Pitt, Son and Badgery report under date 14th June:— Business in wool is practically at a standstill, sales being confined…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 3

The last wool sales of the present season were held at the Royal Exchange today. An inferior to average selection, comprising 7,489 bales, was…

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Wool Industry Selling Brokers Confer Marketing Clip and Research Fund Discussed MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

At the annual conference of the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia, many matters relating to the wool industry of…

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Writ for £2500 Against Leeton Farmer Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

Mr. F. D. M'Tague, solicitor, to-day issued a Supreme Court writ of £2500 against Joseph H. Burns, of Leeton, a farmer, on behalf of Alfred Breadman…

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Butter Competition

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 5

The butter classes at the Dairy produce Exhibition in connection with the Annual Conference of the N.S.W. Dairy Factory Managers and…

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Sheep-killing Dogs

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 6

Two dogs, one greyhound brindle bitch and u low-set blue cattle dog with a bushy tail, often seen about Russell-street, Tumut, have been seen…

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World's Wheat Cause of Surplus American Farmers Holding Off

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 4

Revisiting Australia after an absence of 18 years, Mr. A. R. Walker, a representative of the Victorian Wheatgrowers' Corporation, passed…

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Butter and Cheese Supplies Short

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 5

The present position in Australia indicates a winter shortage of both butter and cheese. South Australia has had a very bad season, and…

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Fifty Sheep to the "Acre

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 6

Tractors are at work night and day on the Kooba. Station between Darlington point and Wilbriggie. The crops are to be irrigated by…

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Feeding-off Growing Wheat. Some Important Points

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 6

A Crop may usually be said to be ready to be fed off when it [?] about six [?]high. It is b common error on farmers to turn sheep on to wheat…

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Show Society Decides Upon Sheep Section Officers Re-appointed

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 7

A sheep section will be included in the next Show of the Yanco District Irrigation Area Agricultural Society. This was decided at a meeting of the…

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Export of Stud Sheep No Embargo Graziers' Decision Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 1

The Graziers' Federal Council to-day decided not to ask the Federal Government to prohibit the export of Australian stud sheep to South Africa. It…

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