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Farming & the land, 1931

3,443 stories in Riverina's papers · page 68 of 173

COMMERCIAL Wagga Cattle Sales Better Prices Follow Good Demand

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 16

The associated agents of Wagga, report having held their fortnightly cattle sale at the Wagga municipal saleyards on Thursday. There was…

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Bathurst Conference Compulsory Wheat Pool Bare Majority Necessary

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 4

The Producers and Consumers' Conference concluded to-day When the recommendations of various committees were received in open conference…

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WHEAT English Quota Scheme House of Lords Discussion

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 13

The proposal that Great Britain shall accept the quota principle of wheat imports in orded to benefit Dominion growers was raised in the…

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Too Many Varieties a Factor in Low Wheat Yields

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 5

Improved varieties have played an important part in the increase of our wheat yields, but in their eagerness to add to their returns by this means…

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World's Grain Exhibition an Opportunity to Advertise Australian Wheat

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 5

By taking advantage of the opportunity afforded by the coming World's Grain Exhibition, the Director of Agriculture reminds wheat-growers, they…

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World Wheat Conference Proposal From Australia Control Op All Export Surpluses

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 6

Tentative proposals have been agreed upon for submission by Australia to the international wheat conference in London on May 18. These suggestions…

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Primage Removed Relief for Farmers

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 16

The Federal Government has decided to remove the primage duty from cornsacks, flour sacks, wool packs and from rock phosphate and sulphur…

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£5 A Week for Farmers Communist Scheme

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 21

The Communist view of the conference is that it is a hollow sham and tinkering with a situation ha demands radical and far-reaching…

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Junior Farmers Vegetable Growing for Profit

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 12

Owing to the successful results in vegetable growing by members of the Wagga Junior Farmers' Club, a novel experiment is contemplated by…

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Young Sheep Show

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 18 May 1931 · page 2

Last year this event was a phenomenal success. This year the sheep show and dog trials will offer two full days' programme, and the…

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Wheat Production Costs

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 May 1931 · page 2

In an interesting article, which appears in another column, Mr. David Auld, of Cookardinia, discusses the cost of wheat production from many…

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Coming Back an Expert on Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 May 1931 · page 2

Addressing the Royal Empire Society on the wheat surplus and economic crisis, Sir Daniel Hall, chief scientific adviser to the Minister for…

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Wheat Industry Production Costs How Secondary Industry Benefits

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 May 1931 · page 3

In "The Daily Advertiser" of May 6 reference is made in the leading article to a statement by Professor Wadham, Professor of Agriculture at the…

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International Wheat Conference Opening in London To-day Soviet Delegates Arrive "Economic War," Says Mr. Baldwin LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 May 1931 · page 2

Dovelike was the mood in which the Soviet delegates to the International Wheat Conference, to be opened in London on Monday, arrived to-day. Their spokesman, in an interview, blandly asserted…

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Relief for Farmers Country Party Claims Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 May 1931 · page 3

"Defeated in the House of Representatives on the first vote taken on the tariff schedule, upon which it has denied Parliament any expression of…

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Wheat Pool Farmers' Congress Supports Increased Silo System

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 19 May 1931 · page 5

The committees anointed by the producers and consumers' conference reached important decisions on Wednesday…

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N.s.w Butter Consumption

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 19 May 1931 · page 4

Official figures supplied by Mr. L. T. MacInnes, Director of Dairying state for the year ended 30th June, 1930, the consumption of butter in…

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Devotion to Duty. Sheep-dog Down Shaft

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1931 · page 2

Apropos of sheep-dogs of whose ingenuity and understanding we have recently had a first-class display, a good story comes from…

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Brisbane Wool Sales Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1931 · page 4

Germany, Japan and France were good operators at the Brisbane rool sales to-day, report Winchcombe Carson Ltd. Compared with last week's…

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Bathurst Conference Cost of Wheat Production

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1931 · page 4

Wheat figured largely in the discussions at the Producers and Consumers' Conference on Thursday. The president of the Farmers and…

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