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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

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Electricity Cuts Dairy Power Costs by Half Experience of Tumut District Dairymen the Home Lighting and Hot Water Facilities Thrown in

The Daily Express · Saturday 15 March 1930 · page 4

With the contemplated extension of the Burrinjuck Hydro Electricity scheme to rural areas in the Wagga district and other Riverina areas, the…

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In New Zealand Dairying Access Herd Testing; Top Dressing

The Daily Express · Saturday 15 March 1930 · page 4

Australian butter producers have a good deal to learn from New Zealand dairymen, according to Mr. E. F. Voysey, sales manager of the dairy…

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The Wheat Pool Wagga Farmers Support Simple Majority Favored

The Daily Express · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 2

At Saturday's conference of the Wagga District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association a full discussion of the proposed Federal…

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Farmers and Settlers Wagga District Council Annual Meeting. Wheat Pool Discussed Satisfactory Guarantee

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Wagga District Council of the Farmers and Settler Association of New South Wales was held at the School of Arts…

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Marketing Wool Bradford Has a Scheme London, March 16

The Daily Express · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 4

Various suggestions are forthcoming at Bradford regarding the stabilisation of wool prices and allocation of quantities for sales. A very…

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Will Suit Farmers Mr. Thorby Pleased Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) said to-day that as far as the farmers were concerned, rain could not have fallen at a better time. It would…

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Farmers and Settlers Dist Council Meeting Shire Boundaries Question

The Daily Express · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Wagga District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held on Saturday at School of Arts. The…

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Sparks at Tumut What Electricity Has Done Reduced Costs of Dairymen

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 2

With the contemplated extension of the Burrinjuck Hyro Electricity scheme to rural areas in the Wagga district and other Riverina areas,…

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London Butter Market

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 4

Forecasts of the London butter market, when values began to recede, did not point to anything like the present quotation of 136/ for…

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Wool Auctions

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 7

Goldsbrough, Mort and Company, Ltd., Melbourne, for their ninth sale of the season, on 10th March, offered a compact catalogue of about 4000…

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Wool Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort and Company, Limited report:—More than ordinary interest has been centred in the sales in Brisbane, which have been…

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Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd. wired is last night Demand was keen and general at our Sydney wool auction…

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Younghusband's Special Sheep Sale

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 4

Younghusband Limited report having held a special sale of store sheep at the Albury Municipal Yards on Thursday, March 6th, when they…

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The Wheat Market

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 4

Sydney's wheat market was quiet on Monday. Bulk wheat 4/5½; bagged lots, 4/7…

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The Wheat Crop. Question of Time of Sowing

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 8

As much depends upon the time that wheat is sown as upon the variety that is sown. As a general rule, late-maturing varieties (such as…

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The Markets Wool

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 8

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., report:— More than ordinary interest has been centred in the sales in Brisbane,…

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Liverpool Wheat Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 4

A private wheat agent in Sydney has received the following cable message from Liverpool: "48/6; futures fluctuating nervously; Italy bought…

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Wheat Overseas Sydney

The Daily Express · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 4

A private wheat agent in Sydney received the following cable from Broomhall: "Afloat 386. March flour 276. Futures fluctuating…

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Stock Markets Thursday, March 13. Sheep

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 8

Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd.., report: 21,877 penned, comprising all classes of merinos and crossbreds. At the usual time of opening of the sales…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

The Daily Express · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 4

The offering at the wool sales today totalled 8643 bales. Of this number 7783 was sold auction, and an additional 555 privately…

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