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Farming & the land, 1931

3,443 stories in Riverina's papers · page 24 of 173

Discouraged Farmers Special Loan Suggested

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 24

More than 200 farmers met at Lockhart on Saturday to discuss questions vitally concerning their interests. Mr. R. Hopwood, of Clyde,…

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Farmers Talk Fight

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 24

When trouble comes to Australia it is going to start in the country, not the city, says Mr. Murdoch McLeod, well known Wellington miller…

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F.A.Q. Fixed At 59½lbs. Farmers' Plight

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 24

For N. S. Wale wheat of the 1930-31 season the fair average quality weight was fixed on Tuesday at 59½lb. to the imperial bushel. Last…

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Dairying Report for January

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 6

In his report for January, Mr. I. W. Scott, Senior Dairy Inspector, states that over the South Western slopes warm days and cool nights had…

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Hope for the Farmers

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 9

Though the State Minister for Agriculture this week chose to express the view that the plight of the farming community was not nearly as…

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Crutching of Sheep

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 3

Crutching usually takes place about midway between shearings, and is, therefore, considered to be of some value as a preventive of blowfly…

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Export Bounty on Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 2

At long last it would appear that some definite plan is about to emerge from the welter of proposals of assist the wheat-grower. The danger of…

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The Farmers Help at Last! Six Million to be Raised 6d Bushel Bounty on Export Wheat CANBERRA

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 1

IT WAS unanimously resolved by the Premiers conference on Saturday that a loan of £6,00,000 be raised to enable the Commonwealth to…

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Brighter Wool Outlook Has Bedrock Been Touched?

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., reported on 3rd: For the first time since carly December prices for tops have moved upward. A short time ago average…

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Wool Sales Values Advance 10, Per Cent

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 2

The secretary Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Coy writes on with February:— On the 4th February we offered…

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Wheat At Cullivel Receipts at Silos Inspector's Visit

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 3

Mr. Kilpatrick, M.L.A., has received the following letter from Mr. E. Harris, Wheat Commissioner and manager of the Government grain elevators,…

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Help for Farmers £6,000,000 to Be Raised 6d a Bushel Bounty on Export Wheat £2,500,000 for Necessitous Farmers Premiers' Conference Decision CANBERRA

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 2

It was unanimously resolved by the Premiere' Conference yesterday that a loan of £6,000,000 be raised to enable the Commonwealth to pay a bounty of 6d a bushel on wheat exported from Australia, and also to enable the States to…

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Mr. Parker Moloney's Statement Advice to Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 2

Discussing the wheat situation over the telephone last night from his home in Melbourne Mr. Parker Moloney adopted a most hopeful tone. He said that on arrival at Auckland on his way home from Canada he was handed a sheaf of notes on the situation. These enabled him to fully discuss the matter…

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Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 1

Pitt. Son and Badgery, Ltd., report under date 3rd February:— At our auctions to-day we offered 5,360 bales, which provided a very…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 1

Windchombe, Carson, Ltd., report sold 8,800 bales of wool at their Sydney auction today. Values generally showed a further hardening…

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London Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 1

Younghusband Limited advise having received the following cable from their London agents:—"London colonised [?]les closed firm; competition…

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Dalgety and Co. Ltd's Wheat Pool

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2

We are advised by Messrs. R. J. Brunskill and Son, Wagga representatives of Dalgety and Co. Ltd's wheat pool, that they have already received…

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Sowing of Wheat the Question of Variety

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 4

The popular varieties of wheat, change so frequently, one being superseded by another of more recent introduction, that it is perhaps wise to…

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Wheat Bounty Loan of £6,000,000

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2

Approval has been given by the Loan Council to the immediate rais­ing of a loan of £6,O00,OOO to provide assistance to wheat growers…

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Wool Sales Values Advance 10 Per Cent

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Coy. writes on 6th February:— On the 4th February we offered…

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